Victory at any cost
From the Guardian’s diary column this morning:
“British jobs for British workers!” So says Gordon Brown, repeatedly. The phrase is a particular favourite of the BNP, as any simple search on Google will attest, so someone either didn’t know or didn’t care. Poor stuff either way.
Well, Gordon also boasts of building a government of all the talents, so why not appropriate fascist rhetoric? Why not look Nick Griffin eye to eye on the steps on Number 10? The pressures at the depths in which Gordon’s prepared to swim are so great, it doesn’t matter if he sinks lower; he’s still mangled beyond saving.
Sometimes I get the feeling we should start looking for Canadian jobs for British workers.
UPDATE: Eugenides on target:
If I were to put a poster in my window proclaiming “British jobs for British workers”, I’d have the police knocking on my door within the week. (Read that sentence again and tell me I’m wrong.) And it’s difficult to imagine a spectacle more squalid than Jack Straw burnishing his credentials as Blackburn’s answer to Harry Callaghan…
Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 8:10am under New Labour
OK. Just watch out for the Montreal cops.
My point exactly: http://1820.org.uk/2007/09/zombie_britain.shtml
Mine too…
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1409
If I were to put a poster in my window proclaiming “British jobs for British workers”, I’d have the police knocking on my door within the week.
He wouldn’t, actually.
You would if there was a big Union Jack on it.
Don’t believe me? Try it.
For once (perhaps) I’m on Mr E’s side, if only because ‘British jobs for British workers’ has been a shorthand code for ‘No Blacks No Irish No Dogs’ or some such racist nonsense. Okay, perhaps BNP supporters aren’t that obvious, but Brown’s pitch was so blatant he might as well have said ‘Enoch was right’ and have done with it: it’s okay to discriminate against foreigners, and the only way to appeal to the working class is to get them to blame the cheap foreign labour which gets hired by employers to undercut the natives, rather than build solidarity and enforce the laws regarding worker exploitation.
Don’t believe me? Try it.
If I tried it it would bring only odd glances since I do not live in Britain.
However, I notice that I am being invited to try something with sizeably different specifications to that which was previously claimed.
Which suggests the presence of overblown rhetoric in the original statement.
I think your ignoring the wood for the trees ejh. What’s the intention and trajectory of Brown’s comments?
Its a National British Party with Tebbit signed up.
Off-topic, I know, but the best sign I ever saw was on the door of a pub in early/mid 1990s:
‘No Blacks No Irish No Dogs No Women’
As a young female hunting fags one night, I entered at my peril; the pub went silent as I entered, like the one in “American Werewolf in London” (was it called The Slaughtered Sheep?).
Loved the way women were considered lesser than dogs in this place
On topic, GB always was a shit and it amazes me anyone thought things would be different under him. Blair was just a more natural actor, Brown is simply a cocksucker willing to sell his Presbyterian Grandma to remain in power, no trick was ever going to be too low for him. Once the Tory Handbook was pilfered/plagerised it was inevitable he’d one day end up spouting far-right rhetoric. 100 days does seem rather speedy tho, even for him.
I think your ignoring the wood for the trees ejh. What’s the intention and trajectory of Brown’s comments?
Oh, for sure. But I felt it worthwhile to take issue with one of the trees given the wood is so entirely obvious.
was it called The Slaughtered Sheep?
The Slaughtered Lamb.
Did it have Rik Mayall and Brian Glover playing chess in the corner?
Did it have Rik Mayall and Brian Glover playing chess in the corner?
Yep.