[Update at end of post]
Many who scrabble around the dunghill that is Grubstreet begin their careers with hopes and dreams still intact, the belief that their contribution to our free and fearless press might someday change the world for the better. But for many, any such hope is swiftly knocked out of them as the discovery is made of their true purpose: to prostitute themselves obediently to the demands of their proprietors and editors.
Behold the rictus grin of the flannelled fool
For one aspiring hopeful, the moment that reality intruded into his world came last night, as the dictates of Creepy Uncle Rupe showed just how free and fearless that press really is. The odious flannelled fool Henry Cole, formerly tame gofer to the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines at the Guido Fawkes blog, fell from bringer of “exclusives” to inflating the CV of a sad has-been, but Murdoch favourite, very swiftly indeed.
The occasion on which Master Cole had reported was the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture, given in the memory of the Prime Minister whom they all knew, and to whose thoughts they were all privy, honestly. This year’s lecture was given by former Australian PM Tony Abbott, whose brief period in the limelight was engineered largely by the endorsement of the Murdoch press - and has now passed.
Cole’s Twitter feed sets the grovelling tone: “Former Aussie PM name checks ‘fine Australian export Lynton Crosby’ at the Guildhall. He's going to give v punchy speech on migrants … ‘Will gnaw at consciences’ but ‘tide of humanity surging through Europe and quite possibly changing it forever’ … Quite extraordinary intervention by former Oz PM Tony Abbott at Guildhall tonight. Bombshell warning on immigration”.
And to that I call bullshit. Migration that changes a country forever is what was done to Australia in the period between the end of World War 2 and the 1970s - the only difference between that and refugees from wars in the Middle East is that the migration to Australia was deliberately engineered - and those who went were all white. Because, although even the Sun is too polite to say so, English speaking white migration is OK.
Moreover, while Cole blusters hopefully “Not sure Abbott will be getting a job at the UN after that”, no leading European politician with head screwed on and a hole in their backside will care a rat’s arse about what Tony Abbott thinks. A job at the UN? He’d be damn lucky to get a job at Poundland. “Bombshell”? “Punchy”? “Intervention”? He’s a bigoted, sexist, misogynist gobshite with less credibility than Skippy.
Yet still Master Cole persists with his pretence: “Abbott speech hits P1 of @TheSun”. Yes, because it’s run by Rupert Murdoch, he supports Abbott, and wants his man and his shitty, repellant views pushed up the news agenda. Perhaps it has not yet dawned on the flannelled fool that he has been reduced to writing what is effectively proprietorial drivel to order. It is screamingly obvious to any disinterested observer.
Nobody gives a flying foxtrot what Tony Abbott thinks. Even with Murdoch’s support.
[UPDATE 1535 hours: just to show what Master Cole really thinks about Tony Abbott, here is his Tweet from just before noon today.
"Tony Abbott won't be going to the rugby on Saturday and sung Jerusalem last night. No wonder the Aussies booted him out". That's as near an admission that his
Sun article was done to order as makes no difference.
His only problem now is making sure none of Rupe's key mafiosi see it.
Good luck with that one]
Where there's an Abbott there's a Costello - look it up, Nastzis, I can't be arsed explaining.
ReplyDeleteI am still minded of a glorious Gore Vidal Moment.
He was delivering a speech to an international audience. In it, he explained some unarguable demographic facts. One of them was that the world was populated overwhelmingly by non-white people, that sooner or later - no matter how long it took - this would tell politically and culturally. When he looked up from the lectern he saw a small group of glum white faces in the centre, surrounded by a sea of toothy grinning "coloured" faces. I still laugh at that one.
There is still - just - time for imperial and colonial minded whites to openly acknowledge, compensate and set right the terrible wrongs done to the world. If they don't, given human nature, there is a dreadful logical conclusion to what will happen.
Meantime, said whites have set out (and managed so far) to corrupt or physically destroy any individual or nation that rejects their hegemony. This is precisely what Orwell forecast in "1984."
There is no sign whatever of a change in mindset, not a single indication of a willingness to understand not that no man is an island but that we all live on the same island. The awful tragedy for humanity is that the white ruling class is perfectly prepared to destroy the island rather than concede democratic decency. Is there really any need to recount history and compare it with the present horror?
The likes of Abbott, Cole, Murdoch, Cameron, Dacre, Blair, Reagan, Thatcher and the Bush dynasty are merely cowardly, pathetic messengers, opportunist spivs who sold their arses for a mess of potage. None of them have had a single constructive thought between them. But they sure know how to attack and destroy hope amongst the most vulnerable people and nations.
It won't go on forever. It only seems like it. But in the meantime the guilty ones will inflict unspeakable horrors and thievery and do so without batting an eyelid of conscience. And they'll get away with it for as long as they are allowed.
The piece was not anti-Abbott dimbo. You clearly didn't read it.
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ReplyDeleteNobody is suggesting it was. You're welcome.
@ Anon 2
ReplyDeleteSurely it was about a Carrie spoon fed Tory HQ line piece, Harry old boy?
As for Abbott surely as Anon no 1 hinted this Elvis has left the building?(alternative wiki ref).