RE: [A-List] EWP: Hugo Young to join?

["Mark Jones" <markjones011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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This may be a bridge too far in our bridge-building exercises. I'm sure he'd
love to join, of course.

I'm afraid his attempt to conjure up Orwellian fear about Blairism is
sanctimonious silliness--you cannot fear these people. Even in World War 2
when HMG interned as Enemy Aliens the many German-Jewish refugees over here,
the worst they could come up with was to convert the Douglas Holiday Camp
(in the Isle of Man) into a sort of scenic rest-home where His Majesty's
German guests were able to sit out the war in some comfort. I remember
Alfred Sohn-Rethel telling me about his time there. Like many another he
soon got conscripted to the war effort. Most Germans who were not POW's
ended as a translators, broadcasters for the BBC German Service or (as in
Alfred's case) cryptanalysts. I think he rather missed the Isle of Man; the
seaside was so bracing. I'm hopeful that if Bro Blair decides to intern you
and me he'll send us to the same place. I went there when I was a young lad
and it was open again as a holiday camp, and I remember it very well; the
chalets, the redcoats, the girls. It's not in the English tradition to put
fellow Aryans (even Jewsih ones) into *real* camps. Different matter if you
were Black or Asian, or a Boer or Irish of course.

Mark