Morons think they’re taking on elite.. but do their bidding
THE marauding morons who swarmed into Glasgow city centre this week to “protect statues” are a manifestation of the dog-whistle politics of populism.
Boris and his boys have been goading this crew of goons, with their Brexiteer patriotism, for years now and this is the result.
We should expect to see more of this, as unemployment rockets and disaffection spreads, and the appetite to blame becomes insatiable.
A bowel movement has more deep-rooted sense of principle than this ad hoc “movement” of self-proclaimed defenders of bronze and stone.
But in the past few years, the right wing has done a fine job of duping these idiots into fighting for the wrong side.
It was sickening to witness thugs infecting the city centre at the weekend, chanting their bile and racially abusing bystanders.
But we should reserve some of our disgust for the right-wing puppeteers who have manipulated this dangerous bunch of fools into action.
This week marks the fourth anniversary of the murder of MP Jo Cox and the “protesters” in George Square would do well to heed her and ignore Boris. In Jo’s maiden speech in Parliament, she said: “We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.”
The Black Lives Matter movement is not about pitting black against white, it is a call for equality, and it is to all our benefit if they win their fight.
The very same system which keeps the BAME community down also locks others into poverty and exploitation.
The men who took to George Square were not bankers and billionaires, but the bottom of the economic pile.
They think they are fighting the elite, but are doing their bidding, protecting not only the privileged immortalised in stone but in the corridors of power.
They don’t need to beat the BLM movement, they need to join it, in the common cause of ending societal disparities which benefit only the wealthy and powerful.
It is farcical that the idiots fighting in George Square are using as an excuse the protection of statues, of baronets and colonisers, who would have gladly have hanged them in a square back in the day.
One suggestion from the BLM movement has been to replace statues and they proposed the inclusion of Red Clydesiders and socialists such as Mary Barbour.
These were the people who fought for the rights of Scotland’s poor and working classes, who opposed discrimination in all its hues.
Statues have become a distraction from tackling racism and inequality, which are as prevalent in Scotland as the rest of the UK. Let’s deal with the statues, topple some, contextualise others and move on.
Britain is heading back towards the unemployment rates seen in the first half of the 80s and some of us remember how bad that was.
We had a Tory government then, on a par with the insidious lot ruling the roost now.
If the men who took to George Square spent as much time on thinking as they do on thuggery, they would see fighting structural injustice as not only BLM’s cause but theirs too.