THEY BAND ENGERLUND SHIRTS N STUFF!

There are a ridiculous amount of Facebook groups (such as this one) and pages dedicated to telling me that the police have banned people from wearing England shirts, and flying England flags, incase it offends foreigners. An example, of one of the comments in that group, shows just how perfectly English and proud of their culture, history, and especially their language, they truly are:
“England till i die… And know 1 will tell me what to do with my flags or tops to wear, fuck the pakiz!!! Dont try and take over OUR country OK.”

“know 1″ will tell him what to do with his flag!!! Know 1!!!!

It is obviously bullshit.

Every year, people tend to shout, pathetically; “OMG THE MUSZLIMISTS R TRYNA BAN CHRISTMAS CUS ITZ OFFENCIVESE N STUFF!!!11″. It is rubbish. It always amazes me that the majority of people in those facebook groups who claim to be “standing up for England“, manage to quite effortlessly rape the entire language. Or, of course they claim St Georges day is being banned, because it might offend people who are either gay, muslim, black, or anything that doesn’t fit into their narrow vision of what makes one “English” (which apparently, is simply limited to being racist, angry, ignorant and supremely illiterate). For example, I have decided for the next ten seconds, I will embrace what it means to be English, as perceived by a very select few idiots:
“DER WEL BAD!!!!11 TRYNA BAN ENGERLUND FLAGS N TAKE OUR WOMAN N DEY DONT EVAN TALK ENGLUSH ON DA FONE OR ANYFING. WERE GUNNA LOOSE SHACKESPERE TO DA MUZZIES!!!!11″
Sadly, ignorance is pretty damn easy. I might get used to it. Let me just let off some steam first.

No one, anywhere, has ever told you that being proud of England, is racist. Never. What I will tell you is, if you claim you’re proud of England because it’s for white people who aren’t muslim, then yes, you’re a racist. I find it ridiculous that people try to define what it means to be an abstract concept. I find it even more ridiculous that people will join groups like the EDL, thinking they are defending their weak and rather ugly version of what it means to be English. I didn’t realise it was “English” to join violent racist groups of hooligans, who threaten Journalists for printing negative columns about them. What amazes me, is that EDL and BNP supporters, can actually read.
The NUJ recently showed that a few journalists received death threats from the EDL. The police are currently investigating it.
One of the EDL’s chief strategists is a man called Alan Lake. He advises the Sweden Democrats on immigration policy. His immigration policy isn’t simply “extremists are evil”, it’s “anyone who isn’t like us, is evil”. Much like the EDL, who claim to be anti-extremist, yet will sit protesting outside mosques, that have no connection to extremism whatsoever. It’s just a group that people can say “LOOK! A SIKH JOINED!!! THAT MEANS WE’RE NOT RACIST!!!”
I don’t particularly care if they suddenly become non-violent (which is impossible, far-right organisations have a bit of a history of violence). They are still vicious, nasty little shits.
It is one of those groups, that appeal to the stupid, by using “clever” language to manipulate political and social discourse, make people feel they are a part of something, and to sustain itself, there must be an “other” an enemy, who they can direct their hate at. Muslim extremists, Christian extremists, and now Nationalist extremists are doing the same thing. And if people fall for it, so be it. I’m proud that i’m not as idiotic as them.

I also notice the BNP put up some wondrous candidates for MP and council elections this year.
Ken Booth, who referred to Auschwitz as a holiday camp for people, much like Disneyland.
Lynne Mozar, who when confronted by someone who simply questioned her economic policy, replied “fat slag”
Mathew Tait, who said that the the Equality and Human Rights Commission court case had forced the BNP to accept “people who we would wish to not have in our country really to be members of our party”. Damn them, for making you accept black people.
Mike Shore, who left the National Front in 2003, to start up a British version of the Ku Klux Klan.
Richard Hamilton, the BNP said they’d suspended him because he is a known Hitler supporter, who hates “niggers“. Apparently they didn’t suspend him for long.
Chris Beverley, refused to condemn Hitler, and said he doesn’t dislike him.
Ian Meller, fined £400 after being caught with a chair leg, threatening a gay guy, simply for being gay.
Barry Bennett, who said recently “I believe in National Socialism, WW2 style, it was best, no other power had anything like it,” ‘he wrote. “The ideology was fantastic. The culture, nothing like it. If it was here now, I’d defect to Germany.”
Tess Culnane, was National Front candidate until 2008.
Jeffrey Marshall, when asked about David Cameron’s son who died, said “We live in a country today which is unhealthily dominated by an excess of sentimentality towards the weak and unproductive. No good will come of it.”

The Nation State is very much a part of this whole Nationalist debate, something that goes back over four hundred years.

The Nation State came around about 16/17th Century. It actually evolved through Protestantism. As Henry VIII started to question the legitimacy of the Pope, the Parliament of the day granted full power over the Nation of England, to the King. Something that hadn’t ever been done before. Thomas Cromwell was the key to it all. It was his legislation. He also completely reformed the way politics was conducted, by introducing a sort of bureaucracy and departmental governing and National institutions, which had never been done before. Protestantism was the basis for an emerging Nation State. To build that Nation State among the minds of the Kings subjects, required building a sense of National unity. Which was odd, given that Kings and Queens of Europe were marrying and producing children who were half English, half Spanish. Or Half French, half Italian, and so on. It was also odd, given that whilst the King and the Nobles still lived in luxury, the majority of the people, including the army, lived shit lives of squalor. The King and Court didn’t seem to give much of a shit about their people for most of the time. The problem was, that most people felt a sense of connection with the rest of Europe, due to their Catholic roots. They felt a strong bond with the Papacy. That now needed to change. The King and Court needed to direct that sense of loyalty away from the Pope, and toward the Crown. But the King is simply someone who lives and then dies. So basing a sense of loyalty on something far greater was needed. The State was born. The idea of England as a unified set of principles, was born. The King had to use a psychological weapon of some sort to persuade the people, that when they go to war, they are going to war for the good of England. What difference would it make, who was in control of England? Whether it be a French King, a Scottish King, a Spanish King, or an English King? They were all the same, with the same system. They were merely using the lower classes, to protect themselves and their wealth and status. And so with the onset of Protestantism (which wasn’t down to any religious reason, and was entirely down to a King and his council getting a little too power hungry), the government of the day, now had a complete say over the way their Country was run. Europe was governed by the Papacy in Rome before that. Even England, up until 1534 was pretty much governed by Rome. The Holy Roman Empire stretched across Germany and Austria and Belgium. It was one big nation. And it worked for Centuries. In fact, for the majority of British history, as i’ve stated before, from the year 0 to 2010, we were a strict Catholic country. Catholicism, is our traditional connecting value.

Fast forward 470 years, and America and Britain are now telling their people, especially those in the lower classes that they should put their lives on the line, in a war for the good of England and Britain and the rest of the World. When, on the contrary, those ridiculously brave men and women are dying, for the good of American and British business interests, and in fact, merely perpetuating the problem of Islamic extremism World Wide. I’m only surprised that it’s the extremist Muslims who have been the first to snap. I would have put money on it being the Latin Americans.

National Pride created by an elite set of rulers has never been about celebrating a common ancestry, or a common ethical standard. It has always been about Imperialism, either by force, by economic means, or by a mixture of both.

Nation States evolved during the colonial era, and are simply a left over of the colonial days. We drew straight lines on Africa. Go look at a map of Africa. It is divided almost into perfect squares. Do you think that is biological? It REALLY isn’t. We didn’t care about the tribes and who they identified themselves with. We just needed an easy way to know what land we’d decided were ours, and which were French owned plots of African land, for the purpose of slavery and exploitation.

Thomas Paine writing in section 3 part 2 of “The Rights of Man” over two centuries ago, says of the difference between the old Monarchical past and the new Globalised, democratic future;

“The one encourages national prejudices; the other promotes universal society, as the means of universal commerce.

The Nation States in Europe worked fine when we could strictly regulate trade, and capital and the influx of slaves. When economies were National. It embedded itself into our way of life, pretty quickly. It helped build our economy, so when we eventually became far more capitalist, we had a strong basis to work from, we had a massive advantage. Now, if you want the benefits of a globalised economy; cheap imports etc, then Nation States are hugely contradictory to that aim. If your borders are pretty much fully open to goods and to capital and are not rooted to their Nation of origin, and that capital is always looking for the best return on investment, then saying things like “British jobs for British people” is so unbelievably 17th Century Colonial reasoning, it’s not even worth trying to argue against. If capital and goods are able to flow freely across the World, then it stands to reason that labour should not be chained to it’s nation of ‘origin’, and so with labour comes different philosophies and cultures from Countries that have been colonial and protectionist for centuries. If you are the owner of a company, and you are looking for the best return on investment, and a Pakistani man applies for the same job as a white British man, and the Pakistani man is clearly better at the job, far more likely to raise profits, which in turn helps to create new jobs, why on Earth would you choose the Pakistani man? National identity is not compatible with Capitalism, because building a wall around popultion, is like building a wall around capital. It isn’t compatible with the aims of a globalised economy. It is only going to damage the country in the long run.

Our impact on the World, is quite real. The decisions that are made at the Bank of England, or at Westminster, can and do directly affect people in places like Afghanistan and African Nations. We call them “developing” because we assume that unless they follow our economic structure and accept that our way is the best way, they can never be “developed“, even if they are perfectly happy with the way their World is. We demand that they open their markets by lowing tariffs and removing any support for local farmers. We then flood their markets, and given that they don’t fully understand what a market based economy actually means, they are forced to give up everything they know, and succumb to our ways. We then put their wives and their kids in factories under appalling working conditions, for little or no money, working most of the day and night, so we can buy cheap shit from Primark, and then say “Well at least they’re earning” as if that’s justification. We cannot get away from the fact that we have a huge impact on the “developing” World, for our own benefit, and those people have absolutely no say over it. Illegitimate power. So who are the real victims of some abstract culture war, you dumb xenophobic, racist fucking idiot.

I do think National Identity is a human creation. And so, an abstraction. It isn’t real. We have assigned land masses to groups of people, and are deeply suspicious and unwilling to accept people who were born on other land masses, as being similar to us. We think that others, who were born on the same land mass as us, are the same, share the same beliefs and ideals and that no one else could possibly understand, and so they are “other”. It is nonsense. An abstraction.

The real social connections between people are based on ethical standards, but they are not rooted to a particular land mass indefinitely. Nor is it based on biology. If you identify your ethics, your standards, and your reasoning, to a particular culture, if that particular culture is the way you live your life, then yes, you are apart of that culture.

Pride in your Country, especially at times of international competition like the World Cup is great. I will be wearing my England shirt, for much of it. It is a time when people should indeed feel a real part of society in an increasingly individualist World. However, that sense of shared identity should be open to all who consider themselves a part of it, not just a few who happen to be white, and xenophobic.

There, now that I’ve got that off my chest, back to being an idiot:
“OMG DEY R SAYIN DAT ITS WRONG 2 SMEAR POO IN A MUZZIES FACE NOW INKASE IT OFFENDZ DEM!!!!!1 FUKIN POLITICAL CORECTNESS!!!1″

Election ’10: The aftermath

“The Country has spoken!!!………. We just don’t know what they’ve said.”

- Lord Ashcroft

So whilst Britain still has no Government, and talks remain underway between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives on the possibility of a coalition, there is at least one happy moment we can all share in.
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British Nazi Party has spent the past month campaigning relentlessly in the constituency where he was standing; Barking. They expected their first BNP seat in the commons. The result?
Labour’s Margaret Hodge: 53.4% of the Vote
Conservative’s Simon Marcus: 17.8% of the vote
BNP’s Nick Griffin: 14.6% of the vote.
They came third. Not only that, but 1.6% of the BNP vote from 2005, swung to Labour.
The BNP contested 326 seats at this election. 207 more than 2005, and yet, their share of the overall vote only increased by less than 2% overall. That’s horrendous.

Margaret Hodge, and Labour, absolutely destroyed the BNP in Barking. But, that’s not the end of the smug look on my evil liberal pro-multicultural face this morning…..
The BNP, on Friday, lost all twelve of their seats previously held on Barking and Dagenham Council. It would seem that the big push the BNP were going to make, failed miserably. Good. We don’t want Fascists.

Anyway, back in the realm of reality (reality tends to have a liberal bias), I stayed up all night on election night hoping to see a few big named casualties. There was no Portillo ’97 moment as such. Although seeing Jacqui Smith lose Redditch, was quite pleasing. As was watching Lembit Opik, who seems far too in love with being a celebrity than a politician, lose miserably. Opik then appeared on the Election addition of Have I got News For You, which was actually a brilliant episode, and said:

“Can we hurry this along? I have an appointment at the job centre in an hour”

Which made me laugh. I actually like him.

However, the Hung Parliament result has meant that the Liberal Democrats are currently in talks with the Conservatives over the possibility of a ConDem (puns are the future!) coalition. David Cameron, in his statement yesterday, said:

“and to remind you how proud you can be of the result: a bigger increase in seats even than Mrs Thatcher achieved in 1979″

- That’s a little misleading. Purely because since 1979, and especially since 1997, the Tories have been absolutely despised. An increase in seats during an election in which the Country has hated Gordon Brown for well over a year, you’ve had millions more to spend on your campaign than any other party, and yet you’re still not able to gain a majority, is a massive, massive failure, and suggests people still don’t trust you. A year ago, the Conservatives were 19 points ahead. They were going to win massively. On May 5th, the polls had them at 5 points ahead. Also, Margaret Thatcher in 1979, didn’t have the bulk of the Nation’s Media behind her. This has not by any means been a successful election campaign for the Tories. All it means is, the Tories over the past five years have managed to hide their inherent disdain for gays, foreigners, Europe, and the poor behind more creative and moderate language. Congrats.

“So I want to make a big, open and comprehensive offer to the Liberal Democrats. I want us to work together in tackling our country’s big and urgent problems — the debt crisis, our deep social problems and our broken political system …

“On the basis of the election result we achieved, it is reasonable to expect that the bulk of the policies in our manifesto should be implemented.”

Here at least, he is right; in that the Liberal Democrats cannot expect too much from a coalition. They lost seats. The Tories, as much as I may dislike it, won the most seats, they should have the bulk of the power. If the Liberal Democrats and the Tories were to form a partnership, I think the Liberals would have to back down on much of their manifesto pledges. Trident will be maintained incase those evil Commies come back, Europe will remain at arms length because we’re British, we once had an Empire you know!, the cuts will still be pretty sharp risking a double-dip recession, and I cannot imagine David Cameron is going to agree to electoral reform. On the subject of electoral reform, the Lib Dems key policy initiative, Cameron said:

“I believe we will need an all-party committee of inquiry on political and electoral reform.”

That, isn’t worth anything. It is a terrible offer. An electoral reform inquiry has already happened, back in 2009. The Liberal Democrats surely know how meaningless this offer by Cameron is. The Conservatives will never be open to key electoral reform.

I would quite like to see a Labour, Liberal Democrat, Plaid Cymru and SNP alliance, maybe even throw Caroline Lucas of the Greens into that too. A real alliance of UK Progressives. Real change. They have to be committed to Electoral reform, it is a must. Whilst the Conservatives may very well have won most of the seats, more people in the UK voted for left, and centre-left politicians, and so a centre-left coalition would be my ideal. If the Tories are allowed to implement the cuts they clearly want, they wont last more than one term in office, and they’ll be unelectable for another generation. I quite like that idea too.

The next few days will be mightily interesting.

Broken Britain

David Cameron is right.
Britain is broken.
We are becoming like the third World.
I know this, because I cannot afford a new DVDR player.
And my Canon 400D Digital Camera is at least two years out of date.
Ethiopians know how I must feel.
Do you know, I had to save for TWO WHOLE MONTHS to afford my plane ticket to Australia.
England = Sudan.
When I went to Tesco yesterday, I could only afford an orange juice. A salad. And a pizza.
When I was young, there were constant burglaries around my area.
Now, I haven’t heard of a single one in well over a year.
Do you know why that is?
It’s because there are CCTV cameras, and more police in this area.
1984 MUCH?
I once knew a woman who scrounged a few extra pounds of benefits, to help feed her kids.
The crazy thieving bitch.
If we stopped all of her kind from doing that, we’d have more money to give in tax relief to the mega wealthy.
And they’d then be able to afford a new yacht.
That’s how we fix Britain!!
Some people my age, can only afford one drunken night out at the weekend. Think about that for a second. Difficult to imagine, isn’t it?
How do these people cope, I hear you asking yourself.
Well, we struggle.
We need charity appeals for us in England.
AND….a couple of days ago, I saw a young man in a hoodied top….. get this……….. help an old lady off the bus.
The bastard.
It shocks me. It really does.
It shocks me just how much New Labour have DESTROYED this once great, all white, all crime free, England.
WE NEED TO FIX BRITAIN!
Back to the ’80s and ’90s!!
When a good old fashioned mass riot sorted out our issues!
What happened to rioting? I miss it.
And what’s all this about the EU?
WE DON’T NEED THE EU!
We once ruled the World you know.
The EU should do what we tell them to do.
But they don’t.
Infact, some people think we should accept that we aren’t some masterful empire any more, and join the modern World.
They’re liars.
They hate England.
Do you know what’s worse? I’ve fallen for all the left wing bullshit. The politically correct liberal media has made me believe that this state of affairs isn’t all that bad.
It even convinced me that my muslim friends, are not terrorists intent on taking over England and implementing Sharia Law.
Or that the gays aren’t unnatural and hell bound.
I’m so easily manipulated.
Shameful.
The Liberals want to get rid of our Nukes.
Do they not realise that we have Muslimists and Gays to watch out for!!!
When I go to the cinema, or out shopping, or out for a meal, or to a sporting event, or to University.
I have to drive my dad’s car.
I can’t afford my own car.
Especially given that I have to pay for my New Years trip to Rome, Paris, and Florence.
Kenyans must hear about our plight.
And weep at our misfortune.
That is why David Cameron is right.
Vote Conservative today.

The complexity of immigration

The Daily Mail, a few weeks ago, had this as a headline:

“Labour’s betrayal of British workers: Nearly every one of 1.67m jobs created since 1997 has gone to a foreigner.”

So I wanted to investigate the claim further, because I’ve never fully accepted the simplistic mainstream attacks on immigration, especially when migration is such a complex issue that links to international development, economic principles, social ideologies, Nation States, and out of control inequality, not just in Britain but across the World. It never seemed like an easy subject, as per the BNP, Tory, Labour, and media line.

The story itself, explains:

The ONS figures show the total number of people in work in both the private and the public sector has risen from around 25.7million in 1997 to 27.4million at the end of last year, an increase of 1.67million.
But the number of workers born abroad has increased dramatically by 1.64million, from 1.9million to 3.5million.

It is a slightly misleading quote, because it also includes immigrants who have lived here for decades. For example, if a man is born in Albania in 1955, and moved to England in 1956, these figures class him as an immigrant, and the Daily Mail classes him as stealing a job from a Brit. The numbers also don’t take into account anyone over 64. Older workers are excluded from this number.

The ONS shows that whilst total employment in the UK since 1997, has actually risen by over 2million, employment for people born in the UK has risen by over 800,000. Which means that since Labour took power, and in the midst of one of the worst recessions ever, 2million more people are in work than before 1997, and 800,000 of them were born in the UK, another 1.2 million jobs being created for UK citizens.

The media are key players in creating this us VS them atmosphere
Julian Petley, professor of Screen Media and Journalism at Brunel University said:

“….. the majority of Britain’s newspapers have certainly been highly active in amplifying and attempting to legitimate such fears at every possible opportunity. This is nothing new – right-wing British newspapers were extremely hostile to immigration from eastern Europe in the early part of the twentieth century, and the anti-Semitism of papers like the Mail in the 1930s was one reason why the British government placed such strict limits on the number of Jewish refugees which it was prepared to let into this country in the 1930s.”

When it comes to immigrants and housing, the right winged tendency is to blame the lack of housing for British people, on the government housing immigrants first. Yet, according to the Empty Homes agency, there are 762,000 empty properties lying derelict in England alone. There are national targets for home building, yet no national targets for bringing these empty homes into use, that would potential home an extra 1,000,000 people. In fact, there are economic advantages to keeping a home empty. Local authorities give you a discount on your council tax, if the property is empty. Funnily enough, both the BNP and UKIP fail to even mention those extra empty homes or the economic advantages that come with empty homes, instead choosing to tell the UK electorate, that there are no more homes for anyone.

The Daily Mail failed to even mention a recent survey based on empirical evidence by the Great London Authority in 2007, who telephoned 1005 Londoners, including 500 Muslim Londoners at random.
The reason the Daily Mail would not comment or even mention this survey, was because it produced the following results:

When asked about the law in Britain, 96% of Muslims surveyed said that everyone should respect the law in Britain. 97% of Brits said the same.
89% of Muslims surveyed and 90% of Londoners in general surveyed said that people living in Britain should be free to live their lives as they want so long as they do not prevent others from doing the same And 86% of Muslims and 91% of Londoners in general said that it is important that the Metropolitan Police work closely with communities such as the Muslim community to deter terrorist attacks. This, despite the fact that Muslim Londoners are amongst the poorest socio-economic group in England.

The irony is, the Daily Mail serves an ideological function as a paper of the right wing. Right wing economics demands cheap labour. It is Capitalism. National borders, and immigration policies are massively contradictory to the right winged economic policy. If capital, and goods can flow freely between Nation States, then logically, for the sake of Capitalism, so must labour. Nation States in that respect, are a left-over from the Colonial days and entirely at odds with Capitalism. When power is multinational; local national elections are pointless. The economic decisions made in the U.S or the UK or the EU have profound affects on poorer countries. It affects everything, and mass migration is a product of that affect.

The traditional parties of the left, such as Labour are massively to blame for two reasons. When they embraced centre-right economics, and a rather Thatcherite take on the market system, they allowed the idea of insecurity and consumerism to take control. Jobs were always at risk, wages were kept low and a market for easy credit built to fill in that gap, whilst a constant stream of advertisements tell us we all quickly have to own shit we don’t particularly need. That is what Western economies are based on. Growth for the benefit of growth. With it, comes quick intakes of happiness, and large periods of uncertainty and insecurity. Immigration, is not to blame for that.

According to an ippr report, lack of social cohesion and security are the main reasons people turn to Nazis like the BNP. Fear is then used meticulously by the BNP, to further the needs of it’s agenda, which seeks to promote the idea that White “indigenous” British people are under attack constantly from the evil liberal media, crazed scrounging immigrants, and Marxist political correctness. Everything that political parties do, from minimum wage, to speed cameras, the BNP will somehow link to an attack on white people. And people fall for it. The BNP can then claim to be the only party dedicated to defending British values. The majority of our values, ironically, do not resemble the values of the BNP in the slightest. “Reintroduce capital punishment for drug dealers”. Killing anyone who sells a bit of cannabis is ludicrous, and not even slightly British. Neither is “Ensure National Lottery funding spent on projects enhancing British culture“, which in fact sounds far more like George Orwell’s vision of Ingsoc, than anything New Labour has created. The BNP is essentially a group that can offer over simplified explanations for a breakdown of social cohesion in certain areas. They tend to ignore the economic factors across the World, of very concentrated wealth and resources to explain migration (which has always happened), and instead choose to point to religious, cultural and Nationalist explanation.

Burnley for example, is often used by the BNP to show how immigration has caused mass social unrest, lack of housing, lack of community services, violence, and further economic troubles. As if Burnley’s British and White past marked an era of strong society and economy. It didn’t. Burnley had deep social problems long before New Labour came to power. Muslims who wear burka’s are an easy excuse.

James Rhodes, a researcher for the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester wrote:

“There is a need for different accounts of social change, and of notions of `community’ that don’t pander to divisive, nativist sentiments – both at national and local levels. It is vital to promote and encourage new stories and narratives that incorporate the experiences of migrants and the contributions they have made to UK society, moving beyond the host/immigrant binary that remains entrenched in contemporary media and political discourses. ”

Labour, and the Tories, and the Lib Dems can also be blamed for legitimising “concerns” over immigration. Traditionally, the Labour movement was fully international, and focused on the rights of all workers across the World rather than boxing workers in according to Nationality. That no longer exists. New Labour has no concerns for the welfare of workers in Countries that are exploited by British companies. And so when New Labour uses language that seems to suggest there is a problem, that there is such thing as “Britishness” and that people from war torn and poverty stricken nations whom British companies like Primark further impoverish, aren’t welcome here – it simply adds fuel to the fire that eventually burnt New Labour quite badly and gave false credence to the BNP cause. They should have been arguing the case for immigration. They should have humanised people individually, rather than demonising them collectively that has lead to anyone who isn’t English, being viewed as an entirely different species of human. They didn’t. They should have been true progressives and noted that economic inequality across the World drives migration, and that economic inequality and mass migration will never be kept under control, if right winged economics remains the universal norm. They haven’t. The vast majority of the World, live in economic hardship.

For migration to start to decrease, you need to stop the problem at it’s core. You need to truly be committed to eradicating poverty. You have to work internationally to force working standards across the World based on human rights. You have to allow smaller producers a better chance at survival against huge Western Corporations. You have to spread democracy that isn’t just about creating puppet governments who will open native markets to America business interests. There has to be a joint effect across the World, to fight global inequality. Then, migration will fall. Guaranteed.

We are extremely lucky to have been born in the UK. We can afford to sit at a computer on a Saturday afternoon, writing a blog. We are not suffering. Others across the World suffer for our benefit. Our foreign policy, is similar in that respect to America’s. We expect the heads of poorer nations to look after their people better, and yet when that begins to happen in poverty stricken nations and the leaders start to reject Western influence and start to build local communities, we remove our support for them, and start funding right winged guerrilla armies, as in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the people remain trapped. But we don’t want them here. We want to remain economically powerful and superior, but to do that requires certain other nations to remain weak and inferior. Britain over the years has used illiberal and vicious regimes in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan simply for our own benefit, regardless of the affects on the populations of those countries. We did not care about their human rights records, and in some instances preferred the regimes with awful human rights records, because they benefited us at the time. It is an foreign economic policy left over from the Imperialist days. Britain now only agrees to give debt relief, if the Nations in question adhere to IMF and World Bank economic policies, that just so happen to be neoliberal in principle, which further promotes inequality across the World.
Unequal economic, social, and foreign policies perpetuate the problem.

Gary Young writing in the Guardian made this point by saying that if you build a ten foot wall around food, those without any food will always build an eleven foot ladder.

Mass immigration cannot be stopped simply by building a wall around Britain. You HAVE to address economic issues that the UK have been partly responsible for perpetuating over the years, that has lead to such a division between those at the absolute top, and those at the absolute bottom.

It is successive governments who have failed to invest adequately (both white British tax money, and immigrant tax money) in social housing and their local communities. It is the West’s fault for creating an economic system that does nothing but favour the West and propping up evil dictatorial regimes like Pinochet’s in Chile, and so creates social and economic problems that will always lead to migration. We have to counter the concerns from people that immigration somehow threatens their livelihood and their homes and jobs. Simply referring to the BNP as nazis is easy, because they’re such a ridiculous group of people. But the social and economic and even political problems that create insecurity and fear, should be tackled head on.

For a Capitalist economy to flourish, migrant workers are essential. White Brits would be far worse off, in a World run by Capitalism, if we cut off our borders. However, when recession hits, Brits suddenly do not like immigrants. We want it both ways. We want them here when it’s beneficial, and we want them gone immediately when times are tough.

To deal with population growth across the World, you have to address economic inequality internationally. You have to re-examine the balance of power across the planet. You have to educate people away from the agenda of both the right and left wing media outlets. You have to expect the governments and oppositions of the World, to over simplify everything. You have to expect companies to manipulate and exploit regardless of who they hurt.

You….have….to….question…..everything.

The British Way!!!

Those wonderful nazis over at the BNP are at it again.
In their manifesto, they say they wish to legalise guns, kill drug dealers, censor TV, deport anyone who they don’t consider to be “English” and make it an offence to promote racial equality and integration in schools.
They claim they can use money saved from withdrawing foreign aid (They have to be the only people in the World who think it’s okay to let Africa starve), to eradicate ALL unemployment, make the NHS the best in the World, fully pay off the National debt, and resettle all immigrants back to where they came from. Page 56 claims science is of critical importance. But green energy and biotechnology is going to be scrapped under a BNP government. In short, as usual, they make no sense.

There is a group of Facebook entitled: “BNP lets get our country back!!!“
Now, ignoring the ironic grammatical issues of a group that considers itself a defender of the Country whilst effortlessly destroying the language of that Country, let’s take a brief look at some of the PRO BRITISH comments they have on there, shall we?

” Not Racist …… just want my country back”
- From whom? The guy who wrote this, looks about 15, and is a chav. If it’s “his” country, I want to leave it. I don’t want people like him running this place. And when exactly did he “lose his country” in the first place, in the brief time he has lived here (which he did not achieve, he was born here out of luck)? Who to? Those evil Muslims? I guarantee he wont have an issue with the Americanisation of England. Our banks failed, because American banks failed. Our kids are fat, because America gave us McDonalds. But that’s okay. Because they’re white.

“BNP ALL THE WAY ANY IMGRANT GOTTA SAY SOME THINK THEN SAY IT CZ IM IN MOOD FOUR YA COZ ITS ABOUT TIME USE FUCK OFF HOME AND WE HAVE HAD ANOUTH OF YA ! WHY SHOULD WE GIVE YOU U FREE HOUSES AND FREE MONEY AND ONLY REASON YA STILL HERE IS COS THE BNP AINT IN POWER ABOUT TIME BRITISH PEOPLE COME FIRST !!!“
- This guy is 20. In his twenty years, he has decided that the English language is not up to his standard. I mean, it has latin, Celtic, French and other DIRTY FOREIGN languages mixed in. Apart from that, I have absolutely no idea what any of that actually says. If anything, it is proof of evolution working in reverse.

“being a treated like a minority in your own country is some fucked up shit“
- How are we being “a” treated like a minority? In what way? The fact that you’re free to sit on facebook and actually type that whilst joining meaningful human rights groups like “the stig should be in next years im a celeb”, suggests your life isn’t all that bad.

THESE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO VOTE.

On a comment about enjoying St Georges Day:
“how can we with all the muslims everywhere infecting everything“
- Those damn Muslims, infecting EVERYTHING. I drank a tea earlier, with sugar, muslim aids, and milk. It was horrible. But, luckily, I drank alcohol, watched football, got into a fight, spat at a black man, and then burned any form of dictionary that might improve my vocabulary…… the BNP way.
Funnily enough, the only people to want to actually cancel St Georges day in it’s entirety, were firstly King Edward VI, who saw it as a day celebrating the life of a Catholic hero, which was considered heresy. And secondly, Cromwell, because he despised any kind of idol worship. There’s a statue of Cromwell at Parliament. How comical.

“BNP BNP BNP BNP BNP BNP BNP BNP ALL the fukin way nooooooo pakias”
- I’m not sure what “pakias” is. If you type it into google, you get directed to a trucking company from El Paso Texas. Why the BNP would have a problem with a small town trucking company in El Paso, is beyond me. Still, logic isn’t something they know too much about. For those who are interested, Pakias was established in 1995, and has an annual revenue of less than $500,000.

“fukin wota group no durty pakiz – bnp all fukin day !!!“
- Courtney Pakiz starred in Vanilla Sky, which was fucking awful. So I have to agree with this. NO MORE COURTNEY PAKIZ!!!!

“ i just like to say b.n.p. all the way ,islam and immigrants must go back for the country and our kids futures ,we are stretched to the hilt ,also take the u.a.f. tree huggers ,GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD SAVE THE QUEEN ,THE REST SHOULD HANG FOR TREASON.“
- YES! Hang anyone who isn’t a racist and fucking stupid, for treason. Only allow people who haven’t grasped basic English grammar, to procreate! That’s what England truly needs! A nation of idiots! And anyone who isn’t a racist, is a tree hugger! Which, actually means we give a shit about the environment. He wishes to send all the immigrants home, and then ironically blesses the Queen. The Monarchy itself, hasn’t been 100% British, well, ever. Henry VII’s grandmother, Catherine, was French. Her great-grandson King Henry VIII married a Spaniard, whose child Mary became Queen. A mix of English, Spanish, and French. James I also had French blood in him, and then married Anne of Denmark. Her son became King Charles I of England, who married Henrietta Maria of France, who was mother of Charles II and James II. King William II was born in the Hague. Queen Anne married Prince George of Denmark, and so it goes on…and on….and on….. GOD BLESS THE NOT SO ENGLISH MONARCHY!

“herd bout this .. not aloud to wear your england tshirt in a pub when the world cup is on and your not aloud to fly england flags”
- Who needs an “A” in the word “heard”. The A was holding the rest of the word back anyway. No, pubs have not banned England shirts for the World Cup. Certain pubs have banned all sports wear, because it can provoke fights. It isn’t because it might upset a muslim who wants to rape your children. It is because the business owner, doesn’t want his pub getting a reputation for inviting thugs. And I have an English flag. The place I work at, flies an English flag. At no point has anyone complained. Including the huge amount of foreign people who are over here on business. And at no point, has anyone demanded it be taken down. Perhaps the Daily Mail say otherwise.

Whilst I would never vote Tory out of principle, David Cameron, quite rightly said this, on St Georges day:
“Today we are celebrating St George’s Day, and we are reclaiming St George’s Day as an important day I think for good reasons.
And one of the most important reasons is that we should be reclaiming the flag from the BNP and saying the flag belongs to the English people, all of them.”
Couldn’t agree more.

I do not want a country run by thugs. I do not like those thugs telling me what it means to be English. I will come to my own conclusion.
Vote for England. Do not vote BNP.

Never be tired of England

Happy St Georges Day.
Did you know that King George III never formally acknowledge the independence of the USA? Therefore, we still own it. Nor did we agree to the full independence of Australia (The Australia Act of 1986, I choose to ignore). Therefore, we still own that too. And when I get there in July, I will proclaim myself Governor of Australia for Her Majesty The Queen. We’ll forget this silly “independence” thing in no time.

The Daily Mail in it’s quest to tarnish Nick Clegg as some great evil, had this to say earlier this week:

“His wife is Spanish, his mother Dutch, his father half-Russian and his spin doctor German. Is there ANYTHING British about Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg?”

It’s amazing isn’t it?
Nick Clegg, the posh English intelligent Lib Dem leader, is apparently an evil foreigner, despite the fact, that he was born….. in Berkshire.
Given that the husband of the Queen is a relative of the Russian tsars, I hope the Daily Mail will soon begin an anti-monarchy quest.

Today is St Georges day.
It is beautiful outside.
I have sat in my garden with a book and a drink sat by me, for most of it.
The reasons I do not fly the St Georges cross flag is something I dislike about the way it has been manipulated. St Georges cross and the Union Jack have been hijacked by the far right in recent years, to show that they aren’t too keen on muslims. It is used by those who keep claiming muslims are out to destroy England, rape your children, punch your grandmother in the face, and ban Christmas. It is from those who use the phrase “it’s political correctness gone mad” to cloak their inherent stupidity and ignorance. “You know, you can’t even smear shit into a a pakistani man’s face in the shape of the cross of St George whilst telling him to fuck off out the Country any more, without the politically correct bias liberal media telling you it’s racist. It’s political correctness gone mad!!!” I don’t want to associate myself with that type of person. Anyone who associates England with “the white race” is disgusting, in my view.

But I do love this country. In fact, I absolutely adore this country. I do not appreciate the far right telling me that I hate this country, simply because I am not a nazi. I do not believe in a singular concept of “Englishness”. My views on Englishness, are pretty post-modern in that respect. I love this country, for my own reasons, which I will now list.

I love the English summer time. I love traditional English seaside holidays. I love the sound of English amusement arcades on the seafront. I love Tudor history. I love being in the city centre for Diwali celebrations. I love the English countryside. I love standing in the sea on the English south coast despite it being freezing. I love the scent of England in the early summer mornings. I love English Christmas, the food, Morcambe and Wise, and bucks fizz. I love red post boxes. I love the majority of the people who are always polite, friendly, and tolerant. I love that I am the grandson of a World War II navy veteran. I love eccentric Brits. I love Camden. I love not understanding a word the speaker says over the tannoy at a local Tesco. I love Newstead Abbey. I love Bradgate Park. I love feeding ducks. I love those little green or red or blue or yellow arm bands the local swimming pools give you, to let you know when your time in the water is up. I love how we are a mash of cultural differences and historical struggles. I love how we cannot go a day without at least one cup of tea. I love Brit pop! I love getting into bed, under a huge new duvet on a freezing winter’s night. I love wearing an England football shirt throughout the World Cup and Euros every couple of years. I love reading the papers before the World Cup that tell me that Wayne Rooney is at his peak. I love not understanding why our clocks go forward and backward every now and again. I love trilby hats. I love speakers corner. I love hearing the sound of an ice cream van. I love that we are part of Europe. I love Devon and Cornwall. I love our charity days like Red Nose day and Children in need. I love the National Health Service. I love that we are a country that still cares for it’s sick and injured. I love that we are a nation of compassion and acceptance rather than distrust, dogmatic individualism and miserable hatred. I love great British comedians like the Pythons, and Spike Milligan and comedies like Blackadder and Only Fools. I love our sense of humour. I love our sarcasm. I love talking to random people on the park when i’m taking the dog for a run. I love our political music like The Clash and The Jam. I love London. I love bike rides around England. I love black cabs. I love that on one long road just outside of Brighton there is a church, a mosque, a synagogue and a gay bar a little further down, and no problems arise. I love that we have minimum wage. I love the BBC. I love how overly excited our papers get when Wimbledon begins. I love our poets like Wordsworth and Byron. I love that Darwin was English. I love traditional English breakfasts. I love that we do not care what our leaders’ religious beliefs are. I love random games of football on the park. I love our regional colloquialisms. I love the words of Shakespeare and Milton.

I highlighted “I love how we are a mash of cultural differences and historical struggles” because I think it raises an important point. We have never been a single culture, that is now being “eroded“. You cannot erode something that is not static. We have always been a mash of cultures constantly updating and changing. There have been times when those in control or those sporting racist and xenophobic views have tried to impose uniformity, but Britain is great because we have always rejected uniformity in that sense. I will give you an example.

For the majority of English history, since the year 0, this country has been Catholic. Our history, is Catholicism.
Before the 1530s, England was a Catholic nation. The Catholic church was a predominant feature of every community within England. It’s Latin mass, it’s imagery and it’s elaborate dressings along with it’s rituals and rites were what defined England. We weren’t really a nation state at all. We were a vassal of Rome, in all honesty. Given that our own King could not divorce without the permission of the Pope, suggests that ultimately, control lay with Rome. The English people liked it that way. That was England. That was our culture.

During the Reformation Parliaments of the 1530s, the preambles to the statutes written by Thomas Cromwell, try to rewrite this culture, to suit their own needs. The break from Rome and establishment of an English Church would have been massive. Within the space of three years during the 1530s, the entire English system of power, law, and the basis of community had changed beyond recognition. The Henrician church and the Roman Catholic Church were vastly different systems of control and belief.

According to historian Sir William Holdsworth:

“The preamble to the Statute of Appeals is remarkable.. because it manufactures history upon an unprecedented scale.”

Anyone who happened to disagree with the King’s god-given right above the Pope, to be “Supreme Head of the Church in England“, was swiftly and quite horrifically dealt with. It did not bother Henry or Cromwell or Cranmer or any of the other reformers within Court, that the vast majority of the English public, did not believe the King had power above that of the Pope. English culture, for over a millenium, put the Pope as their true ruler, and no one else. Catholicism, (which by the way, was brought to us by immigrants – the Romans, after Claudius invasion of the Country) was so ingrained in the minds of the public, that people like Thomas More were willing to die for their opposition to Cromwell’s reform, rather than betray their beliefs.

The preamble by Cromwell, to the Act of Supremacy of 1534 intriguingly tries to force opinion again, rewrites history, imposes the Act as objective truth (so much so that the accompanying Treason Act made it punishable by death to say the King was not Supreme head of the Church, or talk about the Pope being Head before him), and one wonders whether Cromwell would have gone this far, had the Pope granted Henry his divorce from Catherine in the first place:

“Albeit the king’s Majesty justly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England, and so is recognized by the clergy of this realm in their convocations.”

I cannot express just how momentous a change this Reformation Parliament truly was. We were now completely cut off from the Church in Rome, and therefore, cut off from Europe in it’s entirety. Propaganda from the government of Henry made it an offence to be Catholic.

A little over fifteen years later, after Henry had backtracked a little, adding more confusion to what it meant to be English; his son Edward was a child, and only allowed to read books by Protestant writers. He grew up anti-Catholic. When the Duke of Northumberland became the defacto King whilst Edward was still too young, the first thing he did, was rid the council of anyone who still held even slightly Catholic views. After Edward died, Mary then tried to revert back to Catholicism and rejoin the jurisdiction of Rome. Elizabeth, after Mary, settled the dispute, and created a settlement that held mainly Protestant beliefs, but incorporated Catholic beliefs too, although the authority of the Pope was still denied.

The point of this, is that we have never been one single minded Nation. We have always been a mesh of different beliefs and forced uniformity. Catholics viewed Protestants with suspicion in the same way that those racists who claim to be pro-British now view Islam. Irrational fear. There is nothing English about it. We have always updated, and we have always been in a constant state of change, there is no single identity. English culture is created by it’s people, and it is changed and updated with every passing generation. The people can be Catholic, Pagan, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu, Atheist, Sikh, Black, White, Asian, Gay, Straight, fat or thin. It doesn’t matter. That is what makes Britain great, and it is the one thing I love most about this country.

The rationality of not voting.

There is a presumption among many people, after last weeks leadership debate, that the Liberal Democrats are some extraordinary force for change in British politics. It amazes me. They are still centrists, much like New Labour. They have quasi-radical policies I agree with; scraping Trident comes to mind. But overall, they aren’t much different. They are market liberals. It would be incredible if the Liberal Democrats became the next Government, not because they offer radical change, but simply because the name “Liberal Democrat” has been largely ignored in British politics since it’s inception. But, they do not offer a change of system. They offer the same system, with a couple of tweaks. Their supporters seem to be assuming a change. Clegg in the debate said of the MPs scandal, and home switching, and other ridiculous expenses claiming that:

“I have to stress, not a single Liberal Democrat MP did either of those things”

…… Clegg himself collected £1,657.32 in expenses, on family groceries. Oh the irony. Lib Dem MPs Richard Younger-Ross, John Barrett, Sandra Gidley and Paul Holmes were all forced to pay back over £16,000 for claiming huge amounts of money for renting posh flats near Parliament. Oh…the…irony! Chris Huhne, the multi-millionaire, claimed £119 for a trouser press. The irony continues.

The choice in my constituency is between Labour, Tory, Lib Dem, and BNP. Now, i wont vote Tory out of principle. I wont vote Labour because they no longer represent my view. I wont vote BNP because i’m not a despicable nazi, and I wont vote Lib Dem, because they don’t represent my view either. If I have to give in to this system I dislike, then I will support a party of the left. Of which, none seem to actually exist.

So I wont be voting.

The cliche among Western democracies has been “if you don’t vote, you cannot complain” in suggestion that if Labour win and you didn’t vote against them, you have no right to complain. I disagree. I wont vote, because I do not believe any of them are fit the run the Country. I do not believe they have the right to have a say over so many lives. When they inevitably fuck up, lie and cheat, and are seen to not actually do what is expected of them, I can happily say that I haven’t empowered any of these bastards, and so I have every right to complain.

It is a rather difficult choice to decide not to vote. By not voting, I am in essence voting. Because by not voting, it isn’t because I am apathetic. It isn’t because I don’t understand Politics. It is simply because no political party represents my views. Not voting, is a rational decision for me. I consider myself of the Anarcho-syndicalist variety. I have no love for Capitalism. I don’t particularly like the idea of the Nation State, and Democracy is only acceptable to me, at a grassroots level. The current democratic system, is a mash of democratic and undemocratic principles. It says “This is the system that people who you have not elected have put in place, your job is now to elect one person to be the figurehead of that system”.

To vote in this upcoming election, would mean that I am giving my blessing to a system I am not too fond of. And since Labour, the Liberal Democrats and The Conservatives all offer no real change except a change of businessman running the show, and a few weakly tied bandages on a system that has recently failed miserably; for me to vote for any of them would be an endorsement of that system, and I cannot out of principle bring myself to do that. A system that says that Conservatives will win and cut spending, forcing the homeless rate back up, and the suicide rate sky rockets. Labour then get in a few years later when the misery gets too much, and a few extra regulations are placed on businesses that work only to help us all ignore the fact that those same businesses are openly tax avoiding. Then, an economic bubble will burst, the Tories will blame Labour again, despite them both being to blame. The Tories will get back in and force cuts again and so the cycle continues. A self perpetuating avalanche that negatively affects the majority, but keeps the wealthy minority happy. It is not the democracy that centuries of warfare has been fighting for. It is not democracy when there is no real choice. It is a group of businessmen, all fighting for control over a single system. It is that system that is tyrannical because there is no choice, we are stuck with it.

The public do not chose the agenda. We simply endorse an entire agenda of one party. One party, out of two or three to be precise. But all Parties rest on the assumption that human nature, is greedy and self interested. I disagree profoundly with this assumption, and so no party that represents that view, is ever likely to acquire my vote.

One should view human nature as so intricate and inexplicable, that it is deeply atrocious and manipulative for advocates of a particular social or economic system to claim to have tapped into it. The idea that human nature is inherently greedy, and self-centered seems to have become the prevailing philosophy, but it has taken over a century of forcing it upon Nations like Latin America, riots against Thatcherism, propaganda against any system that suggests otherwise (if you wonder why a child in Africa is allowed to starve, you’re automatically a “communist” or a “bleeding heart liberal” apparently), pounding home the idea that businessmen “create” wealth and so it’d be apparently immoral to redistribute that wealth to people who can’t actually afford to live; that Authoritarianism is a great evil – unless it’s in the workplace, then it’s wondrous. Should such a small amount of individuals be allowed control over such vast resources? No. It has taken over a Century and the loss of many lives, to become almost universally accepted that a small amount of individuals controlling a vast amount of resources is perfectly acceptable, and even desirable. It is simply a philosophy. It is not universal truth. It is not objective fact. Durkheim and Jung both suggest that human nature is supremely malleable. I accept that whilst human nature is not free of instinct (we are only animals after all), within the political and economic realm, it is deeply, deeply malleable. Furthermore, the Capitalist system was not developed and put into practice by a group of philanthropists concerned with the development of the human good inline with our basic nature; they simply put in place a system that protected their wealth and developed a political system to further enhance it.

Canadian author Stephen Garvey says:

“Western societies are fundamentally driven by capitalism. So Western Democracy through its autocratic, hierarchy is an excellent political system to maintain and expand the global capitalist agenda. I say this point, based on a majority of people being deceived into believing they have say, a final say, through elections.”

For those who consider this to be strictly false, take note of the amount of money the U.S has spent spreading “democracy“. Do you truly believe it is for the benefit of the people? No of course not. It is because democracy, is a pretext for this morbid version of Capitalism that exists purely to further the wealth and by definition; power, of a select few. It is why Castro is considered evil, yet Pinochet was supported vigorously. It is why we overthrew a democratically elected President of Iran and replaced him with a dictator in the Shah. Capitalism and Democracy, the Western way, complement each other, and for that reason, I am dead set against it.

Professor Noam Chomsky said:

“Freedom is one of the commodities that is for sale, and if you are affluent, you can have a lot of it. It shows up in all sorts of ways. It shows up if you get in trouble with the law, let’s say, or in any aspect of life it shows up. And for that reason it makes a lot of sense, if you accept capitalist system, to try to accumulate property, not just because you want material welfare, but because that guarantees your freedom, it makes it possible for you to amass that commodity. [...] what you’re going to find is that the defense of free institutions will largely be in the hands of those who benefit from them, namely the wealthy, and the powerful. They can purchase that commodity and, therefore, they want those institutions to exist, like free press, and all that. As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.”

To vote for one of the main parties, is a vote for the way the system is. And given that there is not a way to vote out the current system, to vote is by definition, undemocratic. The system is undemocratic, in that it isn’t about free and fair elections between people who wish to help make life better for the majority. It is a system based on which party is the wealthiest, which Lords and businessmen bankroll them, and what they expect in return. The majority of us rely on information from political parties and the media (which has it’s own political agenda) to make up our minds. We are not autonomous. We do not decide for ourselves. Therefore, a political party’s purpose, is simply to manipulate and influence opinion to it’s own ends. All three of the main parties, operate from the assumption that we are all self interested.

Human nature, whilst it has the potential to be greedy; is also loving, compassionate, reliant, ugly, detestable and every other possible trait we may show. The system we live in today, quite obscenely rewards greed and so greed as a trait, is amplified. Competition is built into our nurture from a young age, from the school system onwards, so competition upon greed, is amplified. In reality, the degree of variability between outright greed and utter benevolence is huge.

Rudolf Rocker once said:

“The causes which underlie the processes of social life have nothing in common with the laws of physical and mechanical natural events, for they are purely the results of human purpose, which is not explicable by scientific methods. To misinterpret this fact is a fatal self-deception from which only a confused notion of reality can result.”

The three main parties in UK politics, disagree with Rocker, and for some reason think they are experts on human nature. As if economic Darwinism is ethically justifable. Whilst it isn’t apparently popular to say this, but I’m all for a huge rate of tax, universally, on the richest 2-3%.
I am of the belief that once necessity has been taken care of (basic food, drink and shelter for everyone), then profit and riches can exist. It is not ethically justifiable to allow one man to own much wealth, whilst another starves to death, in my opinion.

My ideals are Syndicalist. They are also Anarchist, in that I believe all forms of power and control over others, should be able to legitimise itself. To that end, I do not believe the State has legitimate authority, nor the Capitalist. However, in a system in which the most power is wielded by the Capitalist, I believe the State has a role to play in curtailing that Capitalist power. In that respect, I am a Statist. But only when the State exists within a Capitalist system. I am a great supporter of workers rights. Hence the Syndicalism. I am and always will be entirely suspicious of anyone with a lot of money and a lot of power.

So, I will not be voting.

The fight back begins

It is less than a month before the General Election. Gordon Brown has had perhaps the worst couple of years of any Prime Minister. And yet, the Tories are only 4 point ahead in most polls. That suggests that people are still weary of them, which in turn suggests, the Tories aren’t as wondrous as their supporters seem to think. We simply don’t trust them.

Labour issued a new campaign video today. I think it’s utterly brilliant. In our constituency, the choice is Labour, Tory, Lib Dem, or BNP. And considering i’m not a Tory, nor a Nazi, the choice for me, If I were voting (which i’m not) would be between Labour and Lib Dem. Although, if the Greens were running, I would vote Green in an instant. I do not want to live in a Country run by Conservatives.

Here’s the new Labour campaign video.

The National Insurance Row.

The big news this week politically, is that a group of business leaders have signed a document throwing their support behind the Conservatives, over Labour’s plan to increase National Insurance. The group of businessmen signed a document calling for the 1% planned rise, to be scrapped. The news media are treating it like a huge coup for the Tories. The news that business leaders support the Tories, is being treated, like huge surprising news. Surely this is less interesting and surprising news, than Ricky Martin telling the World he is gay, about fifteen years after we all figured it out any way. In other news, Jim Davidson is still shit, the BNP are still racist scum, apparently a bear shat in the woods today, Hitler was a bit of a git, and the sun might rise sometime tomorrow morning according to latest reports.

One of the business leaders who signed the document, is Paul Walsh. Walsh earns £3.6million a year as Chief Exec. of Diageo PLC, a huge wine and beer company based in London. It’s net income last year was £1,725,000,000. Now obviously, earning close to two billion pounds is not enough. A 1% N.I increase would apparently cripple them. Lucky for Diageo then, that they have a dedicated management team who do not really like to pay taxes. According to a Guardian report, Diageo over the past decade has paid a little over £43,000,000 in tax. That’s around £4,300,000 a year. In reality, they should have paid £144,000,000 a year. That equates to £1,397,000,000 tax loss. If you were to scrounge an extra few pound a week benefit payout, you’d be threatened with prison. Scrounge an extra £1,397,000,000 and you’re well on your way to being knighted for your services to “CREATING JOBS AND BEING ALL WONDERFUL!” That gap in the treasuries takings, according to the Guardian would take 20,000 households paying income tax to fill. So wondrous are Diageo, and so committed to the wellbeing of their workforce, that after posting profits of almost £2bn, they closed a Jonnie Walker blending plant which had been a community of Kilmarnock local historical institution, and made 700 people redundant. Around the same time, Mr Walsh’s salary increased.

Another businessman to sign the statement in support of the Conservative Party, is Justin King, chief executive of J Sainsbury. The President of J Sainsbury, is John Sainsbury, Baron of Preston Candover, with a net worth of £1.3bn, he is a Conservative Party donor, and member of the Conservative Party.

A third businessman to sign the statement in support of the Conservative Party is Simon Wolfson, chief executive of Next. Wolfson is a member of the Conservative Party and donated to David Cameron’s 2005 campaign, and named by the Telegraph as the “37th-most important British conservative.”

A fourth businessman to sign the statement in support of the Conservative Party is Philip Harris, chairman and chief executive of Carpetright. Harris is a Conservative member of the House of Lords, and is worth £285,000,000. He is considered a close personal friend of David Cameron, and has donated money to the Conservative Party.

Do you see a pattern forming?

The Treasury expects unemployment to fall by a quarter of a million, next year, despite the 1% increase. And whilst Tory donating Businessmen have come out against the increase, most economists appear to be suggesting that the businessmen are wrong. The Times says:

“Martin Weale, of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, pointed to the last time NI rose, in 2003. Rather than cut jobs, employers responded by paring back the growth in wages.”

The Tories claim that they will stop the rise, and instead cut £12bn of public sector waste. Apparently, that isn’t classed as attacking jobs. Even though, according to Professor Colin Talbot at Manchester University, Britain’s foremost academic expert on public sector efficiency, even £6bn would cause 120,000 job losses in both the public and private sector, because the Tories planned “savings” include hitting small private I.T firms. The business leaders don’t seem too bothered by that. Because, afterall, it doesn’t affect their huge salaries.

Of course business leaders have backed the Tories. We’re all fully aware that a 1% rise in National Insurance is not going to destroy Britain in the way these big bosses say. It is the same rhetoric they used to attack minimum wage introduction legislation; businesses everywhere will go bust; riots on the street because poor people love big businessmen and don’t wish to be paid a minimum standard of wage in order to stay alive, if it means those poor businessmen can’t afford a new yacht; England (which will be renamed Ingsoc) will set on fire; Dorset will be completely submerged beneath a sea made by evil socialists; and gay people will rule the World, all because of minimum wage. In other words, fear tactics built on empty rhetoric. Because twelve years later, minimum wage is one of Labour’s greatest achievements.

The letter says:

“In the last few years, the private sector has improved its productivity by around 20%, while productivity in the public sector has fallen by 3%.”

Not surprisingly, they didn’t offer any evidence to back that claim up.
Firstly, if that is true, that’s quite an impressive statement from a conservative section of society toward a Labour government. (Although, i’m not sure how you actually measure public sector productivity, given that it isn’t a product based sector, nor is it profitable) Surely, that is indirect backing for Labour? Secondly, whilst the private sector may have improved productivity by 20%, but whilst wages have been kept low, bosses salaries, according to Incomes Data Services firm investigation, have risen 18.3% to now 150 times greater than the average employee. Sir Peter Bonfield CBE, FREng, C.U.N.T of BT saw BT share price go from £14, to £5, under his control. He then left BT with over £6,000,000 whilst thousands of workers lost their jobs. This was in 2002, before the recession struck.

So wondrous has the private sector been over the past few years, it has brought the entire financial system to it’s knees, demanded bailouts from all of us, and those responsible are now living in luxury whilst their employees are struggling to find work and keep their homes heated.

The letter goes on to say:

“Cutting government waste won’t endanger the recovery – but putting up national insurance will.”

When you’re in a position to be able to resist all government “waste” because you earn over £1,000,000 a year, you can say things like that, and continue on your deeply ignorant path in life. Many people rely on social services, that would be put under major threat under another Tory government. Of course, the huge salaries of the big bosses wouldn’t be under threat, and so the bosses don’t appear to care. It is obvious that under a Tory government, the way to cut the deficit will be to hit those who cannot afford to feed themselves the hardest, whilst the wealth of the very wealthy will be protected. That is the legacy of the Thatcher government. The business leaders’ priority is not the public good, nor is it maintaining the wellbeing of the Country that allowed them such obscene profitability at the behest of others (No matter how much they say a 1% N.I rise is a huge “tax on jobs”); their priority is handing a healthy amount of money over to the shareholders who actually don’t do any of the work that brings the wealth in themselves (Corporate Socialism, I call it).

The idea is to create a business haven in the UK. And that’s fine. If it is supported by a top class public service and a decent infrastructure. You can go to a third World country and do business uninterrupted and deregulated to the extreme. You can be a real businessman. Use children. No National Insurance. No equal rights. Don’t pay too much out in wages. No work hour limits. Real Capitalism.

The CBI, the guys who actively protested against the introduction of minimum wage, the guys who want students to pay far more for their education whilst they themselves went to University when it was free, the guys who suggested cutting any educational courses that they deemed to be “micky mouse”, said:

“We applaud the decision by a number of Britain’s most senior business leaders to take a public stand against the planned rise in national insurance – which is a clear and unequivocal tax on jobs.”

I would like to take this opportunity, to say just how much I despise the CBI. Thatcher killed off the Unions because they had too much power of the Government. Well, she opened the door for the CBI, arguably the most powerful union of them all, and they keep flexing their puss filled muscles every chance they get. Why are we listening to people who campaigned for banking deregulation, and a free-for-all attitude to banking? They should disgust us. They have damaged us far more than the Unions ever could. The very same people who are telling us how best to deal with the recovery, were the people who contributed to the mess we’re all in, in the first place. We were deceived by these people, playing with fake money, for years, and now they are running the show again? Has nothing changed?

Growth is an interesting concept. Growth when it comes to the business World is neither moral nor immoral. It is amoral. Growth and “giving jobs” as is often the defence of big business. But what does this apparent wondrous philanthropy actually mean? Well, it means that the cunt businessman at the top wants to protect his millions, the shareholders who do nothing for the good of the company or humanity in general get a healthy pay cheque every so often, the workers are paid as little as physically possible, and the producer is paid even worse. We’re then encouraged through the constant raping of our minds to buy pointless shit we don’t need, purely to prop up businesses that shouldn’t actually exist, and buy another lovely house in a sea side resort for the business man who only uses it once a year and so contributes to the destruction of the once healthy and happy sea side town (See Beadnell in Northumberland for confirmation). I’m all for growth, when it extends the public good, feeds the hungry, and creates affordable drugs. Growth to me, does not equate to greed. I am not for a manipulated and diseased form of growth by big business, who then claim they are “creating jobs“. Growth, within the system that we live, equates to nothing more than a lovely big return on investment, regardless of the public good.

These businessmen are not worried about their businesses. Their businesses are doing just fine. They are not worried about the little people, as proven with Lloyds group and over 10,000 unemployed recently whilst their boss makes more money than every before, they are also not worried about the deficit and the Country. They are worried about their own wallets. They want more. If they are seen to back the Tories, and the Tories win, you can bet a mountain of deregulation and further destruction of the public sector will follow. Another generation of people from poorer backgrounds who are taught they are worthless, and should resign themselves to a job at McDonalds.

The problem is, the system failed. The private system. These top businessmen sucked it dry for all it is worth for years. They used their new found immense profits to pay workers as low as possible, keep the money away from producers, create offshore accounts to avoid tax, fund the Tory party, but on the plus side, buy a lovely new Mercedes. And now, once that gravy train failed, they have washed their hands of it, and will blame everyone else. Socialism, or lazy people, or Governments, or Unions. Business will never blame business. The Tories will never blame business. Business afterall, “give us jobs!!”. The workers, to these people, are dispensable and just cogs in machinery. Their lives are not important. I hope the entire stinking system fails miserably. I secretly hope for a workers revolt, in which expensive business suits are thrown onto bonfires and a form of Anarcho-syndicalism is proclaimed.

Life, Work, Love and 2010

I haven’t blogged at all recently, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, my computer died, and i’m forced to use a disastrously primitive piece of computing equipment, which could blow up at any given second. And secondly, I don’t really have much to say. So, given that it is fast approaching the end of the year, I thought i’d sum up my year, for those who happen to be interested.

Life:
I discovered a significant amount about myself this year. I appear to be both growing up, and becoming what some would describe as immature. According to the unwritten rule, to be mature means to accept authority without question, to accept the framework on which we are all born, without question, and to give in to a chase for money, without question. To be mature, means to join a race for more, never satisfied with what one already has, we only reach maturity when we have accepted that we are greedy by nature (which, I do not accept). Therefore, I am immature. I would also argue that the most enlightened minds on the planet, exist for those very few seconds after birth, when we see the World as it supposed to be seen, with wonder; untouched and unnamed by humanity.
I like the idea that when a new born baby sees an ocean, he or she has no idea what it is, they do not have a word for it, they do not understand it’s characteristics, they do not know who put it there, what it’s purpose is, they don’t even have a concept of “purpose”….. which, to me, means the new born baby, is the purest and most Worldly form of life, they see the World with a beauty that you and I lost a very long time ago. When we grow up, we concoct these silly little absurd concepts, like “purpose” to suit our economic needs. Along with “purpose” other concepts, that just did not exist before human beings ridiculously invented them to suit certain economic, money making needs, include “race”, “Nationality”, “religion”, “self discipline”, “Sir”, “Boss”, “deserving”, “work ethic” and hundreds more. Who invented these terms?

Anyway, I digressed a little there. As you can probably tell, Philosophy played a huge roll in my 2009. I took a bit of a depressed stage, not understanding the point of me, earlier this year. I struggled to understand why people and friends can live life comfortably, and securely, blindly acquiescing to the notion that those who do not question, or think, or criticise, or employ a sense of reason and logic to the World around them, or even read a book at all in their lives, are able to live an uneventful, secure, blissfully ignorant life. I have no practical skill, no practical skill that is worth anything to the community that I live in interests me in the slightest. I do not want to manage a team, nor do I want to run a bar, or sell houses, or offer legal advice. In fact, I have no real idea what I want from life. I just know that when I’m at work, behind a bar, selling alcohol to rich people, there is a constant voice in the back of my mind saying “what the fuck is the point of all of this? What good is this? Why do you care if someone complains that their coffee isn’t warm enough? Where is the incentive to make money for a socially shielded man who doesn’t know your name and does nothing but criticise you? How fucking absurd is life. ” Yet, those who do not question, and just accept that “that’s just how it is“, will get on just fine throughout their lives. Then, I discovered Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, two beautifully eloquent and logical Existentialist Philosophers, who taught me in 2009 that the little voice in the back of my mind, was searching for meaning and purpose, in a Universe void of meaning or purpose. They taught me that the entire notion that a bigger picture exists, is so horrendously arrogant of humanity, that to embrace it, means we will never be happy, we will always want something more. And so, there is no black and white, no objective realities, just a mix of meaningless, dead, redundant ideas.

Work:
I started University this year. So far, so good. I study Politics and Journalism and Italian language on the side. The one issue I have with University, is it doesn’t seem to be teaching me much. Lecturers appear to be reading out loud, something that someone else has said. They seem to expect our essays, to be full of things someone else has said. Nothing is original, or requires original thought. Even a question titled “What do you understand by the term…….” does not particularly want to know what I understand by a term, instead wanting me to write down what somebody else has said about a specific term. Any form of subjective thinking, and critically analyzing an idea or concept, feels somewhat forbidden.
Despite this slight issue, I do really enjoy University.

Love:
I’ll simply copy exactly what I wrote in my previous blog entry, for those who missed it.
I want to meet someone, who makes me feel like Byron felt when he penned “She Walks in Beauty”. That’s not to say that I haven’t already met her, i’m pretty sure that I have. But, it’s far more complicated than not.
I worked out this year, that my own slightly promiscuous past was the result of my horrendous desire to feel wanted. It wasn’t an attempt to impress friends with my list of “shags“. I’ve never been one to give a shit about impressing people. I have spent the past six months going on date, after date in an attempt to figure out what it is I want. And i’m only human, I have my flaws and my insecurities. One of which, as already mentioned, is my need to feel wanted. Which, I accept is disastrously arrogant of me. But, on a deeper level, feeling wanted does not just resign itself to intimate encounters with nameless blonde haired brown haired black haired blue eyed green eyed tall short thin fat women from nowhere and everywhere, it’s a need to feel that as I person, my existence is not completely pointless, or absurd (blame Camus and Sartre for my assumptions on absurdity).
I do miss having someone to talk about my day with, or to cook with. I miss affection. I miss the feeling of not remembering how life existed without that person. I miss watching a film together, or becoming addicted to a TV show with or play fighting with. I miss planning holidays together. I miss spending weeks before her birthday trying to figure out what she wants and panicking right up until the last minute that she might not like it. I miss it all, especially the bond which certainly doesn’t exist with one nighters. But, in the search for that lasting feeling again, the tendency to let my guard down has crept in, which has never happened before. I discovered in the past couple of months, that I have a fickle heart, in that a simple smile from a beautiful girl gleamed in my direction, has the ability to make me think I’m in some sort of romantic comedy in which we’re going to end up happily married together by the end of the movie.
I do not want to end up like the couple who don’t trust each other. Or the couple who ban each other from talking to exes. Or the couple who claim to love each other within a few days of getting together. It is extraordinarily rare that I meet a couple who appear to actually belong together, often my instant reaction in my mind is quite pessimistically: “they wont last long“. This feeling of rarity affects my own life. It’s incredibly rare for me to see someone, and smile simply because they’re there. I’m constantly dating people I know just don’t suit me, or maybe it’s my fussy nature finding flaws.

Entertainment:
I discovered quite a deep love for poetry this year. Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Keats, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Dylan Thomas, among many more.
Plath, for the way she dealt with turning a tortured mind, into the work of genius, is by far my favourite poet of all. To have the ability to turn ineffable feelings into beautiful language, is something I’m in awe of.
Lord Byron, Wordsworth and Keats, for the ability to romanticise the World on a level that speaks to me quite profoundly.
On January 9th, I intend to make my way down to The Tate Britain in London, to view the Turner and the Masters exhibition. To have works by Turner, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and Canaletto in the same place at the same time, is far too good an opportunity to pass up.
On a more superficial level.. I have a horrible addiction to The Sopranos and Lost. Seriously addicted. I could talk about them both, for hours on end. I’m counting down the days until the final Season of Lost begins. I want a Dharma tshirt!

Beliefs:
When two or three Muslim men blow themselves up in England, we suddenly decide that Islam itself, and it’s believers should be viewed with a degree of suspicion. Yet, when two, three, four, five, or more white British middle aged men get convicted for child abuse, we do not practice that very same logic, and decide all white middle aged men should be viewed as potential paedophiles. Why is that?
I’m not entirely sure why the City that I live, is very much more racist and Nationalist than it’s ever been before. The war cry of the stupid: “I’m English! I was born here! I’m a second class citizen in my own Country!” Is more and more common. Why? For what reason? White British, or Pakistani Muslim, it’s all a social construct, it isn’t based on science or fact or anything other than divisive mechanisms that humanity put in place. Cut us open, and we’re all red, the same red. Science has pretty much proven that biological determinism just doesn’t exist. We cannot distinguish intelligence, or work ethic, or a need to be criminally active, with a race. What we consider to be distinctive “races” are simply social constructs that we as humans, have invented. Therefore, racism and nationalism are largely futile, pointless, and fantasy, as well as being moronic, meaningless, useless, and childish.
We now in fact, put working man against working man. The BA strikes have left most working people deciding that the workers are in the wrong. They chose to ignore the fact that greedy incompetent management is solely to blame, instead choosing the blame the workers. Another social construct designed to keep the masses obeying whatever the top guys say.
It’s a new phenomena. For Centuries, the whole concept of white and black, did not exist. It was used as a tool of Capitalism in the early days of the USA and Colonial Africa and India, in order to divide white working class people and black/Asian working class people from forming alliances and challenging the powers that be. Before that, White Brits were killing each other, because one section was Catholic, the other was Protestant. Or one section was Royalist, the other Parliamentarian Republicans. We have always found pathetic excuses to hurt each other. Race, religion, and ethnicity is relatively new in that regard.
The cry of “They’re taking all our jobs!”. For every one Pakistani gentleman that gets a job over you, another ten White Brits will be given a job ahead of you. Are you starting from the rather moronic premise that White Brits deserve first consideration for a job, before any other colour or religious belief purely because they were lucky enough to be born here? If you owned a business, and a Muslim candidate for a job was far more suited than his White counterpart, why on Earth would you chose the White Brit? Why is colour, ethnicity and race even an issue? What the fuck is your problem? There is absolutely nothing British or English about the EDL and the BNP. They are utter scum.

Religiously:
I disregard all organised religion as highly divisive illogical myths filled with flaws, that just would not exist, had an all powerful, all knowning God actually created them.
That said, I do not disregard the idea of spirituality. In fact, I find the essence of humanity to be at odds with the essence of the materialist World that we inhabit, and so spirituality; as a mechanism to take ourselves away from that materialist nightmare, is a wondrous thing.
To find out just who we are, our strengths and weaknesses as human beings rather than good little workers, has been of monumentous importance to me over the past year. I’ve submitted myself to books on Taoism and Buddhism, I fill my bedroom with candles and incense sticks, which have a profound relaxing affect on me, much like the feeling I get, with the mellifluous nature of a serene mind, when sat overlooking an ocean void of all human touch, on a warm summer evening. The feeling of carelessness, unattached from reality for a tiny moment is so incredibly important to me. And so spirituality, and getting to understand myself has worked to both relax me, and paradoxically, make me more conscious of my shortcomings, unable to figure out (as of yet) how to correct them.

2010:
I want a weekend in Paris.
I want a weekend in Venice.
I want to fill my brain with relatively useless information, about Roman history, and Art, and Tudor history, and Political Philosophy.
I want to love someone.
I want to continue to question everything around me.
I want to read more Sartre.
I want to embrace romance much more.
I want to eat healthier and become a bit fitter physically.
I want a better job, that I actually enjoy and involves helping those who need it, rather than those who don’t.
I want to take up Photography again.
I don’t want to turn 24.

Too much to ask? One can dream.

Far Right (il)logic

As you walk through Leicester, toward the train station, there is a wall that has been the victim of a plethora of useless graffiti, the type that 15 year olds “tag” for some fatuously odd reason. This one in particular, that I walked past, simply read “Cunt off”. You may be forgiven for thinking this is the most ridiculously written piece of nonsensical literature I would come across today. Apparently, the BNP went one better, by trying to tell me that there is some sort of evil anti-White Holocaust taking place in the Nation’s Capital.

This time, the BNP have taken up utterly useless journalism mixed with propaganda that Adolf Hitler himself would have said “yeah this is even too farfetched for me”. The headline of the news story on the BNP website (just underneath the photo of the bogged eyed fat Nazi twat in charge of the far Right party of thugs) for the 13th August, states quite comically “It’s Official: White British People Have Been Ethnically Cleansed from Inner London“.
You may be forgiven for thinking that the sweet old Arab lady on the picture, has just came out of John Lewis, minding her own business, waiting for a bus. You’d be wrong. She’s (this can’t be proven, but we’re talking about the BNP, so facts and logic aren’t all that important) an evil muslim probably a terrorist, who advocates the whipping of your wife, and the TOTAL abolition of Christmas leading to laws in which YOUR children will have their faces cut off if they say the word “Santa” ever again. True(ish) story.

Ethnically cleansed from inner London? Has Boris Johnson been gassing millions of White Londoners? Surely not? Have over 1 million people been killed, echoing the Ethnic Cleansing of Armenia after World War I, where hundreds of thousands were marched for hundreds of Miles into the deserts of modern day Syria in which many of the Armenians (regardless of age) were raped and murdered by the Ottomans? Or perhaps the BNP are comparing modern London (which, I’ve lived in, and loved) with Apartheid in South Africa? Or, are the BNP, as I suspect, simply using absolutely ludicrous language as a manipulation tool to spread it’s message of fear?

What the BNP have decided qualifies as “ethnic cleansing” is this…
“Of the approximately 310,907 children in London schools, 159,340 do not have English as their mother tongue, as opposed to 151,567 who do.“
Not content to just attack anyone with a slightly darker skin complexion, they’ve taken it upon themselves to write an entire article, that creates suspicion and anger around………children. Now, I’m normal, and I’d suggest I have a slight grasp of human decency, enough to say that I REALLY don’t care what someone’s native language is, as long as they’re polite and respectful. Isn’t that just common sense? Can I expect the BNP to tell me that there’s more green eyed people in Leicester than blue eyed, and so therefore Leicester has been ethnically cleansed of blue eyed folk? Politics of fear and hatred backed up by ill-conceived, puerile, desperately narrow minded, destructive language is just not necessary nor justifiable. Simply put, regardless of how much they deny it, they are Nazis. Their supporters, are Nazis.

The comments on the article, are almost as ridiculous as the article itself, it shows just what type of fools the BNP supporters actually are.

“Mercia” writes….
“Didn’t we fight the last war to keep Britain British? What a betrayal!“
- No. My grandad will quite happily tell you, that he fought to keep you Nazi idiots from getting anywhere near power ever again. And surely “keeping Britain British” depends on your subjective view on the term “British”? My view of what makes Britain great, is it’s ability to change and update with the times. Britain is an Island, therefore has always been a mix of people from different backgrounds. Roman, Celts, Saxon, it doesn’t matter.

“Enochrules” writes…
“I can almost understand Labour’s insistence on propaganda about multiculturalism, but why do companies like HSBC jump on board? HSBC has adverts at Heathrow showing pictures of a Chinese fellow in traditional dress with the capital ‘Bejing’, a white Russian in a fur cap with the Word ‘Moscow’, an Indian in traditional robes with the word ‘Delhi’ , and London? Why a black man in a suit of course…….I suppose the pearly King and Queen with their Union Jack sequin suits was considered too racist!“
- Firstly, propaganda about multiculturalism? Damn those New Labour folks for forcing me to be friends with people from different cultures and respecting each other equally. I must take to the street with a Union Jack posting home made “GO HOME FOREIGNER!!” leaflets through the doors of my friends. Secondly, is he seriously suggesting that all adverts should only show White Brits? Probably with tattooed arms, bald heads, England football shirts, shouting “Bloody pakis” in a pub, just before a fight. I just love that he’s suggesting that anyone who isn’t a Nazi is “jumping on board” a ship of multicultural propaganda. What’s the alternative? The BNP showing a constant stream of the Islamic protests at the Soldiers return in Luton…….. all 16 of those protesters, that huge number of protesters. Will the BNP also show footage of BNP London Assembly candidate Nicholas Eriksen saying that Women should in fact enjoy being raped? Or ex BNP Group Development Officer Tony Lecomber who was imprisoned for attacking a Jewish School teacher for no other reason than the teacher peeling a BNP sticker off of the wall of a Tube Station? I doubt it. They’ll most probably use extrodinarily ironic language, by suggesting that we shouldn’t paint all BNP members, with the same brush. Anyway……

“Mat” writes…
“in my daughters nursery class of about 25 children their is only 3 white and in my neighbours daughters secondary school just started her first year theirs 5 white kids out of a class of 38……..its getting much worse”
It’s ironic, that a man who feels the need to “defend” our Country, can’t actually speak the fucking language. Grammar would be nice Mat. Perhaps you should join your daughters class, be the fourth White person, learn the difference between “there” and “their” and then come back with your desperately racist bullshit. Also, don’t have any more children, we don’t need another generation of Nazi. How anyone can justify suggesting that having a School room with more black children than White children signifies a situation that is “getting worse“, is beyond me. Why is that “getting worse“? Are those black kids stealing from the white kids? Forcing them to listen to 50 Cent? Snorting cocaine on the school tables? Talking “street”? To equate a skin colour (rather than ability, talent, or intelligence) with a failing situation, is just so pathetically ridiculous and ignorant, I’d rather “Mat” fuck off out the country than those he wishes to see the back of.

“Tornado” writes…
“York now has a large HALAL supermarket.“
- NOOOO Surely not!!! However will I cope from day to day knowing that York now has a large Halal Supermarket. A foreign shop? Unbelievable, next we’ll be selling foreign cars, that run on oil from foreign lands whilst we’re FORCED to watch TV on Japanese TV sets, and beaten into listening to music by American bands. I have a bit of a confession to make…… I shopped in Asda the other day, which is owned by Walmart. I’m such a traitor to England. Oh the shame…

“Rebellious Sheep” writes…
“A complete tradgedy brought about by marxist policies imposed on our country without consent since 1945, they must all leave to the country of thier origin or thier parents origin or thier grandparents origin.Other wise this nation will be swamped and these invited invaders and uninvited invaders will kill us all one by one, it’s already happening and the courts are on thier side not the native british.Get them out.“
- Great idea! Then we’ll be left with a few illiterate twats such as yourself, teaching our kids the benefits of spelling simple words like “tragedy” incorrectly. Because illiteracy, is the BRITISH WAY!! Secondly, Marxist policies imposed on our Country without consent since 1945? Erm….okay. The most illogical paragraph in an entire article of illogical paragraphs, is quite an achievement. Congratulations. The rectum does not include a brain, it is simply a body part, that spews shit. That’s all it does. Beyond spewing shit, it’s pointless. It is incapable of intelligent thought, of rationale, of anything other than spewing shit. “Rebellious Sheep” is quite simply, an oversized rectum.

I’m pretty sure a few foreign school kids, who are there to learn, who will be paying the taxes that help keep the older generation of bigots alive in the following decades, who share classrooms with British born kids, and so both have a positive influence on each other, culturally and in regards to tolerance; cannot be used in the same article as “ethnic cleansing“, anyone who actually falls for it, gets angry by it, and feels the need to vote BNP because of it, should seriously consider the possibility that they are, in fact, a little bit brainless.

The News of the World went undercover at some sort of Nazi rally put on by the BNP, which apparently (they will blame the liberal media conspiracy against them, but i’m pretty sure pictures don’t lie) shows men burning golly wog dolls and giving the Nazi salute. I cannot think of a better time to use the graffiti phrase “cunt off” than right now.

I’ll leave you with this piece, by Charlie Brooker. Writing in the Guardian in May 2009, Brooker produced this rather beautifully written article, which echoes my sentiments exactly:

“Our headmaster had fought for his country, and for tolerance, all at once. That’s what I understood it meant to be truly “British”: to be polite, and civil and fair of mind. (And to occasionally wallop schoolkids with slippers, admittedly, but we’ll overlook that, OK? We’ve moved on.)

But according to the BNP, I’m wrong. Being British is actually about feeling aggressed, mistrustful, overlooked, isolated, powerless, and petrified of “losing my identity”. Britishness incorporates a propensity to look around me with jealous eyes, fuming over imaginary sums of money being doled out to child-molesting asylum-seekers by corrupt PC politicians who’ve lost touch with the common man – a common man who, coincidentally, happens to be white.

They’re wrong, obviously. None of these qualities has anything whatsoever to do with being British, but everything to do with ugly nationalist politics. And ugly nationalist politics are popular all over the world. Just like Pringles. Every country has its own tiny enclave of frightened, disenfranchised, misguided souls clinging to their national flag, claiming they’re the REAL patriots, saying everyone’s out to get them. It’s an international weakness. For the BNP to claim to be more British than the other British parties is as nonsensical as your dad suddenly claiming to have invented the beard.“

A symbol

It is horribly easy to hate. It’s much more difficult to think.
Apparently, residents of the City I live, Leicester, are objecting to a statue of Gandhi being erected next to a main road. These incredible facebook groups; I will deface the Gandhi Statue and English nationalists attending Unveiling of Gandhi Statue Leicester, have decided they cannot possibly lead a normal life, when their City has an International symbol of peace and hope as a Statue. It is they, who have turned it into a battle of cultures and Nationalities, rather than an acceptance of a concept.

Fat Nazi chav, Lee Ingram, has been on TV recently suggesting that a Gandhi Statue is simply politically correct Britain gone mad. Of course, to those of us who aren’t ignorant, the phrase “political correctness gone mad” is usually used to describe a situation, where the ignorant have a bit of a tantrum that their obvious racism or xenophobia simply isn’t acceptable. I’ve actually heard people say “Well, calling someone a paki, is like calling me a Brit”….. I’m not entirely sure it’s possible to exist on a more ignorant plateau than that.

This genius has created a facebook topic entitled “whoes up for it”. Which in itself, is beautiful. An English Nationalist with such a slender grasp on the English language, could not have created a more ironic topic, if he’d have tried. He goes on to embarrass humanity in general, by showing his weak minded, pro-violent attitude toward life, with “im going to paint it fucking wjite. then a week later blow the bastard up.” I’m sure all us White British folk are delighted we have this idiot to “stick up” for us.

Now, I’m not sure what the problem is. Gandhi is a World wide figure of peace, of spiritiuality, of non-violence, he is a symbol, he is not simply a Nationality or a Religion. The politics of hate is slowly creeping back to the minds of those who consider themselves “indigenous British”. I’m not about to succumb to the notion that I’m supposed to respect deeply racist groups dedicated to the White power movement. I don’t. I don’t care if they suddenly have BNP representation. They disgust me. They’re scum. They do not deserve the respect of anyone. I do not need thugs claiming to “stand up for me“.

The Nationalists want a statue…………… of Gary Lineker. Simply because he was born in Leicester. A footballer. A commentator for the BBC. Apart from kicking a ball, i’m not sure what contribution Linekar has made to the Planet, and to society as a whole, but then, I’m just a “loony leftie“. I’d go as far as to suggest that by Nationalist logic, St George, their hero, is an odd choice, given that he’s Palestinian. Hypocrisy is a wondrous thing.

The Gandhi statue is funded by Indian Charity, Samanwaya Parivar. The charity has said “We have never said that there should not be any other statues in Leicester. This particular statue of Gandhi will be entirely funded by our charity as a gift to the city. It will add to the vibrant and multicultural elements of this city since Gandhi’s philosophies of truth, peace and non-violence had no boundaries.” They’re right. Very much so. If someone like Ingram who quite ridiculously claims that Gandhi… “has no connection to English culture or the English” wants a Gary Lineker statue in the City then i’m sure both Samanwaya Parivar and the loony lefties such as myself, would not have a problem with it. In fact, it’d look great outside the Walkers Stadium. I’d fully support it. However, if it’s a choice between the two….. I’m going for Gandhi every time.

If these absolutely crazed Nationalists insist on reflecting back to a period when Britain was “great” it will be hard for them to ignore the fact that Gandhi (who studied and lived in England for a while) is Indian, and India contributed over 1,000,000 troops to the British cause, during World War I. Hundreds of thousands died, whilst at the same time, Britain controlled trade by sea to India, which certainly helped Britain’s Sub-continental dominance and thus our wealth and overall standard of living. India, has been interlinked with Britain for the past four centuries. From 1600 onwards, the East India Company, a British owned monopolistic company for trade, had such strong dominance in India, exploitation for our benefit, was their main weapon. If Nationalists want to “protect our culture”, then they must realise just how widespread our culture actually is. It certainly isn’t restricted to our four walls. And given the struggle that Gandhi went through to gain Indian independence from English rule, to protect millions of people, and given he pioneered the philosophy of Satyagraha (the concept of non-violent demonstration), which went on to influence Martin Luther King and help toward to founding of American Civil Rights, I’m not sure why Gary Lineker (although, he does make a pretty good Golf commentator, I give him that) deserves a statue over Gandhi, simply because he was born in Leicester? However, Gandhi was technically British, having been born in British India. He was as British as St Margaret, whom our Leicester Bus Station is named after, and whom happens to be Scottish. Of course, he was Asian by heritage, and so, he stands no chance. If he were American, these English Nationalists would not give a shit.

I support a Gandhi Statue in the City I was born in, because I vehemently support the philosophy of Gandhi and the impact he had on the World. He will be remembered forever, as a 20th Century cultural icon dedicated to non-violence. I’m not all that bothered about what Gary Lineker achieved as a footballer. It’s not all that important.

To sum up, Gandhi helped influence the Civil Rights movement in America, one of the most important movements in Western History, he influenced a philosophy of peace and respect, A UN general assembly resolution recognises his birthday as International Day of Non-violence. India helped finance luxury back in England, and contributed over 1,000,000 troops to our War effort, thousands died so that the “indigenous Brits” back home could continue to live happy peaceful lives. But then, Gary Lineker was the leading scorer of the 1986 World Cup. Perhaps I need to get my priorities in order.

The World has gone mad

The World is seriously losing the plot. Firstly, The E.U Parliament gains it’s first two Nazi BNP members. Said day for British Democracy indeed. Secondly, the news reported by the Sunday Telegraph, that Alliance Boots have taken on Andy Hornby as their new Chief Executive.

When I went 4p overdrawn late last year, Lloyds charged me £15 for the privilege. Plus, £6 a day, until I paid it back. I got the letter informing me I’d gone overdrawn, two days later, and so with the daily charge, another £12 on top of the £15. I went into Lloyds to speak to the manager. I had 4p with me, plus I was nice enough to bring an extra 2p, a whole half of what i’d gone over, as a penalty that I thought was adequate. The manager told me that I should look after my account better, and that £27, for going 4p over, was perfectly acceptable, and given that I didn’t have £27 that day, i’d have to come back the next day, with the charge then at £33. Why he thought i’d have £33 tomorrow, when I didn’t have £27 today, is beyond me. Greed, i’d imagine. This, was two days after Lloyds had just received a bail out from tax payers. It was a couple of months before the Government side-stepped monopoly rules, to allow Lloyds to pretty much take over half the banking sector, including HBOS which was acquired in a rush, with an expected loss of £8bn, when in fact, it was £10.8bn, which of course had massive implications for it’s workforce. Not so much for it’s rich executives. And they have the nerve to lecture me, for going 4p over drawn, despite themselves going £2.8bn overdrawn? Can I charge them for that? I don’t have the taxpayer to bail me out.

Former CEO of HBOS Andy Hornby played his part in the dodgy dealings worth a pre-tax loss of £10.8bn to HBOS in 2008. Hornby was thus forced to step down when Lloyds Group took over the toxic debts of HBOS in January 2009, but was rehired by Lloyds Group as a consultant, for £60,000 a month. Which is bad enough. Especially considering HM Treasury were forced to prop up Lloyds Group in 2009, by taking a 43% stake in the Company. I’m pretty sure I could take on a role as a banking CEO, and make such extreme loses, leading to a financial disaster, huge job losses, huge loan scale backs leading to the deaths of many businesses, and huge home repossessions, if it means I take home a lovely big bonus and a new £60,000 a month job.

Lloyds haven’t faired much better since taking over the mess left by Hornby. In December 2008, they systematically cut off funding to Interpal, one of the few remaining humanitarian charities in Gaza, dedicated to helping Orphaned children and those who cannot help themselves. Then of course, there was the news in February, from the Treasury and reported in The Guardian, that Lloyds had been disguising tax avoidance schemes as American Financial institution investments. Followed most recently, two days ago in fact, by the news that Lloyds paid back £4bn worth of preference shares to HM Treasury in order to avoid £480m of annual interest, whilst simultaneously cutting 1660 jobs across 164 Cheltenham and Gloucester branches. The UK Government propped up the failing Lloyds Group, after it took on such toxic assets, not simply so the Lloyds executives could pay Andy Hornby £60,000 a month, whilst laying off 1,660 people. Is this “trickle down economics“? The closing of 164 C&G branches, will have an adverse affect on local businesses and projects. Lloyds should be ashamed. The UK Government should be ashamed. As a Lloyds customer myself, I’m wondering what the incentive is to remain loyal to these people. It simply exists to benefit those like Hornby. To make sure those people, those rich few, remain so. Not only that, but the moment the job cuts were announced, the share price shot up. Seriously, the World has lost the plot. It woudlseem that their thinking revolves around the idea that the sooner they can get to the stage where they’re able to pay out ridiculously huge bonuses to those who do not deserve it, the better.? No, fuck right off! If I were part of the Treasury, with a 43% stake in Lloyds Group, the first thing I do when they announce they want to cut 1660 jobs, and cut 164 branches of a much loved high street bank, whilst paying consultants £60,000 a year and paying the treasure back, is to tell them to keep the £4bn, until they are able to pay it back, without such huge cutbacks. If that’s ten years down the line, so be it.

Alliance Boots, of all the people they could have chosen as their next Chief Executive, they go for a man who lost his last company, £10.8bn. A monkey would have been a more reliable option.

The best of worst of Britain

Thankfully, and with great admiration for my parents, I was brought up to view people as just that, people. I was not brought up to distinguish people, like breeds of animal, based on race or cultural background. I was brought up to respect the differences between us, whether white or black or Asian; gay or straight; Christian or Muslim. We’re all human, we’re all reliant on each other. It is humanity that has made great breakthroughs socially, scientifically, and medically, not a particular race. As a result of my liberal upbringing, the idea that we must “preserve” the “white race” is as ridiculous as claiming to be desperate to preserve the blue eyed race.

The local elections, pushed the agenda of the British National Party to a much bigger audience, angered at the recent expenses scandal and the growingly powerless Prime Minister. They certainly look set to make gains in the E.U Parliament, come tonight’s results, which will indeed put added pressure on the Prime Minister, and Alan Johnson over at the Home Office.

The most abhorrent political Party to exist in the U.K at the moment, preying on the Working Classes, gained a seat in Leicestershire’s, Coalville Council. It saddens me, because this is the City I grew up in. I love the diversity. The Diwali celebrations that attract thousands to the City every year, is great for cultural awareness, education, and the local economy. It’s a mixed culture, I’m privileged to belong to.

Amusingly, the BNP have been using pictures on their websites, of ordinary families, and quotes about why they will be voting BNP. Except of course, that the photos are from different websites, not affiliated with the BNP, and the quotes are made up, by the BNP. You couldn’t make this shit up.

The BNP, last month, held a day to celebrate the work of the armed forces of Britain, and tried to portray themselves as the “only party that supports our troops”.
And so this brings me on to the truly shocking response by the BNP, to the to the heroic British soldier, Lance-Corporal Johnson Beharry.
Born in Grenada, Johnson Beharry is already among the people that the British Nazi National Party consider to be detrimental to British society, given that he’s foreign, and he’s black.
On March 18th 2005, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for valor. A year earlier, whilst driving a Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle in Iraq, his vehicle was ambushed; hit by several rocket propelled grenades, the platoon commander along with a number of soldiers were badly injured and radio communication was destroyed along with the periscope – used by the driver to see where he’s going. Beharry therefore, had to open the hatch and drive whilst exposing his face to enemy fire. He drove the broken machine to the edge of the ambush zone, and extracted all of his wounded comrades, to safety, whilst all the time, he himself was exposed to enemy fire.
A month later, in the area of Al Amarah, the convoy was ambushed again. And again, his comrades were badly injured. Beharry himself received serious shrapnel injuries to the face and brain. Despite those serious injuries, he drove to safety, through rocket fire, which in turn, saved the lives of all of his men. He then lost consciousness and had to go through brain surgery.
He was rightfully reward the distinguished Victoria Cross for bravery in the face of such extreme adversity.

A BNP article, stated of Beharry “All he did was drive away very fast from a combat zone.” The article then stated “The politically correct Ministry of Defence decided to elevate this particular occasion to something worthy of the VC.” Suggesting that Beharry was awarded the Victoria Cross, simply because he’s black. Nick Griffin claimed that all Beharry had achieved, was “routine” and then went on to call him an “immigrant“, refusing to acknowledge Beharry’s bravery and courage, saving the lives of many men, for Britain.

They speak of “politically correct Britain“. Yes, I suppose we have become overly politically correct, given that sixty years after the Holocaust, we’re allowing Nazis to represent the British public.
Given that Griffin has spent his life getting grotesquely overweight, and pathetically Hitler-esque in his disgusting views, having fought for nothing, saved no one, promoted racial tension and violence, I’m not sure where he gets the nerve from, to criticise the absolute bravery and honour of a British Soldier. The BNP are not patriotic, nor are they standing up for Britain, they are an ideology. Britain is not based on an ideology. Especially one of such hate and suspicion. The BNP are simply an ideology catering to thugs and those members of society that do not engage brain activity. They absolutely disgust me. For anyone that voted BNP at these Council and E.U elections. You too, disgust me.

The Tory Pledge

With the local and European elections slowly creeping up on us, it would be naive to think that extreme parties like the BNP wont make steps toward powerful positions they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near. We’ve had their bullshit leaflet through the post, we’ve had the Liberal Democrat leaflet, we’ve had the UKip leaflet, we’ve even had a Green leaflet. We haven’t though had a Labour leaflet.

Today, we received the Tory leaflet. Worryingly, it is addressed to me. Not to my parents, or my sister, or the household; it’s addressed to me. When one opens the leaflet, on the right hand side, we have a map of the U.K, and the East Midlands labelled and colour coded, just incase we in the East Midlands are at all wondering, where we live.

We then see on the left hand side, newspaper cut outs reminding us of Labour’s failings under Gordon Brown. Fair enough. There have been many.
It would help the Tories case though, if of the eight newspaper clippings, six of them were not from typical Right Winged Tory supporting Newspapers (three from The Express, two from the Daily Mail, and one from the Telegraph…the other two were from tabloids), but then I fully expect a Labour leaflet to produce clippings from…….actually, nowhere, not even the Guardian is throwing it’s lot in with Gordon Brown. I expect the Labour leaflet will merely read “We don’t have a fucking clue, seriously, no idea any more“.

Given the dodgy dealings of the owners of the Telegraph (Sir David and Sir Fred Barclay pulled their investment from the Island of Sark after voters decided not to support the candidates the brothers were backing, and so the economic stability of the island was rocked, and 100 people lost their jobs); and the positions that The Daily Mail has taken in the past (their unquestioning support for the British Union of Fascists comes to mind), they’re not the greatest of sources to be quoting. But we’ll let the Tories off, because the only other choice for them would be The Guardian, which is my paper of choice, and if it were a Tory paper, i’d have put it down long ago.

One of the cuttings, is from the Daily Mail, on the 2nd February 2009, which reads “Absurdity of Gordon Brown’s British Jobs for British workers pledge“. Indeed, it is an absurd statement for Mr Brown to have made. It was a vote winning pledge. Nothing more. It was, in short, a catastrophic mistake. The Tories are right to point out how ridiculous a statement it was. British Jobs for British Workers sounds like a BNP quote, and has no place in the global marketplace. The Tories used this in their leaflet to reminds us just how ridiculous it was. They certainly couldn’t be accused of hypocrisy, nope, not the Tories!

“Fighting for British jobs” – appears on the Conservative’s list of pledges on the right hand side of the leaflet. Along side “Working for British business” and “Defending British traditions“. I don’t think I need to say much more on this one. Certainly no hypocrisy though!!!!!

The leaflet gives no policy initiatives, no ideas on how to deal with the global recession, no green initiatives, no public service initiatives, nothing other than “We’ll stand up for Britain!!” and “Change“. The back of the leaflet reads “Conservatives have a clear plan for bringing down Labour’s debt and re-building a balanced economy“… it’d be nice if we knew what that plan was.
It’s nice to see that spin isn’t far from the Tories list of priorities, despite their “clear mission to mend our broken society” and their Obama-esque slogan “vote for change” (if you type “Vote for change” into Google, the top result is Barack Obama’s website – which is interesting, given how ideologically different the Tories are compared to Obama).

The leaflet then speaks about “tackling climate change”. It says “Conservatives played a key role in making new laws to cut carbon emissions and promote renewable energy“. The Tory MEP, is Roger Helmer. Roger Helmer MEP is a member of The “Freedom Association“. One look at their website, takes you to a blog entry, entitled “Why the European Union’s climate alarmism is both mistaken and dangerous”. In the article, it is reported that “Evidence is quite clearly emerging that man is not having the impact on the climate that the EU climate alarmists claim.“
Hypocrisy, nah not the Tories!

On the final page of the leaflet, they tell me just how they’ve been defending British Traditions (I had no idea British traditions were under such violent attacks… but apparently so, by those evil progressives)…. “You can still buy your fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces thanks to Conservative MEPs“……. Oh thank god!!!! No more sleepless nights for me.

All that I’ve managed to salvage from this Conservative Party leaflet, is that The Daily Mail; The Telegraph and The Express don’t really like the Labour Party; they are committed to Climate Change, but are not committed to Climate Change; I can buy bananas in pounds still; and that the Tories are one step behind catchy slogans from their left wing counterparts over the Atlantic.
They certainly haven’t convinced me to switch to the dark side.