Lord Noel Talks Politics

Whatto! Pepys...

Here in the Uk we have just had our local elections.
I wanted the Green party to win some seats because they say that they will look after the planet and make it nice.... and they did! (win some seats)
Lady Jacqueline thinks they will be like every other Political Party before them and introduce masses of Green taxes that we will all have to pay -  for all the bad stuff us humans keep doing to the Earth.
Meanwhile a growing number of people here in the Uk seemed to prefer the Manifesto of rascism.

It seems that our veneer of civilisation is flimsy, that it can be removed so quickly.

The xenophobic Manifesto is an all too familiar one...

...because it focuses people's attention on a previously unrecognised enemy.

A Scapegoat...

...unable to protect itself...

Focusing on the fact that this 'stranger' is somehow different from us.....
...either by their choice of language or their choice of religion....
(conveniently forgetting that both are usually an accident of birth)
...or even focussing on the strange way they choose to dress themselves.

Manifesting itself in full on hatred towards any struggling foreigner, working here on a minimum wage and trying to make enough money to survive....
....Foreigners who are clearly hiding behind the cunning facade of being a willing worker - an obvious threat to everything British.
They are so different from us!
They do things that we would NEVER do!

But that is precisely why our Society, and our World is enriched by our diversity.
We fool ourselves that we have a collective consciousness which makes us all 'normal'...
...and makes 'them' somehow different to us.

Politicians spout rhetoric, as if everyone in Britain shares the same twisted beliefs as them....
... and pretty soon.....they do.

England football team giving the Nazi salute

It's somehow easier to believe that all our Economic and Social problems stem from a foreigner trying to make a better life for themselves and their family....

....than from a bunch of Bankers who demand to be continually bailed out with endless supplies of our money.

Trying to appeal to people's prejudice is a cop out....
...it's a cheap an cynical trick...
...aimed at attracting the lowest denomination of intelligence...
....and it's far, far too easy!
Much easier than addressing the real issues....
... and opening our hearts to the struggles of all the people in the World...
... and showing them some LOVE.

....and so the tide changes....
....and hate is directed towards those who can least defend themselves...
...and Politicians ride on the back of the wave of popularity that affords them new power to exploit.
And HATE flourishes....
It becomes the acceptable face of Britain...
...a new product of Society to be enjoyed by all.

Can we learn nothing from past experiences?
Can we not see the dead end that leads us on towards hating each other?
Because where HATE flourishes.... LOVE struggles to survive....
... and I know which I'd rather have.

Tallyho!

Best Wishes & Love - Lord Noel