Rory Stewart – ex-Conservative MP (one of the decent ones) and also an Old Etonian (ditto) – writes this in his recent memoir, Politics on the Edge.
‘Campaigning back in Cumbria, I began to notice that if a house was filled with books, the occupants would not be voting Conservative.’
Coming from a Tory, I think that’s revealing. Élitist, of course, which is why a Leftist couldn’t write it; but probably true.
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mickc: Touché, Sir, but in demonstrably damning this deleteriously disordered. and dilettantish dolt, with faint praise, in your otherwise judicious opening preamble, It behooves this erstwhile Jesuit-inculcated, egalitarian-emboldened emissary of effetely-evinced entreaty, to humbly request that your concluding critique in peroration, be further furnished with a corroborative link or two -(‘wherein were alleged arms of an entirely excessive extent of elimination which fabrications allowed the formulation of and accomplishment of an even more excessive and illegal achievement and the extinction of hundreds of thousands of innocent individuals.’) – apropos any imagined machiavellian modus operandi, masking the swashbuckling Stewart’s 21st-Century perceived stewardship of all that is circuitously circumscribed in that ‘Great Game’ of perpetual regime-change and resource-grab ?
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My reply has vanished, however my reference was to Stewart’s involvement with Alistair Campbell in their joint podcasts.
As you may recall, Campbell was the propagandist who promoted falsehoods about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction, thereby enabling Blair to take the UK to an illegal war against Iraq.
The result was the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
I do not believe that anyone with a shred of moral integrity would share a platform with Campbell, or indeed Blair, who is clearly a war criminal.
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Really? Not just another Old Etonian High Tory on the make singing a song which he thinks will benefit him?
That seems much more likely…
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‘Really’, ‘micke’ ?: Au contraire, my good fellow. If you are reluctant to employ even a solitary soupçon of sentient, sober discernment and cautionary caviat, in formulating your disparaging, Doubting Thomas demurrer, on the purported integrity and raison d’etre of the distinguished polymath, polyglot, and palpable Prince amongst former Parliamentarians, then, I would humbly speculate, that such a scurrilous assertion, says more about your own paucity of principled personal and policy positions, than it does about the manifest, manifold, myriad and magisterial accomplishments and merit of that rarest of civic-minded creatures, an erstwhile Conservative, with genuine latter-day Angus Maude-articulated, One-Nation-Toryism, underpinning his venerable, venturesome and vitalizing, vatical virtuosity !
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As Plato plausibly assured us, the cause of vice is ignorance.
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