It’s Wednesday.  It’s Society Guardian day.

Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:28.

Over the rich, indeed fabulously rich years since 1997 all the willing little helpers of the Blair-Mandelson Project have, like all large criminal enterprises, demonstrated that familiar, old habit of going legit.  The clashing, renegade clamour of the first, orange-haired Lesbian Outreach Officers and Directors of Asian Women’s Collectives has modulated to the smooth, machine-like hum of (if not sober-suited, at least no longer dungareed) public sector professionals.  The marxism is the same.  But these days Blair’s helpers –  those classes of being faultlessly assessed by Sean Gabb back in January 2001 - are infinitely more self-assured and certain in the permanence of their revolution.

And why not?  It’s not as if the argument ever risked being lost.  There was no argument, no public discussion at all.  Marxism has no need to win over public support.  It wins simply by seizing the manifold positions of power and unpacking its programme from there.  So, today, what tangible opposition do public sector “professionals” encounter in their daily round of service delivery to the indolent, the ineducable, the criminal, husbandless, queer or “vibrant”.  None from the ideologically moribund political right, that’s for sure.

In quiet moments, when the vibrancy calms down a bit, our new elite can reflect upon the killingly funny fact that The Project is entirely financed by the capitalist, middle-class - who can’t do a damned thing about it.  Meanwhile, the traditional, working class Labour supporters - who could - are simply too engrossed in footy and Corrie to notice that they, too, are the reactionary enemy now.  They simply carry on voting for their own cultural persecution, because it doesn’t hurt their pay packets.

But the greatest source of comfort to the Blairite public sector is surely of the spirit.  The Project bestows upon those who have yearned for equality all their lives the chance to make their dream come true.  The Project works, or so it appears.  The cultural and racial landscape of Britain is being changed, or so it appears.  A more egalitarian society – or, and this is no mere appearance, a more repressive one - is being engineered.

And all of this is only because Tony Blair wills it to his back teeth, of which there are many.  So today the Cabinet Office advertises in Society Guardian for a Fast Stream Assignments Coordinator, a low-status punk who will pull no more than 22k.  But at the foot of the ad we read, “The Cabinet Office is committed to providing equal opportunities for all, irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, religion, sexuality, transgender and working patterns.”  It’s not enough just to be another equal opportunities employer.  No, Blair’s people are, so to speak, on the ball and alive to the gender-blurring potential of confused homosexuals.  And that reference to marital status?  Surely not the feminist old hat of disfavouring traditional marriage.  More likely, one thinks, to be cutting-edge preparedness for wedded laddies.  And you can’t wage culture war more clearly than that.

It certainly puts to shame The Community Foundation of Wiltshire & Swindon.  This no doubt earnest body lags far behind, merely “striving to be an equal opportunities employer.”  Does that mean that somewhere there still survives a non-egalitarian employee in this benighted country?  No, not really.  Not if the Society Guardian is anything to go by.

One might welcome news of Manchester Drugs and Race Unit as a sign of a crackdown at last on the semi-automatic festooned gangstas of Moss Side.  Wrong.  It “exists to challenge” – what else – “health inequalities in black and minority ethnic communities and to take positive action to promote equality.”  Apparently, in order to be equal to white drug addicts, black and minority ethnic drug addicts need “access to quality and appropriate information, treatment and support that meets their needs.”  Highly laudable, no doubt, and any initiative to reduce muggings and gun crime in Manchester gets my support.  But I would quite like to know what “quality and appropriate information” white drug addicts get that no one else does?

As is only right and proper the Unit is an equal opportunities employer.  But it also “welcomes applications from all sections of society” which sounds faintly unequal to me.

Thusfar, Scotland has mostly been spared the priceless gift of diversity.  But the Scots, like European peoples everywhere, are popping the pill and producing insufficient offspring for the GDP-freaks who sit in the Scottish Parliament.  So a Professor Wright of the Scottish Economic Policy Network comes forward with a plan to increase the negligible yearly intake of immigrants to 50,000.  Just like that.  Not everyone is convinced.  But the Scottish Executive is Blairism with pibroch (heavy on the Blairism, obviously).  And so it’s ad on page 60 of Society Guardian – quite a sensible one in other ways -  proclaims the inevitable, anti-democratic commitment to “quality, equality and valuing diversity.”  I suppose the fact that a commitment is required at all is hopeful, in a way.  It does, in essence, argue that diversity is not really valued.  Whisper it but quietly.  Overall, one feels that the Refugee Council, for example, with its claim to be “taking positive action for equal opportunities” does unequivocally mean it.

Lovely, rural Devon isn’t the first place one would look for inter-racial strife.  The cows are multicultural, it’s true.  But the sheep are all white.  Nonetheless, the County Council’s ad sings its own marxist praises, “We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and in service delivery, and are only interested in your ability to do the job.”  But they don’t really mean that. They’re not, you see.

Meanwhile, Look Ahead Housing & Care is “leading the way with diversity.”  No small claim.  HM Prison Service issues the brief but stunningly thoughtful observation, mailbag-wise, that it is “an equal opportunities employer.”  Likewise Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust informs its applicants, “We are committed to flexible working and equal opportunities.  All posts are subject to a CRB check.”  It is unclear whether they are actually hiring criminals.  But it is an interesting thought.  If you say you want to go straight you’ve got a foot in each camp, right?

Speaking of camp, one struggles to find the finger-in-the-eye specials that so entertained us in the past.  The outreach industry seems not to be hiring anymore.  Perhaps one can’t get the staff.

There is just one vacancy for a Domestic Violence Reduction Co-ordinator.  Apparently, a new country-wide initiative on domestic violence has been ordered by the Blairistas.  News to me.  I must have been listening with moist-eyed gratitude to some other policy announcement at the time.  But Bedfordshire County Council understood precisely which Mandelsonian construction to place on it.  Their new employee will have “an excellent understanding of domestic issues.”  He or she will meet “challenges” and “build relations with stakeholders, other partners and community and statuary organisations.”  That’s the happy couple to you, plus her children by various fathers, her similarly battered mum, the local refuge and the filth.  It hardly needs saying that Bedfordshire is “working towards equality.”  One must hope it never arrives.

The roll call of future Policy Managers, Community Leadership Project Managers, Street Scene Area Managers, Social Workers, Heads of Supporting People, Social Workers, Social Workers, Parent Partnership Officers, Humanitarian Coordinators, Social Workers, Equality & Cohesion Community Officers, Community Development Officers, Social Workers, Family Centre Works Officers and Social Workers eloquently testifies to the nature and purpose of this government.

Actually, for the most chilling and blatant bottom line among all the Society Guardian advertisers this week one must look outside of government and to the voluntary sector.  “The International Secretariat of Amnesty International actively promotes cultural diversity and equal opportunities.”  Well, of course it does.  If Gramsci himself had been the copywriter he might have come up with something very like that.



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Posted by August Borms on Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:22 | #

Very clever indeed. This is exactly the kind of stuff, we in Flanders can read each day on the Vlaams Blok conservative people’s party web-site. Success guaranteed, then they already are Belgium’s largest party!

Stays only the little problem that with a probability of 90% they will be banned by the Belgian Establishment (red Wallonia plus the Flemish left and some liberal power randy hangers on), who voted the notorious Belgian anti-“racism” and anti-discrimination acts. November 9, 2004 ruling in appeal.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:39 | #

Thanks August.  My good friend Johan has already alerted me to the Appeal.  I believe that, actually, it is a win-win situation for the Blok.  But having said that, it would be much nicer just to win on November 9th.


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Posted by Braveheart on Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:12 | #

Dear Fred, it’s naive to think that the Belgian Establishment or the leftist Belgian Thought-Police will give Vlaams Blok a fair chance. I’ll explain you in a few words.

Such as Mr Borms (reminds me of something) says, there are two laws involved: the anti-racist law and the anti-discrimination law.  But what Borms doesn’t seem to understand is that in fact the second one is a major upgrade of the first. Normally, on your computer, when an upgrade is installed, the former version is deleted. But not in this case and of course on purpose. This for the simple reason that the anti-racist law is the Thought-Police’s license to kill Vlaams Blok. The anti-racist law had to be let alone.

The reason behind is that between the first and the second law, Belgium got a constitutional court, the Court of Arbitrage. Alas, for the Vlaams Blok trial, it is the first law that is used in court to sentence Vlaams Blok. The constitutional court could only reform the second law. Also to note, both laws made a typical Belgian amalgam of racist “deeds” and “speech”. Always interesting for the Belgian Establishment to tell the European Parliament (that must lift immunity) in retrospect that Vlaams Blok has been sentenced for racist DEEDS, when in fact they DID nothing, as far as Anglo-Saxon interpretation is concerned.

But now the Belgian Court of Arbitrage wrote that (of course only) the (second) anti-discrimination law is not conform the Belgian fundamental law, which guarantees free speech. In this view and for the future, it is necessary that someone suffers personal damage (from real deeds and not from words or thoughts) to get someone sentenced. Normally you should think: NO Vlaams Blokkist ever exerted a racist deed, thus now they can go free? Unfortunately this would be too simple. The Vlaams Blok’s appeal, because of the Belgian statute, only involves the legal PROCEDURE and not the reason why they were sentenced. If the procedure was right, the sentence will simply be confirmed, although Vlaams Blok will be sentenced on basis of what meanwhile has become a “ghost-law”(and a biased judge). In fact, you could compare this with the resistance being executed for sabotage after the Nazis were chased away by the English and American liberators! But of course such considerations of good faith are not important to the Belgian Establishment. Vlaams Blok must hang! Although Vlaams Blok meanwhile asked the Court of Cassation (the appeal instance) to ask in its turn the Court of Arbitrage (the constitutional court) some pre-judicial questions, whether the anti-racist law (the old not upgraded version), which is formulated in the same phrasing as the new anti-discrimination law, should be reformed too.  But the probability that this will be granted is evaluated by me much lower than the 10% such as Mr. Borms or any other normal person might hope/think.

And this is not the end. The “show” of the absurd will go on. If the Belgian left is involved, there is simply no hope for mercy. It’s just like Charlie Brooker in a recent weekly TV column in The Guardian about president Bush’s possible re-election, who concluded his ditty with the following: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.—where are you now that we need you?”. What will probably next happen in Belgium, will have to be seen in that perspective. After the verdict of guilty, every Vlaams Blok member or collaborator will be member of a “criminal organisation” and can lose his political rights to be re-elected.

Certainly a new party with the same ideas as conservative Vlaams Blok will be founded, but what will meanwhile happen to the Vlaams Blok coryphées? Will Vlaams Blok leaders Filip Dewinter (his followers see him as a new kind of Nelson Mandela), Frank Vanhecke and Gerolf Annemans lose their political rights after being charged by the Thought-Police for being member of a criminal organisation and this on the basis of what has become a “ghost-law”? These new sentences would obviously inflict a severe blow to the Vlaams Blok conservative (and nationalist) movement, even when in the latest popularity poll in Flanders they already got 26,5% and nothing indicates that their grow will soon stop.



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