Tuesday 22 January 2013

The Eternal Jew...

No-one with a grasp of History would deny that it’s a commonplace: dysfunctional government seeks – or, if necessary creates – enemies, external or internal, to misdirect its own people.


North Africa, this week, has been been a gift for Cameron. He has been able to identify yet another group of Muslims as alien, different, ‘the other’... to demonise them, to promise unceasing war... And it sounds so reasonable, doesn’t it, these awful people in Mali, about whom we know nothing...

Poor Duncan Smith: with a Judicial Review and a back-bench debate against him, circumstance this week has given him no-one new (disabled, scroungers or skivers) to assail for now. Never mind: he’s been able to come up with the figure of £5.3 billion which he can claim benefit-frauds have stolen from honest Englishmen. He has no evidence or justification for that figure which will bear a moment’s examination, but why should he care – it sounds somehow possible. So he can go on demonising, and promising unceasing war...

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