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Tessa Jowell on Kenneth Livingstone:
“If Ken hasn’t won, London has lost someone very special.”
How many ways can this be interpreted?
And what about the elections as a whole?
Source: BBC Radio 4 PM programme
Just caught up with this unmitigated pile of manure.
(NB. Johann Hari used to blog at Harry’s Place and has recently won the 2008 Orwell Prize for political journalism).
And deep entryism see here.
Disappointing thing about Harry/Simon is that I thought he would be a more entertaining footie writer - I’m wrong about that — fuck me - I am so wrong with that thought…
I don’t think Norm (or the rest of that crowd) are interested in outsiders. ‘Disinterested irony’ - that is the call of those songbirds so it is.
From Joyce’s Ulysses:
“But it’s no use. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life.”
Now, if Sauce scum were to actually read a proper book (or more likely a web page that wasn’t a blog) and found that quote they could claim they were expressing the same idea (sort of — in a fucked up way).
So what makes Joyce’s thought worth engaging with but Sauce filth just additional evidence of their irredeemable pomo frivolity?
Obvious answer is that Joyce may not have been a prole but had a pretty good idea about what real poverty and bigotry and hatred meant - and in any case his (or rather Bloom’s) words were directed specifically against The Citizen and his Fenian ultra-nationalism rather than against all radicals and enthusiasts everywhere.
For Saucers I know it’s all really about their own anger and resentment against everything that confronts them with their inability to care deeply about anything or anyone outside of their own petty little dog walking, newspaper reading and blog-commenting existence.
I was also reminded of the verses from the book of Revelations that Dostoyevsky uses to damn Stepan Verkhovensky at the end of The Possessed:
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; these things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
I am not much given to quoting either Dostoevsky or scripture but that really does describe Sauce scum and all of the pissy fucking tribe to boot.
Fuck. Them. All.
PS.
Did a Straight Lefter initially ease him into the world of journalism? I think we should be told!
http://www.network54.com/Forum/393207/message/1126017859/Simon+Evans-Harry+Steele
http://www.network54.com/Forum/393207/message/1129042732/Simon+Evans-Harry+Steele+&%3B+Straight+Left+forgetfulness
Dirty, dirty little Stalinist scum. Please fuck with me — I will fuck with you. Filth at the Sauce - need kicking really.
Jeremy Vine is not fit for purpose; the regional BBC is rubbish at doing local politics; and Ed Miliband is doing a very good job considering he has a mouthful of marbles and a large cucumber stuck up his arse.
Guest post for now — (hopefully twill be a regular contributor to this weblodge in the near future) by Contested Terrain
The week began with 2 consecutive desecrations of Berlin’s largest cemetery , in which 40-50 gravestones and pillars were knocked over by unknown assailants. According to Der Spiegel, the Jewish Community was outraged. But was anyone else?
Former left-wing militant of the Red Army Faction, Horst Mahler, who is today a member of the neo-Nazi movement’s National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), is being sent back to jail for greeting a jewish journalist with the Nazi salute. The judge threw Mahler out of court after he began denying the Holocaust in the courtroom. The Nazi salute and Holocaust denial are illegal in Germany. Mahler is sentenced to 10 months in jail.
Today, on the “Revolutionary First of May” demonstration in Berlin — one of the three demos from the radical Left in Berlin on Mayday — participants chanted “zionists are fascists” to applauding crowds. In chalk graffiti on the street, one could find the slogan, of solidarity with the “antifada” — a clever mixture of “antifa” and “intifada” — a demonization of Israel as “fascist.” In contrast to the euromayday demo — with its festive dance atmosphere, banners which drew attention to the precarization of work, calls for refugee rights, opposition to the gentrification of the river front, and its strong queer and feminist sensibility — the so-called revolutionary demo had the feel of a military parade.
But on a positive note, militant antifascists confronted the neo-Nazi NPD’s Mayday demo in Hamburg today. The antifa fought through police lines and successfuly blockaded the 800-person strong Nazi demo, preventing it from continuing on its scheduled march. Unfortunately, the 1,000 strong neo-Nazi mayday demo in Nuremberg was able to march unharmed, despite counter-protestors outnumbering the Nazis 3-1.
A small addition:
At the New Synagogue in Berlin, members of the Jewish community, of Parliament, and of the Green Party, amongst others, came together to found the Jewish Forums for Democracy and Against Antisemitism. The meeting aims to develop educational and organizational models for strengthening opposition to anti-democratic and antisemitic ideas. The meeting included a discussion of German antisemitism not simply as a phenomenon at the margins of society, but rather one based in the center of it. Additionally, the meeting was to focus on antisemitism in the post-Nazi society, as the generation of survivors, witnesses and perpetrators of the Shoah slowly pass away.
Dear Friend,
Last week I took part in ‘Forum’ - Press TV’s version of the BBC’s ‘Question Time’. Press TV is the Iranian government-funded English language TV channel. The programme is online here:
http://www.presstv.com/pop/wmp
.aspx?id=53771
‘Forum’ is chaired by the journalist Andrew Gilligan. The other panellists were Inayat Bunglawala, Deputy General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, Kelvin Hopkins MP (Labour) and John Barron MP (Conservative)
An interesting exchange between myself and Inayat takes place during the first question on the Ken Livingstone v Boris Johnson Mayoral election in London. We discuss the advisability of Livingstone’s embrace of the radical Islamist cleric, Sheikh Qaradawi, and Qaradawi’s views on homosexuals and apostates.
The ‘Press TV’ website is here
Best,
Alan
Self-promotion — another pointless, middle class, careerist exercise in flapping gums.
And what is he doing on an Iranian propaganda channel? And why should we all be interested in what he does?
He’s a very important man (obviously). And if it wasn’t for him (Alan J) then Inayat Bunglebum would be able to gain state power.
And (correct me if i am wrong) — is not Gilligan (the show host) not the fucker who has been whoring for Boris J (the Tory, floppy-haired donkey scumfuck) in the Shanty town paper? Criticizing Livingstone for (amongst other things) mixing with islamists?
Hypocrites abound.
By me.
Watched tonight on DVD…
Fuck it. Roger Ebert has a better review than what I had in mind.
In other words… the fillum was like seeing Comment is Fucking Deranged played out on a TV screen (if you get my drift).
