More on nationalized grieving. And not just poor old persecuted Liverpool this time.

Posted by David Davis

Barrybeelzebub has a good insight from his 2nd September 2007 bolg-entry. Rather than just trashing the Scousers down the road – and I have tried today to explain (see below) why it’s not all their own fault, for they have been serially abused and duped by Socialists, Euro-Europeans, left-wing-Conservatives and other even less nice types of non-Libertarians - Barry lays the main blame at the door of the Dianaristas. Quite right too, but I fear that the rot had been setting in for some time. Florists nationwide would not have known they ought to gear up quite so quickly without notice; there’s the power of markets for you! Bet they cleaned up.

(Dr Sean Gabb has an interesting September-1997 link about defence of the monarchy, attached to a comment on my nationalization of grief post a few days ago, and you can also get it here.)

A good point Barry makes; why didn’t Winston Churchill, the one man whom future historians (not for now sadly, except possibly Andrew Roberts) can really say saved the world despite even being a statist of sorts, get a 10-year-memorial service?