Its been a week since Brexit,
and my oh my the beasts are beginning to fight. There is a contest
amongst the Brexiteers on who can be hardest on the EU, harder still
on immigration and harder on tolerance.
The politic s of the UK is in
melt down its obvious what is happening. Yet no one has mentioned the
comments by Aaron Banks that Nigel Farage has had had he his day.
Aaron Banks has funded UKIP , funded the leave campaign and I detect
in him a realisation that Farage is not the man to take UKIP to the
next stage. We are seeing the emergence of a new hard right faction.
I see the clever young right wing men lurking behind the unthinking
racism they have promoted. I see them manipulating peoples fear and
anxieties. I have seen them with their occasional comments on
Facebook posts on Tweets, on blogs they know what they want , less
workers rights, the denial of the reality of climate change. It
interesting that half of those who voted to leave deny that humans
have anything to do with climate change. I dee the way things are
going.......
The decision to leave the EU was
a severe defeat for the left, for tolerance and for an inclusive
outlook. Since last Thursday people who do not look white are being
increasingly told to go home , are abused in the street, the tone on
Facebook has become bitter, full of contempt for the left. Prominent
“lefties2 like myself have been exposed to a campaign of bullying,
mocking and disrespect.
Then I remember and I am old
enough to remember the late 70s.it was as it is now. A young Michael
Gove active in the Federation of Conservative Students had links with
the “Hang Nelson Mandela2 campaign. This organisation was so right
wing that even Norman Tebbit as party chairman was forced to close
them down. Now Gove is a candidate for Primeminister. You could
imagine the horrors of a Conservative, UKIP, DUP coalition.
As for the left and the Gramsci
an crisis of the left we know that 60,00o people have joined the
Labour party. We know that Angela Eagle registered her angela4leader
domain last week. A long time before her crocodile tears. A friend of
mine campaigning for remain heard two young “moderate” Labour
activists say “ Stephen Kinnock says that if there is a leave vote
there will be a coup in the Party. Its been long planned and long
thought out. The Parliamentary Labour party talk about reconnecting
with its base . What they really mean is that they wish tone down
the anti-immigration rhetoric, make it acceptable rather than to take
it on. They dont want to really campaign to show the real reason and
causes of it. They have forgotten what true Socialism is and that it
is the job of political parties on the left to lead, educate and
campaign. Read your Philosophy Angela Eagle.
I think we are about to see a
massed break out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. I noticed a poll
today giving Corbyn a 3% in the Leadership election. I think the Left
is about to undergo a massive realignment. We are seeing a SDP mark2
moment. In Italy in the last quarter of the 20th century
in Italy both the Eurocommunist and the Christian Democrats
imploded. Its about to happen here.
Boris Johnson quoted Brutus
from Shakespeare`s Julius Caesar
“There
is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which,
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted,
all the voyage of their life
Is
bound in shallows and in miseries.
On
such a full sea are we now afloat,
And
we must take the current when it serves
Or
lose our ventures.”
He
missed out on the previous line “We, at the height, are ready to
decline” And tolerance, respect, and an outward looking country
are in decline. But Boris Johnson is a lousy intellectual and misses
so much.
I
remember Michael Gove saying in an interview that “Vanity Fair2 By
Thackery is his favourite novel . It is a book about a bloated
plutocratic Britain. Its main character Becky Sharpe is an empty
headed , unthinking individual who gets what she wants by trampling
over others, she is only interested in outside things and lacks any
real belief or concerns. Rather apt is it not?
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