TobyBelch
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This story reminded me of former Bolton Wanderers, Manchester City and Derby County football professional, Francis Lee, who found it difficult to stand up in the penalty area if another player was in the same post code area. After his playing career, Lee moved into business. His toilet roll manufacturing business FH Lee Ltd once employed Peter Kay, later a famous comedian, who mentions his time there in his autobiography, The Sound of Laughter. Lee had a great punch up with Leeds United midfielder Norman Hunter that is much loved on re-runs of Match of the Day.
I’m surprised that Martin Jaques is still around. Wasn’t he the Editor of the soft left ‘Marxism Today’ magazine, a ‘Euro-Communist’ who gave up after the fall of the Berlin Wall? He was always fairly mainstream, and therefore, inconsequential in my book as he was essentially a ‘Marxist’ the ruling elite were very happy to indulge.
The RCP tried to recruit me as a member in the late 1980’s/90s, but I was always suspicious of them and never wanted to join the cult. They were very persuasive and sent me on a series of ‘educationals’ up and down the country with a series of attractive young women. There was a very tough upper tier (The Political Committee) that held a priestly-like authority; this was Frank Furedi (Chief Theoretician), Mick Hume (Editor of The Next Step/Living Marxism) and Dr Mike Fitzpatrick. Then a second tier was Ann Furedi, Clare Fox, her sister Fiona, and a bunch of contributors to Living Marxism.
I found most of them to be quite vile in person, avowed Humanists who had a very low opinion of other people. They turned on me, en masse, at a ‘conference’ in London, when I started to question why they went along with Furedi’s increasingly bonkers theoretical positions. But any dissent would be a disciplinary matter for a member, who by the way, surrendered a third of their wages to the RCP as a condition of membership.
The final straw for me was when I couldn’t attend one of their events because of a work commitment, and a 20 year old Joanna Williams, now a regular on the media as an educational and parenting ‘expert’ and currently a leading light in the SDP, gave me a bollocking over the phone. I told them to get stuffed.
I would now place them in the same category as the myriad of think tanks that operate out of 55 Tufton Street. They began as an outcrop of the International Socialists and ended up as a right wing think tank for hire.There has recently been rising tensions and some small-scale violence in the Smethwick area north of Birmingham.
While there is no doubt a sectarian aspect to this it cannot be a coincidence that these eruptions between Hindu and Muslim youths occur in very deprived neighbourhoods.
Infamously, Enoch Powell was the MP in Smethwick when he was in his heyday.
https://www.rt.com/russia/549321-mps-unveil-bid-recognize-ukrainian/
I haven’t been on any of the SPGB sites for sometime. I hope my post makes sense.
I just saw a snippet of news on the Russia Today website. This could be significant, perhaps?
YFS, Andy D.
