Saturday 15 March 2014

Wealthy Nation, Indeed

On Any Questions, Helena Kennedy tore apart Michael Fry's ghastly vision of an all-white, all-Protestant, neoliberal Scotland.

Fry went on to illustrate the true character of neoliberalism by, for all his earlier invocations of Presbyterianism, decrying any legal restriction on "consensual" prostitution.

When these people invoke religion, usually but not always of the mainline Protestant variety, then they only ever mean it as an ethnic dog whistle, in the service of their preferred economic order.

Readers in Scotland, by voting No, you will be voting against that.

3 comments:

  1. Odd that. I thought she played the Catholic victimhood card very deftly, in defence of the absurd position taken by her Labour fellow-travellers in Scotland, Glasgow particularly, while they carve out deals at the bastion of Irishness in Scotland, Parkhead. All politicians bend in the wind, but Scottish Labour's hypocrisy is even worse than the others'. As far as the referendum is concerned, whether it's 'yes' or 'no', things won't stay the same. That's something none of the political shysters is addressing

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  2. Ha ha. I should have said that I was dragged to joyless Mass at Sacred Heart in Bridgeton and went on Celtic cashtakers' bus runs. I thought, foolishly, that there was enough in the public domain to verify what I said. In fact, there is, if you want to find it. Her point is proven to her and your satisfaction. Dream on. She's made a good second career of coming back and lecturing us about sectarianism before going back home to complain about other kinds of bigotry at Oxford university that haven't stopped her taking a role there. I can't be the only one who found her interjection as bad as Fry's comment. And, oddly, she didn't react well to Dimblebey's calling her out as a Roman Catholic.

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