Saturday, 28 February 2015

Union of Right Forces, Indeed

Boris Nemtsov's party has one seat in a regional parliament, and that is it.

He was one of those figures in non-Western countries, such as we insist on defining Russia, whom Westerners wish that their own people liked a lot more than they do.

Westerners, and especially neocons, including those who prefer the term "liberal interventionists", or who insist that they are somehow "the decent Left". Those last tend to go on about Orwell. Quite.

Some person from MI6 was "interviewed" on this morning's Today programme. He managed to state, scandalously unchallenged, that Russia had sent "nuclear-armed planes over the Cornish coast".

Such is the level of falsehood, hysteria, and media collusion to which we must now accustom ourselves.

Notice, however, that neither the British, nor the American, nor even the Israeli spooks have managed to save the Telegraph. Or have they? Might they be the reason why it has not already gone under?

What times we live in. The Guardian is sitting pretty. So is the Morning Star. So, even, is the Socialist Worker. But the Daily and Sunday Telegraph live only in hope that one or more of those might buy them.

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  1. Orwell was a socialist. The fact he has nothing in common with the modern Left is a point against them, not him.

    At a time when the rest of the Left first opposed rearmament, then supported Hitler against us (because he had made a pact with Stalin) with the Daily Worker's headline cheering the Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland, Orwell was the only patriot on his side.

    As he put it the Left was "sometimes squeamishly pacifist, sometimes violently pro Russian...but always anti British".

    Peter Hitchens quotes it at length in his book Abolition of Britain on the Left's record of treachery during the war.

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    1. You need to read more than one book, dear boy.

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