[Stoat]

Yes! Actually, under Magna Carta, there should have been a Committee of Barons who called for an uprising to distress and distrain the Government, until it again respected property rights in England, throughout most of the Twentieth Century. Unfortunately, many reprints are of a later version, not the original 1215 text that King John agreed to, but those provisions are in there. England was never supposed to accept an abrogation of private property rights again.

Unfortunately, it appears that the current crop of British lawmakers owe far more allegiance to Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto than the Magna Carta.  The good, law abiding people of Great Britain need our help, but I wish that I knew how to do more rather than to merely offer polite verbal support.

By the way, was Clarke sober when he made this decision? He looks like a fellow who clocks far more pub hours than those in intellectual pursuit.

You are quite likely spot-on, as alcoholism is a popular fetish of many elected officials on both sides of the pond.  His visage, however, suggests a particularly enthusiastic embrace of this activity, as you so perceptively indicate.  His official pronouncements further bolster this theory.

Yes! Actually, under Magna Carta, there should have been a Committee of Barons who called for an uprising to distress and distrain the Government, until it again respected property rights in England, throughout most of the Twentieth Century. Unfortunately, many reprints are of a later version, not the original 1215 text that King John agreed to, but those provisions are in there. England was never supposed to accept an abrogation of private property rights again.

Unfortunately, it appears that the current crop of British lawmakers owe far more allegiance to Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto than the Magna Carta.  The good, law abiding people of Great Britain need our help, but I wish that I knew how to do more rather than to merely offer polite verbal support.

By the way, was Clarke sober when he made this decision? He looks like a fellow who clocks far more pub hours than those in intellectual pursuit.

You are quite likely spot-on, as alcoholism is a popular fetish of many elected officials on both sides of the pond.  His visage, however, suggests a particularly enthusiastic embrace of this activity, as you so perceptively indicate.  His official pronouncements further bolster this theory.

[Ohioan]

Britain needs a modern Kipling to capture the inanity of what prevails as policy in Whitehall, and the absurd inability of the people to even assert their traditional identity--I am talking about their lines of descent, which were always important to Western Man since Biblical days, up until the advent of Twentieth Century "Liberalism," that euphemism for the nihilistic Fabian Socialist assault on civilization.

Of course, the American equivalent would quake in their boots, if there were to be a real revival of spirit across the pond. It could well be contagious. It was just that fear, which prompted the pathological need to destroy Rhodesia, whose example of standing into the breach threatened the values of Western social retreat, to which we have all been consigned in the Leftist world view.

Forgive me for a bit of rant, inspired by this thread.

William Flax