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Thread #90695   Message #1721786
Posted By: Paul Burke
19-Apr-06 - 10:28 AM
Thread Name: An English protest song.
Subject: RE: An English protest song.
I don't think it's racist anything, but it's a bit close to UKIP in their sorry-for-themselves mode. The basis of it- that the regional assemblies will be depriving us of both local (county) democracy and preventing a National assembly- is a bit dubious.

Like when have the counties represented anything or anyone other than the bunch of lawyers, estate agents and car dealers who constitute the local ubermenschschapp as they do now and have done since they got it off the local petty squires?

And how would a national assembly represent both Esher and Mansfield adequately?

Personally, I object to regional assemblies- but because they would be designed to provide increased opportunities for the type of soft graft that has surrounded honours sales recently. They are only concerned to make life easier for the Immune- like those who are convicted of crimes, but still get cushy telly jobs and newspaper commissions from their media mates.

So, all in all, a poorly written song, but also a poorly thought out song. perhaps the two are related.