I think we are witnessing a
peculiarly English/British form of Fascism -
We have the civilised
classical Johnsonian face,
The Govian
exhortation to ignore the ‘experts’,
The atavistic appeal
to emotion,
Farage and his decent, ordinary people
Fighting without bullets against the multinationals,
For a bright new dawn where tomorrow belongs to him,
Farage and his decent, ordinary people
Fighting without bullets against the multinationals,
For a bright new dawn where tomorrow belongs to him,
Together with: ‘F***
Off, Europe, We’re voting out’,
From some England
football fans at the Euros;
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail seems back in the 1930s,
When it supported
Oswald Mosley and the Blackshirts;
Once more, it feels
as though the toffs
Are mobilising and
diverting the masses,
With carefully
fostered nationalism
And carefully
calibrated xenophobia;
We have seen how
dragon’s teeth have been sown
For over a generation
by Conservatives, New Labour,
Liberal Democrats and
a relentlessly right wing press:
Now the
vilification of ‘socialism’ brings its harvest of
hatred:
If the working class
has been informed that it mustn’t vote socialist,
Then it votes
nationalist and Brexit:
So much for the Third
Way.
What next?
What next?
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