‘I don’t see anybody around with any prime ministerial qualifications at all.’
It was a joyous experience to read the musings of the waspish David Starkey in the Daily Telegraph the other Saturday. The Daily Telegraph was bombed with a hefty dose of common sense when David Starkey the well known historian gave a wide ranging interview on various topical subjects. His views are very conservative, in fact he would be better voting for UKIP than he would the Conservatives. They need him more. He is a blast of fresh politically incorrect air who is not spellbound by the evil magician that has cast a fog of deception upon the minds of many British people.
He is not intimidated by the ‘racist’ narrative that has run through political discourse for so long. He is not afraid to argue that there is what he believes a black propensity to violence in this country, saying that the figures support this, seeing one of the reasons as cultural. He has got it on victim hood. He helped himself up by his bootstraps besides the evident past disadvantages of being gay and born seriously disabled, saying you must be master of your own life and not look to government to institutionalise you as a victim. Amen to that!
This is one of the most important things he said, the catastrophic culture of victimhood that the political classes have foisted on the UK population. He understands better than most this poison that has entered the body politic and threatens to crush the life out of the nation. Just how many groups in society are we going to class as victims before we start treating people as grown ups responsible for their own lives regardless of disadvantage?
His thoughts about gender are mind bogglingly revolutionary, ‘the genders are different. And the whole thing is not just the result of wicked gender grooming. It’s not simply societal. It is the result of biology.’ Obviously.’ He is just stating reality. However I am not quite on his wavelength when he says that as far as intelligence is concerned women tend to cluster more around the mean, whereas men are either very, very bright or very thick.’ But what do I know?
Referring to his partner he says, ‘I see no reason apart from tax considerations – which we haven’t dealt with – why a gay relationship should be the subject of public rules.’ There we have it, you certainly cannot class all gays as having the same mindset on these issues. Too right for any conservative position where state sanctioned homosexuality just does not float their boat.
He waxes eloquent on Magna Carta, ‘we have the oldest functioning political system in Europe and it goes back directly to Magna Carta. There is a continuous line of constitutional and political development from Magna Carta.’ By the time it had been nipped and tucked, it had become a brilliant piece of political compromise.
He is pretty scathing about the present political class, implying that Ed Milliband if not the devil in disguise is not far off in his demeanour and intent, saying that Milliband is ‘poison.’ His line is damning, that we do not have a statesman or leader to deal with the issues. He sees the forthcoming general election with a degree of modified despair. He understands that inciting a politics of envy is just not where it’s at, the rich against the poor, rather than recognising the immense contribution of the rich, the talented and the entrepreneurs towards all the material things we enjoy. ‘A welfare state of necessity imposes high levels of taxes on ordinary folk.’ So don’t just take money off the rich to pay for it.
This just supports the argument that you get out of the system what you pay in, you certainly don’t expect something for nothing. And so we end up with one of the highest peacetime debts we have ever had. Starkey thinks the deficit should have been reduced much more with a radical reappraisal of what the state does. Precisely!
He is scathing about cutting defence and the police being scaled back when the threat of terrorism is so high. Starkey is all for leaving the EU, saying we don’t fundamentally depend on their markets, although they depend on us. We do however have a decent trade balance with the rest of the world.
You gotta hand it to him. Davis Starkey is a true Brit! I agree with him on almost everything!