Incoherent article by Jade Azim on the Young Fabians website: http://www.youngfabians.org.uk/how_to_beat_ukip
In rather lurid language the author talks of a deliberate divide and rule policy by an indeterminate group described as the "upper echelons of politics". This was a sentiment also expressed by Diane Abbott MP in her infamous (and immediately withdrawn) "white people like to divide and rule". And yet what policy could be more divisive than multiculturalism, which allocates ethnic groups their own cultural ghettos and tells some groups they are special and other groups they are not special.
The author, in the phrase "But the lack of media attention that the Greens command means that their presence simply isn’t felt as it should be" blames the media for lack of electoral success. In a capitalist system the media on the whole are focused on sales and ratings, not propaganda. Political parties must take the blame for their success or failure (if politicians did a full canvass of their constituencies there would be no media intervening between them and the voters - but most politicians are too scared and too lazy to do a full canvass).
"Labour must become the protectors of the welfare state and the champions of full employment, of housing" the author tells us. But if immigration is on-going how on earth will there ever be enough welfare, jobs and houses? As soon as new provision was made it would be immediately filled - unless the United Kingdom were to take on the social needs of the entire world.
In rather lurid language the author talks of a deliberate divide and rule policy by an indeterminate group described as the "upper echelons of politics". This was a sentiment also expressed by Diane Abbott MP in her infamous (and immediately withdrawn) "white people like to divide and rule". And yet what policy could be more divisive than multiculturalism, which allocates ethnic groups their own cultural ghettos and tells some groups they are special and other groups they are not special.
The author, in the phrase "But the lack of media attention that the Greens command means that their presence simply isn’t felt as it should be" blames the media for lack of electoral success. In a capitalist system the media on the whole are focused on sales and ratings, not propaganda. Political parties must take the blame for their success or failure (if politicians did a full canvass of their constituencies there would be no media intervening between them and the voters - but most politicians are too scared and too lazy to do a full canvass).
"Labour must become the protectors of the welfare state and the champions of full employment, of housing" the author tells us. But if immigration is on-going how on earth will there ever be enough welfare, jobs and houses? As soon as new provision was made it would be immediately filled - unless the United Kingdom were to take on the social needs of the entire world.
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