"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced" - James Baldwin
Monday, 30 December 2019
Let's Dance
Where
to start? Let it be with something / someone optimistic. How about
Jeremy Corbyn? In recent days I have helped promote a letter in his support. Now signed by thousands and headed by Ken Loach, Brian Eno,
Grime 4 Corbyn, Nigel Kennedy, Alexei Sayle, AL Kennedy, Michael
Rosen and Francesca Martinez.
Maybe
you shrug your shoulders about the recent general election and will tell me ‘that’s
democracy’, ‘They won we lost’. If in Russia the
administration for elections was organised by Putin’s cronies, I am
damn sure our media would be screaming - ‘Corruption’. So why the silence when that is the case here?
The
power of our ‘Free Press’ has played an important role in
deciding when to scream and when to remain silent.
Of
course we must not forget the repeated scream that Jeremy Corbyn is anti-semitic. But hey 5,000 Nazis in the form of Britain First have
now joined the Tory Party and in the USA a campaign has been lifted
from the UK election casebook with attacks on Bernie Sanders, a Jew, as being
anti-Jewish.
But
we must not forget that the election was about Brexit. Was it?
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