Posted on 05/04/2008 9:00:41 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
In less than a week the major political parties of the Right in Britain and Italy scored unprecedented electoral victories by winning mayoral races in Rome and then in London. Since the end of the Second World War, the Right had never controlled those two offices.
To grasp what this means, consider that "Londonistan" is the title of an excellent book by Melanie Phillips which warns of the descent of that great city into a radical Moslem polity. The citizens of Londonistan have chosen an iconoclastic Conservative Party leader, Boris Johnson, who has campaigned on the need to reduce crime in London and who has condemned the academic boycott of Israel by British universities as "disgusting and one sided." Although Johnson is more an offbeat moderate than a strong conservative, in Londonistan the change is dramatic and sweeping compared to what it had been before.
His defeated opponent, "Red Ken" Livingston, was a blatant fan of every Marxist thug and radical Moslem in the world. Livingston's comments about the Holocaust, about Israel and about the suspect loyalties of young Jews in Britain are despicable. Goodbye to a mayor who said: "For far too long the accusation of anti-Semitism has been used against anyone who is critical of the policies of the Israeli government, as I have been."
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Interesting that the purported decline of European leftism seems to coincide with the beginning of their baby boom’s retirement and the rise of European Islamism.
it’s a little to late, there a little too gone.
It will be chaos of course, because it is unlikely that parts of Europe will accept Islam. It is very possible Europe will fall into chaos in the next 50 years.
schu
....didn’t Churchill write a book called “While England Slept” pointing out his country’s ignoring the danger of facism?....somebody needs to re-write it...
We should note their story before it is too late to avoid following them over the waterfall.
It doesn’t matter which parties are elected.
The left has already established and expanded the huge bureacracies, filled them with other leftists.
And the bureacrats can’t be elected or deposed or defunded.
That’s where the real control is, in every western democracy and in most post-colonial countries.
Huge, parasitic bureacracies that nobody can get rid of.
Political parties are just window dressings.
Okay, call me cynical.
It’s a good trend for Europe, but of little comfort as our own country is about to throw herself into the Socialist abyss.
It won't go far and it won't last.
Wow! I was unaware that Red Ken had been defeated! Last I saw he was expected to hang on.
This is encouraging.
Brits, Germans and Danes are waking up, along with Italy and more weakly,Spain. European conservatives may awaken to reject Islamism in the next 10 years, not 50 years..awakenings can be quite sudden, like stock market crashes in our instant, internet world....your use of chaos is quite correct along with the reference to demography. Europe is indeed in a potentially catastrophic demographic emergency if one is not Muslim.
When in recent history have the Danes/Swedes/Belgiums/Dutch/Italians fought for their “culture”. What is their culture and what do they stand for?
Bad moon rising!
schu
Add to that litany almost complete control of the news and entertainment media, education, large tracts of capitalist enterprise, and the ideals and hopes of suffering humanity, and you can only conclude that conservatism has either been asleep or complicit.
Cynical, but accurate.
The left has already established and expanded the huge bureacracies, filled them with other leftists.
In critisizing MacCarthey G. K. Chesterton wrote that it is no great problem to get the communists out of the government. Just abolish the jobs.
Oops!
MacCarthey = McCarthey
It never does. It should be pretty obvious to anyone that these things go in cycles, or more accurately, like a pendulum. When they get sick of the abuses and corruption of a left-wing government, they vote for a right-wing government, when they get sick of the abuses and corruption of the right-wing government, they vote in a left wing government. That’s how democracy works...
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