Subject: RE: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
From:
MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Sep 12 - 01:11 AM
Al ~ I do see where you are coming from; but, like Don, think you mistaken. I remember the 1945 government and the baleful FX from which the country has never recovered; mainly thanks to that sadistic-ascetic would-be do-gooder, The Hon Sir Stafford Cripps, who had all the silly half-digested idealism of Lord Stansgate aka Tony Benn, but, unlike him, had had a charismaectomy which rendered him entirely charmless. I think it worth repeating here FWIW a post I put recently on the 'Reassertion of American values' thread in response to a typical silliness from Richard ···
From: Richard Bridge - PM
Date: 03 Sep 12 - 06:24 PM
Oh - and whence the idea that Churchill had any finer principles? Look at his history, and the resounding answer the British people gave him when the right to elections was restored to them.
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It was the biggest mistake made in our 20C history, the worst and loudest clanger the British electorate ever dropped. So many were fed up with being bossed around by the Officer Class, whom they imagined Churchill to represent, that they elected what they supposed to be his opposite: a party nominally led by Clement Attlee (Winchester & Oxford), but effectively led, as by far the strongest personality, by Stafford Cripps (Winchester & UCL) -- an ultra-puritanical believer in mortification of the body for the good of soul. It was his insistence on the 'austerity' policy of rationing and self-denial, so necessary in the wartime that had just ended, for an inordinate length of time into the postwar period, that enabled the rest of Europe, both the countries that had been occupied by Germany, and, in particular, West Germany itself, to outstrip us in achievement and prosperity. As the saying went, "We won the War but lost the Peace". That would not have happened if Churchill had continued to govern inspirationally as he had from 1940 to 1945. By the time Britain came to its senses in 1951, after six years of Crippsian tyranny, it was too late: he was past it, and his successor Eden was not up to the job. Our nation is still reeling from the dire effect of those six years at such a vital time in what should have been our post-war regeneration but was sabotaged and destroyed by doctrinaire public-school champagne socialists.
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