This vile website, to which I would never dream of linking, has had a makeover.
No more cod Cyrillic logo, for one thing: Harry's Place does not wish to draw attention to its roots in Straight Left, the most unyieldingly pro-Soviet faction of the old Communist Party of Great Britain. Hence its line on Russia, opposing the government there as an act of support for the only viable alternative, namely the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Ostensibly speaking from the Left and to the Left, it is in fact a nest of international banking lawyers and Tory-voting hedge fund traders. What are they doing in Straight Left? Well, they were undergraduates once, but would not have been if the grammar schools had still existed by their day. And who else would ever take an interest in anything like that? Most neocons were/are Trotskyists, but rather a lot of the London chapter (Harry's Place, Aaronovitch, Cohen...) were/are Stalinists.
Either way, the whole thing is Marxist to the core, and that in a Postmodern pastiche form just as al-Qadea is in relation to Sunni Islam: dialectical materialism, vanguard elitism, democratic centralism, religious "Useful Idiots", entryism, the permanent revolution, and a superstate in which the dictatorship of the victorious class is created for export throughout the world by force of arms.
The only change is that that victorious class is the bourgeoise rather than the proletariat. As I said, they were undergraduates once, but would not have been if the grammar schools had still existed by their day.
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On the other hand, Harry's Place has a far more open comments system than you offer, and consequently provides a much livelier forum for debate, with contributions representing virtually every political stripe.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly attracts its fair share of loons, but plenty of admirably sane commentators too, many of whom have some pretty fundamental differences with the site's major contributors.
In all seriousness, you're going to have to rethink your present rigid censorship (I'm tactfully assuming that the lack of comments attached to most of your posts isn't solely a by-product of lack of interest) if you want the British People's Alliance to be at the heart of any kind of national debate.
This blog is not the BPA. It is my blog.
ReplyDeleteI don't allow swearing or abuse, and I receive a great deal of both.
But then, I also receive numerous emails from people saying how much they agree with blog and how they have nothing to add to it.
So the BPA doesn't have a web presence at all, several months after your initial announcement?
ReplyDeleteAnd you seriously think you're going to win "several" seats in the European elections in a year's time, and that the BPA is the only party which can hold back the BNP?
Do please bear in mind what this looks like to a disinterested outsider: I have seen no evidence whatsoever that the BPA exists outside your own head. Googling it brings up this blog, Harry's Place, lots and lots of comments on other people's sites that on closer examination all turn out to be by your good self, and of course Patrick Michael Dawn, over whom a discreet veil should probably be drawn.
Surely, if there was anywhere close to the level of demand for your party that you keep claiming, the level of online chatter would be far higher than it currently is?
There's more to life than the Internet...
ReplyDeleteThere is, but you seem to spend a very large proportion of your life on it nevertheless. If you have a job as well, and if you're not just spending your whole working day using the internet, I don't see how you have time for much else.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be amazed.
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