Bilderberg mourns

Denis Healey may never have become Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister or Labour Party leader (anyone for Denis), but he did bold and necessarily uncomfortable things as Defence Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.  These two roles and his unabashed support for NATO (during his active political life controversial within the Labour party) probably earned him his place on the Steering Group of the Bilderberg Group, with regard he became very bad-tempered when interviewed by Jon Ronson in Them: Adventure with Extremists.  That said, his words in 1959 could serve just as true 46 years later: "There are far too many people who want to luxuriate complacently in moral righteousness in opposition ... We are not just a debating society. We are not just a socialist Sunday school. We are a great movement that wants to help real people at the present time. We shall never be able to help them unless we get power. We shall never get power until we close the gap between our active workers and the average voter in the country."