Well, here’s an interesting speech.
Spend 5 minutes with me on a journey from a hall in Harrogate 20 years ago to the Times today.
My translation of each extract is marked by a 🔹.
🔹We’re becoming a foreign land. They’re stealing our currency, our economy & our country. /1.
🔹I’m not racist, but …
The British are being turned into a different people. I’ll stop that. /2.
🔹Asylum seekers have rehearsed - to play the system.
Also, asylum & crime must be mentioned together as much as possible. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Britain is a soft touch. /3.
🔹It’s common sense that Britain must be a soft touch if asylum seekers come here instead of claiming asylum in a European country they’ve been in.
We’re not bigoted.
We’re proud of our country. /4.
🔹Britain is the greatest.
World War I. World War II. Empire. And other greatness.
People who, according to me, disagree with me (& you), despise our great country. /5.
🔹The EU, aided by fifth-columnists in Britain, is destroying our country’s independence.
And robbing you, the true, honest folk of Britain, of your sovereignty. /6.
🔹If you don’t vote Conservative, your future right to vote for your government, & to live in an independent country, will be stolen.
By foreigners & their British collaborators. /7.
🔹Your country has been stolen from you. It’s being dismantled. And you, the true people, threatened with extinction. Sorry: “the currency of our people threatened with extinction”. A totally different point.
Vote for me. Vote Conservative. We’ll give you your country back. /8.
Here’s the full speech. I wouldn’t want you to think I might have been trying to mislead by taking things out of context.
Perish the thought. /9.
ukpol.co.uk/william-hague-…
Oh yes, & look who gave it.
The person who just wrote this.
I still haven’t recovered my breath👇 /10.
The speech is 20 years old.
What does that tell us?
Not that it no longer matters.
Rather:
🔹the malaise which it typifies runs much deeper than the excesses of the Johnson rampage
🔹Lord Hague is part of that
🔹absent apology & explanation, his words are hollow. /11. End
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