Being ‘Right-wing’ is about freedom, not violence

By Norman Tebbit:

There is no doubt that the Norwegian massacre is a truly dreadful story of the kind bound to dominate the headlines. Nor is there any doubt that all decent people would want to express their sympathy with the bereaved, and I thought that just as the Norwegian people send us a Christmas tree every year in thanks for our support during the War, the suggestion that we might send them a tree to symbolise our feelings for them at this time made sense. But as the evening wore on and more than half of every news broadcast was filled with endlessly repeated pictures of the bomb damage in Oslo and aerial shots of the island camp site, I become growingly irritated at the exclusion of almost all other news.

As for the BBC, I am not in the least surprised that it has denounced Anders Behring Breivik as – yes, you’ve guessed it – an extreme Right-winger. After all, Left-wingers like the Baader Meinhof gang don’t kill people, do they? There was time, too, for a bit of Christian-bashing and not too much thought about the doctrines of Christianity. Then Breivik’s views on Islam (similar to Prime Minister Putin’s views on Chechnya) and those on immigration (shared by Pol Pot and Mao) were used to fit him up as a Nazi and therefore an extreme Right-winger. The only bit missing from the charge sheet is that we do not know if he was a climate change denier and, like Tony Benn, a critic of the European Union.

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