23-10-2009, 09:01 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:[quote=Paul Rigby]
Quote:2) The ostensible primary object is, of course, a Tory restoration after a decade+ of neo-con rule.
Agreed Paul. But I think this was inevitable anyway as the so called democratic arrangement amounts to swings and roundabouts between two political parties, which makes the political landscape easier for the elite to manage.
3) The greater purpose is to end any prospect of left-wing government for good, just as in France.
Tsch tsch. There hasn't been a left-wing government since Wilson was tossed out of power (whoops! "resigned"). And no chance of ever having one again either.
4) The intervention of the Tory Generals in an attempt to distance the British Army from the ersatz fascist British National Pary - the so-called battle of the uniformed war crims and Mosley's heirs - appears an integral component in the above.
I don't think the BNP ever was going to have any political clout in the UK to achieve anything anyway. I seem to remember that they were once secretly funded (or otherwise supported) by the intelligence services? Anyway, it all smacks to me as a cunning campaign of deflection or similar --- firstly, elevate the BNP to greater public awareness and then smash them down.
I am sufficiently "sad" as to have a copy of Keesing's Contemporary Archive volume XXI (1975) to hand. On p.27013, it reproduces parts of the speech Harold Wilson delivered at Kremlin luncheon on 14 Feb 1975. It included the following:
Quote:"The peoples of the world are looking forward to the speedy embodiment of international detente in concrete deeds...Such deeds include curbing the arms race, cutting back the scale of the military preparations of states and their military expenditures, and extending peaceful economic co-operation and other kinds of co-operation among them...one of the paramount objectives is the achievement of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East...I trust that this visit will herald a new phase in Anglo-Soviet relations."
In Britain, this is referred to as Harold's Alzheimer period.