tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895895833188404571.post5821987006920254867..comments2023-09-10T08:05:04.212-04:00Comments on ODYSSEUS ON THE ROCKS: THE LOOMING CONFLICT WITH GREAT BRITAINThomas O. Meehanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387289879023508471noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895895833188404571.post-64426100827046048742009-03-07T14:54:00.000-05:002009-03-07T14:54:00.000-05:00Guy, I remember pictures of bloated Ted aboard his...Guy, I remember pictures of bloated Ted aboard his sailboat years ago and thinking, "This fellow doesn't look like someone I'd follow into battle." He made himself a nuisance to Margaret Thatcher as I recall. He passed on a few years ago I believe.<BR/><BR/>I've always believed that the UK gets the short end of the stick out of the "special relationship." Unlike many Americans, I see the faults as well as the gifts of Churchill. But his desire to see a real solidarity pact among all the English speaking nations was a good and sound one. As our nations lose their ethnic and cultural coherence it may be too late to revive this idea. <BR/><BR/>BTW, I've been reading British publications for so many years that sometimes I think I have a better grasp of what's happening there than here. I'm still subscribed to the Spectator, the Telegraph, the Times, and The Salisbury Review. I'm also on a personal crusade to get all my friends to rely on the TLS instead of that awful New York Times Book Review Section. The writing is so much better in all of the above than in their US equivalents. I am sorry to see the "dumbing down" in the Times and Speccie of late.<BR/><BR/>T.O.M.Thomas O. Meehanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16387289879023508471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3895895833188404571.post-36568421396078653982009-03-07T04:57:00.000-05:002009-03-07T04:57:00.000-05:00In my way of thinking it is as likely that the Bri...In my way of thinking it is as likely that the British Labour government themselves are behind the Kennedy honour - believe me, snubbing these treacherous leftists who have brought my country to its knees is not snubbing my country. The damage has been done a long time ago, my friend. Another Ted - Ted Heath - a 'Conservative' Prime Minister (in fact a pathetically obvious communist who made no secret of his reverence for Red China) struck the blow back in 1975 when he took us into the then EEC. Not that we had any choice, as the Labour and Liberal leaders of the time (Wilson, Grimond, Thorpe) all had the same agenda. All four went to Oxford too.<BR/>Funny, that.<BR/><BR/>All the best<BR/><BR/>Guy<BR/>Kent <BR/>EnglandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com