(2005-11-30) Walter Hitchens Abolition Britain

John Walker on PeterHitchens' The Abolition Of Britain ISBN:1-893554-39-2 - When the pillars of a Culture: historical memory, national identity and pride, religion and morality, family, language, community, landscape and architecture, decency, and education are dislodged, even slightly, what ensues is much like the "controlled implosion" demolition of a building, with the Hobbesian forces of "every man for himself" taking the place of gravity in pulling down the structure and creating the essential preconditions for the replacement of Bottom-Up Self Government by self-reliant citizens with Authoritarian rule by elite such as Tony Blair's ambition of US-style presidential power and, the leviathan where the road to serfdom leads, the emerging anti-democratic Continental super-state. (He's not a fan of the EU.)