Maduro is a continuing horror story.
What baffles me is the claim that the leader of UK opposition can have any but a very minor effect on the outcome there. No more than he can on the outcomes of the situations in Kenya, South Africa or Rwanda.
Twice in the past 12 hours I have been invited to pontificate on the Iain Dale and the Julia Hartley Brewer shows in order to blame Corbyn for the sins of Maduro. This is the Tories throwing a dead cat on the table again in order to distract from the immediate crises that all UK MPs have on the top of our agendas. Crises for which we have full responsibilities:- the problems in our NHS (midwives, IVF), Prison chaos, Brexit new proof of £350million lie, Tory weak divided Government and most crucial of all-on today's 72nd Nagasaki anniversary -the grave imminent danger of nuclear war as North Korea and Trump threaten each other, plus the shrunken Korean nuke.
That's a real news agenda today. We might add the crumbling credibility of an Italian plot. From those items to the influence of JC on South American politics is minor. It's the Tories again trying to undermine JC's reputation with their posturing propaganda. That blew back on them in the General Election. Putting this non-story on the top f the news makes senses only in proving Tories are terrified of a new General Election and a JC PM. Anyone returning from a long holiday and catching LBC news values might conclude, 'After all JC is PM and his views on a South American crisis will count?' JC has not condemned the European invasion by force that imposed a common currency and language on us They then pushed off and left us with the Dark Ages. Put the boot into the Romans, Jeremy.
There are other ways in which the views of the UK on Maduro can be usefully expressed-especially by Government.
Why is Tory silence not top of the LBC news agenda?
Furthermore: plots, assassinations go way back. Good leaders, good PEOPLE are more likely to be offed, driven out or altogether condemned by authority.
Do I mean Corbyn? Not particularly, but standards aren't high. We really do have to think about the future. I'd far sooner see a Corbyn led government than the useless, baseless Tories even if people have reasonable reservations.
Reasonable reservations? He is the best option to preserve whatever we have in the face of the aggressive form of upper class buffoon that will destroy liberty and security for some extra dosh. They will pursue and attack (e.g. Corbyn) to preserve their inherited, systemic advantage. Which is what I think is happening here.
A person can't submit to this. Corbyn was best placed to realise the mass political expression. They probably think the political tendency and we behind it are 'cheeky'. Or animals to be layed in traps.
Some will prance around, perhaps fearing to lose the little they have (after all 'there is always someone worse off'). But when it is all over we want a bit of peace, comfort and safety. Fewer and fewer get that. To bring it to the point; it profits us more to speak to our own interests and to not put them on the back burner. Namely, the universal interest, (peace etc.) and the end of institutional classism.
Posted by: Ad | August 10, 2017 at 11:14 PM
There does seem to be some arranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic. I think the upper class are caught by surprise. I risk repeating myself, but as long as the political class on behalf of their masters continuously disgrace themselves the further they concede.
Its open knowledge that we have a class system imposed upon us. Starting with the monarchy. It doesn't matter how often they fail or disgrace themselves and their office, they are replaced and the system reboots itself.
Yet they cannot conceive of the bigger picture. The one in which their system surely collapses. Where the world doesn't care to trade with them. Where they can't sell, or store or collect. Then on top of that you are subject to forces that WANT to put you down.
The system, i.e. its nucleus, the London banking, stock exchange and political fist is not remote. It is not inhabited by those who are 'better'. Most people now know this, hence the political/social shift. They've become parasites leeching off a bloated system.
Who loses? Firstly the colonies of which Britain in its turn is one. The country is broken. There is no future for it. Education is broken. The economy is going downhill. The rest of the EU will be the same. The law will apply in the rest of the EU. Once one country has its turn to suffer the next will apply the rules and find the rules to be what? Meaningless?
Posted by: Ad | August 08, 2017 at 11:57 PM