The Remittance Man draws my attention to the last testament of George MacDonald Frazer. He focuses on the final paragraphs in the piece and it resonated with me:
Most of the letters came from the older generation, but by no means all. I was made aware that among the middle-aged and people in their 20s and 30s there is a groundswell of anger and frustration at the damage done to Britain by so-called reformers and dishonest politicians who hardly bother to conceal their contempt for the public’s wishes.
Plainly many thought they were alone in some reactionary minority. They had been led to think that they were voices muttering to themselves in the wilderness.
Well, you are not. There are more of you out there than you realise – very many more, perhaps even a majority.
That, I find, refreshing – although through this medium I had begun to get a feeling that this was the case. So many of the political blogs are railing against the establishment of the politically correct control freakery we see around us.
As RM points out:
People are getting fed up. The grumbles are growing in volume and the “right” are beginning to potest. The biggest march ever to be held in London before the anti-war one was organised by the pro-hunting lobby. As Theo points out, in the US, the much vaunted Democratic turnout in the Iowa primaries was only a fraction of that for the republican ones. And the anti-leftie establishment blogosphere is battering at the lefties comfortable hegemony over the MSM.
One small point; throughout the article, MacDonald Frazer refers to these poisonous people as “liberals”. This is a word they stole to represent themselves. They are not liberal, they are highly illiberal. That apart, he was bang on the nose.
I think this inversion of the definition of liberal has the ring of Ministry of Truth about it, which makes it appropriate!