There are far better ways to make a case for your beliefs than assaulting cabinet members. Throwing green custard over Peter Mandelson may bring a degree of amusement to some, but whatever your cause, this sort of activity is completely unacceptable. I don't say this just because I have a degree of respect for Peter Mandelson (a point that probably does not endear me to many Labour members!) I say it because so-called direct action damages democracy and often puts back the cause in question.
The self-righteous twit who perpetrated this morning's custard throwing spectacle (she postures as an environmentalist but uses a highly processed and unsustainable food source!) claimed she was doing so because democracy had failed. Peter Mandelson, she claimed, was not elected. Quite who elected her is not clear. She claimed that direct action had worked in the past. She gave the miners' strike and suffragettes as examples. Given that the miners' strike was an unmitigated disaster, was led by donkeys posing as lions and actually accelerated pit closures, this seems to be an odd comparison. And with my historian's hat on, there is an historical argument that says that the campaign of violent damage to property actually delayed female suffrage. Having read private papers and cabinet documents of the late Edwardian and pre First World War period, there was great frustration with the more extreme "direct action" wing amongst those cabinet members who supported equalising the franchise. They did not want to appear to buckle to undemocratic forces of violence.
I am all for peaceful demonstration. The right to protest is a fundamental part of democracy and Labour's attacks on that right have been unforgivable. But there are some attention seekers who go too far. I suggest today's culprit does something practical to support the green cause such as living a genuinely greener lifestyle and showing others how to do it, rather than bringing the cause she claims to support into disrepute.
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"Given that the miners' strike was an unmitigated disaster, was led by donkeys posing as lions and actually accelerated pit closures, this seems to be an odd comparison"
That is a LIE.
The truth,I will tell you what happened...
The miners were given loads of overtime to produce coal long before the miners strike began. There were great stocks of coal ready and available to the government. The miners (well a few questioned why this was being done) took all the overtime and big pay packets home and didn`t question why they were given all this overtime. Some told them they were being set up but big pay packets blinded them they took and didn`t question why.
This was done in preparation for a prolonged strike that the Tory government had planned.
The tories done it to take away the power that the trade union/unions had over them. It was also done to make money for the nuclear industry and others who had GREAT financial gain to make for themselves. The amount of wealth made for the few at/to the cost off the many was billions and billions and billions for the few. Many a secret bank account was created through fraud, bribery and criminality on an untold scale. This has to this day gone on BIG TIME and led us into the mess we are in today. Even knowing all that has gone on the powers that be are still doing the same thing their criminality is truly INGRAINED.
I have said it for a long,long time that it was all planned with a greater purpose behind it all. Look at the above, these evil people always had a well planned plan...What have they got in store for us at the end of all that is going on now...we will soon find out,and as usual we the people will lose BIG TIME.
I think the UK is about to be "set adrift" by the rest of the world on the economic front anyway. Brown and a few others are making to many comments, speeches saying the same thing..."we are all in this together"..."we must work this out together"..."come together to solve our problems"..."It is time the international financial institutions were reformed and along with them the UN Security Council enlarged"..."The G7 is no longer inclusive enough and it is right that the G20, despite being somewhat unwieldy as a steering mechanism, is at last - some might say rather late - taking primacy. The forthcoming meeting in London in a month's time will be important"
They are in total...PANIC MODE.
We know one of thr reasons...
7 March 2009
"'Run on UK' sees foreign investors pull $1 trillion out of the City"...
http://tinyurl.com/bzdezo
And this is also a clue...
08th March 2009
"Apologise for the recession? Brown's credit crunch tantrum at 30,000ft"..."tantrum"...Last thing you would expect of Brown.A man under immense pressure...me thinks...
http://tinyurl.com/dfbl6g
Hmmm...why would Obama do this...trying to tell Brown something?...I think so...
07 Mar 2009
"Barack Obama 'too tired' to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown"...
http://tinyurl.com/adh8jv
There again who wants to be seen with a BIG time loser like Brown.
Wonder what the bookies are given on Brown being PM come Autumn? or before?.
This goes with the post above.
"In fact it is probable that the G20 will find it more and more difficult to simply meet, as the growing trend is one of « every man for himself »."...
http://tinyurl.com/b3n8kb
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