RE: The wrong perception of Islam as anti capitalist liberation theology by radical left
July 5, 2013 at 5:54 am
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2013 at 6:09 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
Good ol' George.
Re-made his political career by grandstanding to Islamists in East London & Yorkshire on the evils of the west and saying that everything that the Iranain government is doing is a-ok.
And his party is called 'respect'. LOL. He always appears on British TV saying how awful everything the west does is, and portrays the Middle East a shining light of freedom (or at least it would be, if only Britain and the rest would stop poking their nose in).
People external or not privvy to British politics need to realise that socialism as an electable political ideology disappeared in 1979 with the advent of neo-liberalism under Thatcher, and the creation of the 'loony left' in Labour politics throughout the 1980s. This was also in conjunction with the demolishing of extreme elements within the trade unions .
Right or wrongly, no socialist movement has existed in Britain since then save for the possible exception of the nationalists in Wales and Scotland (Plaid Cymru & the SNP), and it's debateable certainly whether they're even socialist at all.
As such, the rise of underground extremist parties (on both sides) has increased dramatically since the major political parties began moving to the centre, which was aided with the general political zeitgeist of the British people following/inspiring this trend. Unfortunately this is why see parties like the BNP, and movements like 'respect' and the EDL begin to gain momentum. This is furthered by the unwillingness to the central political parties to both engage with why these movements exist at all, and further, with them refusing to accept that there's even a problem at all.
George continues to grandstand on issues he knows will gain support/get people's backs up because he's one of the only people that does it. People dismiss him, and they dismiss everything he supposedly stands for (I've always been of the opinion that he's in it for himself) without actually examining why his political support in the areas he campaigns in is so high. A white rough looking scottish guy getting elected in an Muslim majoirty West Yorkshire ex-mining town? You'd think that alone would be cause for the Labour party (the previous owners of the constituency) to start looking hard at themselves. But, they didn't. They just carried on dismissing him as a loon (which he is, but it requires much more analysis than that).
But largely Germans, I think you're right. If we take it as given that he's in it for himself, he's twisted the primordial notion of Islam vs the west to further his own agenda is bashind the west's operations that he seems to hate so much. He's taken the opportunity to grandstand to those who know he'll get votes from on that issue because he knows a lot of Muslims in places like Bradford feel disenfranchised by the normal national political process.
Re-made his political career by grandstanding to Islamists in East London & Yorkshire on the evils of the west and saying that everything that the Iranain government is doing is a-ok.
And his party is called 'respect'. LOL. He always appears on British TV saying how awful everything the west does is, and portrays the Middle East a shining light of freedom (or at least it would be, if only Britain and the rest would stop poking their nose in).
People external or not privvy to British politics need to realise that socialism as an electable political ideology disappeared in 1979 with the advent of neo-liberalism under Thatcher, and the creation of the 'loony left' in Labour politics throughout the 1980s. This was also in conjunction with the demolishing of extreme elements within the trade unions .
Right or wrongly, no socialist movement has existed in Britain since then save for the possible exception of the nationalists in Wales and Scotland (Plaid Cymru & the SNP), and it's debateable certainly whether they're even socialist at all.
As such, the rise of underground extremist parties (on both sides) has increased dramatically since the major political parties began moving to the centre, which was aided with the general political zeitgeist of the British people following/inspiring this trend. Unfortunately this is why see parties like the BNP, and movements like 'respect' and the EDL begin to gain momentum. This is furthered by the unwillingness to the central political parties to both engage with why these movements exist at all, and further, with them refusing to accept that there's even a problem at all.
George continues to grandstand on issues he knows will gain support/get people's backs up because he's one of the only people that does it. People dismiss him, and they dismiss everything he supposedly stands for (I've always been of the opinion that he's in it for himself) without actually examining why his political support in the areas he campaigns in is so high. A white rough looking scottish guy getting elected in an Muslim majoirty West Yorkshire ex-mining town? You'd think that alone would be cause for the Labour party (the previous owners of the constituency) to start looking hard at themselves. But, they didn't. They just carried on dismissing him as a loon (which he is, but it requires much more analysis than that).
But largely Germans, I think you're right. If we take it as given that he's in it for himself, he's twisted the primordial notion of Islam vs the west to further his own agenda is bashind the west's operations that he seems to hate so much. He's taken the opportunity to grandstand to those who know he'll get votes from on that issue because he knows a lot of Muslims in places like Bradford feel disenfranchised by the normal national political process.
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