This appeared among other things in a MAIL on SUNDAY Editorial.
I thought it worth sharing.
From THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
Socialist Utopia lives on
It took most of the British radical Left some time to realise that the European project was on their side. Two events helped them see that Brussels was and is their friend.
The first was Margaret Thatcher’s clash with Jacques Delors, whose vision of a centralised, socialist superstate appalled her and entranced the Labour Party.
The second was the end of the Cold War, when many who had been apologists for the Soviet Union suddenly needed a new home for their hopes of Utopia.
So it is especially interesting to find that Baroness Ashton, the EU’s new Foreign Minister, was a senior figure in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the Eighties. In fact, her influential position there is the only elected office she has ever held.
Had CND succeeded in its aim of one-sided disarmament by the West, the whole continent would have been dominated by a socialist superpower. Presumably that is what its more intelligent supporters wanted.
That effort collapsed 20 years ago along with the Warsaw Pact. But the socialists’ love of regulation, their enthusiasm for multiculturalism and immigration and their scorn for nation states live on.
Their old zeal for nationalization has given way to Green fanaticism and the choking rules of political correctness. And in the EU they find a powerful and generous friend.
Baroness Ashton has (to quote Les Patterson) a face like a half sucked mango. In fact the last time I saw a head like hers it had a hook in it. What is it about socialist wimmin are they genetically predisposed to be fugly?