Incredible tribute, well delivered. No notes either. Wow.
What Daniel no TELEPROMPTER. Margret Thatcher was just extraordinary. I well recall those years. Having just gotten married and trying to start a home and a family. We had Trudeau the pompous ass and wastrel champagne socialist, nay Fabian Socialist/Commie. Trudeau never saw a Commie Ass he didn’t want to bury his nose in and kiss. And he bankrupted us with his centralist policies and the destruction of English Canada. When he came to office Canada had a modest debt and over 700 metric Tonnes of Gold in reserve, when he left we had forced over 200B in debt from which we have never recovered, Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, a shadow of a military, and separatism in Quebec and the west. And now we have another generation of fools, running after the Lisping Pup Out Of Old Pierre. And the result will be worse. Gawd Help Us.
Very Very Good Daniel
Like you RFB, Mrs. Thatcher has a dim view of our pesky little pinko peter pan P.M. – I think she told him to sit down and behave on more than one occasion. Mrs. Thatcher liked to speak with adults. Good rant, nevertheless.
Danial Hannan spoke as a champion for the Late Great Lady and his tribute to her is as fine as she deserved. IMO.
A fine tribute to a political leader, one who in a time of despair and turmoil stepped into the breech. Picked up the flag, and led her people to victory.
To the dignity and self-confidence that comes from achievement.
Great things have arisen from British liberty in the past. May they do so again.
The awesome power of the English language unleashed.
Great posts, both by you and by Larry — manifestly true in each case, although the length and strength of your indictment against Trudeau the elder militates strongly against the success of Trudeau the junior. We need to keep bringing that stuff up and keep cross-positioning father and son — and the time to start with that approach is now, not during an election campaign two years from now: if Justin’s sorry band of geriatric second childhood seekers think this about some idyllic and digitally-altered/air-brushed version of the past, we should be more than willing to oblige and indulge their fantastical delusion by destroying it.
I am an inveterate, unreformable supporter of Margaret Thatcher, but I have to say that I think that both Daniel Hannan and David Cameron are both better natural public speakers than Mrs. Thatcher was, in the same way that Nigel Farage is a more desvastatingly effective critic than, say, Preston Manning was in his time, whatever the conceited Yorkville set “thinks”. As I mentioned to my wife during the 2008 US presidential campaign (a comment shortly thereafter affirmed by Frank Luntz on Fox News), Sarah Palin would need to modify her speaking style in the same way that Mrs. Thatcher did over time — a bit slower, more relaxed, less staccato and less high-pitched. And it would be sad if the British right underwent the same kind of schism that kept the Canadian right out of power, but that may be unavoidable.
In that vein, Mr. Hannan is certainly correct about Europe being Mrs. Thatcher’s undoing within her own party, although her opposition to the Euro was not the start of the unravelling, IMO. I happened to be working in the UK during the spring and summer of 1989, when the new Bush 41 administration appeared to be much more taken up by continental affairs (Germany reunification, in particular) than it was in tending to the “special relationship” in the way Mr. Reagan had, and that hurt Mrs. Thatcher quite a lot, I think, making her suddenly appear in the media to be a Cold War anachronism. Labour took a majority of Britain’s European Parliament seats that spring, as many conservatives made the mistake of not bothering to vote (one Second World War veteran and a pensioner said to me, “I expect the result at the general election will be much different: if you had seen the condition of this country in 1979 you would know what I mean”). But the damage had already started, and the hibernating red Tory Heathist Euro-phile element saw its chance, against the better wisdom of the common folk: no one I spoke with at the time believed in the slightest that Mrs. Thatcher would lose a general election — and nobody I dealt with was Eton-Harrow or Oxbridge.
Still, I find it ironic, fitting and pride-inspiring that the only country that did not succumb to the single currency madness in the first place is the only one that has a large popular movement in favour of pushing the whole European jalopy over the cliff.
Thank-you Kate, that tribute was something to hear; not overly maudlin with some Shakespeare at the end. Great!
Bravo, Daniel Hannan.
Brava, Margaret Thatcher.
We white, English-speaking peoples need to reclaim our place in history; we need to speak truth to lies, which Lady Thatcher did, and not allow the present, mendacious meme that “it’s all Whitey’s fault” to grow like a cancer, sapping our confidence and, more widely, hurting the very people who have been emboldened to put us down, thus hurting themselves far more in the process. Class and race warfare are counterproductive, and the Leftards use both to divide and conquer.
I took on a Black History Huckster on Bloor Street yesterday, unfortunately in vain. He was on about lack of opportunities for blacks — I pointed out this is a much broader problem in Canada for more than black people — and insisted that slavery was solely a white-on black travesty. When I pointed out that it was black African tribes that enslaved one another and then sold their slaves to the slave traders, he insisted that that was the white man’s story and that it was a lie.
Seeing as our history books now paint our British, white, Christian forebears as villains, it’s very difficult for young people of this heritage to hold their heads high. They’ve been bullied by the multi-culti, pc, Marxist crowd which have taken over the chattering classes.
Margaret Thatcher was on to them and spoke a vivid, fierce, convicted, and historical truth to their lies. We need far more leaders like her.
I wonder if Daniel Hannan will be running for the British Parliament? He’s got his finger on the true pulse of the nation. I’m encouraged by young people like him.
batb – most Canadians will need a course in history to ever approach the knowledge that so easily rolls off the speeches of intelligent, educated people like Danial Hannan, Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Farage. The historically mentally/educationally challenged and/or indoctrinated in hate group are concentrated in the left (pinko to Red) group; this latter herd run the education system and public schools in Canada. Same in GB. The children of those who founded the Magna Carta, for the most part have no idea of the impact of that document, the time frame, the contents or even the date!
The harping on racial ‘fault’ for evil is as stupid as racial ‘fault’ for good, IMO. God is the only good and individuals ONLY (of any/all skin color) embrace God and the power of being human. Conquered people have always found themselves at the mercy of the victor, such is the fate of many PRESENT non white regions of the world. Of course, this present situation was not always so and does not apply to the history of the world. Revisionist history must be untaught to level the playing field for the force of Good else evil will triumph and all people will be plunged into a dark age of servitude and misery.
Citizens must be students of History and logic in order to make informed decisions, they must be able to rationalize and think of repercussions before they open their mouths to speak or open their wallets to pay taxes or grant support for political ideas. Citizens must be taught to listen with heart and mind and to make the best possible decision with the least impact on Liberty and Good. Emotional/mental flip flopping stems from a lack of knowledge and/or ability to understand. The black forces are always on the lookout for ‘good causes’ and the gullible (uneducated) are their prime targets.
I think that I support the History Project being instigated by PMSH but I will be interested in seeing it before I give a thumbs up. The ‘social studies (Marxist brainwashing) that is taught in Canadian schools will never produce a Danial Hannan. a Winston Churchill, a Margaret Thatcher or a Nigel Farage. A fundamental understanding of History is required to enable citizens and leaders to speak with authority on topics that concern the citizens of a Free and Sovereign nations. It is the duty of citizens, IMO, to be the gatekeepers of their freedom by being too aware of the facts to be hoodwinked. A good example of this is SDA and the AGW hoax.
I agree with everything you said in your comment.
Incredible tribute, well delivered. No notes either. Wow.
What Daniel no TELEPROMPTER. Margret Thatcher was just extraordinary. I well recall those years. Having just gotten married and trying to start a home and a family. We had Trudeau the pompous ass and wastrel champagne socialist, nay Fabian Socialist/Commie. Trudeau never saw a Commie Ass he didn’t want to bury his nose in and kiss. And he bankrupted us with his centralist policies and the destruction of English Canada. When he came to office Canada had a modest debt and over 700 metric Tonnes of Gold in reserve, when he left we had forced over 200B in debt from which we have never recovered, Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, a shadow of a military, and separatism in Quebec and the west. And now we have another generation of fools, running after the Lisping Pup Out Of Old Pierre. And the result will be worse. Gawd Help Us.
Very Very Good Daniel
Like you RFB, Mrs. Thatcher has a dim view of our pesky little pinko peter pan P.M. – I think she told him to sit down and behave on more than one occasion. Mrs. Thatcher liked to speak with adults. Good rant, nevertheless.
Danial Hannan spoke as a champion for the Late Great Lady and his tribute to her is as fine as she deserved. IMO.
A fine tribute to a political leader, one who in a time of despair and turmoil stepped into the breech. Picked up the flag, and led her people to victory.
To the dignity and self-confidence that comes from achievement.
Great things have arisen from British liberty in the past. May they do so again.
The awesome power of the English language unleashed.
Great posts, both by you and by Larry — manifestly true in each case, although the length and strength of your indictment against Trudeau the elder militates strongly against the success of Trudeau the junior. We need to keep bringing that stuff up and keep cross-positioning father and son — and the time to start with that approach is now, not during an election campaign two years from now: if Justin’s sorry band of geriatric second childhood seekers think this about some idyllic and digitally-altered/air-brushed version of the past, we should be more than willing to oblige and indulge their fantastical delusion by destroying it.
I am an inveterate, unreformable supporter of Margaret Thatcher, but I have to say that I think that both Daniel Hannan and David Cameron are both better natural public speakers than Mrs. Thatcher was, in the same way that Nigel Farage is a more desvastatingly effective critic than, say, Preston Manning was in his time, whatever the conceited Yorkville set “thinks”. As I mentioned to my wife during the 2008 US presidential campaign (a comment shortly thereafter affirmed by Frank Luntz on Fox News), Sarah Palin would need to modify her speaking style in the same way that Mrs. Thatcher did over time — a bit slower, more relaxed, less staccato and less high-pitched. And it would be sad if the British right underwent the same kind of schism that kept the Canadian right out of power, but that may be unavoidable.
In that vein, Mr. Hannan is certainly correct about Europe being Mrs. Thatcher’s undoing within her own party, although her opposition to the Euro was not the start of the unravelling, IMO. I happened to be working in the UK during the spring and summer of 1989, when the new Bush 41 administration appeared to be much more taken up by continental affairs (Germany reunification, in particular) than it was in tending to the “special relationship” in the way Mr. Reagan had, and that hurt Mrs. Thatcher quite a lot, I think, making her suddenly appear in the media to be a Cold War anachronism. Labour took a majority of Britain’s European Parliament seats that spring, as many conservatives made the mistake of not bothering to vote (one Second World War veteran and a pensioner said to me, “I expect the result at the general election will be much different: if you had seen the condition of this country in 1979 you would know what I mean”). But the damage had already started, and the hibernating red Tory Heathist Euro-phile element saw its chance, against the better wisdom of the common folk: no one I spoke with at the time believed in the slightest that Mrs. Thatcher would lose a general election — and nobody I dealt with was Eton-Harrow or Oxbridge.
Still, I find it ironic, fitting and pride-inspiring that the only country that did not succumb to the single currency madness in the first place is the only one that has a large popular movement in favour of pushing the whole European jalopy over the cliff.
Thank-you Kate, that tribute was something to hear; not overly maudlin with some Shakespeare at the end. Great!
Bravo, Daniel Hannan.
Brava, Margaret Thatcher.
We white, English-speaking peoples need to reclaim our place in history; we need to speak truth to lies, which Lady Thatcher did, and not allow the present, mendacious meme that “it’s all Whitey’s fault” to grow like a cancer, sapping our confidence and, more widely, hurting the very people who have been emboldened to put us down, thus hurting themselves far more in the process. Class and race warfare are counterproductive, and the Leftards use both to divide and conquer.
I took on a Black History Huckster on Bloor Street yesterday, unfortunately in vain. He was on about lack of opportunities for blacks — I pointed out this is a much broader problem in Canada for more than black people — and insisted that slavery was solely a white-on black travesty. When I pointed out that it was black African tribes that enslaved one another and then sold their slaves to the slave traders, he insisted that that was the white man’s story and that it was a lie.
Seeing as our history books now paint our British, white, Christian forebears as villains, it’s very difficult for young people of this heritage to hold their heads high. They’ve been bullied by the multi-culti, pc, Marxist crowd which have taken over the chattering classes.
Margaret Thatcher was on to them and spoke a vivid, fierce, convicted, and historical truth to their lies. We need far more leaders like her.
I wonder if Daniel Hannan will be running for the British Parliament? He’s got his finger on the true pulse of the nation. I’m encouraged by young people like him.
batb – most Canadians will need a course in history to ever approach the knowledge that so easily rolls off the speeches of intelligent, educated people like Danial Hannan, Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Farage. The historically mentally/educationally challenged and/or indoctrinated in hate group are concentrated in the left (pinko to Red) group; this latter herd run the education system and public schools in Canada. Same in GB. The children of those who founded the Magna Carta, for the most part have no idea of the impact of that document, the time frame, the contents or even the date!
The harping on racial ‘fault’ for evil is as stupid as racial ‘fault’ for good, IMO. God is the only good and individuals ONLY (of any/all skin color) embrace God and the power of being human. Conquered people have always found themselves at the mercy of the victor, such is the fate of many PRESENT non white regions of the world. Of course, this present situation was not always so and does not apply to the history of the world. Revisionist history must be untaught to level the playing field for the force of Good else evil will triumph and all people will be plunged into a dark age of servitude and misery.
Citizens must be students of History and logic in order to make informed decisions, they must be able to rationalize and think of repercussions before they open their mouths to speak or open their wallets to pay taxes or grant support for political ideas. Citizens must be taught to listen with heart and mind and to make the best possible decision with the least impact on Liberty and Good. Emotional/mental flip flopping stems from a lack of knowledge and/or ability to understand. The black forces are always on the lookout for ‘good causes’ and the gullible (uneducated) are their prime targets.
I think that I support the History Project being instigated by PMSH but I will be interested in seeing it before I give a thumbs up. The ‘social studies (Marxist brainwashing) that is taught in Canadian schools will never produce a Danial Hannan. a Winston Churchill, a Margaret Thatcher or a Nigel Farage. A fundamental understanding of History is required to enable citizens and leaders to speak with authority on topics that concern the citizens of a Free and Sovereign nations. It is the duty of citizens, IMO, to be the gatekeepers of their freedom by being too aware of the facts to be hoodwinked. A good example of this is SDA and the AGW hoax.
I agree with everything you said in your comment.
And I agree with yours, Jema54.