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POLITICAL COURAGE IS NOT AMONG THE QUEEN'S MANY VIRTUES.
PART of EXTRACT from WHO KILLED BRITAIN by A. N. Wilson [Daily Mail-Thursday, September 11, 2008] ..It is often said that she has never put a foot wrong. YET a conspicuous feature of HER LIFE as HEAD OF STATE has been the way she has accepted recommendations for PEERAGES, as well as the mangling of the House of Lords perpetrated by Tony Blair, without any apparent question. In this , she differs markedly from her grandfather George V, who prevented Asquith from creating 500 Liberal peers and certainly would have insisted upon a plausible alternative system being in place before the Second Chamber was deprived of its hereditary element. There was no reason, constitutional or otherwise, why the MONARCH could not have questioned some of the rum coves Harold Wilson nominated for honours. Similarly, COMMON SENSE and DECENCY should surely have prevented her from ennobling Jeffrey Archer (perjurer liar, cheat) or Conrad Black (shady businessman, asset stripper and, eventually imprisoned fraudster.) or the gang of unworthies, elevated by BLAIR having offered LOANS and GIFTS to NEW LABOUR. The QUEEN has many virtues but POLITICAL COURAGE is NOT ONE OF THEM, and in allowing PARLIAMENT thus to fall further into DISREPUTE - SHE WAS IN THE WRONG.... [Font Altered-Bolding & Underlining Used-Comments in Square Brackets] [ABRIDGED extract from OUR TIMES: THE AGE OF ELIZABETH II by by A. N. Wilson published by Hutchinson-on September 18 at £25. To order a copy at £22.50 (p&p free) please call 0845 155 0720]. * SEPTEMBER-2008 |