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Originally Posted by Hugh
Professor David Andress has a new book out (Cultural Dementia), and I thought one of his lines summed up the ERG (Jacob Rees-Mogg, aka "Lord Snooty" et al), even though he wasn’t specifically talking about them.
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Peter Hitchens, a conservative author and journalist has a similar perspective to the above. He realises and is very honest about the decline of Britain's role in the world since Suez.
Here's a good recent article from him:
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co...res-about.html
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For far too long we in this country have thought we were richer, more powerful and, in general, better than we actually are. Now we find out the hard truth, exposed in all its gloomy detail by the EU talks. Will we learn the necessary lesson, or will we prefer our precious illusions?
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He also comments on Mrs May attempts to deal with the poison chalice she was given, and here, I totally agree with him:
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Say what you like about Theresa May, and I have. But in this matter she has borne herself with dignity and integrity, a quiet, unshowy, resolute and very English sort of dogged courage of the kind I was brought up to admire.
She has peered over the abyss and knows what is there. Nobody else would have done any better.
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