A line of reasoning.

 Subject: A line of reasoning.





Is our greatest enemy, within.  The government or the sclerotic civil service which is supposed to enact its wishes seems  time and again to fail and we become trapped in a minefield of implausible obfuscation.

Last night the Prime Minister faced an audience in County Durham and, with a straight face and lots of panache told the audience everything was on course for success under his stewardship, it implied that much of what we hear about the economy, the schools, the NHS, our armed forces, the police and the legal system as a whole (and so much more), was all a misconceived illusion put about by evil forces.

He bounced onto the stage like a youthful marketing executive full of verve, surrounded by a well turned out North of England audience , like a messiah, eloquent and versed in the finer arts of explaining the unexplainable. I have to admit that I was impressed by his showing but as I gained my breath unable any more to explain to myself our abominable showing on virtually any measurement we choose to take, his oratory had transmuted fact for fiction, wishes for reality, it was all so plausible until you came back to earth and asked the question why so many of the issues are not as he said they are.

Words and sentences plus the a person willing to deliver those words and sentences, when expressed with a positive cadence and go back in time, well before Shakespeare. The great bard was master at conjuring  up a speech to defy evil which was amongst us even making the perpetrator the hero of the story. From Mark Anthony to Churchill the  storytelling was the most important part of the act in duplicity, a masterful exposure of the human condition, a construct of being amiable whilst plotting to kill, of setting out a story of moral rectitude whilst despising the person caught up in the bloodshed.

We are not on the field of Agincourt or in the head of the prince of Denmark as he struggled with his mortal compass, we aren’t at the stage of General Haig’s cry “ Your Country Needs You”  but we are in the presence of men gifted to ignore facts of penury and present them as a positive aspect of our life here in this country.

This morning, on another issue, the media commentary about the removal of the Rochdale labour candidate for anti Semitic opinion regarding the Hamas invasion of Israel on October the 7th and the murder and abduction of so many Israelis. The usual pro Israeli lobby in Westminster have been up in arms about what it sees as antisemitism but that lobby, including the Israel religious leaders are strangely quiet about the genocide which is being conducted by Israel in Gaza. The horror of October the 7th has been and is being repeated by a country which professes a special status not only in the eyes of God but in the political aftermath of the genocide committed against them by the Germans and yet the Israeli state inflicts terror on a civilian population in Gaza, laying waste by a force from which the Palestinian's  have no defence and worst of all are revisiting the same dreadful crime the Germans had in acted towards them between 1930 and 1945 and was the very reason that the political state of Israel was created out of the state of Palestine.

Mankind for all its wisdom still has a basic bias against others who it does not regard as equal and whilst promising to rain hell and damnation on those ‘opposing’ the Jewish line of reasoning as to their determination of a right to nationhood there is little room for manoeuvre.

The Labour Party ran into a great deal of opposition, not least from the Jewish rabbinical  leaders in the Synagogue who become extremely political in ‘demanding’ that the Labour Party, under Jeremy Corbyn stop questioning the Jewish community with regard to the Palestine. The term anti-semite is today banded about as if, having once claimed anti semitism, all rational argument must stop. It has a corresponding influence in the Muslim faith regarding the Prophet Mohamed which suggests that ‘faith’ still has an over-weaning influence in the affairs of a Secular society.

It will be interesting if the voters of Rochdale lend Mr Ali ( the MP at the centre of the anti semite trope) their support, much like in Pakistan where Imran Khan is still supported even as he languishes in prison.