I don't have the book yet - which election was this? Labour were at one point - and I know this is barely imaginable now - more Eurosceptic than the Tories, with the unions seeing the then EEC as a barrier to their ideal of "socialism in one country". This changed in the 1980s when, as the Thatcherites were decisively defeating the Heathites within the Tory party, the Left generally realised - in my view rightly - that a unified Europe was the best hope for what it wanted (Old Labour anti-EU "thinking" - in my view profoundly misguided - is still around, though, c.f. the stupid recent fuss over the constitution).
I can understand how Promethea feels: for me, AF is - as someone else once said - "all aestheticism", though I can understand how proper Shire Tories feel, because the "arrivistes" did to them what the Blairites did to proper social democrats like me (and to proper socialists, which I'm not in the purest sense but can sympathise with).
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Date: 2007-08-31 08:54 pm (UTC)I can understand how Promethea feels: for me, AF is - as someone else once said - "all aestheticism", though I can understand how proper Shire Tories feel, because the "arrivistes" did to them what the Blairites did to proper social democrats like me (and to proper socialists, which I'm not in the purest sense but can sympathise with).