Friday 3 June 2016

There is Fog in the Channel and in our Eyes...and its June

There is a mighty judgement coming....but I might be wrong I watched Cameron last night standing on a precipice. I fear that the Cameron Farage debate on Thursday nest week will be a car crash. This morning I heard an interview on Radio 4 with people in Cornwall. It was interesting that significant numbers of people were going to vote to leave.

Cornwall is the poorest area in the UK . It gains funding from the EU because of agreed standards of what poverty is. These measures are mathematically calculated and use complex measures to describe what poverty is. And are agreed across Europe. Funding flows to Cornwall irrespective of whoever is in power. If we leave the funding decisions will be taken by Tory members of parliament. Every member of parliament in Cornwall is a Tory...do you really think that they will maintain that funding while they worship at the Shrine of Austerity? The most

The same question should be asked in Wales. It should be shouted in the area of Wales where they were large numbers of UKIP voters. I have never seen so many victims saying they will vote for their abusers world view. The most virulent supporter was a man who owned a large business he was encouraging his workers (who no doubt who were on minimum wage) to vote to leave. A Cornwall without EU guarantees of maternity rights, and other employment rights might be a Cornwall of greater profits and lower wages. You might think that but I could not possibly comment.

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

The problem in essence is that many are fooled by the thought that by voting to leave that they are voting against David Cameron. They are voting instead for a harder, more unpleasant world. The Leave campaigns promoting a growing fracturing between different ethnic groups in society. We are being made less tolerant, less understanding, narrower and more ethnocentric. I am anecdotedly hearing stories of Polish people shouted at in the street. One of my students who originally came from Venice and is nearly 80 was called a foreigner. He has worked contributed to society in Swansea since he came here 50 years ago. Just look at the racist rants you see on the face book page Port Talbot Debate and Argue. The migration debate is a red herring to fool ordinary people into making them vote for their masters voice. Its June and there is fog in the channel and in the minds of many people seduced by the claims of what identity and sovereignty mean. If you want to limit immigration campaign against the arms trade, stop our government supporting dictators avoid expensive foreign wars and prevent more refugees by stopping climate change Its really that simple to build stable communities abroad.

I like how Nick Clegg described Boris Johnson. He called him Donald Trump with a Thesaurus. However it is interesting that Donald Trump is coming to the UK on June 24. The High Priest of wall Building, of prejudice and of Chauvinism is coming to a post Brexit UK on June 24 to the land devoid of Milk and Honey. I can understand why so many are fooled by the slick leave campaign but I do not understand how those on the left who support leaving fail to see that there opposition to the EU feeds into this foul, discordant , racist campaign of the Tory Brexiteers and UKIP fellow travellers. I know how you feel but think how you are feeding the discourse..........


I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again

1 comment:

  1. People should weigh up the reasons we have poorer public services, unregulated housing markets with poor social housebuilding, increased mental health problems, underesourced national health, rising class sizes. Is it immigrants? Or is it a Tory government's ( and its new labour predecessor) austerity programme, its neoliberal attitude towards speculative financial investment, and its ideological favouring of private over public services? Its the old story...take the easy way out and blame the 'foreigner'. The facts of immigrants' net positive contributions to society
    are clear. But the main story is Tory cuts to public services.

    ReplyDelete