Tuesday 21 October 2014

Congress of the New Right, Indeed

An email from one of my friends on the inside, concerning my long-running call for legislation to disapply in the United Kingdom anything passed by the European Parliament but not by the majority of those MEPs who had been certified as politically acceptable by one or more seat-taking members of the House of Commons.

My sympathetic, and very well-placed, correspondent would like to know if this would mean that we should now be subject to the legislative will of Robert Iwaszkiewicz, thanks to a note to the Speaker from Douglas Carswell.

Quite.

Not for nothing did Janusz Korwin-Mikke, the Holocaust-questioning opponent of women's suffrage (but admirer of Margaret Thatcher) and advocate of wife-beating who founded and leads Iwaszkiewicz's party, call that party the Congress of the New Right.

He was an underground translator and circulator of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and of Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. He met Friedman, who praised him in his memoirs. From such roots have grown the view that the public ought not to see the disabled on television. Of course.

Thanks to the EU, such people are our legislators. Thanks to UKIP, such people are our legislators with the support of at least one member of the House of Commons.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks to the three parties who keep us in Europe, the EU are our legislators.

    Only UKIP has the solution to that, of course.

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    1. Anti-EU, but pro-TTIP? How does that work, then?

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