LIVE 24-SEVEN DIGBY LORD JONES
WHERE DID ALL THE HATE COME FROM? OR WAS IT ALWAYS THERE?
One of the problems of my Editor giving me a mid-December deadline for the January publication is that I can rarely take the risk of penning for your delectation a few musings of a topical nature since events invariably render them stale before they fall off the page into your optical lap.
That is especially true this month with a Brexit scenario that changes by the hour let alone by the day or week.
Indeed I witnessed in the Lords yesterday (10th December) one Peer (unelected, with little experience of life outside the Westminster bubble, a Party hack who’d been pushed into the Upper House to make way for fresher blood in the Commons) saying how we must all respect democracy whilst the entire House (wait for this, Dear Reader!) actually had a debate & then an Adjournment to vote on...whether to adjourn!
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What a shambles! One gleeful, bleeding-heart Liberal Baroness, as The Vote in the Commons was pulled, revelled in one more nail being put into the coffin of Brexit and rejoiced as the Remoaners’ policy of sabotage and tyranny continued to indulge in one of the great lies of the year: “We must respect the democratic wish of the British People” as she and her mates did everything to render that statement illusory. I told her that the average woman or man on the line or in the office throughout the land would be disgusted at the disgraceful behaviour, ignorance, naked political ambition and sheer incompetence displayed by those they elect to be in Parliament (and some 800 they don’t elect, but who are there by order of those they do).
Throughout the democracies of the developed world, people are stridently taking sides, taking to the streets, voting (when they get the chance) to give the Establishment a good kicking and siding with populists whose messages are clear, easy to grasp, but always feature as the key component a recognisable target upon whom to focus, at best disgruntled dischuffment and at worst pure hate.
Does “Make America Great Again” need to be the wrapping around misogynistic and racist threads?
Does #MeToo’s l audable aims need to deliver a society where men are suspected, vilified in the Court of Publicity and clearly guilty until proven innocent of unspecified crimes, especially the obvious one of just having a penis?
Does the clear need to spend more of our tax pounds on education and policing need to cloak a movement which has in its core a hatred of business, of America, of Israel? “For the Many not the Jew” might be a clever satire on the Corbynistas’ strapline, but there is, as the Bard said over 400 years ago, many a true word spoken in jest.
Whipping up populist support by dipping into historic resentments is the oldest political play. The million new Muslim immigrants in Germany, whose presence is the lightning rod for the rise of the hard right opposition in Germany, aren’t the first people to feel the wrath of sectarianism and racial and religious difference in a European community. Sometimes it leads to tragic death and destruction (just ask the victims of the Bosnia-Serbia-Croatia Civil War) and sometimes it just leads to civil indignation.
Spain is using the Brexit debacle effectively to demand restitution of Gibraltar, ceded to the UK by The
Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. This blatant popular opportunism awakens the sense of loss in the Spaniard and eggs on the bullying and settling of scores by Brussels against the Brits. Spain conveniently forgets that its current occupation of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco has been (and continues to be) in flagrant breach of International Treaties for centuries (from 1479 to 1945!), but why let the facts get in the way of giving the Brits a good kicking and getting a better opinion poll rating at home?!
Because your Government is making a hash of something doesn’t mean you need to throw the moderate baby out with the political bath water and elect a bunch of business-haters who’d turn the UK into Venezuela in the bat of a hate-filled eye
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