May at the Conservative Party Conference last October saying this: “But if you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word ‘citizenship’ means.”
So much for May and her global baloney: She doesn’t like people who move from country to country, who may feel allegiance to more than one, and who have concluded that the most useful form of citizenship these days is one dedicated not only to the well-being of a Berkshire parish, say, but to the planet.
Global Britain without global citizens, please!
.. President Vladimir Putin says that Trump would never run after Russian “girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world.”
.. May seems to see Trump as her global ace in the hole, her counterweight to the European Union.
.. As Orwell is said to have observed, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
The Huge Challenge Facing Theresa May
May had earned a reputation as a law-and-order type, whose actions, such as beefing up anti-terror laws and placing new restrictions on immigration, pleased the Conservative faithful and outraged defenders of civil liberties. In 2013, for example, May supported the detention at Heathrow Airport of David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who helped to break the Edward Snowden story.
.. In a government dominated by the products of tony private academies—Cameron: Eton; Osborne: St. Paul’s—May had been largely educated at public schools. She also serves as the M.P. for Maidenhead, a middle-class commuter town about thirty miles west of London, and there, evidently, she has come to recognize the gaping chasm that many of her constituents perceive to exist between themselves and the London-based élites.
.. With the Labour Party having shifted to the left under Jeremy Corbyn, and now seemingly embarking on a civil war, some Labour voters might be attracted to a less élitist form of Conservatism.
.. On the British end, they will be led by David Davis, a former chairman of the Conservative Party who campaigned on the Leave side, and whom May has appointed as “Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.” It wasn’t immediately clear how Davis will interact with Boris Johnson, the controversial Brexiteer-in-chief, whom May, to the surprise of many, appointed as Foreign Secretary.
.. May’s other challenge will be liberating the British economy from the fiscal straitjacket that Osborne has confined it to for the past six years, in an ideologically driven effort to reduce the size of the state.