The Tory plan for compulsory re-education appears to be advancing:
https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988/status/1377931192180338692?s=20
That there are people who think we can be educated into believing a flag that has been appropriated for party political purposes and is alien to many in what is now the UK for very solid political, ethical and personal reasons belongs to us all is in itself profoundly worrying. The promotion of brainwashing has begun.
The reality that the Tories are scared of the fragility of their position, and so think that the time has come when they must impose their beliefs to preserve the remaining vestiges of the form of corrupt financial capitalism that has supported their political, economic and environmental abuses in the pursuit of personal wealth, is the best indication that they are very worried.
The trouble is that they will not give up without a fight. It's the cost of that fight that worries me. They will lose. That is inevitable because this form of financial capitalism is literally unsustainable at a time when sustainability is the only viable choice that we have. But when, how and with what price to pay is the real issue.
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Tom Hunt is our local MP, thoughts and prayers please.
Not the first dubious choice by Ipswich. I remember when Ernle Money was the Tory MP
This song seems appropriate in the circumstances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg-y0sZas4E
Totalitarians have always been keen on “educating” their populations. It is one of their primary sources of control to take away the right to think for yourself and to make deviancy from the Party line criminal behavior.
Their are too may Hunts in the Tory party in my view.
This was is just yet another Hunt who is camera friendly but not too bright, but good at pretending to be something he actually isn’t – genuinely concerned about people.
Maybe one day people will wake up to the fact that this is how Tory Neo-liberalism works – they speak the language of empathy but their policies tell a different story – in fact the truth of what they are about.
The cognitive dissonance that is created is then managed by tripe like flag waving and other ‘enemy within’ tropes (its apparently schools that teach boys to be sexist now – not unchecked pornography in an under-regulated internet or the market using the female form to sell us stuff 24/7).
Tom Hunt eh? What a Hunt, that’s for sure.
Is it any wonder that so many Tory MPs struggle to speak out about human rights abuses – in for example, China, where the Uighur population are being forceably “educated” (or “re-educated”) – when they can come out with a tweet like this.
So, I wonder what form of “education” Mr Tom Hunt has in mind for such a heinous crime as questioning the flying of the Union Jack at a school.
Still, it’s good to see such a visible display of Hunt’s authoritarian instincts. At least all of us who are not on his team know where we stand now.
Profoundly worrying as you say, in that an MP feels able to use such language – with all its deeply troubling historical and contemporary baggage – safe in the knowledge that in today’s Tory government and party, and across a large part of Brexit Britain, it’s perfectly acceptable.
Agreed
At least the pupils, teachers, and parents of Pimlico Schoo had the good sense to have the flag taken down of what represented an inglorious history of colonial conquest, exploitation, and abuse of human rights that still remain horrifying for millions of former subject people of the English Crown.