Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Notoriously

The Devil holds up Polly Toynbee's comments this week for ridicule. The gist of it (and if you don't trust the summary, check it out yourself), the Devil says is ...

"Labour got utterly kicked in the local and Euro elections because they weren't left-wing enough and didn't nationalise enough banks."

That rather defies common sense, seeing as the biggest beneficiaries of Labour's collapse including the Tories, UKIP, and most notoriously, the BNP. Granted, the latter have a number of leftist economic policies, but I'd still hesitate to call them "left-wing", despite Ron Paul's argument presented by the Nameless Libertarian. I've always thought that real left-wingers are interested in oppressing everybody, regardless of race.

2 comments:

Devil's Kitchen said...

Yes, Sam; but oppressing everybody is much easier when you divide them into groups.

DK

Sam Tarran said...

^ I see and understand the argument. I guess my views of right and left are a wee bit too hesitant to break from convention. Only a lack of worldly experience.