Editorials/William J. Casey, RIP/Maggie Will Win
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
MAGGIE WILL WIN London rime Minister Thatcher had hardly ended her call for elections than I was on wing to this sceptered isle to collect samplings for my zoological studies of the political...
...Kinnock were drowned out by his zanies' harsher calls for unilateralism, increased taxes, minority rights, and desiderata the American reader will deem unbelievable...
...Nowadays, conservatives' best campaigners are their opponents...
...Thatcher's heartlessness in terms reminiscent of those we have heard applied to our own Ronald Reagan...
...Neil Kinnock with his caring, humane, and now "sensible" Labour party...
...Thus on both sides of the Atlantic (continued on page 46) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987 9 EDITORIALS (continued from page 9) we see emerging through the electoral process a yearning for life without weirdness...
...He did seem to be able to keep the zanies in his party out of public view, however, and that is essential for left-of-center parties, as we shall see...
...After decades of wild rides goaded on by dubious idealists, hoi polloi seem to have settled for economic growth and competence...
...Britain has the hottest economy in Europe, with a growth rate which is now even above that of the United States or Japan...
...The reason is that the electorate in the major democracies of the West recognize a zany when they see one...
...Kinnock has no new solutions to unemployment, inflation, and low productivity...
...Thatcher's Conservatives are about as far ahead in the polls as they were behind last year...
...Even Prince Charles's errancies in the wilds are about what one would expect from an American prince—you do remember JFK, Jr.'s peregrination into the Himalayas or Ulan Bator or wherever he went a few years back, pursuant to nature's call...
...Nonetheless, over here too the elites see only gloom...
...And that is what has been happening in America during the eighties...
...Just the other day he sought it on a remote island off Scotland where he went "crofting...
...Much to my surprise political conditions here are very similar to those in America...
...In Britain, where economic rejuvenation under Mrs...
...I had hoped that Prince Charles would recognize the aspirations of his subjects for progress under Mrs...
...Some weeks ago he sought "the simple life" with an 81-year-old "adventurer" in the Kalahari Desert, of all places...
...46 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987...
...Thatcher has been less robust, her free enterprise policies are beginning to fulfill their promise...
...Today Mrs...
...Our Democrats may now look like winners against the Republicans in 1988, but their prospects for victory will wilt the instant their convention is broadcast into the cozy homes of America...
...But more on Anglo royalty in due course...
...Kinnock's prospects for victory slipped the minute his campaign began...
...So similar are political conditions here that I can safely predict not only a Conservative victory in Britain but a 1988 Republican victory in America...
...Thatcher is anywhere from9 to 14 polling points ahead...
...All that remained for her burial was for her "to go to the country," as they say here...
...That is what has happened here, where Mrs...
...Alas, as with so many of the elites in the West, he has not yet gotten the message that with capitalism comes progress and ordinary human beings prefer progress to the simple life of socialism...
...On both sides of the Atlantic we see elites that failed to get the message...
...mother similarity between politics here and in America is that, though conservatives seem to have governed each country tolerably well, the elites in media and the universities are completely unaware of the good news and actually live in morbid contemplation of social and economic calamities as yet unborn...
...MAGGIE WILL WIN London rime Minister Thatcher had hardly ended her call for elections than I was on wing to this sceptered isle to collect samplings for my zoological studies of the political animal...
...I wanted to see how political conditions here might vary from those in our own great Republic...
...Here as the British campaign approached, the sober sonorities of Labour's Mr...
...I do not know what "crofting" is and I shall not ask as it has something to do with digging in the dirt and sounds quite disgusting...
...And on both sides of the Atlantic we continue to see the well-born parking their limousines at the edge of the woods and plunging into the wilderness in pursuit of "the simple life...
...8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987 Thatcher and her Conservative party had had it...
...Once the left-of-center exotics on both sides of the Atlantic have a chance to present their whoop-whoop to the electorate, the majority flees to the right...
...The intellectual establishment bewails Mrs...
...In America, where economic growth continues anda "new spirit" of patriotism prevails among hoi polloi, our elites continue to prophesy economic disaster and nuclear holocaust as they feverishly uncover one suffering sector of American society after another—not one of which anyone seems able to relieve...
...Though 3,663 miles across the sea, Britain's fundamental political condition is atone with ours...
...This is very odd, but this is precisely what Prince Charles is doing...
...Thatcher and return from the wilderness to announce that the simple life stinks...
...A year back, all our informed sources were telling us that Mrs...
...Britain would be its old self again, and the economy would . . . well, the economy would remain humane and wretched...
...In would come the winsome Mr...
...The electorate would serve as her pallbearers...
Vol. 20 • July 1987 • No. 7
