Ken Livingston

I wrote an email the other day regarding the hew and cry over the anti Semitic remarks made by a new Labour MP Naz Shah and then the furore in the media of comments made by Ken Livingston supporting "her right to say" what she had said and then, remarking that Hitler had had a similar idea but in the reverse, encouraging Jewish people to leave Germany and move to Israel through an agreement in 1933 called the Haavara Agreement between Germany and the Zionists where the Zionist movement were calling for the return of Jews world wide to bolster the state of Israel. Apparently the current head of state, Benjamin Netanyahu made the same point to the Zionist Congress just the other day but this has no effect on the commentariat and all they want is confrontation. That's what sell seats. The culture of truth has no place in the modern propaganda factory and the British are in danger of becoming even more deformed.


Even at this moment on the radio Ken Livingston is being pummelled by two media chaps who are determined to light a fire underneath him, determined to explain to him that the truth is irrelevant and that it is more important to lubricate what he said by apologising mentioning Hitler. Livingston is determined to refer to history whilst his accusers refuse to acknowledge that the historical reference was true and are determined that he must apologise irrespective.
I applaud Livingston for his courage to stand up to these craven appeasers who for political reasons would sell their grandmother for a peerage.
The thrust of my email was that I felt the media and other interested parties like the Jewish Guild were over the top in their condemnation and as in so much of our desire to accommodate the changing face of Britain we were in danger of banishing something of real value in this country, free speech. It's interesting that his supporters as they ring in on the radio (LBC) are cut off early in their comment whilst his opposers are given full rein
The row is becoming more hysterical by the hour as people queue up to damn Livingston for what he said about Hitler. Leaders in the Lords, columnists and pundits, all perfectly able to research the history have refused to acknowledge the truth in what he said and instead have continued to pillage him. Is there an agenda, have the dark forces seen a crack to exploit their own bitterness.
The news has become 'entertainment' and the political agenda class have such clout these days that any view, different to the narrow views of seeking conformity, shrinking what we hear and see and what we can say down to an almost meaningless mambo jumbo.
The herd effect of the British citizen is almost frightening. The mass hysteria of a Diana funeral or the almost regimented need to show their grief at every turn has become a new national trait displacing the stiff upper lip of old.
We are of course in the hands of a propaganda machine, which the media, through the advent of television has become a drip feed of uncollaborated  information, be it Hitler or the myriad of no go areas covering disability, feminism, homophobia and much else.