Note the Flames of Hell Licking at His Feet!
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23 Feb 2014
Note the Flames of Hell Licking at His Feet!Britain, Conservative Party, Conservative Party Posters, Political Posters![]() 28 Jul 2008
The Right at YaleColleges and Universities, Conservatism, Conservative Party, Education, Party of the Right, Yale, Yale Political Union![]() James Kirchik, a liberal writing at the libertarian DoubleThink, describes undergraduate political life at Yale, the parties currently making up the Yale Political Union, and winds up ruefully paying tribute to an organization I belong to: The Party of the Right (POR). Mr. Kirchik is misinformed on one detail. The current Conservative Party was formed in the 1990s by a gentleman who had been defeated for a second time seeking election as Chairman of the Party of the Right. The name “Conservative Party” was technically vacant, since the real Conservative Party, tracing its history back to Union’s 1930s beginning, had in a moment of 1980s flaccidity changed its name to the “Independent Party,” having become ashamed even to be called Conservative. The Party of the Right, early in its history, chose to create a cult of devotion to the memory of King Charles I of England, on the basis of his martrydom for the simultaneous causes of Legitimacy and Liberty. The POR Chairman wears a medal commemorating Charles I, and POR toasting sessions (a formal drinking bout held at Mory’s) are opened by the Chairman reciting Charles I’s scaffold speech, which, in part, goes:
Sirs, It was for this that now I am come here. If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way, for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword, I needed not to have come here; and therefore, I tell you, (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) That I Am the Martyr of the People.
Hat tip to Matthias Storme. 23 Nov 2006
Polly Toynbee, Not ChurchillBritain Sinking into the Sea, Conservative Party, Polly Toynbee![]() The Guardian reports that Britain’s clueless Conservative Party is contemplating trying to outflank Labour… to the left!
What Britain needs is a return to red-blooded Thatcherism, not a cowardly revival of 19th century Bismarckian-style efforts to compete with leftism in bribery of the canaille. ![]() Feeds
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