I promised not to post on the subject of the e****ion (I do the jokes, 'DM'!) which has been air-brushed from D&N, however, I do feel free to comment on 'matters arising', so to speak. The 'il-Lib-non-Dems' in general, and their leader, Nick 'the Receiver' Clegg in particular, are making much of their policy to immediately ban the bomb, or to be precise, to ban the British bomb by refusing to replace the existing Trident weapons system. Alas, I fear this will meet with much approval amongst the lumpenmenschen of the British electorate so I would like to raise my puny voice against this folly.
It is blindingly obvious that the number of countries seeking to build nuclear weapons will increase over the next few decades. Thus, to give up our sole deterrent now is rather like living in a council block and possessing a gun for ultimate deterrence against the drug dealer on the floor above, and then throwing the gun away when the whole block is infested with drug-dealers! There is a growing belief in some quarters that the time is long overdue for us in Britain to take a long, hard look at ourselves and come to terms with the fact that we are no longer a global power. I share those feelings but that does not mean we should dispose of our ultimate weapon of defence. We might recognise our current weakness and lack of influence but others do not, for example, Iran, the new nuclear kid on the block, is almost paranoid concerning the perceived Machiavellian machinations of the British government and its diabolically clever secret service - if only! I suspect much of this paranoia is whipped up by individuals within the regime eager to maintain an external enemy in order to safeguard their own position, but too many others simply swallow it whole and consider London, along with Washington, to be 'an axis of evil'. If you were Iranian you might feel more comfortable wiping out London than Washington particularly if London had no means of countering you.
This inability on the part of the il-Lib-non-Dems to understand basic grand strategy is matched by their policy on Europe in which they wish to immerse us all forever. The fact that the EU is both il-liberal and non-democratic is the reason I call them what I do. As a party they seem to me to be the greatest of wishful thinkers, they see things the way they desperately wish them to be - and so, in the end, they are - to them! But not, I hope to too many of us. All political parties are 'divided' in the sense that they have wings, the extreme ends of which are bitterly opposed to each other - so far, so normal - but the great divide in the il-Lib-non-Dem party is immense and has only escaped attention because their chances of ever attaining power is minimal and so no-one has bothered to notice. They really do suffer with galloping 'internal contradictions'.
So don't be gulled by the enthusiastic and youthful Mr. Clegg, just remember every time he appears on your television, smiling and looking ever so sincere, that his party is still sitting on £2.5 million of stolen money!
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