I am in 2 minds about this one. redXR makes a good and valid point about the seperation between forces and politics. However, and this is a big however, there has always been some tension between politicians and the forces. In the instance of the Smiling One it goes much deeper.
The Invidious Thing wants to replace the Establishment of old and forces of conservatism with the new Establishment of New Labour, unswervingly loyal only to him. He has no philosophy and governs by the politics of the media headline with his rotweiller-in-chief the bully boy Campbell. He is indecisive and weak, embittered with his battles with the intellectually superior Brown, and devoid of purpose other than his own ends. The concept of responsibility has been eradicated bvy pervasive rights. We all have to beat our breasts to his mea culpas that we are institutionally racist. In his speech to the 1999 Labour Party conference he likened what he described as the "forces of conservatism" (and which he defined de facto anyone that does not hold the views of New Labour as he went on in that speech) as the party of "fox hunting, Pinochet and Hereditory Peers; the uneatable, the unspeakable, and the unelectable" He further described New Labour as "the forces of modernity that has the courage to change against the old elites.....the forces of conservatism, the cynics, the elites, the Establishment". In one speech he had decried anyone that did not sign up to his agenda as murderours (ref to Pinochet), racists (in ref to Steven Lawrence), Mysogynists (a ref in his speech to the Establishment acting to keep women out of top jobs and universities), and enemies of the new order.
This government has used the politics of liberalism to brand anyone that disagrees with them an "ist" of some order. The mentality of the country has changed in the past 5 years to a point where fear is the over-riding emotion of anyone who dares question. Question the Government's record on immigration, you are a racist. Question their actions on Zimbabwe you are a racist. Question the intervention in Kosovo and you are shoring up a murderous regime. Question their position on Europe you are a xenophobe. This New Labour Government is a communist tyrranical state ruler by another name. It is precisely because of this that we as individuals must take an interest in politics to asfeguard our own freedoms and country. The mish-mash of multi-cultural diversity without identity is destroying britian and any form of British identity for the younger generations. How many now are taught about the so-called horrific wrongs of the zionist Empire and that our actions are responsible for the starvation of millions in Africa? How many RE lessons teach Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism and anythign so long as it isn't CofE Chritianity? How much do we as a nation feel embarrassed to talk about our heritage? How often are we called names and accused when we try? I sense a real plot to erase history to re-write the book so that only the one philosphy is acceptable, a paranoid need to wipe out any trace of self-knowledge and therefore dissemination.
Think about our country and study the changes. If you come to the same conclusion, that this government hates Britian and free thought and expression, then take an interest in politics. All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing, the saying goes. It is all too easy to become complacent that the military does not need to interest itself in politics for all to be right. the military should be a check and a balance. the reason it is loyal to the Crown and not the government is so that it can act if it feels compelled to do so in the interests of the nation. It is therefore de facto, not independant of pilotocs, rather independant of a party by virtue of the Queen's embodyment of britain and the British people.
Oh, and if you believe Article 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights applies to a philosphy other than that of the left-liberals, you are mistaken.
