Friday, October 23, 2009
Spitfires
Thanks to the pheasant fiasco, I missed Nick Griffin on Question Time. A pity, it sounded like fun. I'm interested in his fondness for the idea of the racial purity of the English. Racial purity is a laughable concept to anybody who knows anything about genetics, almost as laughable, in fact, as that creepy obsession with ancestry. Go back a few hundred years and everybody is descended from everybody else. Family trees are a joke and I reckon I should be King, but so, probably, should you. Anyway, claiming racial purity for the English is more than just laughable, it's insane. We are such hopeless mongrels, as Daniel Defoe pointed out with riotous good humour (thanks, Andrew). Of course, there's cultural Englishness, involving mild depression, good humour (again) and general bafflement, and I'm all for that. But this Griffin oik seems to have none of these qualities. He seems to think our natural condition is flying Spitfires and Lancasters. But we only do that when we are really pissed off and even then with great reluctance.
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ReplyDeleteMind you, it wouldn't be a bad policy to send all the pheasants back to China.
ReplyDelete"But this Griffin oik"
ReplyDeleteAnd that's the truth of it. The man is an oik. However, our snobbishness in this respect has probably shoved a few thousand in the BNP's direction.
Still, it would piss off that other group of deeply unattractive wannabe Trotskyists, the SNP, to think that the BNP are the new class warriors.
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ReplyDeleteBy the way, and how rude of me to forget, good to have you back. Funny how attached you can get to comment that is eclectic, catholic, amusing and erudite.
ReplyDeleteNot that it should bother you any, but you were missed.
Hear hear. I should have said that as well. Apologies. Hope all is well and better than well with you.
ReplyDeleteOur dearly beloved British Broadcasting Corp seems to be in the latter stages of the menopause, not at all the time to have the additional burden of a looming Tory administration, knowing that this will bring the grim reaper not only to their doorstep but also into the penthouse.
ReplyDeleteThe blessed little creatures have been acting like your average group of Meerkats even since Tone smacked their botties over the Hutton affair. Since then their direction has been lost, or at the very least mislaid.
Last nights attempt to allow a minority leader his metaphorical chance to book burn was a dismal affair, the BBC airing it via a programme best described as the yah-boo-sucks show, fronted by an individual who, but for daddy's name, would be cleaning toilets, last nights show was not directed by Leni, nor was Albert it's set designer.
Just how difficult is it to shoot a sitting duck, especially one who would appear to be several Bierkellers short of a Marienplatz.
Call him a Fascist? Ossie and Unity must have been rotating in their crypts last night.
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ReplyDeleteYou mean I might actually be related to Nick Griffin? Now that is a horrible thought.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Bryan, even if, after this spitfire like burst, we have to settle for something less than the astonishing output of 2006/7/8.
ReplyDeleteGot to agree with you on Professor Dimbledore, Malty, he's bloody useless. Bonnie Greer was trying to make the most pertinent point of the whole episode - ie. that under Griffin's definition the "indigenous" population of the UK would be exactly zero - and Dumbledoodle talked all over as if it was irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteI agree Earl Dimbleby should retire. Did you see his coverage of the US presidential election. Just dreadful to the extent of being squirmingly embarassing.
ReplyDeleteWe are such hopeless mongrels
ReplyDeleteBut surely a superior breed of mongrel?
I don't know, I kind of took issue with Greer's suggestion that the Romans were misunderstood multiculturalists. I mean, what the fuck?
ReplyDeleteI agree the BNP are unsavoury, and I agree the genetic issue is beside the point, but there are still questions which need to be addressed. Most BNP supporters are not ideological fascists, they are concerned, amongst other things with immigration and its impact on our country.
ReplyDeletePouring ever more people into a small country raises questions about how we are to live, especially in the already crowded and tense inner cities. All the most cohesive countries in the world are racially and culturally homogenous and highly conformist to common identity and values. Countries which are diverse and individualistic, like the UK and US have more tension and disorder, and in the case of the UK we don't do anywhere near enough to deal with existing problems, so the question is, how will the governing class cope with an even bigger problem? You can say that some of the tension and disorder stems from economic inequality, which is true, but the more diverse, individualistic and tense a country becomes, the less willing it is to conform to the tax and social regulation required to increase equality - a vicious circle.
It would be a tragedy if the shortcomings of the BNP are allowed to obscure the more substantive issues. As I said, most people voting for the BNP are not fascists, so if we address the more substantive issues then support for the BNP will collapse anyway.
Enjoy this
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QAvkFS_cgk