People are saying they 'didn't know there
were people like Joe Cox in parliament', yet why would they when in instances
like that of the current referendum, reactionary gits like the over-privileged Rees-Mogg
are allowed (and encouraged by the media, by the BBC) to crawl out from under
whatever rock they've been hiding under since their last fascist diner-party
scandal and rehabilitate themselves by talking about the issue as if they are
to be trusted and respected, when they probably should've been sacked and
jailed for fraud 7 years ago! How many times has he been interviewed on the BBC
in the last six weeks, how many times was Joe Cox?
I wrote this on Sunday but choose not to
publish it yesterday, as making political points out of such a tragedy is
pretty low, but from lunchtime Sunday onward, all sides have been doing just
that! Yesterday (Monday) everybody had a point to make with a political angle,
so here's mine.
Both sides in the Brexit debate (not a word
it deserves; there has been NO debate) have been inexorably escalating the
rhetoric and with it the lies, neither side questions the other with rational
logic, they just throw more metaphorical rocks at the opposition, people in the
street haven't the faintest idea what to vote for or why; people have been
interviewed who've changed their minds three times in the last two months and
with four days to go are now undecided, the first firm stance they've taken!
Intelligent people know that to stay with
the devil you know is infinitely preferable to the alternative, but most people
aren't that intelligent . . . 100 years of compulsory 'education', 50 years of
tabloid journalism and nearly 40 years of your kind of politics have ensured
that! Your 'shouty' rhetoric panders to the ignorant, and the right-wing press
reinforce false values and perceptions.
The rot that lead to Joe Cox' death, goes
back a long way, but since you came to power in 2010 it has escalated drastically,
you yourself - Prime Minister; have made the most hideous comments on migrant
'swarms' and the 'scrounging' unemployed 'something-for-nothings', you have
been a cheerleader for intolerance, isolation and the selfish agenda.
Intolerance stalks the land, bottom-line
profit-margins have replaced responsible State funding-for-need, the 'other'
has become a legitimate target for vitriol, whether our own poor, jobless,
elderly or disabled, other countries war-refugees or the victims of despots we
call 'friends of Britain' and to whom we supply arms and suppressive
'law-enforcement' equipment.
Selfishness among the 'haves' has increased
the anger of the 'have-nots'. You - Prime Minister - have turned a blind-eye to
UKIP's nasty form of little-Englander language, aimed squarely at those very angry
have-nots, allowed Boris the buffoon to build a power-base, you've given jobs
to the back-stabber's IDS and Gove and you've joined the race to the bottom on
Brexit rhetoric.
It must be acknowledged that you've been
helped by a toothless BBC and a right-wing media happy to go further than you
on anti-migration rhetoric, xenophobic comments on our European neighbours,
out-and-out lies about our own lower-class citizens and the likely economic
results of a Brexit.
It is fair to point out that you (collectively
as an establishment) didn't 'do a Trump' and try to immediately make political
capital out of the death, but you did spent the next few days hand wringing,
pretending that the causal problem lay elsewhere and all standing about
together like you are all mates...by Sunday afternoon though: you were all back
to slinging Euromud at each other!
The Scottish did have a proper 'debate'
some 80% of the population educated themselves as to the issues and likely
outcomes for over a year, in the event it was close, but a high turn-out
ensured the result was taken as a result.
In this debate, in England particularly and
therefore in the national press there are no facts, no measured or nuanced
explanations of the true position on Euro-funding, contributions, regulation,
democratic procedures, migration vs.
pension provision, fisheries, EU Social Fund input, nothing, just shouty-men,
day-in, day-out, shouting about a mythical £350-million!
Whatever the outcome on Thursday, we will
be facing a General Election before August has set over the yard-arm (something
I predicted in May last year), and you - Prime minister - will be toast, a
thought which sustains me through the dark days you have driven-us to, but
soured by the fact that whether here or gone, you've got some of Joe Cox's blood
on your hands.
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