Every Party has One
The Guardian has got hold of a leaked Political Party Training Manual, which advises it’s members not to set up party blogs in the run-up to this year's European elections because "they can't write proper English" and "get carried away with conspiracy theories".
It also describes its own members as "oddballs", "Walter Mitty characters", "compulsive liars" and "born troublemakers".
Interestingly it also says that “independent sites exposing the wrongdoings and failings of the old parties and making subtly favourable references, will be much more attractive and convincing to the wider public than sites which are clearly ours”. Really?
Now, I expect you are wondering which Political Party it is. Well, it’s the one that has had their training manual leaked to the press.
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This looks like slack reporting from the Dead Tree Press. It was also in The Times the day before The Grauniad, where a commenter asked:
"This leaked internal “war book”, this is the same top secret activists handbook that anyone can read at www.bnp.org.uk ?"
It seems to many (including many Old Labour activists) that with their globalisation, their favouritism of the rich and the oligarchs, and their betrayal and abandonment of Labour's traditional voters, that it is New Labour who are the main cause and motive power behind the BNP. It is noticeable that places with the highest BNP vote tend to be former Labour heartlands, now deeply disillusioned.
Our high-tech, alienated "risk society" that is the inevitable result of decades of politics and economics heading in the wrong direction, is becoming the all too predictable social disaster happening in slow motion, as The Times quotes:
“Millions of people live very lonely and isolated lives. The decline of the family and the break-up of communities mean there is a big gap in [their] lives. Filling that gap, giving people an ‘alternative extended family’, is the most powerful recruiting tool.”
Dot,
did you mean "risk averse society"?
No, I mean "risk society" ... another piece of baggage I picked up from doing OU social science courses. Some guy called Ulrich Beck. The theory postulates that with technological progress we have destabilised most of our means of social support, eg the family, traditions, guilds / trades unions and so on, and exchanged them for massive and incalculable risks beyond our control, such as nuclear megadeth, climate change, biological, chemical and robotic or cybernetic warfare, etc etc.
It's a cold, frightening and bleak place this risk society ... let me go home to a warm Mommy ...
Oh, right! Yes.
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