Drive Them Insane

So in the end there were no outrages to decency during Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. All the threats to make a disgusting spectacle came to naught. And apart from a few contemptible chants and jeering the adolescent left was conspicuous by its absence.

That’s not to say that much of their brethren weren’t there with the posturing idiots in spirit. All week after the Iron Lady died the BBC focused on the few tiny protests by inadequates and losers in an attempt to boost them up. Then there was their endless deployment of the dreaded “d” word. Apparently, the most salient feature of Margaret Thatcher’s career was that she was “divisive”.

What they meant by this is simply that she ignored their disapproval and, very shamelessly, went ahead with saving the country anyway. The BBC ad nauseam use of “divisive” betrays their frustration and anger even today that she  wouldn’t listen to them, the cognoscenti. 

In dealing with a hostile news media, academia and the intelligentsia there are two schools of opinion among recent Tory leaders.

On the one hand, there was Margaret Thatcher, who was willing to stand up for right against the colossal barrage of bile and mockery brought to bear by our deluded intelligentsia.

And on the other, there has been every other Conservative leader, who has sucked up to the Liberal elites with ever increasing desperation, forever trying to appeal to their sense of decency, fair play and professionalism.

In this they may as well not have bothered. When it comes to a progressive, any consideration of decency, fair play and professionalism come a distant second to the promotion of their ideological fantasies.

David Cameron is only the latest Tory leader to take one look at the dominance the Left has over the commanding heights of opinion, sigh, and as Queen Victoria was advised, “Lie back and think of England!”

So how’s that working out for Cameron?

Soon after he was elected leader of the Conservative party, Cameron gave the interview above. Rather than be slowly worn down by his Liberal seducers as his predecessors had been, this new leader decided on a fresh strategy. He would pre-emptively bend over and give them everything they said they wanted from a conservative.

Harold Wilson said that a week is a long time in politics. In his Jonathan Ross interview, Cameron demonstrates just how long 18 minutes can be. That’s all it takes him to make his love overture to scumbag leftie Ross. That’s all it takes for the Lady Diana of British politics to offer up positive discrimination, support green lunacy, concede the cruelty of Thatcherism, and just for good measure go all therapeutic on the drugs issue.

Sadly, if Cameron expected Ross to slaughter the fatted calf in return, he was in for a disappointment. In truth, Ross wasn’t even listening, which illustrates one key difference between Left and Right. Whereas we on the Right despise and pity lefties for their lies and idiocies, or in other words for what they do. They, for their part, simply hate us for what we are.

So early in the interview before Cameron has even undone his trousers, so to speak, Ross reveals his utter contempt.

Ross:        “I read that you listened to my Radio 2 show, so you can’t be a complete prick!”

Cameron: (gives a hearty one of the boys laugh)

Then after Cameron has sacrificed the full measure of his virtue as outlined above Ross shows how moved he is, and incidentally how moved the Left always are, by Conservative appeasement. That is, not at all.

Ross:        “But did you or did you not ever have a wank thinking of Thatcher?”

Cameron: (laughs, not realizing the joke’s on him)

Ross's attitude is an extreme example of vulgar lefty contempt, but as the BBC’s highest paid entertainer at the time he was not exactly low profile. Most of Ross’s colleagues at the BBC share his loathing of all things Right, but prefer the tactic of haughty disdain to boorish ribalry.

Later, after one of the most disastrous governments in history led Britain to the brink of collapse, Cameron’s New Conservatives failed miserably even to win a majority in parliament.

Cameron then went into coalition with the Liberal Democrats, gave them half the ministries, and conceded what remained of his Conservative program.

And now 7 years later – after years of courting the Left; after building hundreds of useless wind turbines; after promoting gay marriage; after leaving the NHS and education unreformed; after ring-fencing foreign aid; after years of positive discrimination – how is it working out?

Cameron’s Conservatives are at 30% and only the self-evident uselessness of the Liberal and Labour alternatives keep them even that high.

Scandalized Leftie Shows the Way

Last week Mark Biddiss showed the way forward.

Mark Biddiss was the man behind the campaign to promote Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead to celebrate the passing of Margaret Thatcher. A few days into his fun project to mock a dead woman awaiting burial, he was apparently shocked to be a target of vitriol himself. He received hate tweets wishing him dead and was mysteriously followed by a “bald man” on leaving a television studio.

The reason for his outraged shock is that the Right are not supposed to behave like that. The Left are given a pass to revile, to make spit flecked tirades and outrage all decency. But the Right? Conservatives are expected to play the role of daddy to the Left’s adolescent teen. They are supposed to always behave with mature indulgence in the teeth of lefty tantrums.

Well, though Margaret Thatcher was always mature, she flatly refused ever to indulge our Liberal elite’s childish utopian fantasies.

It drove them insane.

And rather than fatally dividing the right-wing vote as Cameron has with the rise of a real conservative opposition in the form of Ukip, Thatcher split the Labour party. Her unflinching consistency energized the radicals of the Left to believe that the revolution was close at hand, thereby forcing the hand of those in Labour with a dim grasp of reality. They then broke away in despair from the Labour rump, drunk with delusions singing the Internationale, to form the SDP which kept the Left out of power for the rest of the 80s.

Cameron has tested to destruction the idea that our liberal elites can be won over. But Margaret Thatcher’s 3 election triumphs prove that you don’t have to.

As Kipling has it in “If”:

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools.

And if you can put up with vicious hatred for the rest of your life, not even dying with your death.

If you can do all that, you might just save your country…

For a while, anyway.