Posts Tagged ‘Oxford University’

David Cameron: panhandling for small change since 2009

Friday, May 29th, 2009

This week a lot of people in the UK were subjected to David Cameron’s pug-ugly mug dropping onto their doormat. There he was, looking like a complete creep, on the the front of a bulk-mailed Conservative Party ‘election communication’. Under the banner ‘It’s time for change’, this prime example of absolute twattery advised readers to ‘Vote Conservative on 4 June’ (the date of the European elections). Clearly, voting for a party headed by an over-privileged arse-wipe educated at Eton and Oxford is not going to change anything. There is no more traditional route to political power in Britain than the exclusive education Cameron received. If the UK anti-discrimination laws were more coherently enforced, then they would be used to prevent anyone who attended Oxford or Cambridge University from holding public office or working in publicly funded institutions. Anti-discrimination necessitates attacking and undoing privilege.

As your granny no doubt told you, if voting changed anything they’d make it illegal; which is why I’ve never voted in a local, general or EU election, in my entire life. I have a 100% record of never voting and I’m certainly not going to spoil it now. The world clearly is changing, the information explosion caused by the internet is part of that. But rather than moving with this change, Cameron (like every other reactionary scumbag capitalist politician) wants to curtail and contain the transformation of the world, instead of going with it. The so-called British MPs expenses scandal is a joke, but nonetheless Cameron is positioning himself as Mr Clean in relation to it. British MPs diddling a few hundred thousand quid here and there is small change when measured against the billions ripped-off by the bankers. It’s a diversion that isn’t worth addressing but that hasn’t stopped the British media boring me to death with it for weeks.

Rather than voting, we should join together in roving bands of class warlocks and witches, using occult means to foment industrial unrest. Let’s use spells and curses to bring factories and calls centres out on strike against pay cuts and speed-ups. Let’s deploy magick to make it clear we’re not gonna pay for the bankers’ crisis! Stockbrokers and their banker friends are possessed by the demonic elemental money, therefore we must exorcise them! Out demons out! Class warlocks and witches of the world unite to cast off your spells!

And while you’re at it don’t forget to check – www.stewarthomesociety.org – you know it makes (no) sense!

Loot Oxford, burn Cambridge!

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Thought I’d give it a couple of days to simmer up, but the Guardian on Tuesday was a groove sensation. The front page headline promised: “Britain faces summer of rage – police. Middle-class anger at economic crisis could erupt into violence on streets”. Nice! Although middle-class anger clearly lacks the staying power of working class resentment. Talking of which, the pull out quote from a Trevor Phillips interview in the second section read: “The task today is not to shout for black people or women, but to break the grip of white men who went to public school. And that’s why I’m here.” Fine as far as it goes, but typically liberal in not going nearly far enough.

We know that race isn’t real but is experienced as real because of racism, and that race and class are inseparable. That said, public schools and so called ‘top’ universities aim to spit out a certain kind of alumni: on the whole these institutions don’t seem too bothered about the colour of people’s skin, as long as they can brainwash those they process into adopting a white bourgeois consciousness. There is also a more easily identifiable and specific target than the generic public schools Phillips speaks out against, viz Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Thus Philips suggests placing a limit the number of times an individual can sit as an MP; fine, but until we get around to abolishing parliament, why not place an outright ban on anyone who went to Oxbridge standing as an MP?

I’d also suggest kicking all Oxbridge graduates out of public institutions such as the BBC, and at the same time enforcing a blanket ban throughout the Beeb on interviews with those who attended these ‘top’ universities. Similarly, publicly funded art galleries could get rid of directors and curators who attended Oxbridge, and all other universities should dispense with the teaching services of zombies brainwashed by these ‘top’ institutions. Oxford and Cambridge are the capstone of the formal system of inequality that blights the septic isle known as ‘Britain’, so isn’t it about time we abolished them? These are the kind of policies Trevor Phillips would be pursing if he was serious about his role as head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). But all he’s offering on this score is a sop.

And while you’re at it don’t forget to check – www.stewarthomesociety.org – you know it makes (no) sense!