p***@googlemail.com
2007-01-08 23:24:05 UTC
This story has been bubbling away for a while but this has made me
think about what is really going on here. I don't vote for the BNP ,
you probably don't either and some of their ideas are on just the wrong
side of completely bonkers, but they're politicians after all, and
politicians unlikely to get into government and do anything reckless
like invade other countries or take way all our civil rights or erm ok
maybe I'm not helping the argument here.
A group of people called Unite Against Faschism, which is a faschist
slogan if ever I heard one, is planning to hold a rally outside a
ballet performance in London to protest about the membership of the BNP
of Simone Clarke, one of the dancers. Perhaps they could explain what
is un-faschist about blockading an arts venue to force the sacking of a
dancer because of the political party she supports.
The BNP is a legal party with 50 local councillors across the country,
compared to Unite Against Faschism's none. They probably don't like my
views either so are they going to stop me singing in the bath or going
to work? As an occasional concert goer I've often wondered how the
classic FM demographic that comprises the bulk of classical music
audiences would cope if living next door to some of the oh so very
respectable composers they rustle their sweet wrappers to, with their
late nights, noisy practising, chaotic personal lives, radical
politics, exotic substance consumption and disreputable associates.
In the same way I suppose we like to think our ballet dancers have the
same thoughts on things as the audience, wealthy, metropolitan,
liberal. Champagne must be served cold, the arts must be served left
wing. It's no different, I suppose, to not wanting to hear the dancers'
footsteps on the stage, it spoils the illusion. I'm going to shut up
now lest I get labelled an extreme rightwing fruitcake instead of just
a regular fruitcake but you have to wonder what artist, performer, or
writer will be deemed ideologically unsound next and who else will
feature in Unite Against Faschism's own degenerate art exhibition.
http://arthurclewley.blogspot.com/2007/01/simone-clarke-und-der-entartete-kunst.html
think about what is really going on here. I don't vote for the BNP ,
you probably don't either and some of their ideas are on just the wrong
side of completely bonkers, but they're politicians after all, and
politicians unlikely to get into government and do anything reckless
like invade other countries or take way all our civil rights or erm ok
maybe I'm not helping the argument here.
A group of people called Unite Against Faschism, which is a faschist
slogan if ever I heard one, is planning to hold a rally outside a
ballet performance in London to protest about the membership of the BNP
of Simone Clarke, one of the dancers. Perhaps they could explain what
is un-faschist about blockading an arts venue to force the sacking of a
dancer because of the political party she supports.
The BNP is a legal party with 50 local councillors across the country,
compared to Unite Against Faschism's none. They probably don't like my
views either so are they going to stop me singing in the bath or going
to work? As an occasional concert goer I've often wondered how the
classic FM demographic that comprises the bulk of classical music
audiences would cope if living next door to some of the oh so very
respectable composers they rustle their sweet wrappers to, with their
late nights, noisy practising, chaotic personal lives, radical
politics, exotic substance consumption and disreputable associates.
In the same way I suppose we like to think our ballet dancers have the
same thoughts on things as the audience, wealthy, metropolitan,
liberal. Champagne must be served cold, the arts must be served left
wing. It's no different, I suppose, to not wanting to hear the dancers'
footsteps on the stage, it spoils the illusion. I'm going to shut up
now lest I get labelled an extreme rightwing fruitcake instead of just
a regular fruitcake but you have to wonder what artist, performer, or
writer will be deemed ideologically unsound next and who else will
feature in Unite Against Faschism's own degenerate art exhibition.
http://arthurclewley.blogspot.com/2007/01/simone-clarke-und-der-entartete-kunst.html