Oooh…this is good. It is the trailer to the movie version of “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. OK – it’s only small, but I am sure a larger version will be out soon. It makes the film look OK-ish.
Meanwhile, the fascists are abroad. Last night, really quietly, as so not to even alert the hyper-sensitive hearing of Alex the Wonderdog, six copies of the same leaflet came a-fluttering through the door. They were from the BNP – the British National Party, our resident fascist, racist clique of “politician” bully-boys. This leaflet was decrying the fact that the local library was going to be knocked down so that Epping Forest College can expand (don’t worry the college will be paying for a new, revamped library to be built inside the college grounds).
The BNP don’t like this. The BNP don’t like Epping Forest College because a number of ethnic minorities attend and they have video footage of “asian youths” fighting and beating white people up. “Do they expect old age pensioners to run the gauntlet of fear in order to get into the new library?” asked the leaflet.
By playing on people’s racist tendacies and massaging their fears, the BNP win again. The sad fact of the matter is that the other political parties in the area are so apathetic, they don’t even bother to doorstep opinion. The BNP go out in force – suited and booted – and fill the OAP’s heads with tales of miscreant, ethnic youth. Meanwhile, they ignore the fact that all the whitey kids are running amok, terrorising the neighbouring shops and attacking local bus drivers. Convenient, eh?
I would love to catch one of these scumbags posting the leaflet through my door just so I could call them a fascist. FASCIST! I would shout. But they act with stealth. The last time I did manage to catch a leafletter, the BNP had employed their own eight-year-old children to do the task. Shouting fascist at an eight-year-old doesn’t seem that appealing. When their local politician did eventually doorstep me last year, I was so enraged it was all I could do to screw up his leaflet into a ball and throw it in his face, before asking him to get off my doorstep. There’s one thing I cannot stand is narrow-minded bigotry and there is no place for it in the 21st century.
Now this brings me onto my next point. I’ve been a supporter of Ken Livingstone for as long as I can remember (ahhh, the glory days of the GLC) but my support for him has recently been withdrawn. Recently, at a party paid by the London taxpayer to celebrate the 10th anniversary of gay MP Chris Smith’s “coming out” (I kid you not, this was a real party and while I have every admiration for Chris Smith, I don’t see rhyme or reason to why ever Londoner has to pay for a boozey night out for him and his pals to celebrate his first excursion from the closet – it’s just an extreme waste of texpayer’s money. Couldn’t they have just gone to the local pub and paid for it themselves?), Ken Livingstone was approached by a reporter from The Evening Standard who wanted to hear how the party went. Old Ken then began to lambast him, accusing him of being a Nazi. When the reporter revealed he was Jewish and offended by these remarks, Ken kept up the harrassment and compared him to a “concentration camp guard” and “only doing it because it was paid to do it”.
Now I boggle at this. Ken Livingstone is supposed to be a left-winger (like me) but where the fuck does he get off behaving like that? Now Ken won’t apologise. He says all those Evening Standard reporters are Nazis…well he didn’t feel that way when he was working as a food critic for the ES when he wasn’t mayor. Hypocrite! He won’t apologise because if he apologises he won’t mean it. What a total useless bastard…
So the fascists are abroad and racism creeps up when you least expect it. I don’t fear the black man or the asian or the Jew. I still fear whitey because in my 33 years walking London streets, the only trouble I’ve ever had has been from white people. I nearly got beaten up on the tube once because I had long hair (ahhh, those were the days) and now the kids shout at me when I am walking the dog because I have no hair (you just can’t win). So keep you eye out for old whitey because he’ll fuck you up real good.