Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine's words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows:
Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at the Tory conference.
He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform:
“right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country.
Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe.
The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…
We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage.
We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.”
Heseltine spoke the truth.
Why won't others?
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Heseltine does not need or want power – those in Deform want it & the Trumpists want to retain it. This is turn leads to the amplification of problems/issues in this case immigration to gain attention and votes. All facilitated by a media that is happy (why?) to act as a sounding board. As I posted before, immigration in the USDA is 100% a creation of historic US pocilcies wrt central & south America – European immigration (it’s a European problem) due to failures in Africa etc. Deform (and Trump) have no solutions but need to focus on the issue – because it generates headlines & allows Uk serfs to be groomed & their attention diverted away from other, arguably more important areas (e.g. places to live).
I’m sure I’m not the only one who heard Robert Jendrick’s conference speech, which ended with him exhorting the Tories, “Let’s build a New Order”.
Interesting choice of words.
Indeed…
Interesting that the meeting was packed. It indicates that there are still some European minded anti-fascists left in the Tory party, but if the only person they can find to address them is over eighty it does not say much about the courage or leadership potential in that group. I don’t think we can look to this group in the Tory party to save the country , or even the Tory party itself , but for me, at least, it is comforting to know there is still someone within the Tory party able to recognise the danger to us of fascism, willing to point it out and people willing to listen to him. Not everybody has gone mad then.
The Tories will survive, just like they planned to survive if Hitler had successfully invaded Britain in the 1940’s.
Where oh where are the real conservatives, bulwarks of democracy?
Where did they go?
Heseltine is more left wing than Starmer , and an advocate of localism.
Shame he was not ever PM instead of Thatcher.