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‘ALRIGHT!’ Clueless
and deflated Natalie Bennett takes inspiration from useless ‘windbag’ Neil Kinnock1, but
she just needs to weigh-up her options and get the balance right.
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‘RUDDY’ STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Why does the Green Party keep missing out? The answers are: it has no clearly defined
purpose and it has no constituency.
Nobody gets excited about the GP and its policies, no matter how many
claptrap bullet-points Our-Natalie fires at Conference. Nobody is interested because other parties
have grabbed their attention.
The UKIP2 won four million votes
because it had a purpose; it wanted to put British people first; it wanted Britain to leave
the EU3 and it wanted to control immigration. The SNP4 won most of the seats in Scotland
because it had a purpose; it put Scottish people first, and it offered them devolution. The LP5 is resurging because it has
a purpose; it wants to stop austerity and to start prosperity for the working
class.
All of those policy areas overlap basic ‘green’ principles, but the GP has been
tainted by conventional political ‘wisdom’,
and now it is preoccupied with trying to imitate its ‘ruddy’ Green allies in Germany . The GP needs to be careful, because it is
becoming increasingly irrelevant and it risks being smudged into ‘last year’s ruddy Labour Party’.
What is going wrong? An old maxim states: ‘If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas’. The GP is infested with backbiters. They are the ‘enemy within’ and they are busy bleeding the GP to death. They consist of three main types: Luvvies, Stooges,
and Spooks.
Green Swipe will tell Our-Natalie what to do. She must read this ‘Guide to Fumigation and Pest Control’, and then she must use her
bushwhacking skills to disinfect the Party.
If she goes around with a ‘puffer-gun’,
swatter, and net, she ought to be able to track-down and bag every dastardly bug,
varmint and critter.
LUVVIES
Smug actors get called luvvies because of their affected
and often camp behaviour. It is a
derisive sobriquet which is joyfully used by critics to describe actors who
display ingratiating self-satisfaction or outrageously artificial style. The term also fits the GP’s ruling ‘in-crowd’, who inhabit the cabalistic
land of ‘Green Luvviedom’. GP luvvies are of two kinds: the ‘pseudo-falso’, ‘Festival Hippie’6, and the puke-inducing ‘Dude‘ and ‘Chick’ couple.
Luvvies can be recognised by their easily doffed
tokens and vestiges which include things like kaftans, head-bands, woollens,
bandannas, beads, sandals, or tunics, cravats, chiffons, frills, jewelry and
kinky-boots. Their wardrobes are
important to them; festival-hippies pretend to buy their aged, ‘vintage’ clothing from charity shops,
while kinky-couples buy their clothes at retro-fashion boutiques.
Luvvies are like cardboard cut-outs: they conform
to an unwritten profile or person-specification. The typical luvvie is a middle-class, twee,
hippie, but kinky-couples might appear as ‘Jason
King’7 or ‘Tara King’8
look-alikes. Both types are stuck in the
1960s. Luvvies from other classes also
exist. Upper-class luvvies are rare, but
they are welcome to join the ‘in-crowd’. Working-class luvvies are commonplace, but
they are not welcome.
Luvvies are generally university educated, and most
of them are intellectual, social, and cultural snobs; they actually speak their
own ‘gobbledygook’ language which
nobody else understands. Luvvies usually
have some kind of made-up back-story; they might have been forced to rebel
against their ‘well to do’ but ‘oppressive’ parents, but money does not really
matter to them; they were able to choose their alternative life-styles. All luvvies respect ‘Diversity’ within narrowly defined limits; they think their
devotion to that nonsense provides them with the only credential they need.
The luvvies are the GP’s very own courtiers; they
are a coterie of amateur-career-politicians, apologetic-spin-doctors, and ‘hangers-on’. They appear to be harmless, like a sack-full
of ‘wombles’,9 but they
are equivalent to Stalin’s commissars and apparatchiks; their scheming is
legendary. If you cross them, you might
end up in a ditch with a knitting-needle stuck in your back.
The luvvies continually swarm around Our-Natalie
like drones that are protecting their queen bee. They will not let anybody else get near
her. Apart from smothering Our-Natalie, they think that
they have the right to gag everybody else.
They are, in fact, self-appointed, insincere flatterers and ‘do-gooders’ who make everybody else feel sick. They give Our-Natalie bad
advice, and they make her and the rest of us look bad.
Perhaps the most famous GP luvvie was ‘holier-than-thou’, ‘dominatrix’, Sara Parkin. She
was in a hurry to get the GP organized into an election winning machine, but
she did not bond with the ‘non-luvvies’
who formed the majority of the party’s members.
The GP was always a disparate bunch of troubled people. They knew what they did not want, but they
were unsure of what they did want. Even
the Anarchists were willing to let somebody lead the party, but they did not
want ‘Goody-Two-Shoes’ Parkin chastising
them. That was bound to lead to an
almighty row and a ‘slanging-match’.
Parkin left the GP, and then she ran after her
pin-up idol, ‘Arch-Luvvie’, Jonathon
Porritt. They are now freeloading members
of the ‘rent-a-green-glitterati’. They enjoy the ‘jet-set’ lifestyle, touring the corporate lecture circuit, spreading
their ‘happy-clappy’ messages, and
telling their ‘fat-cat’ audiences
that they invented Green politics. She
has since been awarded an OBE for meritorious service to the government. ¯‘And she’s buying a stairway to Heaven. Oh, and it makes me wonder.’¯
At the end
of her essay on ‘Sustainability and
Democracy’, Parkin says: ‘So, down
with political parties! And up with collaborative democracy! Anyone want to
join my revolution?’ Our answer is,
‘No, just shut up and go away’. The GP
does not need to waste its time pondering visionary ‘What if ... ?’ scenarios which she has dreamed up; it has got to
concentrate on finding real-life solutions to today’s real-life problems.
That is an example of the way in which luvvies distract the GP away from its
proper business, but Our-Natalie has already been bitten by the ‘luvvie bug’. In her conference speech she said: ‘In the Green Party we know what our policies
are, we know that our values and principles are solid, unmovable foundations.’ That was good, but then she said: ‘We can’t go back to the failed 20th-century
model of centralised administrative monoliths imposing models on diverse local
communities.’ That sounds like classic Parkin
gobbledygook.
What
happened to the ‘solid, unmovable
foundation’ of Population Control?
Multiculturalism has failed. The
solution to, ‘diverse local communities’,
is to send them back home, and then they will not be a problem anymore. Green politics really is that simple.
GP members cannot ignore the need for Population
Control, just because it does not comply with luvvie political-correctness or
‘brainwashing detergent’. Population Control is none-negotiable. GP members who cannot accept that need to
explain why.
STOOGES
Stooges are of two kinds; some of them operate
overtly, and some of them operate covertly.
Overt stooges may be regarded as ‘double-agents’ who are motivated by
their consciences. They often suffer
from psychotic delusions like the ‘messiah
complex’ which compels them to ‘bear
crosses’; they feel they must sacrifice themselves for the rest of us,
whether we like it or not. They can be
identified easily; they insist that the GP is just a pressure group. How annoying is that?
Covert stooges are utterly treacherous, and they
are compulsive liars, but they can be recognised easily by listening to their
consistently negative and pessimistic opinions, and by observing their malicious
vandalism. They are always spreading ‘doom and gloom’, ‘chucking spanners in the works’, ‘pulling out rugs’, and ’backstabbing’. They are always voting for pro-LP
co-operation and against GP initiatives.
They are always trying to sabotage the good work that genuine green activists
are doing.
Stooges do not conform to any visible
stereotypes. They can take on any
physical form, but their mental ‘make up’
is always the same. They seem to be very
sensitive and ‘serious’ people, who often
display confusing or ambiguous sexualities, and who often suffer from
superiority-complexes.
The stooges are generally LP supporters; they are
political ‘moles’ who pop-up in all
kinds of radical organisations. They
have infiltrated the CND10, Animal Rights, Greenpeace, Friends of
the Earth, and Women’s Liberation. Their
mission is to convince those organisations that they must support the LP: if
those organisations want to succeed, their members must vote Labour.
Stooges use psychology to manipulate people whom they
have ‘marked’ or targeted. They are ‘hard
to kill’, because they protect themselves by exploiting the kindness and goodwill
of their ‘marks’; they try to make
their ‘marks’ feel sorry for
them. They also shield themselves with
extemporized political-correctness; they feign allegiance to ‘untouchable’ minority groups. Their pathetic personality traits make them
appear convincing.
Perhaps the most famous overt stooge was self-styled
‘father of the British green movement’, ‘media-dude’,
and ‘silver-spoon fed snob’ Jonathon
Porritt. He abandoned the GP, because he
did not want to be associated with the common riff-raff whom he thought were ‘raining on his parade’. He returned to his own privileged circle, and
he got himself a respectable job as Special Advisor to Prime Minister Tony
Blair. He achieved nothing as Blair’s
underling, apart from a red face; he got ‘slapped
down’ regularly by Blair’s junior ministers. His biggest achievement was to belittle the
British GP, and to lead many of its supporters ‘up the garden path’.
In an
interview with The Observer newspaper in 2000, Porritt said: 'This conflict has been true all my life. I
don't see it as a tension, but as a set of opportunities. I have always felt
that. The fact that I know how the establishment world works, because I was
born into it and educated into it, has not been a disadvantage to me or the
organisations I've worked with. The opposite is true: it has helped me to do
much more useful work. At Friends of the Earth, being at ease with the people
who were on the inside track, in the corridors of power, it was plain useful
for us. I could take this radical message to people who simply wouldn't have
listened to others, but who would listen to me.’
The ‘father of the British green movement’ sounds incredibly
pompous, but credulous too. He needs to learn
that the GP cannot rely on ‘the
establishment world’ to alter its course; the established order of society
has been steered in the direction in which it is going by vested interests that
regard him and his gang as ‘flotsam and
jetsam’.
Our-Natalie
does understand that the GP can rely only on itself. She reminded us in her conference speech that: ‘We don't tack around with the political
winds: we stand up for what we believe in’.
She continued: ‘Many new members told me that they had come
to realise that lobbying, campaigning, pushing against the closed door of old
politics, just wasn’t going to deliver the results that our economic, social
and environmental crises demand. We
can’t keep electing the wrong people and hoping they’ll do the right things.’
She then said: ‘No more of this unfair, inhumane, unjust immigration system’, and:
‘The GP is ..... the natural home of the
immigration rights advocate’, and: ‘If
you’ve suffered under our abusive, inhumane immigration system – join us and
fight it’.
What was she talking about? The only people who are suffering and being
abused are displaced British people, who have had to move out of their homes to
make way for larger immigrant families.
Who is fighting for the rights of British people? The GP is not.
That part of her Conference speech came straight
out of the LP’s ‘Champagne Socialism for
Dummies Handbook’, which was written for the politically naive. The GP ought to be opposed to all kinds of
immigration. Britain is overcrowded; it already
has thirty-five million people too many, FULL STOP!
SPOOKS
Spooks are real undercover government-agents or
spies who work for the police or the military intelligence. They infiltrate every radical or subversive
organisation which they consider to be an ‘enemy of the state’. They do not care about white-collar
corruption, organised crime, and terrorism; those activities are spiralling out
of control, but they think that ‘green activities’
pose a greater threat. Spooks can be
identified easily; their credentials are impeccable and they are usually the
most popular and charismatic characters in their groups.
Spooks are of two kinds; some of them are simple
scouts who write reports, but others are ‘les
agents provocateurs’ who are legends in their own minds. They both sound fascinating, but they are really
just a nuisance; they undermine democracy, they waste taxpayer’s money, and
they spread paranoia. Instead of
sneaking around in their own imaginary worlds of intrigue, accompanied by their
own favourite action-soundtracks, they ought to ‘get lives’ and proper jobs which would make them useful to society.
Amateur spy-catchers can ‘home-in’ on Spooks by simply watching them and waiting for them to
do something obvious: they will eventually reveal themselves because they have
missions. They will try to cause
trouble; they might try to discredit genuine activists, or they might try to
bring the GP into disrepute. Genuine
activists can counter their tricks by openly challenging them; spooks do not
like having their ‘covers blown’;
they will start sulking and then they will disappear into the shadows.
Perhaps the most infamous spook was ‘conspiracy theorist extraordinaire’ and
all-round ‘stupid faker’ David Icke. He had been a popular BBC TV presenter, and
they had fired him after he had refused to pay his ‘Poll Tax’. He then started talking
about the ‘Illuminati’12 and
shape-shifting lizards. He also implied
that he was the Son of God, and he said he was a member of the GP. He caused a lot of damage. Everybody in the GP got tarred with his sticky
brush.
Green Swipe believes in the ‘black-box’ approach to analysis: people do not need to know how a
system works. They just need to examine
the peripherals: the inputs and the outputs.
They do not need to understand what goes on inside the ‘black-box’ which is usually located in
the middle of a system.
People do not need to study History, Philosophy, Economics, and
The Law to understand politics; they just need to examine the causes and the effects,
or the raw materials and the finished products, or the winners and the losers.
Icke’s ‘stuff and
nonsense’ is ‘black-box’ thinking
taken to the extreme outer limits; it is cult ‘flypaper’ which is designed to trap gormless plebs who are
searching for something which is larger than life; it is blended ‘moonshine’, which is 50% mysticism, 49% psychobabble,
and 1% truth.
In his book ‘Tales
From The Time Loop’, Icke
explains his ‘order out of chaos’, or
‘problem-reaction-solution’
theories. He says: ‘You want to introduce something you know the people won't like ... So
you first create a PROBLEM, a rising crime rate, more violence, a terrorist
bomb ... You make sure someone else is blamed for this problem ... So you
create a ‘patsy,’ as they call them in America, a Timothy
McVeigh or a Lee
Harvey Oswald ... This brings us to stage two, the REACTION from
the people – "This can't go on; what are THEY going to do about
it?" ... This allows THEM to then openly offer the SOLUTION to the
problems they have created ...’.
That is an example of
machination. It is commonly known as ‘un fait accompli’. It is one ‘dirty-trick’ which is well known to all ‘scape-goats’, who might have been victimised in their playgrounds
or in their workplaces.
Spooks like Icke try to double-bluff their opponents. They are confident because they know that most
people accept their quick and simple answers. We might be expected to say that Icke is a fool thus everything he says
is foolish and, because he is still associated with the GP, the GP is foolish. Neither conclusion is correct. That is another example of a ‘dirty-trick’: it is known as ‘guilt by association’.
In her Conference speech Our-Natalie said: ‘In the European Parliament, the Green’s group is leading the way in calling for fair, just, humane treatment of refugees across the Union and outside it.’ She does not seem to know that ‘the Green’s group’ in the EU is yet another bunch of ‘ruddy strange bedfellows’. They are not allies; they were ‘smudged’ into a murky shade of red a long time ago.
THINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE
I remember standing up at the Newcastle Conference
back in the 1980s and demanding that the GP must: ‘Boot out the LP Stooges.’ I
received some cheers and applause. Those
were the days. Current GP Conferences
are much less tolerant places than they used to be. They seem to be much more stage-managed; they
appear to be marshalled like rallies. That
is because they are patrolled by the ‘Thought-Police’
and the ‘PC Brigade’, who make sure
that the delegates stay ‘on message’.
Parkin, Porritt and Icke were contemporaries. They were members of the GP at a time when it
was emerging as a positive alternative to the back-pedalling, ‘can’t do’, duff,
British political parties of the drab-1970s.
The GP was a serious threat to the ‘establishment
world’, but the antics of Parkin, Porritt, and Icke led the GP up many ‘dead-ends’, ‘blind alleys’,
and ‘creeks without paddles’.
Despite many years of New Labour government, Britain
retained its nuclear arsenal, and Toffs with their ‘inbred-farmhands’ continued to defy the law and go merrily
fox-hunting, and women still suffer terrible abuse and inequality. GP supporters need to
understand that the LP’s ‘achievements’
were historic and temporary, and that its methods are now passé.
Parkin, Porritt and Icke used the GP to make names
for themselves, to further their careers, and to sell books and
merchandise. They left the GP because
they wanted to damage it. They hoped
that GP members would beg them to come back.
They hoped that their sorrowful and remorseful followers would tear themselves
apart. Did they fail? Nobody listens to them now, except
Our-Natalie and her luvvies.
The current multicultural leadership with its
retinue of whining luvvies and bizarre, whinging, ‘rainbow-snatching’, ‘in your
face’, LGBT oddballs, provide a travelling, vaudeville show where bored, low-ranking,
‘journos’ can go for a good laugh. Their ‘entertainment’
is as bad as anything that Parkin, Porritt and Icke produced, and it ought to
make GP members wonder: ‘What is going
on?’
During the election campaign GP members were asked
to believe that Our-Natalie got stuck for an answer when she was asked about
the cost of the GP’s housing plans. They
were asked to believe that she was ‘bettered’
by a wheezing, ‘fatty-backside-for-hire’,
‘bargain-basement,’ ‘Z-list’, radio hack. She and the GP were made to look incredible.
If we give Our-Natalie the benefit of our doubts,
we must assume that Our-Natalie had been drilled by her luvvies into taking
interviews too seriously instead of treating them as opportunities to vex
journalists. She could have answered
like this: ‘I have no idea how much our
housing programme is going to cost. I’m
not a builder. Next, you’ll be asking me
how many bricks we intend to use.’
She could then have added: ‘Anyway,
it’s not a question of cost. If the
houses need to be built, we will have to find the money.’ She could then have hammered-home her point
to thunderous applause with a bit of patriotic fakery: ‘If Churchill had quibbled about the cost of fighting the war, we’d all
be speaking German now.’ If ‘fatty’
had continued to press her, even after that show-stopper, she could have
reminded him that building estimates are always inaccurate. She could have reminded him about Wembley
Stadium. She could have said: ‘Its initial budget was around one million
pounds, but it eventually came in at about six billion!’ She would have been talking rubbish, but she
would have made her point, and she would have won a skip-full of votes.
Our-Natalie ought to be the Leader of the
Opposition, because the GP is the only party which could offer a real radical
alternative. She is instead traipsing
after the moderate leaders of the LP and the SNP. She needs to ignore Neil Kinnock and to listen to
John Major who led his party ‘back-to-basics’.
Our-Natalie has tried to lead the GP the luvvie way and she has ended up in the political wilderness. She now needs to believe in herself and to lead the GP her own way. Our-Natalie has a natural ‘cuddly mummy’ image, which is friendly and likeable. She could exploit that; she would be more jovial; she would smile more often, and she would have more fun. If it would help, she could wear a flower in her hair; it would not mean anything.
Our-Natalie has tried to lead the GP the luvvie way and she has ended up in the political wilderness. She now needs to believe in herself and to lead the GP her own way. Our-Natalie has a natural ‘cuddly mummy’ image, which is friendly and likeable. She could exploit that; she would be more jovial; she would smile more often, and she would have more fun. If it would help, she could wear a flower in her hair; it would not mean anything.
WINDUP
This item has got nothing to do
with Britney Spears.
Here are three games for you to
play at home or in your groups: ‘Spot the Luvvie’, ‘Spot the Stooge’, and ‘Spot the
Spook’. Have fun, good night, sleep tight, and do not
let the bed-bugs bite.
Notes:
1. Neil Kinnock was a Labour Party leader who clucked ‘Alright!’ at his party conference.
2. UKIP - United Kingdom Independence Party
3. EU – European Union
4. SNP – Scottish National Party
5. LP – Labour Party
6. Festival Hippie – This type of hippie is not to be confused with the original New-Age Hippie of the 1960s.
7. Jason King – He was a flamboyant character played by Peter Wyngarde who was a wooden actor of the 1960s.
8. Tara King – She was a ‘sex-symbol’ character played by actress Linda Thorson in the fabulous TV series: ‘The Avengers’.
9. Wombles – Those were pretend furry animals that lived on Wimbledon Common. They appeared on children's TV.
10. CND – Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
11. Corbynisters – This is the name which has been given to LP leader Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters.
12. Illuminati – This 2nd century, secret Christian society was also known as ‘The Enlightened Ones’.
Don’t miss our postponed next post:
‘You’ve Been Conned – Multiculturalism’
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