Robin Harris was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. His interview isn’t only an accurate dismantling of the UK’s Conservative-in-name-only ruling party; his insights also could be applied to the infamous RINOs (Republican in name only) of America, as well as to conservative leaders everywhere who play politics and betray their countries as they drift to the left. Such leaders are not only unfit to guide nations; they have thrown those under the bus who have historically made the largest personal sacrifices for the public good, including those who have paid with their lives to keep their nations free. Harris eloquently explains in this single paragraph why the Right is losing:
It is the consequence of complacency. The right-wing error is to forget something that Mrs. Thatcher used to say, namely that there are no final victories in politics. The Left keep up their networks, infiltrate institutions—at a basic level, they look after each other. You think that they have disappeared, but far from it: they are just waiting for the next opportunity. It is rather admirable in a way, even though their remorselessness is fuelled by hatred.
The UK’s globalist government has abandoned its base, but remains in power only because there is no other alternative; the other UK parties are even worse. The Conservatives’ ever-growing list of infractions includes its reckless mismanagement of immigration policies, as is daily evident in the ongoing invasion of unvetted illegals via the English Channel. This has contributed to the deterioration of Britain’s economy and national security. Let’s hope a truly conservative option arises before it is too late. And the same can be said for other countries that are being destroyed by globalists.
“Something Terminally Wrong with the Conservative Party: An Interview with Robin Harris,” European Conservative, April 1, 2024:
Robin Harris worked for the UK’s Conservative Party from 1978, and collaborated increasingly closely with Margaret Thatcher herself from 1985, writing her speeches and advising on policy. He left Number Ten with her and, as a member of her personal staff, he then drafted the two volumes of her autobiography and a further book on her behalf, continuing to see her regularly after her retirement. He is the author of numerous books, including Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher (2013), The Conservatives: A History (2013), and Dubrovnik: A History (2003). He is currently vice president of the Croatian Centre for the Renewal of Culture.
You were close to Margaret Thatcher, at the time of Ronald Reagan and St. John Paul II. Each of them were strong personalities who knew how to face the challenges of the Cold War. Did our victory then give rise to complacency now—which has produced, in turn, the worst class of politicians in the West—and to an absolute loss of values?….
….Sunak’s presence in Number Ten is also of symbolic importance. It demonstrates what has gone seriously, perhaps terminally, wrong with the Conservative Party. First, Sunak was not elected by the Party members, having climbed in after the ousting of two Conservative leaders and prime ministers who were elected. The Party managers think that the state of affairs is acceptable because they have a low view of Party members, and they think that a ‘technomanager’ (as the communists used to call this class) is all that the country wants.
Second, Sunak is, indeed, Britain’s most obvious political representative of deracinated technocratic globalism. He may mean well, but are his priorities those of most ordinary people? His conference speech confirmed that his priorities are not. Conservative voters—like right-wing voters elsewhere—increasingly resent globalism, but globalism on steroids is all that the Conservative Party now has to offer….
It is the consequence of complacency. The right-wing error is to forget something that Mrs. Thatcher used to say, namely that there are no final victories in politics. The Left keep up their networks, infiltrate institutions—at a basic level, they look after each other. You think that they have disappeared, but far from it: they are just waiting for the next opportunity. It is rather admirable in a way, even though their remorselessness is fuelled by hatred.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Rishi Sunak is the British equivalent of Nikki Haley – a globalist, who thinks that there can be a global solution for everyone. The way to get rid of him is for Brits to think outside the proverbial box and vote en masse for Britain First, so that the entire British political establishment is uprooted and can never recover. That’s the only hope I see for Britain
Ray Jarman says
An enlightening and an alarming article by Christine Douglass-Williams. With a few exceptions such as Geert Wilders, Andrzej Duda and Viktor Orbán there are very few conservative leaders on the European Continent and none in North America until and if Trump is elected. It seems almost like 1936 in many ways when I can only imagine how the people felt with the advent of NATZIsm and a war on the doorsteps of many nations.
Mick says
As one of the blue and red destroyers of Britain’s heavy industry, Mrs Thatcher was also a globalist.