Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Another gladiator enters the politically correct den to be mauled

THERE ARE FOUR PEOPLE; two of which I will always listen to, the other two I will always read; because in this dystopian, politically correct culture of ours, they are all unapologetically anti-'progressive's'[1] and refuse to be bamboozled by the modern thought police who's full time occupation seems to be looking for the slightest slip of the tongue on the social media (the latest victim being the Nobel Laureate, Tim Hunt).
                
                The four anti-political correct musketeers are David Starkey, Jeremy Clarkson, Rod Liddle, and Richard Littlejohn. These pioneers offer us a return to the natural order of sensibility that the English adopted in the form of a pragmatic and tolerant nature - which the politically correct, certain as they are of being on the side of history, can neither show any kind of pragmatism or tolerance toward those who counter their views. They see themselves as shaping what they believe to be the 'progressive' agenda and anyone who takes a contrary view has to be ruined - on social media.
                Today it is David Starkey's turn. The historian has drawn comparisons between the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) and the Nazis. A bit over the top you may think; but, bless him, he retracts nothing. He accepts that those who disagree should challenge him, whether in the media or within the SNP and debate with him what they find so appalling in his views.
                
                He gave an interview to Sky News where he rowed back on nothing he had said. He was asked by his Sky interviewer what were the points of comparison between the SNP and the Nazis, during which he jocularly compared the kilt with lederhosen. But he insists, as I do, that such comparisons between the Nazis do not suggest death camps and anti-Semitism (but I would, however, like to know the SNPs policy on the Palestinian Jewish question).       
            His reply to the question of comparison deserves to be quoted; ‘I’m not saying they are about to set up concentration camps, I’m not going to say that we are going to see a Kristallnacht of English businesses in Edinburgh. Of course we’re not,’ he told Sky News.

‘But the resemblances are striking and are worrying. We spent years fussing in Britain about completely minor fringe things like the BNP and whatever, they are nothing compared with the Scottish Nationalist Party which has seized control of a whole country and is pushing this kind of radical agenda'.
               
                He was challenged by his interviewer to explain how it could be undemocratic if over 50% of the Scottish electorate voted SNP. Starkey's reply was a historian's reply, ‘Lots of people have voted for very unpleasant leaders. I shan’t mention the word Hitler. Democracy doesn’t always get it right.’ This was Churchill's point about democracy being less than perfect, but being far better than the alternative.
               
            Starkey was pressed to apologise - his reply consummated his belief; No of course not. We have this awful, idiotic, PC politics.

I said nothing about Scotland, I said a great deal about the SNP. The SNP is a virulently nationalist party of a type that we have not had in Britain.

‘It models itself on the continental extreme nationalist movements of the 1930s, that’s when it’s founded. It’s time we called things by their proper names.’ 

                Many within the Labour Party will agree with such sentiments, as will the Tory Party.  Only the fading Liberal Democrats would challenge Starkey's views south of the border; but even they have kept silent in the belief that they will once yet again be undermined by the commonsense of the English people.

                Starkey is right; the Scottish Nationalist Party is indeed socialist in their prescription for Scotland; which is why Nicola Sturgeon sought an arrangement with Old Labour under the stewardship of Ed Miliband, had he come out on top last month. Ed Miliband, up until the last moment and under continuous pressure from his advisors, finally relented and said he would not enter into any arrangement with the SNP - but it was too late.

                However, what it did prove was Starkey's very point about Scottish National Socialism. It was not about death camps or anti-Semitism, but about a nationalist party pursuing a socialist agenda
               
 SNP SUPPORTERS also bare comparison with the Nazi brown shirts; by the way they behave toward their party's critics. They used social media to troll those who oppose their party north and south of the border. The recently deceased Charles Kennedy who, like many others, lost his seat to the SNP this May was trolled and called a drunkard, and far worse during the election campaign: it was a nasty and brutal, and exposed the Scots to the nefarious and stereotypical charge of being a nation of fried Mars bar eaters who have a soft spot, like Rab C Nesbit for a daily diet of gallons of the 'heavy'.
               
                During the campaign for a referendum on Scottish independence SNP thugs took to the streets to attend and try to prevent any hustings event held by the Labour Party. It is the SNP and not the Tories who became the real Nasty Party.

                If they want independence, then give it to them; the sky will not fall in and all they will become in time, is not the nation they fought to make independent from the Union, but a mere province of a monetary and political union within the EU. They do not seem to understand that political union within a federal Europe, will by its very nature have to dissolve the nation state – what the hell do they think federalism means? All they have to do is look across the Atlantic towards the USA if they want to see an example of a federal union.

                It is only emotion that keeps the English establishment intent upon preserving the Union. From the Royal family to the Conservative and Labour parties; and finally, the Tory press that only gives a fuck for the Union. By doing so they are like some infatuated lover who will do whatever is necessary to preserve an adulterous relationship with a fem-fatal who is only out for what she can get.

                The SNP are the puppet masters pulling the strings in the knowledge that our two main parties will do whatever is needed to accommodate them in order to preserve the Union (and in Labour's case; their very party itself). No wonder Nicola Sturgeon was courted across the pond by the American media.

                If the Scot's feel that the English have shackled them in anyway by becoming part of the Union; then let them be cut adrift to fend for themselves. Let them go their own way and stop this infatuation with the Union once and for all. It has to end. The Scottish people spoke at the last general election.

                Our emotional tie with Scotland makes us weak, and allows the SNP to dictate to us. We, as a nation should call, not the SNP's bluff but the Scottish peoples. Give them another referendum and if it transpires that the majority of the Scots wish to leave the Union - then let them.

                David Starkey is right. I however believe that Scotland has been more of a drain on England than we have on Scotland, despite their over-hyped pot of gold in the North Sea, which they will see diminish over time, with no other natural resource to replace it (its independence will be oil dependent on its future). While in England shale fracking will go ahead and if the projections prove correct, England will not need to rely upon any foreign country for its energy needs.

                Let Scotland have its way. It is only English establishment sentimentality that keeps the Union alive. Scotland wants 'independence' then let them have it; let them stand proud once more without what they see as the English drag anchor – we can do without the Scots, but if they can do without the Union only time will tell.



[1] I use the term in the sense of Left's adoption of it in the facile use of its meaning whatever the Left sees as progress.

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