Nut alert.

Oh dear. No.

“in the vain hope that Britain could continue to rule half of Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the other pink bits on the map.”

Again, sadly no. If the British were that concerned about their empire, they would have come to an accommodation with the Nazis- they wouldn’t have engaged in an existential struggle with them.

“And the Russians who raped their way through Germany, took one third of Germany either for itself and its allies, ethnically cleansed millions and denied freedom of speech to half of Europe were his close allies.”

No. Sadly for this “theory” the British were rather desperate, by this point, to stop the Russians getting their hands on Germany, because by this stage it was plainly apparent what the Russians’ motives were. “Close allies” my arse.

“to provoke a response to the increasingly devastating carnage, ie, to get Luftwaffe to bomb British working class areas in retaliation thus pulling the population behind the bourgeoisie – a ploy that largely succeeded.”

Oh dear yet again. This is what happens when Marxists try to fit the facts into their theories, isn’t it?

There were two principal aims to the saturation bombing of civilians by the Royal Air Force: one was to provoke a response to the increasingly devastating carnage, ie, to get Luftwaffe to bomb British working class areas in retaliation thus pulling the population behind the bourgeoisie – a ploy that largely succeeded.

And secondly, the aim was to kill, maim and terrorise as many German civilians as possible – the primary aim wasn’t industry or the war machine. Very early on in the war, the RAF were dropping bombs on working class areas and then coming back to strafe with machine guns the firemen trying to put out the blazes. The British Air Ministry produced a new policy report on bombing, 24.4.41: “It is only possible to obtain satisfactory results by the ‘Blitz’ attack on large working class and industrial areas of the towns”. An appendix concluded, “delayed action bombs should make up 10% of the tonnage dropped”. Previous head of the RAF, Lord ‘Boom’ Trenchard, said the way forward was to drop more tonnage where most people live, so that fewer bombs would be wasted. Charles Portal, Head of the RAF, agreed. Head of Bomber Command, Richard Peirse gave these orders on 5.7.41: “(destroy) the morale of the civilian population as a whole, and of the industrial workers in particular”. Churchill called for the “largest quantity of bombs per night” and the RAF started night bombing.

Britain may have lost its empire and become a third-rate power that has no choice but do what the USA tells it to do, but its ruling class still leads the world in one department: humbug and hypocrisy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Toibin-t.html

No he didn’t. He just murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people on behalf of the British Empire in the vain hope that Britain could continue to rule half of Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the other pink bits on the map.

My freedom of speech never even figured in his calculations.

And the Russians who raped their way through Germany, took one third of Germany either for itself and its allies, ethnically cleansed millions and denied freedom of speech to half of Europe were his close allies.

This raises intriguing possibles – is Crooke engaging in some sort of lesbian-drag type rumpy-pumpy with romantic leads from the East? Is he a triple agent? And who would be the one-armed Scots-bloke?

Does this sort of dessert-porn appeal to a certaintype of public-school educated person?

Is it de rigeur?