by Glenn N. Holliman
This afternoon I received the following email from a leading member of the legal profession in Pennsylvania. I wonder if some of you all are having the same or differing thoughts than Dan? - GNH
Glenn, Today on CSPAN I stumbled across Theresa May's last Prime Minister's Questioning session in Parliament on Wednesday. I got to see the last 30 minutes and the entire 30 minutes almost made me cry.
Here was a woman whose civility, honesty, decency, compassion and knowledge of the details of government were obvious to all (except the front bench of the Labor Party who did not ask any questions and who did not rise to give her a standing ovation at the end). Theresa May was praised by the speakers from all the various parties and it was obvious that she is greatly respected for her human qualities.
I suppose historians will rate her as a less than average Prime Minister, but the affection in Parliament for her today should be emphasized, particularly at a time when such qualities in political leaders are in very, very short supply.
It is so sad that the two leading English-speaking nations in the world have political leaders who display none of Theresa May's human qualities and will be perceived by historians as con men devoid of any principles and as clowns and buffoons.
Feel free to transmit these sentiments to Terry and all your friends in Europe. - Dan whose picture is above
COMMENTS:
"The Economist months ago made the best commentary in its indirect, snarky way when it mentioned surprise May was managing to stay afloat and then added parenthetically, "although wooden objects tend to do that."
From a businessman and political observer in Jerusalem:
"What is the alternative? It seems that there were 2 choices and the lesser of 2 evils was chosen through
political maneuvering. The deeper question is how and why Britain, the home of civil people got to this point
with 2 such people at the top.
The next question is whether we need street fighters today to counter the sophisticated street fighters
who are leading those nation's trying to attack the civilized world. Can civil leaders do the job today?"
The replacement of Mrs May for Johnston is the function of about 185000 people, members of the Tory Party. The arrangements with Trump have been long in the making behind the curtain of open politics. This coup has strong commercial objectives, with enormous wealth, power, and new control of a supine and deluded population dependent upon the actions of the new Junta. That a tiny number of people - about 100000 -inserted this group of zealots is the proof of the death of the political social and cultural structures that have withered continuously since 1945.
ReplyDeleteThere is real terror now for the future felt by the British who are possessed of education, comprehension, liberal values and wise minds. This is what I wrote of before.
Now America under Trump used Britain as a tool to help to smash the nobility of the European Union.
This is in so many ways worse than our predicament in 1945.
If you as a massive power 'take pity' on us with an unequal deal via Trump, just as your corporations took everything worth having in England after 1945 leaving only the unviable trash to be 'nationalised' by Atlee and his true believers, then you will do us a serious dis-service.
I ask you do NO deal. You leave us to stew in the disaster of Johnston and the junta. This is the ONLY way Britain will learn its real place in thee world - a lesson learned by the horrors of 1939-1945 by all other European countries, from which came the truly beautiful European Union.
I should have said that I recall Dan with great affection. Such a good, kind, sensible man.
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