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Australia’s popular Conservative Prime Minister (who has won four consecutive General Elections) was expected to stand down and hand over to a colleague. But this week, Mr. John Howard announced he will run again for a fifth term – and a good thing too.

The following are extracts from an article by the eurosceptic columnist Melanie Phillips in today’s Daily Mail (2.8.2006):

Eat your heart our David Cameron. While the UK’s Tory (Conservative) leader David Cameron pursues his daring attempt to regain power after three consecutive General Election defeats by junking vast swathes of Conservative baggage. Australian Prime Minister John Howard has emerged as the most successful Conservative politician of modern times. And he has done so by embodying the very opposite of the image-obsessed soundbite-laden gimmickry that now drives British politics.

Mr. John Howard is the very personification of dullness. He could easily pass for a country solicitor. But he embodies the characteristics of true leadership. He has broken with socialist doctrines, cut taxes and unemployment is at a 30-year low. He has taken an uncompromising stand on anti-terrorism. In 2001 he introduced eye-wateringly tough immigration laws to stop boat people and would-be immigrants from Indonesia. The public agreed with his stand against immigration rule abuse by people who did not conform to Australian traditions on immigration.

Mr. Howard has rolled up his sleeves and waded into to fight those trends which threaten to undermine or destroy the values of his country. He has called for a root-and-branch overhaul of the way history is taught in Australian schools. Pupils, Mr. Howard says, should have some understanding of British and european history, the enlightenment and the effect of Christianity on western civilisation. His education minister duly announced the return to the narrative form of history free of political interpretation and accused politically correct educators of hi-jacking history and presenting Australia’s past through a filter of Marxist, feminist and green interpretations.

“There is too much indoctrination and not enough pivotal facts and dates” she said. Can you imagine our education secretary, Alan Johnson, saying anything like this? If he did, does anyone doubt that the entire intelligentsia would start screaming about ‘cultural imperialism’ and ‘thought control’. And that the policies would beat a hasty retreat.

Mr. Howard is squaring up to cultural ultra leftism more commonly known as political correctness and facing it down. His counterparts in the UK, by contrast, queue up to abase themselves before it.

Mr. Howard is in tune with the people of his country because he loves it for what it is. What contrast with the UK where politicians queue to ditch their principles to transform this country into an ideological nirvana.

As in the UK, in Australia, the chattering classes worship at the shrines of ultra feminism, minority values, victim culture and all other isms and ideologies which have steadily wrecked our society.

The British political class in a state of terminal unpopularity but Mr. Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, is feted the length and breadth of Australia. He has proven that when politicians connect with political reality they actually win elections.

* Mr. John Howard, Australia's Prime Minister, is leader of the Liberal/National party coalition. He leads the Liberal party (the larger of the coalition partners) which, despite its name, as a Conservative Party committed to defending Australian sovereignty.

Bluemerle

PC in Oz is worse than in the UK, if that is possible. :shock:

You are not allowed to smack your own children, and consequently the little ahemm "darlings" are out of control. I could have walloped my granddaughter who used to lead us a right dance if we took her shopping. It was embarrasing.

adrianwainer

As you were saying, Britannist.

Melanie Phillips The Daily Mail 02 August 2006

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...335890691.html

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

Britannist

Thank you for that interesting article Adrian.

I wish John Howard every success as Australian Prime Minister. How lucky the Australians are to have as their Head of Government, someone so professional, in-touch with the people and with strong leadership abilities and a sense for doing what is right.

The Conservatives in both Australia and (very recently) Canada have come back to power by fighting political correctness, 'liberals', socialists, high tax and open borders. "Hug-a-hoodie" speeches and visits to icebergs off Norway by Conservative leaders in Australia and Canada would not have won it for them - but, evidently the anti-UKIP and pro-EU Conservative leader in the UK, David Cameron, thinks it will work for him :shock: .