There's Something About Gordon

[annajaneclare]

More of a note to myself than anything else - remember to ask mother (whenever she comes back from Europe) if Dad went to the Labour Party Conference in 1978. I am sure I clocked him in the audience on Channel 4 News last night when they were showing footage of Jim Callahan addressing the conference

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[jcortese]

Tread very carefully when politicians use the word "immorality." VERY carefully. It's a short step frmo there to them bringing up Gog and Magog in meetings with Jacques Chirac and leaving his staff wondering which new al Qaeda operatives are acting up.

I'm dead serious. The ONLY thing that should matter is people's actions on society, which means that the proper word for such things is "anti-social behavior." Fuck morality.

Watching this insane predilection to bring up religion publicly among politicians that's now surfacing in the UK is like watching wildfires and deserts starting to pop up in southern Europe, spreading northward from the Sahara goddamned desert. That's global warming; when deserts leap seas and start spreading out in places they never were before. That's what happening now -- this is a disgusting, many-century slide back into religious insanity, on all continents. It's not just Islamic fundamentalism. It's spreading all over, and we are on the downward slope, and when your politicians starts sounding religiously indistinguishable from ours, it's time ot vote for ANYONE who shuts the fuck up about their relationship with God and what anyone else's relationship with an invisible sky giant with bipolar disorder should be.

DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO USES THE WORD IMMORALITY. EVER.

[annajaneclare]

Don't worry. I'm not likely to. I just found it interesting in the light of Blair's approach.