Why the meek will not inherit the earth… (508)

Worn out as everyone else is by this grim, tawdry, sleazy election, I’ve little to say that has not been said and so resort to printing here two recent letters – one, the first, was published in a newspaper in New York and the second was published in The Herald here in Scotland.

1. Dear Editor,

I see, read, hear a lot from the US liberal left / centre left and mainstream Democrats about how deluded Republicans are in their homage to Trump.

May I respectfully suggest, from here in Scotland, it’s ‘the sensible people’ who seem deluded.

If Republicans cared about Trump being a low-life, mad, racist, misogynistic con man yada yada yada – he would not have got elected in 2016.

Here in the UK one of Trump’s many admirers Nigel Farage – tagged as a racist at his expensive private school by his teachers – continues to wield influence far outside anything he has earned. His main claim to fame – apart from his 7x failure to get elected to Parliament, is as one of the main midwives of Brexit.

Farage is perma-present in all press. As with Trump, the media have played the dangerous Rantings 4 Ratings game and we’ve all suffered.

Polls are suggesting a handful of wins for the party Farage just assumed leadership of – Reform UK. And there is a chance he’ll finally win a seat in Parliament and possibly take over the Conservative Party.

Do his potential voters know he is a racist? Yes. Do they know he is a Trump/Putin stooge? Yes. Do they know his ‘I’m one of you’ shtick is total fabrication? Yes. Will that make any difference? NO.

The meek will not inherit the earth because they are too in the habit of championing their oppressors…

 

2. Dear Editor,

BIZARRELY, in this 2024 general election, both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are frantically ignoring Brexit (apart from as a stick to beat each other with), Gaza and the current climate cataclysm.
It’s equivalent to a traditional cooked breakfast without bacon/sausage or eggs or beans.
It’s basically - toast...

 

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Global Weather Report 18th June 2024. The storm is still coming… (507)

In the light of the way Western leaders appear to have turned their faces to the wall (or their backsides to their people) and particularly here in the UK where the three main crises (national – Brexit. International – failure over Gaza. Global – Climate catastrophe)  are being ignored in the coming General Election by the two main parties, I'm drawn to a very early post on this blog,

no. 12 - ‘Armageddon will not be televised.’

Posted in October 2012 when this blog was relatively new, style and content have morphed with my mood but that post more than any, underlines to me the whole sense of having fiddled while Rome burns...

So click HERE for a quick archive read.

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Zero One Zero Two (UK)

Zero One Zero Two (US)

Clacton don’t be catastrophically clueless - please! (506)

 Put to one side that the man whose only significant contribution to UK politics has been the utter disaster of Brexit is still happy to show his frog features to the multiple media outlets more than happy to elevate and fete him – Farage’s 8^th attempt to slime his way into Parliament is no joke.

Oh – and I hope that if he gets in this time – as the media are doing their autopsies – they give thought to the endless hours of unearned media attention they’ve gifted him over the last decade in a quid pro quo of rantings for ratings…

Put aside that he is a blatant racist whose sole aim is self-promotion.

Put aside that he was tagged as a racist while still at his expensive private school.

He is the ultimate turd that won’t flush.

And – yes – while I have been sceptical for a while now about the ‘ordinary folk’ the media find for their on-street interviews, you have to say the mood music aint great.

One suspects that ‘researchers’ are often sent scouting for the stupidest, most reactionary, incoherent lunatics to pose as ordinary folk.

But one woman – in an interview shortly after Farage announced that he was going to be the candidate for Clacton after pushing aside the nominal leader – Mr 1975 himself – Richard Tice – while praising Farage, looped Tommy Robinson (violent white supremacist) into the same sentence. Could there be a bigger tell as to the mind-set of the people who find Farage acceptable.

I’m way past asking the obvious question about how the rich get the poor and down trodden to constantly vote against their best interests with the very tired, grubby old trick of playing the race card but they do. They’ve been doing it not for decades but centuries. They’ve also been getting away with the whole ‘I’m one of you’schtick. I wonder how many of the folk in Clacton are millionaires or have set up companies to make money from elections and are funded by billionaires?

So yes – these elections seem to be as hideous as we expect these things to be these days.

Nery a day goes by without another bribe to electors from the two main parties that both we and the people spouting know aint gonna happen.

Nery a day passes without more evidence of pandering to the mob.

Selective amnesia is also handy and many, like Farage, are actively relying on a public that seem entirely willing to comply.

Surely two of the biggest absences from this current carry-on are any mention of Brexit or any mention of the biggest threat to our very existence – climate change.

Though we do carry on regardless – the one thing that would make this half bearable would be knowing that the good folk of Clacton were not going to show themselves to be catastrophically clueless by falling for Farage.

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And no – another reminder – I am not on ANY social media (for those who’ve enquired) I mean - come on - I don't even have a smartphone...  This is just political therapy.

For lighter reading do check out my books HERE. Other than that it’s just good old fashioned letters to the press which you’ll find randomly in quite a few papers here and abroad. If I could use a quill pen and parchment I’d be up for that though I’m very much enjoying my Remington typewriter. May have to get splints for my fingers but it’s very like the one I learnt to type on in 1979.

And – yes – I know – there’s me referring to Tice as Mr 1975! What a hypocrite.

From "The United States of Amnesia" to The United Spindom... (505)

 

Note to Kier Starmer...

Regarding Labour’s Kier Starmer upping the anti on Sunak’s ‘dangerous world’ pitch with his own statement on the “new age of insecurity”.

The current ‘age of insecurity’ with global terror, mass un-managed panic migration around the world and Middle East destabilisation began when Labour’s Blair and US Republican Bush illegally invaded Iraq.

The rest is climate devastation, a subject making very little sound in either his own or Sunak’s who has the biggest willy UK general election posturing…

It was Gore Vidal who coined the phrase ‘United States of Amnesia’. Here in Britain where all is spout today and re-set tomorrow, do we now live in The United Spindom?

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