I was lucky enough to introduce David Cameron at a Cameron Direct Event in Belfast last Saturday. During one of his answers he made clear, when asked what he’d do to revive Republican fortunes in the USA, that he probably wouldn’t go for a “Guns and God” strategy. One audience member made the point that such a strategy seemed to have been pretty successful for quite a few of Northern Ireland’s incumbent political parties.
Now that the Conservative Party has instilled modern, pluralist Conservatism in Northern Ireland, we hope that is due to change. The local Parties seem very rattled.
But over in the US things don’t appear to be changing that much. Quite a few don’t appear to have learned any lessons.
Get a load of this from Mark Steyn:
I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: It benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on Earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. If you lack either of those twin props, you wind up with today’s Europe – a present-tense Eutopia mired in fatalism.
What do you think?
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Unlike the British, we have a constitution people can put in their hands. And unlike the mother country, we believe that people have a right to defend their homes with firearms.
You so-called conservatives in the UK can have your pluralism. You”re about to be taken over by the Muslims anyway.