There comes a time in one’s life when one should question everything. I say this because unless our lives are meant to be based on paper mache foundations then it is essential to look further than the grime around the toilet basin. Talking of which the ‘Harrow boy on his estate’ has been spouting off again. No not under the wing of Lord Rothermere but close – Newsquest’s spawn. Not about local issues either that would be asking far too much. I mean what is there to talk about around here besides a failing economy; the privatisation of everything that is not animate; living wages; fracking Dorset from behind and from the front; large class sizes; increased mental illness; ATOS not giving ATOS about the sick and disabled; a sincere support for the coastguard helicopter; high council rents; burning tyres on Portland; palm oil power plans for Portland… and on? No, we get his take on whether homosexuals should be able to marry because he and ‘millions of others… believe that ‘marriage’ can only be between a man and a woman’.
Frankly, I believe that any person who wants to get married or have a civil partnership or just live together should be able to do what they like. The law should be equal across the board and individual choice amongst consenting adults should take priority over the dictation from the state. But not according to Mr. Drax. The so called defender of freedoms against the so called ‘nanny state’ is at it again. Bugger freedom when he wants to retain his own personal list of cultural ‘assets’. The hypocrisy is as plain as the grime in a public loo. It is an interfering state when he does not care for it but a legitimate act on behalf of the people when he does. Let’s take a closer look at other parts of this week’s ‘mein positonen’.
‘Instead, in what is arguably one of the most intolerant pieces of legislation in years, we have trampled on conscience and faith with abandon.’ Last week I questioned whether he believes Dorset Echo readers are ‘stupid’. Now I know he does. Instead of recognising that if Jesus or Mohammed, or whoever else people choose to believe, were preaching today that they would consider all of humanity to be made in ‘God’s’ image he propagates that a law that has only been in place since the Heath government of 1971 should take precedent. If tolerance is to be defined as per the dictionary ‘a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one’s own’ (https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tolerance) then Mr Drax you are the ‘intolerant one’. Has a certain ring to it doesn’t it? But this verbal parody is not at an end. Mr Drax then tries to convince us that ‘conscience of faith has been trampled on with abandon’. ‘Conscience of faith’ another lovely phrase that means what? Bombing villages in Afghanistan? Kidnapping and torturing people (aka rendition)? Privatising public services to line the pockets of an already very rich group of oligarchs? Hunting foxes? Living off the immoral earnings and the blood of dead slaves? Which one of these and many others is not a ‘conscience of faith’ Mr Drax? And you have the cheek to bleat on about preserving something that fails to impact upon you in any existential way and yet stand aside or actively support behaviour that is truly destroying lives.
The belittling of ‘equality for all’ is to be expected and no amount of examination will change generations of inherited bigotry and a snobbish superiority syndrome. If only some humans were naturally superior. How easy that would make things. But they are not Mr Drax. We all have equal worth no matter what bastardised nonsense your family have been spoon fed across the ages. Of all the words you have wasted this week though Mr Drax – it is the final ones that are the most ironic ‘That cold wind, silencing dissent, already blows across our country and it worries me.’ This cold wind is usually much more commonly found in the form of uniforms, batons, mace, pepper spray, guns and establishment media barons Mr Drax not parliamentary democracy and public opinion. Another one sided bias piece that undermines everything we should stand for from a local MP who has still not learnt his lesson!
Flora the Implorer
