The Continued Renaissance of Right Thinkers
Watlington has written before on the resurgence of the new right both intellectually and through political campaigns. Conservatives are beating the left on the blogosphere (www.conservativehome.com), in campaigning (the Taxpayers Alliance) and in the think tank world. Only last week, Ruth Lea established a forward looking Euro-sceptic think tank Global Vision, which is set to provide an intellectual framework - palatable to moderate Euro-sceptics - for Britain's negotiated withdrawal from political and economic union. In a well attended meeting in Westminster, Ruth Lea and co-conspirator Lord Blackwell (both of the Centre for Policy Studies), set out a cogent and thoughtful set of policies that all (except the UKIP-jihadists) can sign up to.
Now Watlington hears of a new media unit being set up by CIVITAS and with additional support from a leading Tory Peer. The media unit is set to monitor BBC and Channel 4 for bias on Islamism and Middle Eastern Affairs. This is welcome news. A similar operation conducted by Lord Pearson on European matters has also had some impact on the BBC in curtailing its inbuilt pro EU bias. All in all the resurgence on the right is good news and heralds a change in the political climate. At long last Conservatives of all persuasions are getting their act together and fighting the left on the street - albeit in some cases the virtual highway.
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Lord Pearson of Rannoch is, of course, one of the UKIP jihadists who, like all really thoughtful eurosceptics, finds it hard to believe that a set of policies such as those of Global Vision, which is based on serious ignorance of the EU's structure and relies entirely on hopefulness, can ever work.
Posted by: Helen at March 29, 2007 11:17 PM