'Not a petition' maybe a woke manifesto?
Editor: Charles Charalambous has asked that we
publish his e-mail in full for our readers
to judge. In it he accuses us of making
'mispresentations of my views on your blog'.
Later on he goes further and suggests:
'On reflection, I can only conclude that your
misrepresentation of my views and communications
with you are more likely wilful than not. Among
other things, this goes against the principle
of free debate in the labour movement.'
We must leave it to our readers to decide if
Mr. Charalambous views have been portrayed by us
either as 'mispresentations' or 'misrepresentations'
or that we are further guilty offending 'against the
principle of free debate in the labour movement.'
As yet, Tameside Trade Union Council of which
I am the secretary, has not signed-up to
Mr. Charalambous's manifesto on Covid-19, but
we have at least published it in full on this Blog.
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Brian,
I WILL take the time to make three brief points in answer to your blog postings that refer to me:
1. Clearly, you have either missed the point, or are deliberately choosing to miss the point (I won't suggest anything worse) in order to generate more content for your blog. The appeal to trade unionists (bit of a clue there) which you refer to is not a petition to the government, as is obvious from the part you quoted ("Let's come together to push for the basic emergency measures that democracy requires.") and from the introduction to the list of basic emergency measures, which you carefully avoid referring to or quoting.
2. You have chosen to only publish the first part of my last reply to you, which ended:
I am not interested in correcting the
mispresentations of my views on your blog - not because of any supposed
"chains around some brains" (an ambitious claim based on limited
evidence, I'd say Les), but because I have better uses
for my time.*
By all means, feel free to quote Ludwig
Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, but I would be more impressed if you
engaged more directly with what people are living through today in the
UK and worldwide.
3. You continue to mispell my name, despite spelling it correctly
in your earliest post about me, and even after spelling it correctly
(once) in an entire piece devoted to musings on spelling and grammar. My
name is in black and white in my communications
with you. Do you have a learning disability, or are you just being
childish?
On reflection, I can only conclude that your misrepresentation of
my views and communications with you are more likely wilful than not.
Among other things, this goes against the principle of free debate in
the labour movement.
Please therefore publish this reply in full and stop using my name to make spurious points in your blog.
Regards
- 'I am not interested in correcting the mispresentations of my views on your blog - not because of any supposed "chains around some brains" (an ambitious claim based on limited evidence, I'd say Les), but because I have better uses for my time.'
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