I trust you saw the shambles in the Westminster Parliament last night over the non-vote on the European Arrest Warrant. The point of this post is not on that issue but on the degeneration of political life in this sorry country to the point that there is neither honesty, dignity or self-respect left in public life. This will result in inevitable and dangerous consequences.
We have reached a stage in our national life where honesty is regarded as a weakness that merits scorn and ridicule. Last night the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary were exposed as having systematically and cynically lied to Parliament. This was evidenced by the string of MPs from their own party who stood in the House to denounce them for it. One of the traditions of Parliament is that you are forbidden to call another Member a liar. If you do you are immediately ordered to withdraw the remark or suffer expulsion from the Chamber for punishment. This is because it is a cardinal rule that Members must always tell the truth. As a result, if you do lie you must get away with it because there is no mechanism for holding you to account. The result of this is that we now have the two most senior members of the British government who are quite prepared to give promises and assurances that they have no intention of keeping and who refuse to abide by the traditions and rules of the Parliament that they have sworn an oath to uphold, defend and protect. Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary had given their word that MPs would have a vote on the status of the Arrest Warrant and that was then withheld. This follows on from the Prime Minister renaging on his election promises with respect to immigration where he gave promises that the numbers would be at a certain level by this time. The Chancellor has also renaged on assurances about debt levels, interest rates etc. and the Lib/Dems famously lied through their teeth with respect to tuition fees.
This is not new of course. The most outrageous liars are the Labour Party as their entire personnel are practiced and gifted liars which they seem to think was one of Mad Tony's greatest characteristics and so worthy of being handed down as some form of gift. This specialism was then put to great use in order to win the Scottish Referendum when the Labour lie machine was seen to operate at its finest.
My point however is that what we are witnessing in modern Britain is the disintegration of morality and the characteristic of integrity. Westminster has abandoned all pretence of moral behaviour and are quite prepared to do anything that they choose if it will get them what they want. However, such behaviour does not go unnoticed and sends the message that if it is OK for our rulers then it is OK for the rest of us. As a result, Westminster has lost its moral authority and any trust that the British people ever had in it. That is why the electorate is abandoning the three major parties. Why on earth should anyone in Britain obey the law, the rules, or respect any form of authority when the people who make the laws, establish the rules and claim the authority refuse to obey them nor display any form of decency? We are witnessing a truly dangerous phase in our history because, if the people take their behavioural model from the ruling model there is a genuine threat of a breakdown in law and order. I again warn you, the increasing likelihood after the next election is a Tory/UKIP coalition. You should be afraid. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Monday, 10 November 2014
You surely don't believe that our government would lie to you? Part 2
If I may return to the question of the right of the state to invade your privacy, I have said that states do not have rights only people have rights. One of the most important rights people have is to be protected from an overweening and misguided state. The method that has been developed over centuries for this protection is law. You see the state is simply a generic term for a bunch of people. We elect governments, who are simply people like you and I, to make the collective decisions for our comfortable and safe day-to-day living that we cannot make individually. The decisions that government make are then administered by another set of people, civil servants that we collectively call the state. These include the police, the military, the officials in government departments, both national and local etc. In order that we can be safe against the massive power that we entrust these people with we erect a system of law, ethics, morals, custom and practice that we call the rule of law.
Government is derivative, that is it derives from a source and that source is the social nature of the human being. The human being is what Aristotle described as a zoon politikon, a political animal. There is no such thing as an atomised individual, our individuality is all conditioned by our collective life, we are creatures of our environment. As a result, government derives its roles and its purpose from this fact. It is there to serve the people it represents and does not have any other purpose, and must be answerable and accountable to the people who entrust the personnel in government and the state with its administration. If the people who are charged with national security wish to take measures that, in effect, threaten the freedom and safety of the public then they must make a clear and definite case for it and receive the public's approval. It was Benjamin Franklin who told us, that if we are prepared to sacrifice our freedom on the alter of security then we will lose both and will deserve to lose both. We must never be fooled into trading our freedom for some notion that it is necessary for our security, that is the methodology of totalitarianism and is the argument of soundrels and liars. No-one, whether a politican or a government, can claim to speak for the people unless they have specifically asked the people, and they most certainly cannot know what is in our best interests.
Governments cannot and must not be trusted. Lord Acton warned us that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and, if the past 30 years of British history tells us anything, it is that British government and politics is corrupt to its very core. All government actions must be demonstrably justified. We are being hoodwinked into thinking that governments have rights over the people they govern and that politicians have a right to deprive us of information or justification for their acts. I have said before, I find that Britain is beginning to mirror attitudes and conditions that existed in the 1930's and '40s and that I detect an increasing fascist mentality, particularly in sections of the right-wing press. We are increasingly applying a scapegoat mentality for the criminality and incompetence of our politicians that is being used as a smokescreen for ever increasing totalitarian methods of surveillance on our everyday activities. What is at stake is our freedom and the rule of law. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat.
Government is derivative, that is it derives from a source and that source is the social nature of the human being. The human being is what Aristotle described as a zoon politikon, a political animal. There is no such thing as an atomised individual, our individuality is all conditioned by our collective life, we are creatures of our environment. As a result, government derives its roles and its purpose from this fact. It is there to serve the people it represents and does not have any other purpose, and must be answerable and accountable to the people who entrust the personnel in government and the state with its administration. If the people who are charged with national security wish to take measures that, in effect, threaten the freedom and safety of the public then they must make a clear and definite case for it and receive the public's approval. It was Benjamin Franklin who told us, that if we are prepared to sacrifice our freedom on the alter of security then we will lose both and will deserve to lose both. We must never be fooled into trading our freedom for some notion that it is necessary for our security, that is the methodology of totalitarianism and is the argument of soundrels and liars. No-one, whether a politican or a government, can claim to speak for the people unless they have specifically asked the people, and they most certainly cannot know what is in our best interests.
Governments cannot and must not be trusted. Lord Acton warned us that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and, if the past 30 years of British history tells us anything, it is that British government and politics is corrupt to its very core. All government actions must be demonstrably justified. We are being hoodwinked into thinking that governments have rights over the people they govern and that politicians have a right to deprive us of information or justification for their acts. I have said before, I find that Britain is beginning to mirror attitudes and conditions that existed in the 1930's and '40s and that I detect an increasing fascist mentality, particularly in sections of the right-wing press. We are increasingly applying a scapegoat mentality for the criminality and incompetence of our politicians that is being used as a smokescreen for ever increasing totalitarian methods of surveillance on our everyday activities. What is at stake is our freedom and the rule of law. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat.
Thursday, 6 November 2014
You surely don't believe that our government would lie to you?
I was pondering the claim by the Director of GCHQ, a Mr Robert Hannigan, that we do not have an absolute right to privacy. Presumably this is to justify the revelation that they have been illegally intercepting privileged communications between lawyers and their clients who are in litigation with the British state, something that is quite illegal. I do not accept absolutes, and so have to agree that we do not have an absolute right to anything. However, in saying that, Hannigan's motive is that he is thereby claiming that the state does have an absolute right, the right to invade your privacy whenever it wants to.
I do not believe in absolutes because I do not believe in absolute truth. Truth is always relative and we live our lives accepting many things as the truth with the proviso that it may change. I believe it is true that I cannot walk on water and so avoid trying to walk on water in case I drown, but I do not accept that it is true that humans will never be able to walk on water. Thus, whilst I hold it to be true that a human being cannot walk on water, I do not hold it as absolute, because, it is possible that humans may indeed evolve some day to walk on water, however unlikely it may appear at this point in history. As a result, I do not accept that the state has any absolute rights.
I believe, with the Sophist Thrasymachus, that justice is the interests of the strongest. That is why the strongest must be continually restrained and constrained in their actions and ability to impose their will on the rest of society. What is happening in Britain is the result of the Thatcher experiment to remove all restraints and constraints on the strongest in society, with the result that they are increasingly imposing their will and their domination on the rest of us. Thatcher told us that she had a mission to 'roll back the state'. What she in fact meant was that she wished to weaken the state to the point that she and her cohorts and successors could successfully impose their domination on that state, and, in so doing, on the whole of society. She was particularly successful. The British state is today exactly as Karl Marx described it, a committee for managing the affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. What I find hard to accept is all of the ordinary people who work at GCHQ willingly and enthusiastically supporting the states attempts at tyranny and illegality. Lenin called such people 'useful idiots' because, when the state has successfully used these people it will just as quickly discard them and begin tapping their phones and making their lives a misery in case they blow the whistle on all the activities they subscribed to whilst they were carrying out their masters wishes.
If you truly believe anything that the Hannigan's, the Cameron's and the Miliband's of this world tell you then you genuinely deserve all you get. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
I do not believe in absolutes because I do not believe in absolute truth. Truth is always relative and we live our lives accepting many things as the truth with the proviso that it may change. I believe it is true that I cannot walk on water and so avoid trying to walk on water in case I drown, but I do not accept that it is true that humans will never be able to walk on water. Thus, whilst I hold it to be true that a human being cannot walk on water, I do not hold it as absolute, because, it is possible that humans may indeed evolve some day to walk on water, however unlikely it may appear at this point in history. As a result, I do not accept that the state has any absolute rights.
I believe, with the Sophist Thrasymachus, that justice is the interests of the strongest. That is why the strongest must be continually restrained and constrained in their actions and ability to impose their will on the rest of society. What is happening in Britain is the result of the Thatcher experiment to remove all restraints and constraints on the strongest in society, with the result that they are increasingly imposing their will and their domination on the rest of us. Thatcher told us that she had a mission to 'roll back the state'. What she in fact meant was that she wished to weaken the state to the point that she and her cohorts and successors could successfully impose their domination on that state, and, in so doing, on the whole of society. She was particularly successful. The British state is today exactly as Karl Marx described it, a committee for managing the affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. What I find hard to accept is all of the ordinary people who work at GCHQ willingly and enthusiastically supporting the states attempts at tyranny and illegality. Lenin called such people 'useful idiots' because, when the state has successfully used these people it will just as quickly discard them and begin tapping their phones and making their lives a misery in case they blow the whistle on all the activities they subscribed to whilst they were carrying out their masters wishes.
If you truly believe anything that the Hannigan's, the Cameron's and the Miliband's of this world tell you then you genuinely deserve all you get. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Peoiple have tried to destroy the Scots and the Russians before
The good citizens of Lewes in East Sussex felt it appropriate to burn effigies of Alex Salmond, Vladimir Putin and the Loch Ness Monster for their Guy Fawkes night celebrations. At the last minute the were persuaded not to actually burn the effigy of Salmond which was adorned by a large badge with 45% on it, presumably with the symbolism of incinerating all those people who had voted Yes in the referendum,and instead blew it up. What we are witnessing here is the attitudes of the Westminster elite filtering down into the general population. Both Alex Salmond and Vladimir Putin represent movements of people who have had enough of Western eltitist bullying and are refusing to be intimidated any more. They are standing up to the West and to the Anglo-American domination and telling them to get lost and the Anglo-American powers will not accept any challenge to their dominance. As a result, the populations of these nations see such challenges as hostile and unacceptable and immediately regard such people as enemies that must be confronted.
The great Scottish philosopher David Hume described the English as 'stupid and factious barbarians' and it would appear that the English nation is descending into such a position once again. I have written on this blog before that, in my opinion, Vladimir Putin is quite right in the position he assumes towards the British and the Americans. Russia is a nation that cannot be bullied. We seem to be adopting the same attitudes to Russia that prevailed in the 1930s and '40s that Russia is weak, not to be trusted and can be told what to do at the risk of being punished if they don't. Hitler genuinely believed that the Soviet Union would fall like a pack of cards within weeks of invasion. Indeed the Soviets lost 3,000,000 men in the first six weeks of the German invasion and the Germans advanced to within 20 miles of Moscow, surrounded Leningrad and occupied almost the whole of Stalingrad. However, by 1944 the Soviets were actually outproducing the USA in war materials and invaded Germany with over 4,000,000 troops. It was the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk that turned the Second World War. You underestimate the Russians at your peril.
Similarly, you underestimate the Scots at your peril. Despite losing the referendum the SNP are the largest growing party in Britain, if not Europe. They may have lost a crucial battle, but appear to be winning the war. A revitalised Yes campaign has begun planning for the next referendum, and, if Labour lose the next Holyrood elections, they will be forced to adopt a Yes platform in order to simply survive. Remember, it was the Holyrood parliament and proportional representation that saved the Conservatives bacon in Scotland. They too were forced to accept something they bitterly opposed. I repeat something I have told you before, the task of the serious political and social analyst is to consider the unintended consequences of intentional human action. We are seeing the full fruits of that maxim taking shape before our eyes, the future is definitely not what it used to be. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
The great Scottish philosopher David Hume described the English as 'stupid and factious barbarians' and it would appear that the English nation is descending into such a position once again. I have written on this blog before that, in my opinion, Vladimir Putin is quite right in the position he assumes towards the British and the Americans. Russia is a nation that cannot be bullied. We seem to be adopting the same attitudes to Russia that prevailed in the 1930s and '40s that Russia is weak, not to be trusted and can be told what to do at the risk of being punished if they don't. Hitler genuinely believed that the Soviet Union would fall like a pack of cards within weeks of invasion. Indeed the Soviets lost 3,000,000 men in the first six weeks of the German invasion and the Germans advanced to within 20 miles of Moscow, surrounded Leningrad and occupied almost the whole of Stalingrad. However, by 1944 the Soviets were actually outproducing the USA in war materials and invaded Germany with over 4,000,000 troops. It was the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk that turned the Second World War. You underestimate the Russians at your peril.
Similarly, you underestimate the Scots at your peril. Despite losing the referendum the SNP are the largest growing party in Britain, if not Europe. They may have lost a crucial battle, but appear to be winning the war. A revitalised Yes campaign has begun planning for the next referendum, and, if Labour lose the next Holyrood elections, they will be forced to adopt a Yes platform in order to simply survive. Remember, it was the Holyrood parliament and proportional representation that saved the Conservatives bacon in Scotland. They too were forced to accept something they bitterly opposed. I repeat something I have told you before, the task of the serious political and social analyst is to consider the unintended consequences of intentional human action. We are seeing the full fruits of that maxim taking shape before our eyes, the future is definitely not what it used to be. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Perhaps losing the referendum was a blessing in disguise
I trust you will note how everything that a Westminster politician does is 'the right thing to do' even when the right thing that they are doing is in complete contradiction to the right thing they were doing a short while ago. It is the same when they tell us that they are acting in the interests of the British people. I am the British people and no-one has ever asked me if I agree with what they are doing in my best interests. I love it when they tell us that 'what the British people want is...' because no-one has ever asked me what I want and I genuinely have never met anyone else who has been asked either. So, how do these people know what is in Britain's best interests or what the British people want when they never make an attempt to find out?
When politicians tell us things like that they are simply telling us what they and their mates want. With regards to public policy, they persistently tell us that there is no alternative when anyone with a scintilla of intelligence knows that there are innumerable alternatives. Despite this, the British people as a whole sit and nod their heads and agree with such rubbish. I have written before about Labour's rising star, Chukka Ummuna. I watched him last night and he sat and simply denied every point that was put to him by three other people about the state of the Labour Party. You see he is symptomatic of the Westminster sickness. If reality does not agree with them, they simply deny reality and invent a new one. That is why Labour, and indeed the whole Westminster system, is in terminal decline. Not only do these people have no idea what is in Britain's best interests, they don't even know what is in their own best interests.
Thank goodness that the German's are standing up to Westminster's bullying and telling them that enough is enough. There are four fundamental principles built into the European Treaties and the Germans are telling us, quite correctly, that they are the red line we cannot cross. The British actually believe that they should determine what the fundamental principles of EU law should be and that those pesky foreigners had better listen up or we will take our ball and go home. I have written constantly about the Westminster attitude that they will not tolerate any form of constraint on their actions of desires and their determination to get their own way regardless of the consequences and the damage that they do to other people. This is a result of the fundamental ideological approach that drives them, the neoliberal free market fraud that passes for rational thinking in this sorry country. They know best and woe betide anyone who disagrees. I am sorry if you voted No in the referendum, because Independence is now almost certain as the Scottish people now realise that these people are going to ruin the country and the demand for seperation will grow unstoppable. I am coming to believe that losing the referendum was actually a good thing as it has exposed the charlatans in their true light. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
When politicians tell us things like that they are simply telling us what they and their mates want. With regards to public policy, they persistently tell us that there is no alternative when anyone with a scintilla of intelligence knows that there are innumerable alternatives. Despite this, the British people as a whole sit and nod their heads and agree with such rubbish. I have written before about Labour's rising star, Chukka Ummuna. I watched him last night and he sat and simply denied every point that was put to him by three other people about the state of the Labour Party. You see he is symptomatic of the Westminster sickness. If reality does not agree with them, they simply deny reality and invent a new one. That is why Labour, and indeed the whole Westminster system, is in terminal decline. Not only do these people have no idea what is in Britain's best interests, they don't even know what is in their own best interests.
Thank goodness that the German's are standing up to Westminster's bullying and telling them that enough is enough. There are four fundamental principles built into the European Treaties and the Germans are telling us, quite correctly, that they are the red line we cannot cross. The British actually believe that they should determine what the fundamental principles of EU law should be and that those pesky foreigners had better listen up or we will take our ball and go home. I have written constantly about the Westminster attitude that they will not tolerate any form of constraint on their actions of desires and their determination to get their own way regardless of the consequences and the damage that they do to other people. This is a result of the fundamental ideological approach that drives them, the neoliberal free market fraud that passes for rational thinking in this sorry country. They know best and woe betide anyone who disagrees. I am sorry if you voted No in the referendum, because Independence is now almost certain as the Scottish people now realise that these people are going to ruin the country and the demand for seperation will grow unstoppable. I am coming to believe that losing the referendum was actually a good thing as it has exposed the charlatans in their true light. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Monday, 3 November 2014
We are in a genuine crisis of leadership
I was reading a report on the Rochester and Strood by-election where a voter was asked why he was voting UKIP and he replied because the Tory MP for the constituency had done absolutely nothing for them. The UKIP candidate he is voting for is the same Tory MP who defected to UKIP, Mark Reckless. I concluded that the voters in Rochester are getting exactly what they deserve. I mean you genuinely couldn't make that up. It beggars belief that intelligent people can even consider voting for this bunch of nutters, but it is indicative of the alienation of the electorate from Westminster. To combat this trend the Tories are trying to outhate them over foreigners and the EU. This has led to Germany's President Merkel telling the British that if they do not stop trying to alter the basic rights and freedoms of the European settlement then she will support kicking Britain out of Europe. She told Cameron that he was reaching the point of no return. That is strong language indeed from another country's President and we should take careful note. I ask you to consider the implications of leaving Europe for employment rights, pensions, human rights in general, the welfare state, employment etc. Most of our multi-national companies are only located here because we are members of the EU and they would withdraw immediately were we to lose our membership. In addition we would be leaving a trading bloc of over 500 million people and would be subject to EU tariffs and all the barriers to entry of that bloc. In addition, if UKIP get a serious hold on British power they are committed to abolishing the Scottish Parliament.
Rather than counteract the bile and hatred pouring daily out of the Mail and Express, Westminster allows such bullying and attempts to appease it. In doing so, Britain becomes increasingly fascist in character. I continually warn you that we are ruled by intellectual misfits and that the political system in Britain is seriously flawed. We are ruled by incompetents and clowns, causing Will Hutton to call the Prime Minister incoherent, immoral and economically illiterate over his tax policies in yesterday's Observer. I urge you to read his article. I would extend that description to cover 90% of government policies. What gets me is why it has taken Will Hutton so long to see what I have been telling you for some years now? What we are witnessing is the enduring legacy of Margaret Thatcher and her determination to destroy the collective nature of British society and the engine of that society, the welfare state. I had a conversation with a friend of mine recently when he quite seriously described Ed Miliband as a Marxist. That is how illiterate political discourse is in this sorry mess of a country today. I asked him if he thought Miliband was a Marxist, what that made me? However, I am still being repeatedly assured that we are Better Together, so I must be wrong. I am in genuine despair that there is any solution to what I see are our deep-seated problems and am becoming resigned to the prospect of a corporate fascist style Britain leaving the EU and finishing the destruction of the welfare state, leaving us at the mercy of privatised foreign companies who take all their ill-gotten gains out of the country and leave us in a bankrupt mess. When that happens, the Thatcher revolution will be complete. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
Rather than counteract the bile and hatred pouring daily out of the Mail and Express, Westminster allows such bullying and attempts to appease it. In doing so, Britain becomes increasingly fascist in character. I continually warn you that we are ruled by intellectual misfits and that the political system in Britain is seriously flawed. We are ruled by incompetents and clowns, causing Will Hutton to call the Prime Minister incoherent, immoral and economically illiterate over his tax policies in yesterday's Observer. I urge you to read his article. I would extend that description to cover 90% of government policies. What gets me is why it has taken Will Hutton so long to see what I have been telling you for some years now? What we are witnessing is the enduring legacy of Margaret Thatcher and her determination to destroy the collective nature of British society and the engine of that society, the welfare state. I had a conversation with a friend of mine recently when he quite seriously described Ed Miliband as a Marxist. That is how illiterate political discourse is in this sorry mess of a country today. I asked him if he thought Miliband was a Marxist, what that made me? However, I am still being repeatedly assured that we are Better Together, so I must be wrong. I am in genuine despair that there is any solution to what I see are our deep-seated problems and am becoming resigned to the prospect of a corporate fascist style Britain leaving the EU and finishing the destruction of the welfare state, leaving us at the mercy of privatised foreign companies who take all their ill-gotten gains out of the country and leave us in a bankrupt mess. When that happens, the Thatcher revolution will be complete. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
The Strange Death of Labour
I have written before about the Greek concept of hubris, self-destruction brought on by overweening arrogance, and that is what we are seeing with regard to the Westminster parties, but in particular the Labour Party. The Westminster gangsters are so confident in the stupidity of the electorate that they genuinely believed that they could win the referendum by persistently lying and that there would be no consequences. I do not believe for a moment that the poll that gives the SNP 52% will be reflected come polling day, but it is nevertheless significant as to the deep hostility towards Labour and their behaviour towards the Scots over many years now, but with particular reference to their performance in the referendum. It immediately became clear that their promises and assurances were no more than hot air to the extent that polls now show that 1 in 4 and rising of people who voted No are now regretting it.
If you watch the Scots representatives of all Westminster parties it is quite a surreal experience. When asked a question it is as if someone switches a tape recorder on and the same stock phrases and responses come gushing out of empty mouths and empty minds. I cannot believe that anyone is genuinely promoting Jim Murphy as the saviour of the Scottish Labour Party, he is barely articulate and is a clone produced by Westminster. I watched him last night on Scotland Tonight when he told us that he agrees with everything Ed Miliband says and stands for, I mean, that is genuine braindeadness. His mate Anas Sarwar is, if anything worse and, in an interview on Scotland 2014 I counted 5 times in less than 5 minutes that he told us he only wanted to have "a genuine dialogue to move us forward". He was quite incapable of answering any kind of question spontaneously. Moving forward is, to such people, moving to their agenda, anything else is moving in the wrong direction because everything they do , "is the right thing to do" because "there is no alternative".
Politics in the UK is in serious crisis, and, as I have indicated before, the ideological thrust in England is moving, in my opinion, towards a form of fascism. The dominant discourse in England is hatred. Far too many sources of information have made the word 'foreigner' toxic. The tabloid press have stirred the embers of fascist xenophobia into a political movement that sees its expression in UKIP and the right-wing of the Tories. They hate immigrants, they hate Muslims, they hate Europe, they hate the poor, the disadvantaged and have a particular hatred for the disabled. As I have written many times, if you persist in the fallacy that there is no alternative, you are embedding a form of totalitarianism in society. If there is no alternative to something then that thing must be, by definition, true. Thus if I disagree with any course of action for which there is no alternative I am again by definition, wrong. The British better waken up. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
If you watch the Scots representatives of all Westminster parties it is quite a surreal experience. When asked a question it is as if someone switches a tape recorder on and the same stock phrases and responses come gushing out of empty mouths and empty minds. I cannot believe that anyone is genuinely promoting Jim Murphy as the saviour of the Scottish Labour Party, he is barely articulate and is a clone produced by Westminster. I watched him last night on Scotland Tonight when he told us that he agrees with everything Ed Miliband says and stands for, I mean, that is genuine braindeadness. His mate Anas Sarwar is, if anything worse and, in an interview on Scotland 2014 I counted 5 times in less than 5 minutes that he told us he only wanted to have "a genuine dialogue to move us forward". He was quite incapable of answering any kind of question spontaneously. Moving forward is, to such people, moving to their agenda, anything else is moving in the wrong direction because everything they do , "is the right thing to do" because "there is no alternative".
Politics in the UK is in serious crisis, and, as I have indicated before, the ideological thrust in England is moving, in my opinion, towards a form of fascism. The dominant discourse in England is hatred. Far too many sources of information have made the word 'foreigner' toxic. The tabloid press have stirred the embers of fascist xenophobia into a political movement that sees its expression in UKIP and the right-wing of the Tories. They hate immigrants, they hate Muslims, they hate Europe, they hate the poor, the disadvantaged and have a particular hatred for the disabled. As I have written many times, if you persist in the fallacy that there is no alternative, you are embedding a form of totalitarianism in society. If there is no alternative to something then that thing must be, by definition, true. Thus if I disagree with any course of action for which there is no alternative I am again by definition, wrong. The British better waken up. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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