A hereditary peer with Viscount Slim's
family background and own
experience of things military might be expected to hold
robustly traditionalist views, and he does not disappoint:
Viscount Slim: I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sheikh, who does much for recruiting what we call the ethnic minorities. As I move among them myself a lot, I tell a British Muslim, a British Hindu or a British Sikh that it is payback time—and that it is time that more of them joined the reserve forces and the regular forces.
The strain of the White Man's Burden is still felt by at least one noble lord in the House.
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Viscount Slim: I have noticed that whenever a political party has some difficulty, the first thing they crash is the military so that they can maintain their constituents in false teeth, education or whatever it is that they want... [In the Commons] people do not consider the military problems, the Armed Forces, nearly enough. They get carried away with polar bears in the snow and goodness knows what.
