John Le Carre ended up a disappointment. Where does this chap stand?
You won’t be disappointed this time, Oratam. Forsyth is most certainly a man of the Right.
This is what he wrote about Britain’s hard left-wing:
“In the decade prior to 1980 the Marxist hard Left had come so close to taking power.
Using a linked network of activists in the constituencies, the Militant Tendency in the unions and the old pro-Moscow veterans in unions and the parliamentary Labour Party, they almost had control of Labour and, with one election victory, the country.
They could hold us all to ransom, day after week after month. They were within a whisker of the culminating victory after six decades of struggle.
Pacifist premier Michael Foot would have crumpled. A timorous Tory leader would have done the same. And then this blasted Iron Lady came along.
And she beat them all until their Marxist-Leninist dream was dead for ever. She beat them not with cavalry charges but through the ballot box. They lost at each of the three elections.
They lost every time a working man, under her legislation, voted in secret not to strike. And for that they will never, ever forgive her. That is where the hatred comes from. So let us note and mark the haters - they are Britain’s enemies too.”
He's a conservative. It shows in his writing.
From Wikipedia:
Forsyth is a Eurosceptic Conservative. He has been Patron of The People's Book Prize since 2010. He is Patron of Better Off Out, an organisation calling for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. In 2003, he was awarded the One of Us Award from the Conservative Way Forward group for his services to the Conservative movement in Britain.I have never thrown a Forsyth novel forcibly into the trash, something I can't say about John le Carré novels.
Somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun if I recall correctly.
And a damn good writer too.