Well it has happened. The hate and inflammatory speech that has so characterised the EU Referendum has cost a life with the political murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox. It is no use those in the Brexit campaign desperately trying to deny that this crime was motivated by their campaign as, when he was asked his name in court he replied, "Death to Traitors. Freedom for Britain". As I told you in my last post, the level of hate and the language of violence in this campaign is something I never thought I would ever encounter in this country, and I include the Remain campaign in this assessment because one of the worst offenders in lying and stoking fear has been our own Prime Minister, the great CaMoron. What is ironic is that this act has given an immediate boost to the Remain campaign as people have been sickened, and perhaps ashamed, as they realise what is happening to decency and fairness in this appalling nation and are beginning to draw back from such dangerous rhetoric. As I continually tell you, almost all of the claims made by the Leave campaign are a lie, because the Leave spokespeople know that what they are telling you is untrue. The great, and it must be admitted very effective, slogan of the Leave campaign is "Take back control" arguing that we no longer have any control over our own affairs and are ruled by a set of 'faceless unelected bureaucrats.' For example, the appalling Michael Gove gave a speech in which he argued that he wants the British voters to take back control from EU institutions that are "distant, unaccountable and elitist' (I loved the arch Thatcherite Gove complaining about elitism, that's one thing about the British, they have no problem with irony). However, my point is that Gove knows full well that he is telling a quite deliberate lie.
It is really sickening when you hear a British politician complaining about the European bureaucracy. The European Union employs just over 55,000 civil servants, those much vaunted and much maligned bureaucrats. The Westminster pigsty employs over 400,000. In addition, anyone with even a passing knowledge of politics knows that all European legislation is subject to the agreement of two different institutional sets of elected politicians, the Council of the European Union which is composed of democratically elected government ministers from each member state, and the European Parliament, whose membership is all directly elected. Thus, there are no bureaucrats in the EU making laws that override the will of the pigsty. That is a lie. In addition, the government of the UK contains members of the House of Lords who are unelected and are the political appointments of whoever is the Prime Minister of the day. So, who is the more undemocratic, the EU or the Westminster pigsty?
I repeatedly warn you that one of the most overriding priorities of the free market leavers is the continual enslavement of the British workforce. We are continually being asked to consider democracy from the most undemocratic people in the world. We are continually being asked to consider fairness from people who have erected, and preside over, the most unequal society in the developed world, but perhaps most importantly we are being asked to consider the plight of what they call "decent, hardworking taxpayers" from the people who will strip those same hardworking taxpayers of all their rights and protections the day after we vote to leave the EU. How else can we interpret the intentions of the free market Tories? In an address to the Institute of Directors last week, the Employment Minister, Priti Patel told them that
“If we could just halve the burdens of the EU social and employment legislation we could deliver a £4.3 billion boost to our economy and 60,000 new jobs.”
I wont go into any particular detail because I have spoken of this many times, but the EU social and employment legislation she speaks of are our rights and protections, particularly health and safety, which employers hate with a passion, and remember, this is the political party who told the country that unionised employees are the enemy. Thus, when I was a union representative, I was genuinely considered to be an enemy of the state by these people. Not even Donald Trump talks like that. The other major hatred of the free marketeers is the Working Time Directive. The melodiously named Priti Patel fiercely denounced the Directive and was particularly keen to argue that lorry drivers should be exempt from this measure. Her name may be quite melodious but her message most certainly wasn't except to those people who believe they should be able to make profit completely unrestrained from common decency. Can you imagine such stupidity, effectively arguing that employers should be able to demand that drivers drive on our roads and motorways until they are exhausted? This highlights the intellectual level that we in this country have come to expect from the pigsty, but particularly the Tory part. The woman is a genuine halfwit. These are the same people who foamed at the mouth denouncing the minimum wage arguing that it would cost the country over a million jobs when in fact the exact opposite happened. She was quite keen to avoid how she came to the figure of £4.3 billion by the way.
It will be interesting to see what happens now in the wake of this genuine tragedy. Karl Popper tells us that the study of politics is the study of the unintended consequences of intentional human action. I think that the deliberate murder of an MP will have the opposite effect to what was intended and that the people of the country will react with disgust and waken up to the reality of this atrocious referendum. I hope so regardless of the outcome on Thursday. We cannot continue with this form of politics as we slide deeper into fascism and intolerance. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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