The Judge RANTS!
Date: 03/12/06
Hypocrisy Unveiled
It has now been established beyond doubt that the Labour Party has
no notion of history, which is why it has failed miserably to learn any
lessons from it.
This isn't just a failing of Nu Labour, which has sought to
establish (both within the party and outside it) 1997 as a sort of
Blairite Year Zero. Nothing from before may be entertained (unless it
can be utilised for material gain), and nothing prior to that time may
be permitted to inform current thinking (unless it can be rewritten to
make it look like an original idea from the Dear Leader's favourite
policy wonkers).
No, NuLab is only continuing the fine old tradition of Labour in
Wales. The tenth-rate council hacks, unreconstituted Stalinists and
flab-witted Fabians who comprise that ever more rotten corpse have made
it their business for three generations or more to impart the notion
that Wales didn't exist until Aneurin Bevan invented it. The betrayal
of the miners time after time by the Labour establishment (be it during
the General Strike of 1926 or the strike of 1984/5, or by promising
that the miners would run the industry, then handing it over wholesale
to Oxbridge-educated bureaucrats in London) should be sufficient
testimony to Labour's perfidy and hypocrisy.
And hypocrisy in spades is what we had last weekend, when a bronze
bust was unveiled in Aberdare to mark the birth of the party. The bust
was of James Keir Hardie, the founder of the party, who was MP for
Aberdare & Merthyr from 1900 until 1915.
The hypocrisy lies in this:
Keir Hardie stood for Socialism. Labour has spent the last two
decades vigorously and ruthlessly expunging the last remnants of those
principles from its ranks, in order to create the 'business-friendly'
sycophancy machine we all know and love today.
Keir Hardie stood for pacifism: this 'Labour' régime has embroiled
this island in more wars and similar illegalities and outrages (even
against its own citizens) than any government in living memory.
This latter probably wouldn't have come to him as a surprise,
however. In the period leading up to World War I, Keir Hardie tried
harder than just about anyone to prevent the epicene and effete ruling
classes of Europe setting the working people of their respective lands
against each other in brutal warfare. His reward was to be marginalised
within his own party, and the sight of his own 'comrades' being amongst
the first to start singing Rule Britannia and waving the
Union Jack in 1914 clearly sickened him to the heart. He died the next
year, a man broken by the perfidy of the 'official' labour movement.
And thus (plus what we know from far more recent experience), he
probably wouldn't be surprised at who unveiled the bust in Aberdare
either: none less than 'Ms.' Ann Clwyd, NuLab MP for Cynon Valley,
'Chair' of that organism comprising three-hundred-odd bodies and no
spinal column called the Parliamentary Labour Party (*), and one of
Blair's most special friends. For was it not she who was dispatched as
the Liar's 'special envoy' to Iraq, so that she could reassure the
plucky little Kurds (involved - at that time and since - in a little
light 'ethnic cleansing' of Arabs from northern Iraq) that their right
to autonomy would be acceded to (a right she has never bothered herself
with then it came to her own country)?
It's as well that the bust does not stand over Keir Hardie's grave.
It wouldn't be still for long; not with all that rotating going on
beneath it.
(*) Stop Press!
The appalling Clwyd was today (05/12/06) voted out of the
Chairpersonship of the Labour Party (the first time that had happened
since the early 80s), and replaced by anti-war candidate Tony Lloyd.
Clwyd was said to be "extremely upset". Never mind, cariad, just think
of the gratitude of your Kurdish friends, and their chums in
Corporateland!
