As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter......
This blog has made quite public it's fondness of the political savy of Lord Randolph Churchill. The English as a group once produced the greatest of statesmen, often to balance their equally unequal monarchs. It is in this that I puzzle over the Norman mindset of treating people like the cloth of the land.
Lord Churchill saved the Tory party or Conservatives, by championing the cause of the working man voting or men's suffrage. This would seem to be the undoing of Norman feudalism, but on the question of Ireland, he was like the Labor Liberals as against Irish Home Rule in the utmost vehemence.
One would have thought that 1776 or the late 1880's Boer Wars would have instructed the English about the necessity of peoples having some form of governmental representation, beyond the seats offered in Parliament in London to the Irish, but they never did reach that conclusion.
How difficult would it have been to mirror the American system of "states" in having presiding lower houses which did not supercede a federal system somehow escapes both Lord Randolph Churchill, and Prime Ministers Salisbury and Gladstone is beyond comprehension really.
Yet in the following private letter the following intrigue and guile arises. Lord Randolph had brought the Tories to power on the Irish vote by their leader Parnell in the House of Commons with promises of greater Irish freedom, but the letter shows that Lord Randolph had weighed this shrewdly and was quite content to let the Irish implode as a self governing people.
"... It is the Bishops entirely to whom I look in the future to turn, to mitigate or to postpone the Home Rule onslaught. Let us only be enabled to occupy a year with the Education Question. By that time, I am certain, Parnell’s party will have become seriously disintegrated. Personal jealousies, Government influences, Davitt and Fenian intrigues will all be at work on the devoted band of eighty: and the Bishops, who in their hearts hate Parnell and don’t care a scrap for Home Rule, having safely acquired control of Irish education, will, according to my calculation, complete the rout.
That is my policy, and I know that it is sound and good, and the only possible Tory policy. It hinges on acquiring the confidence and friendship of the Bishops; but if you go in for their mortal foes the Jesuits on the one hand, and their mortal foes the anti-clerical Nationalists on the other, for the purpose of humiliating and beating back Archbishop Walsh and his colleagues, this policy will be shattered .... My own opinion is that if you approach the Archbishop through proper channels, if you deal in friendly remonstrances and in attractive assurances, ... the tremendous force of the Catholic Church will gradually and insensibly come over to the side of the Tory party."
Winston Churchill. Lord Randolph Churchill
One has to admire such shrewd political cunning, but it the complete antithesis of Conservative Christian ideals, which Lord Randolph was.
Every people have the right by force to obtain that right of self governance by a fair vote to establish a representative government.
Yet we see in the Lord Churchill intrigue that the Catholics were at war within the ranks in the Bishops against the Jesuits, and the Irish politic was at odds in Fenians in the Nationalists, and they all would intrigue each other in the back, and leave the Bishops of the Catholic church in charge having been bribed by London with contol of education.
The Education bill was very generous and widespread in it's benevolence by Lord Randolph and Her Majesty's government, but at the same time it was denying the Irish the right to form a legislature to represent themselves, just as the Americans demanded.
Lord Randolph was most perplexing in he was devout to Her Majesty's Constitution which was English church, wed to the Monarchy, and represented by the Parliament.
He frequently used the term Tory Democracy, but he was loathe concerning a Repubican form of Government.
Republicanism was majory rule with minority rights, and would seem exactly what Lord Randolph would embrace, as with clauses for the Church of England and a Constitutional Monarch, there would be absolutely no difference in a Prime Minister as Speaker of the House, the Church and Judiciary as the third branch of state with the Monarchy occupying the presidency.
The state of Ireland in the United Kingdom could adminster all an American state does, with the exception the Irish could not estabish a standing army which would of course be used to overthrow London, and there would be federal laws which in felonies London would prosecute so as to not allow Ireland to become a land of outlaw assylum.
While I admire Sir Randolph Churchill for his astuteness, there is the inner workings of guile in this, which while it is the work of politicians, it is the type of intrigue which is a betrayal of a representative system.
It is one thing to produce policy to effect a proper outcome against foreign nations in competition, but it is a far another thing to do this to subjects who are under your flag.
The problem with a Lord Randolph with the inner workings of guile, is that from this same period it graduated in others to a "gentleman's agreement" to promote the genocide of Germans.
The Anglo Saxons, in the Saxons were the Issac Sons who immigrated from Germany. This is the common bond of blood which is England, and yet as Cain murdered Abel, the same murderous villany was established by England, France and American financiers against Germany.
It is in the modern era of 21st century Obama in plotting to use 300 million dollars in illegal Muslim campaign contributions by terrorists to overthrow the elections, and then for Obama to murder off the national Islamists and as payment hand over states like Libya to terrorists which the regime of Barack Hussein Obama was managing.
Shortsightedness is what leads to guile and guile is what transforms governments into despotism.
Having the volcanic cinder cone of Ireland which almost blew up in revolution during the famine, await to collapse upon itself, to only see it rise again later as it would be the logical case is not a policy, but is instead the suffering of peoples.
The English produced great policy in the Queen Victoria era. The worst of it though was their undoing in the Boer War, World War I and the jingoism against the Irish. It all would fall apart in Sir Winston's time in the independence of India and her civil war of Hindu against Muslim.
The lesson of America should have taught Parliament to make parliamentary states of Ireland, India and South Africa, for if they did, they would still be the superpower of Europe on which the sun never sat.
The greatest of men have the greatest of failures.
Yes turn Ireland over to the Vatican to beat the Irish with threats of hell if they are not loyal slaves and keep the British red coat around to beat the Irish femurs into ploughshares.
agtG
