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Broken society

Taki

Wednesday, 5th March 2008

Taki lives the High Life

Who the hell does David Cameron think he is to tell Benji Mancroft to think more before opening his mouth? Did Cameron think when he asked us to hug a hoodlum? I’ve been lucky and never had to go to a hospital in the UK but, unless I was bleeding to death and needed emergency help, the last place I’d choose to be treated would be here. Mancroft was right in what he said about the nurses and the sloppy work they do, but, instead of being congratulated by the Tory leader, he’s told to hold back. Like a true-blue phoney politician, Cameron bends over backwards for the soundbite ignoring that what was said might have needed saying. No Lady Thatcher this Cameron fellow. He wants to be popular with the very people who have made British society the most dysfunctional in Europe. In fact it is a broken society, like that nice Archbishop of York said. How can it not be with people like Cameron always taking the soft option and playing nice? What Britain needs is another, tougher Thatcher and Dave boy ain’t it.

I last saw Mancroft 30 years ago, when he was working on becoming an expert on drug addiction, but I took out two of his sisters, failed with a third, and hardly knew the fourth. Benji was strange — he was always on smack, which is not much fun — but he got his act together and even managed to stay in the Lords on the basis of the research he had done on drug addiction. From what I hear, hospitals in the UK are grubby and slipshod, the staff lazy and drunk at times, and what he didn’t say is how many doctors simply kill their patients through incompetence. But that’s not the point of this tirade. If the Brits are dumb enough to pay exorbitant taxes in order to get slaughtered in their hospitals that’s their problem, not mine. Which brings me to the non-doms.

Does anyone in their right mind think that non-doms will not flee the moment the envious ones put the screws on them? Why did they come to England in the first place? For the weather? For its healthcare? Or for its state schools, in reality prep schools for muggings, robberies and drug addiction? I first moved here because I wished to write in English rather than French, and also for the women. As hard as it might be for some to believe, it was much easier than in France. Also I was a gambler and wished to gamble with Aspinall and his friends. But back then England was still a country which had respect for tradition, one could walk the streets freely without the knuckledusters I now carry with me, and it was a homogenous society like the one I came from. Multiculturalism had not as yet been invented by the conmen who invented it, and that jerk Edward Heath had just canned the great Enoch over the speech the Speccie wrote about last week.

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Tiggy

March 6th, 2008 1:14pm

Taki is 100% correct, unfortunately. We have been over run buy toads.

M. Hristov

March 8th, 2008 2:50am

That great memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon hated the privileges heaped upon the legitimised bastards of Louis XIV. He felt that Ducs, such as himself, should have precedence over bastards, even Royal bastards. Yet M. Le Duc was, himself, ,of recent ducal descent. His father having been awarded that accolade. How reassuring to know that so little changes, for that second generation millionaire, Taki, now has the same prejudices as M. le Duc. The Russian oligarchs are too vulgar for Taki and he decries their advance. Heedless of that fact that it was the privatisation policy of his great heroine, Lady Thatcher, perverted by American neo-cons, that allowed this to happen. Princess Tatiana Metternich was right. All aristocrats tended to start as “toads”, particularly Russian aristocrats. The Russian aristocracy being a service aristocracy. Indeed, the brothers Orlov achieved their ascent, from common guardsmen, by providing certain services to Catherine II (The Great). Services akin to those provided by Paris Hilton on her famous internet video. There is no difference between these Orlov brothers and Hilton, except that the Orlovs were also regicides, having killed Peter III, Catherine‘s husband. I suppose it could be argued that the 19th Century was the high watermark of aristocratic respectability but respectability was probably borne out of bourgeois competition. The aristocracy and aristocratic leadership, as a concept, really died between 1914 and 1918, well before Taki pere pulled himself out of the mire. It is probably vulgar of me to point out another motivation. The French royal bastards were rich. Indeed, one of them was married to the Louis XIV’s nephew, the richest man in France. They also had power. This will have sharpened the Duc de saint-Simon’s enmity. The oligarchs are rich and this has sharpened Taki’s enmity. Plus ca change.

Emma Laird

March 9th, 2008 8:50pm

Cameron is right, we can't afford to loose faith in the healthcare system so why stir things up with un-neccasery comments.

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