Filthy

[poliphilo]

The leaked letter from Rudd to May is a filthy thing. It speaks the dead-alive language of managerialism, devoid of colour, feeling- and any acknowledgement that its subject is "How to fuck people over more efficiently". If this is how we're governed- by people who refuse to look at the human cost of their policies- then it's simply not good enough.

Also not good enough is the recourse to legalese in defence of the indefensible. The chairman of the Conservative Party went on the Andrew Marr show yesterday to argue that the "ambitions" Rudd had voiced were entirely different from the "targets" she said she'd never had. Rudd has resigned now and maybe the chairman should also consider his position. Only he won't, will he?

And then there's May. The policy that Rudd pursued was May's creation. It was she who first used the filthy phrase "hostile environment". It's part of May's public persona that she's the child of a clergyman and herself a believing, church-going Christian, but- as Ali Smith asks in the book I've just finished- what Christian minister would bring up his child to believe that "hostile environment" and "refugees" were words that belong in the same discourse? May should resign too. And perhaps she will. Perhaps the coming local elections will prove the tipping point.

Comments

[cmcmck]

And it leaves some of us (given Labour's anti semitism- also something they seem incapable of dealing with) wondering who the hell to vote for next time!

[poliphilo]

Green? Monster Raving Loony?

[cmcmck]

Don't like the Greens only slightly well hidden fascist roots and the Loonies seem to have lost their way in recent years since they started believing their own mythos!

[oakmouse]

Most of the American politicians who are busily engaged in destroying the poor and vulnerable claim to be Bible-believing Christians too. I have to wonder which Bible: certainly not any version I've seen.

[poliphilo]

They always seem to have read the one or two verses that refer to homosexuality and to have skipped just about everything else.

[oakmouse]

Ah yes, selective reading of Numbers, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. You can get a great reaction from thundering Bible-thumpers who are inveighing against homosexuality by asking them about some of the laws they're skipping over. "Is your shirt of mixed fibers? God'll strike you dead for that." "Do you eat shrimp? Uh-oh, you gon' burn in Hell, boy." They stand there with their jaw hanging down while you walk away.

Of course, in my experience, most fundamentalist Christians, know almost none of the Bible even though they read it constantly, because their preachers tell them which parts to read and study and they tend to skip the rest. Not like my Aunt Martha, who knew every single verse of the Bible by heart and wasn't even a fundamentalist.