Tuesday 19 July 2016

Give me back the Berlin Wall,.....Give me Stalin and St Paul

I feel like Lear on the heath. As the Republican Convention meets they are guarded by 2,500 police in a state where open gun carrying is a "right". Meanwhile here Owen Smith and Angela Eagle line up to support Trident as their first act to convince us they represent ordinary people and bugger Socialism. It's really simple to me. If you belong to a party then you select the candidate at each election. There is no reason that the Labour party should be different we do it in the Green party.

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here is another simple point. Political parties are there to campaign and bring their issues to the general public and campaigns for them. The political parties role is not to except racism because the majority of the public do. The role of a political party is to educate, campaign and shape the debate. Twenty years ago as leader of the Welsh Green party I campaigned for 20 mph speed limits outside of schools. Most people and established parties said it was impossible to achieve now it's a outlook. Standard “moderate political parties” under late capitalism has political culture controlled by the press and the right-wing media and this creates right wing ideas among 75% of the population. It is the role of radical parties to change the outlook, challenge the discourse and campaign in the communities explaining their outlook and philosophy and to properly inform the electorate by giving alternatives to the “common sense” approach of the Sun and Daily Mail. If the parliamentary Labour party want to provide a slightly less Sun lite and austerity lite policy they must form their own Party and cooperate with the Liberal Democrats. Over the last 30 years the proportion of the electorate understanding sustainability and green ideas has grown. That has not been achieved by going along with the popular press and the sheer naked ambition of Blair like politicians. I look at Angela Eagle and Owen smith and I see a lack of passion, a dead soul and naked ambition. What was that phrase I recall “As cold asa Lizard and as ambitious as Lucifer”


Oh and by the way I heard a claim last week that I was a Labour Party spy....and in Turkey a coup is attempted in the evening all the coups I have ever heard about always start at dawn. Erdogan has found his Trotsky and lost 14 of his ships. Still a fake coup is always a way to enhance ones power......perhaps I am Lear Kent and Fool........perhaps its just too warm. And my good friend Armand Watts tells me lightly and mischievously that they consider me a “triple agent” hehe I like that “Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St Paul.”

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