Irish Home Rule causes 50 years of British misery
In a bizarre piece in the Post-Chronicle, Thomas E. Brewton likens the issue that immigration of Mexican illegals has become for the US today, with what Irish home rule was to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 100 years ago.
In this bizarro world, Lloyd George’s Liberal Party are the American Republicans, the Boer War is Iraq, and the Democrats are the socialist Labour Party:
In the 1920s, the socialist Labour Party became the ruling political party and continued so until it had ground England into the economic dust, making it the sick man of Europe in the 1950s and 1960s.
After more than 50 years, Great Britain was finally rescued in the 1970s by the moral fortitude of Margaret Thatcher and her rebuilding of the Conservative Party
It seems Thomas is less concerned with what might be right in terms of conceding Home Rule to Ireland or dealing with immigration of Mexican illegals, and instead thinks that conservatives (which actually does include the British Liberal party) should stick together regardless of the right decision so that the opposition does not win power.
This is the first I’ve heard of buoyant Britain in the Sixties (Beatlemania, the mini, swinging London, England winning the World Cup) being in fact the “sick man of Europe” - let alone that it was caused by Irish Home Rule.
No mention is made of the small matter of, not one but two, World Wars, nor of the impact of Irish Independence (give or take six counties, but hey, who’s counting?), nor indeed the Independence of half the globe that was then governed as part of the British Empire.
A perfect comparison. Just remember if we now have World War III and World War IV, and the US then falls from economic grace, it won’t be the wars that’ll bring America down - you can blame the Mexicans.
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Eolaí gan Fhéile:
His grasp of history seems flawed. The Liberals opposed the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, which was prosecuted by the imperialist Conservative Party, and the Liberals were elected by a war-weary British public in 1906.
The successors of the Liberals, the Lib-Dems of today, also opposed the Anglo-American-Iraqu War (2003-????), and bush and Blari could have learnt a bit from the history of the Anglo-Boer War, and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, which the Liberals also opposed, and led to a similar kind of mess to that prevailing in Iraq today. We told you so! We told you so! Bus said no one could have foreseen it, but we told you so.