by
Les May
SOME
people live out their erotic fantasies with blow up dolls. Others,
if you will pardon the expression, ‘get
their rocks off’
by inflating the importance of minor political figures, then
having first built them
up,
they
attack
them to demonstrate
their
own impeccable
anti-racist/fascist/nazi
credentials.
I’m
sure Tommy Robinson is grateful for the publicity he gets from this
treatment. He’s no fool. He knows that every stunt he pulls will
generate predictable outrage from ‘the
left’
and so double or triple his news value. A cool appraisal of his
activities shows a lack of coherence. What
I gathered from his
election leaflet is
that he
would
make as
much trouble as possible in the European parliament if he was elected
and he was going to give his salary to the victims of sexual
grooming. Get the violins out!
Attacking
Robinson by trying to suggest that what he stands for is synonymous
with the political systems of Italy and Germany in the 1930s and 40s
may give some people the cosy glow that they are ‘fighting
Fascism’.
They’re not, they are posturing.
As
a child I knew men who really had fought the Nazis. A childhood
friend grew up without the
father who had died being part of that fight. I
was
educated by
a man who became a Quaker after the horror of what he had seen in the
war. In
one of my first jobs I worked with a man who had chased the Nazis out
of Italy after that country surrendered. Don’t
dishonour these men by posturing.
Next
time you hear a man claiming that he is ‘fighting
Fascism’
by
shouting at Tommy Robinson and his ilk, ask yourself this question;
Do I think he would change places with just one
of the men who landed on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944?
I
wouldn’t; would you?
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