In
the end the plague returned . The bacillus broke through again , only
18 weeks from that brutal Friday in June. The demons that Nigel,
Michael and Boris invoked at mid Summer swpt the land again The claim
of getting our country back led to a Lousima or Alabama style
lynching party. The tar and feather were prepared, the accusations of
betrayal and the sneering returned ten fold. The daily Mail called
them the “Enemies of the State" and the lord Chief Justice
despite her oath to maintain an independent Judiciary gave weasel
words and fell silent.
The
Daily Mail with its crypto Fascist shadow began to build the bonfire.
The three sorcerers had called on the spirit of sovereignty but their
sorcery was imperfect, their herbs corrupted and their intentions
corrupt. They called up a more ancient spirit, the spirit of hatred
of those who are different, those who think in other ways, those who
look outside and know we are all more or less broken. As the bonfire
was piled high, the ghosts of the witch burners, the Macarthyite
Communist hunters returned. The group of close cropped haired men who
hate difference, originality and fear their own shadows placed on the
fire the blind statue of Justice and began to chant “ Burn the
Witch, Burn the Witch”. They called the 48% remoaners called on
them to get over it and mocked and sneered. The daily mail was the
torch that lit the bonfire. I watched an interview with one of its
2correspondents2 he burbled about how the judges were bound to be pro
European, biased and elitists. He oozed the prejudice and the
ignorance of not knowing, not knowing how we were all from the
background, that we were all migrants at some point in our history.
Yet strangely he fitted that pattern of the Mail whose shadow led to
Rothermere saying hooray for the jackboots, good on Hitler! And the
mocking description of dirty and false refugees that they described
over and over again in 1900, in 1930, in 1972 and in 2016.
The
Mail described one of the judges as a “gay fencer”, they sneered
and mocked, they laughed and poisoned the minds of so many people.
The minds of people afraid, vulnerable and ill at ease. The fear and
loathing was projected from the large corporations and the press
barons of the right upon the vulnerable, ragged victims of the arms
trade and arms traders in the retinue of Theresa may and David
Cameron.Yes
the plague returned , the bandages burst, the scabs fell off and
gaping wounds reappeared.
Sovereignty
was reformed in the minds of Boris, Nigel and Michael but it was not
as it was. It was much more base crude and brutal. As the blind
statue of legal independence burnt on the bonfire its smoke went up
meeting the smoke of other bonfires set alight by Donald Trump,
Marine lepen and others throughout the world.Its message simple said
“ If you dont fit in, then fuck off” . Even the words Teresa may
used describing the “outsourcing” of the decision on Europe
echoed the jargon and the phrases of the new brutal globalised world.
These
are darkling times we live in. We are standing on the edge of the
abyss and the monsters that the three wise-men of the right have
unleashed look back and understand that that so many hypnotised by
consumption and the myth of the scrounger do not see the shadows that
we are carry unseen and repressed within our selves. We all stand in
the eye of the storm. Presidential elections occur in the USA on
Tuesday, In Germany and France later next year and a new “who
rules” the UK election looms in February. We must find the angels
of our better natures and take the sticks out of our own eyes rather
than the splinters in the eye of the others. We have seen events like
this before in Weimar, in Italy and throughout the Reformation and
Counter Reformation. However grim my words sound . I see the rise on
the other side of more tolerance, more learning, more self reflection
and a realisation that libertarian and authoritarian are adjectives
and not nouns. We live at a moment of great light and great dark.
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