Boris drops anti-racism music festival
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KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
Or the Cuban one perhaps. Now what proportion of the vote did Castro get? Oh I forgot Cubans don't do elections or should I say the Cuban GOVERNMENT doesn't do elections.
Maybe if circumstances had been different and the Seppoes hadn't been so paranoically anti communist and isolated Cuba then maybe Cuba wouldn't be a dictatorship. But thats for another thread.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Considering Boris actually stole a cigar case belonging to Saddam Hussein I'd say no.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yeah I saw his name and thought clever now the Tories get the guy who's song they're using to sing it live to a captive audience...
Regarding the rejigging, RISE (or Respect as it was originally known) was started by the unions so why can't they just say fuck the GLA and Bojo and run it themselves again?
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Money, i'd hazard a guess at quite simply.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
If they can fund the Labour party with millions surely they can find a good few thousand to put on RISE 2009?
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
What are you criticising me for having a go at the apologists for the Cuban dictatorship or praising Boris for making the festival more inclusive and less hectoring or how he has removed the removed the SA clowns from the organisation of the festival?[/
hipipol
Peckham Wry
The Cuban Dictatorship - oh my
I wont bother saying I'm surprised by that statement because I assume you used it with intent to shock, or at least annoy
If you look north accross the water from that island you will find freedom - freedom to starve to death, freedom to be shot, freedom to be utterly poor, freedom to abandonned by your Govt when natural disaster strikes
Give me Feidel hospitals, food, schools, etc every time
You seem to want to label things
Suspect you are rather neurotic
I wont bother saying I'm surprised by that statement because I assume you used it with intent to shock, or at least annoy
If you look north accross the water from that island you will find freedom - freedom to starve to death, freedom to be shot, freedom to be utterly poor, freedom to abandonned by your Govt when natural disaster strikes
Give me Feidel hospitals, food, schools, etc every time
You seem to want to label things
Suspect you are rather neurotic
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
I'm not denying that the Castro Govt did great things with public services and literacy but thats basically as far as it went. Theres restrictions on the Internet, broadcasting, the right to dissent, the right to challenge the govt etc etc.
You've got to be consistent in criticism of bad govts. its the weaselly non criticism of dictatorships of the left in the past that has helped to discredit the left in the eyes of many people.
No but I've come to the conclusion that a dictator is a dictator is a dictator whatever political path they come from.
Story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/17/boris.london
Will keep the festival, but Love Music, Hate Racism is dropped.
Seems a brilliant response to the BNP getting elected to the GLA. Not.
Leopards divvunt change their spots. Wait till you see what the fuckers get up to when they win the next election....
The Tories have always hated dictators after all.
Ha ha hilarious! Have you got one of her with that other power mad dictator who wants all of his citizens on a database and fingerprinted etc?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Ineed.
ajdown
Posting in this thread
So you're admitting you don't like democracy?
I don't see how you could have possibly drawn that conclusion from the previous post, apart from maybe if BoZo ejaculated in your eye and it got infected, damaging your vision to such an extent that you need to make up words instead of reading them.
ajdown
Posting in this thread
The BNP candidate was democratically elected to his position in City Hall by a fair and open process.
Therefore, if you don't like that fact, you're against democracy.
Democracy includes putting up with some politicians that don't represent your views, as well as some that do.
You have the right to protest against what you term as 'fascists' - but you can't stop them being elected, or standing for election. You can only vote against them and let the process take its natural lead.
In fact, it probably wouldn't be too much of a stretch, from the definition of fascism as "mass movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence" that the anti-fascist movement could actually be termed fascism in itself, if you term 'cultural decline' as not being multicultural.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
can you rephrase that so it makes sense eh
they mean anti-fascists are just as fascist as fascists
So was Adolf Hitler
Are you TobyJug?
Please explain how the sentance "Some people on this thread need to pull the cotton wool away from their eyes." Translates to I don't like democracy?
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I always thought the Rise festival at Burgess Park (2005) was one of the best free festies I ever went too. Brilliant lineup, great weather, perfect space. Would it have been better/worse if it hadn't been an anti-racism fest? difficult to say. I think the dropping of the racism tag is perhaps just Boris trying to distance himself from Ken more than anything. It's interesting the poster doesn't have that big 'London Mayor' logo on it. I can't see what the problem with the anti-racism angle is? It's stil a big issue surely.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
What drivel. We have to like the people who are elected now do we? You don't like labour so you're as undemocratic as anyone that you're pointing your sweaty trotters at. You fuckwit
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Indeed. *thinks about it*. No, this makes no sense whatsoever.
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