And why does so much of the establishment
collude?
'How can the entire political class be wrong? Well, they were all wrong about Hitler, weren't they? Out of 600 MPs, there were 20 [who raised the alarm] - and do you know what they were called? Warmongers. Eccentrics. They were lampooned; they were considered to be mad. Even when Churchill produced the data [about German rearmament], the political class looked away.
'How can the entire political class be wrong? Well, they were all wrong about Hitler, weren't they? Out of 600 MPs, there were 20 [who raised the alarm] - and do you know what they were called? Warmongers. Eccentrics. They were lampooned; they were considered to be mad. Even when Churchill produced the data [about German rearmament], the political class looked away.
You know, we've seen it in science, we've seen it in business: even
if the status quo is pointing in entirely the wrong direction, it exerts a very
strong force on the political class - and the more career-orientated our
politicians are, the stronger it is.' Nigel
Farage.
