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Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll Quit the EDL
It's not an April fools. It is actually true.
Sky NewsOriginally Posted by Tommy Robinson
Quilliam Statement
Tommy Robinson's twitter.
To join the acceptable face of racism.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
UKIP beckons.
I hope the polls will disabuse him of this more effectively than the streets.
Find this very surprising, especially after the complete failure of that 'British Freedom Party'
Apparently there is more to this that meets the eye, specifically to do with Quilliam. We shall see, I guess.
I don't have enough posts to be able to post links, but the New Statesman have published an article that sees this more as simply a 'tactical retreat' after seeing their more 'assertive' approach alienate the general public. Given the success that their fellow racists, UKIP, are seeing through the ballot box, that would make sense.
The British Freedom Party was a fringe organisation that was never going to win any kind of political power, Quilliam Foundation is a professional think tank with intelligentsia support, government funding and a direct line to policy makers. Complete different situations.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
here is the link for the article referred to by Left Voice
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...ctical-retreat
Seems TR wants to go legit and follow the Griffin route or UKIP (as above) and there is more money in it for him..after all he is a "businessman"
R.I.P Juan Almeida Bosque
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely
the oppressive situations which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor which is
planted deep within each of us." Audre Lorde
Yeah I mean the thing to understand is that the leadership of the EDL have always espoused an essentially mainstream racist perspective, really no different to what right leaning think tanks and a whole host of mp's churn out on a daily basis. The difference was that they pursued 'respectable' goals through 'non respectable' means and due to the latter were then lumbered with the white power/fascist types who then actually made up a really large part of the EDL. So yeah the EDL are straight out racist and tommy robinson and kevin carroll are fucking racist as well but their racism is far more linked to say tony blair than to oswald mosley or historic british fascism.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
When you consider the that the Tories continue to send racist 'go home' vans into areas with a large amount of minorities in order to scare immigrants to leave the UK, you realise that the mainstream right wing in the UK isn't actually that far removed from the likes of the BNP and EDL.
That's exactly why the Tories, UKIP, and the rest of the more established mainstream right wing have bent over backwards to distance themselves from the far right. The likes of the BNP and EDL represent the right wing's immigration policies carried out to their conclusion. Same policies, but with a parliamentarian (rather than far right populist) face.
But see I think you need to make a distinction between BNP and EDL (or at least the public face media leadership of EDL). In many ways the BNP are an extension of traditional historic British fascism but the reason I said the EDL are more Blair than Mosley is that their racism is one wrapped in pseudo-liberal language of, for example, women's rights or gay rights. Obviously this is a complete cover and a way to give an acceptable face to Islamophobia but it's all part of Clash of Civlisations discourse that got filtered down through post 9-11/7-7 'exporting freedom' politics. That they attract a whole load of similar followers to the BNP and that adhere to confrontational politics (that on the streets the EDL has been infinitely more successful at, does not take away from the fact that people like Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll frame their racism in a way that Nick Griffin would never bother to do. To me this is a fundamental difference.
The racist vans that got mentioned are really important, because despite the fact that the EDL can get however many people onto a street demo they don't have and won't have the power to kick down doors looking for 'illegals', to militarise borders, to allow racist stop and search police powers, to subcontract surveillance services to private firms with limited regulation and known racists, to send bombs halfway across the world to 'the other', and so forth and so forth. The real racism, as ever, comes from the state and its armed wings.
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Here's a bullshit statement from Weyman Bennett,
And here's a much better statement from someone on my facebook,
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
^This is a typical SWP tactic.
