HWAIVA husiku husingakanganwike, kunyangwe nezvikonzero zvisingafadze. Pana June 9, 1983, ndakanyora bvunzo yangu yokupedzisira yokuyunivhesiti. Rakanga riri zuva resarudzo muBritain, uye manheru iwayo ini neshamwari dzangu mbiri dzechiIndia takaungana kuti tione zvaibuda.
Pakanga pasina tariro mugehena kuti hurumende yaMargaret Thatcher ichabviswa, sezvayaikodzera chaizvo; fungidziro chete yaitenderera pakukura kweruzhinji rwayo rutsva. Vaviri vedu nokudaro takanga takatsunga kunyudza kusuwa kwedu; wechitatu, ane kamuri rokurara ratakanga taraira nokuda kwechinangwa chacho, akanga ari muMuslim akazvipira, akanga asimbirira kuti tiuye nezvigubhu zvedu timene.
Muchiitiko ichi, pakanga pasina nzara yekusuwa kunyura, uye sezvo chigaro mushure mechigaro chakawira kuTories, takasuwa takabva tarara, tichimuka maawa mashoma gare gare kuti tione kuti hukuru hwekuparadza hwakanga hwakatoipisisa kupfuura isu. kutya. Pakanga papera makumi emakore bato reLabour rakundwa zvinorwadza kudaro.
Handizivi kuti zvakatibata here panguva yatakanga tichiona imwe yenguva dzakasviba zvikuru dzeLabour kubva panzvimbo chaipo - Oxford's Wadham College - uko mutungamiri webato, Michael Foot, anga ari mudzidzi anovimbisa hafu yezana ramakore apfuura.
Foot, uyo akashaya svondo rapfuura achembera aine makore makumi mapfumbamwe nematanhatu, angangove munhu aive nehunhu hwakanyanya kutungamira bato guru rezvematongerwo enyika reBritain; hazvishamise kuti, mukushata uye kuparara kwezvematongerwo enyika, hunhu hunoyemurika uhu - hunoratidzwa, pakati pezvimwe zvinhu, mukushaikwa kunoshamisa kweshungu dzake - hazvina kumuitira zvakanaka.
Mukurumbira waFoot ane hunhu hwakasimba hwesocialist - hwakaramba hwakanyanya kana kushoma mukati memakore ake ari muhurumende muma1970, kutanga pasi paHarold Wilson uyezve semutevedzeri wemutungamiri weJim Callaghan - zvaireva kuti semutungamiri anopikisa aigara achirwiswa, kunyanya kubva kuTory press.
Mabhuku erudyi akanga aine hutsinye husingapedziki mumakore anotungamira sarudzo dzemuna 1983, achimuratidza semurume akura uye aingoridza tsamwa nekufanana kwake nemutambi wepaterevhizheni wevana Worzel Gummidge, chinotyisa chipenyu. Akapindwa muropa nekuenda kumusangano weRemembrance Day kuCenotaph muna 1981 mune yaitsanangurwa se "bhachi redhongi", zvichireva kuti aizvidza ndangariro yehondo yeBritain yakafa nekupfeka zvipfeko zvisina kujairika.
Zano rekuti neimwe nzira akatadza kuwana mudhipatimendi rekuda nyika rakanga risinganzwisisike: kana paine, Rutsoka rwakanga rwakavanda mune izvi. Aive mumwe wevakavamba Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) uye akazvitsanangura seโmugadziri werunyararoโ, asi akatsigira Margaret Thatcher kutumirwa kweboka reBritish kuti vatore Falkland Islands kubva kuArgentina.
Uyu wanga usiri muenzaniso wehunyengeri: Rutsoka aienderana mukutenda kwake kuti hudzvanyiriri hwechifascist hunofanira kurambwa, uye kare muna 1940 ndiye aive munyori wekutanga wegwaro rakakurumbira rekupokana rine musoro. Varume vane mhosva, izvo zvakapa mhosva vatsigiri veNazi pakati pehurumende yeBritain. Muna 1982, mudzvanyiriri wemauto eArgentina, Leopoldo Galtieri, akamuyeuchidza nezvaBenito Mussolini. (Kusiyana naThatcher, akabata Augusto Pinochet weChile mukuzvidza kwakaenzana.) Muma1990, mafungiro akafanana akamuita kuti atsigire kupindira kweNato mune yaimbova Yugoslavia.
Zvakakosha kuziva, zvakadaro, kuti Foot yaifarira South Atlantic task Force kutanga kushandiswa kumanikidza Argentina kuti ibude murunyararo kubva kuFalklands/Malvinas pane kutanga kurwisana ipapo ipapo. Uye pamwe akange asina kutaurirana nezve jingoism yakashata yakasimudzwa nehondo yeSouth Atlantic, iyo nekubvumirana kwakafanana yakafambisa zvikuru kukunda kwesarudzo kwaThatcher gore raitevera.
Zvisineyi, kukanganisika mukati meBato reLabour kwakabatsira zvisingaite mukusaratidza kwayo. Pasinei nekuedza kwake kwakasimba, Foot haana kukwanisa kudzivirira boka revarwi vekurudyi - chikwata cheVana, sekudanwa kwavaiitwa panguva iyoyo - kubva pakubuda kunoshamisa kunoumba Social Democratic Party (SDP), iyo yakakwezva. ruzhinji rwevamwe nhengo dzeParamende dzeVashandi uye, muna 1983, vakapatsanura zvinokuvadza vhoti yeAnti-Tory.
Sezvakacherechedzwa nerubatsiro rwakawanda svondo rapfuura, kurumbidza kwaFoot kuti akakwanisa kusimudzira kushanda kweBasa sechechi yakakura. Tichifunga nezvehunhu hwake husingarambiki semubandi wekuruboshwe, akaita izvi muchidimbu nekubvumira kodzero kuti ive nenzira yayo, achigadzira fungidziro yekuti aive zvinobudirira musungwa wemauto aizvidza zvakawanda zvaakamiririra.
Kushaya simba uku - kana pragmatism, zvichienderana nemaonero ako - kwakakonzera fungidziro yekuti kukanganisa kukuru kweLabour muna 1983 kwaive muhurongwa hwayo hwesocialist pachayo (manifesto yebato isinganzwisisike gore riya yakatsanangurwa nemutungamiri webato rekurudyi Gerald Kaufman se "yakareba kwazvo. chirevo chekuzviuraya munhoroondo"), pane kutadza kuigadzira zvakabatana, ichigadzira nzira yekudzungaira yakananga kurudyi - uye pakupedzisira kudzoka pamasimba pasi pemutungamiri uyo Thatcher akafara kumuzodza semugari wenhaka akakodzera pamberi pehupfumi.
Pausiku ihwohwo hwekuchema muna Chikumi 1983, hapana mumwe chete asi vaviri vaizova vatungamiri vevashandi vakapinda muparamende kekutanga. Vese Tony Blair naGordon Brown vaive vasina simba mukurumbidza Rutsoka svondo rapfuura, sezvakaita vazhinji vevaimbomupikisa, vachirangarira hunhu hwake pamwe nehungwaru uye huchenjeri hwakakonzera chimiro chake chepamusoro semutauri weparamende. Zvisineyi netsananguro yake isingakanganwiki yaNorman Tebbit se "mupfuhwira akadzidziswa imba", Foot aisawanzova neshoko rakashata rekutaura pamusoro pemunhu chero upi zvake uye haana kumboshoropodza pachena Blair kana Brown - kunyangwe, kunyangwe nekushaya simba kwake, akasimbirira kutaura pahukuru husati hwamboitika. anti-war rally muLondon mukumhanya-kusvika pakurwiswa kwemauto kuIraq.
Sezvineiwo, rudo rwaakafemera rwakanga rusina kumboganhurirwa kune vemweya vemweya: makumi emakore apfuura, akaverenga Lord Beaverbrook naEnoch Powell pakati peshamwari dzake. Semurwiri ane hunyanzvi, mutori wenhau, munyori uye wezvematongerwo enyika akananga zvisina fashoni, pane zvakawanda munhoroondo yeRutsoka zvinodzikisira kukosha kweLabour's 1983 nadir, kunyangwe zvisingagoni kushuvira zvachose.
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