New Labour: sane and balanced
Meanwhile, back in 1968…
Within two weeks, Enoch Powell was to make his notorious “rivers of blood” speech in Birmingham. But by then the Labour government had already done more to catalyse racial prejudice than Powell’s rhetoric ever could. In fact, as Callaghan’s biographer, Kenneth Morgan, points out: “From Callaghan’s point of view, Powell’s antics were a valuable distraction. They enabled the government to appear, by contrast, sane and balanced…”
And it was ever thus. While we’re watching two BNP thugs getting elected to the European Parliament (they enable the government to appear, by contrast, sane and balanced), the not-at-all-fascist New Labour are quietly getting on with stuff.
Remember Fatou Felicite Gaye and her son Arou, who has ‘post-traumatic stress disorder caused by previous interaction with the Border Agency’, who were picked up by the Home Office in dawn raid, and who were sent to the Dungavel detention centre? They were deported but refused entry to the Ivory Coast because ‘Ms Gaye has no paperwork to prove her identity, and Arouna was born in the UK’. They are now stateless, back in the UK and in the Yarl’s ‘without adequate health services‘ Wood detention centre.
British National Party? Watch and learn, lads. Watch and learn.
Posted on June 8th, 2009 at 10:25am under Fascists, New Labour
Nothing has sickened me today quite as much as the breast beating from Labour supporters ranting about ‘racism’ while that vile, warmongering git, Tony Blair (1 million dead brown-skinned Iraqis, and counting), travels the world as a ‘peace envoy’. I’m spitting feathers here!
Blair’s willy-waving has done more damage to race relations in the UK than all the NF/BNP bile put together. But how much more convenient to have a real boogy man (as Blair himself new only too well!) And how much easier to castigate thick, working-class racists than those nice Labour MPs who nodded through an illegal, unnecessary and filthy war against Muslims. Shits, the lot of ‘em!
that is not a comforting post
It’s become gospel that “good race relations” mean pandering to racists, pretending immigrants are the problem, pretending refugees are criminals, implying immigrants bring disease and crime.
We’ve let the bigots shape the debate. It doesn’t matter which party their in, or if their name is Woolas or Griffin or Powell or Thatcher, they use immigration as a stick to beat their opponents and the reap the hate hate soe.
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