Friday, September 30, 2005
Wal Hobson
"Nonsense" (ejection of free speech)
There has only been one winner during this week's, otherwise, non-eventful Labour Party Conference in Brighton, the 82 year old Walter Wolfgang, a Jewish escapee from Hitler's Nazi regime.
The simple crime of crying "nonsense" during Jack Straw's speech was enough to see him manhandled and forcibly led from the auditorium, his conference pass was removed by police, and he was held by them using the powers of the Anti-terrorism Act. Has there ever been such a "nonsense" in British Politics
The television footage of former South Shields Councillor Wal Hobson, and former night club bouncer Joe Ifill almost fighting with each other to reach the 82 year old, showed amply the grotesque and disgraceful state of New Labour's Stalinist and centralist "control" mentality. This is the second such incident in recent years at Bliars big photo opportunity. In past years politicians were skilled debaters, adept at handling the odd heckler, which many a time added the missing ingredient to an otherwise banal oration. What point is there now in being part of a Labour Party that frowns upon engagement, and is unable to contemplate any views, apart from those held by it's leadership?
The stifling security controls and police presence in Brighton has been described as almost "Mosleyite" by the Guardian, whose leader warns against the expansion of New Labour's totalitarian stance in it's control of the media, and the vision it wishes to broadcast.
Quite apart from the disgusting manhandling of an 82 year old gent, a Labour Party member of many years, I find it regretfull and shameful that another longstanding party member from South Shields could be seen joining in this "nonsense". Wal Hobson is no stranger to controversy in the Labour Party, he was the first person to be suspended from the party in South Shields for daring to speak to a meeting of the Young Socialists in 1964. Describing himself as a Marxist at the time he said "We will fight these attempts to gag us". I wonder how he feels now after effectively gagging poor Walter Wolfgang?
This episode has badly backfired on Labour's attempts to control the agenda in the media, very little is known of Jack Straw's speech, it was barely reported, instead the column inches have been filled with the thoughts of an 82 year old victim of Bliar's Bootboys!
This Orwellian episode has brought shame on all politicians, the Government, the Labour Party, and the people of South Shields, and it has made an absolute nonsense of a political occasion.
BRING BACK DEMOCRACY AND FREE SPEECH!
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There has only been one winner during this week's, otherwise, non-eventful Labour Party Conference in Brighton, the 82 year old Walter Wolfgang, a Jewish escapee from Hitler's Nazi regime.
The simple crime of crying "nonsense" during Jack Straw's speech was enough to see him manhandled and forcibly led from the auditorium, his conference pass was removed by police, and he was held by them using the powers of the Anti-terrorism Act. Has there ever been such a "nonsense" in British Politics
The television footage of former South Shields Councillor Wal Hobson, and former night club bouncer Joe Ifill almost fighting with each other to reach the 82 year old, showed amply the grotesque and disgraceful state of New Labour's Stalinist and centralist "control" mentality. This is the second such incident in recent years at Bliars big photo opportunity. In past years politicians were skilled debaters, adept at handling the odd heckler, which many a time added the missing ingredient to an otherwise banal oration. What point is there now in being part of a Labour Party that frowns upon engagement, and is unable to contemplate any views, apart from those held by it's leadership?
The stifling security controls and police presence in Brighton has been described as almost "Mosleyite" by the Guardian, whose leader warns against the expansion of New Labour's totalitarian stance in it's control of the media, and the vision it wishes to broadcast.
Quite apart from the disgusting manhandling of an 82 year old gent, a Labour Party member of many years, I find it regretfull and shameful that another longstanding party member from South Shields could be seen joining in this "nonsense". Wal Hobson is no stranger to controversy in the Labour Party, he was the first person to be suspended from the party in South Shields for daring to speak to a meeting of the Young Socialists in 1964. Describing himself as a Marxist at the time he said "We will fight these attempts to gag us". I wonder how he feels now after effectively gagging poor Walter Wolfgang?
This episode has badly backfired on Labour's attempts to control the agenda in the media, very little is known of Jack Straw's speech, it was barely reported, instead the column inches have been filled with the thoughts of an 82 year old victim of Bliar's Bootboys!
This Orwellian episode has brought shame on all politicians, the Government, the Labour Party, and the people of South Shields, and it has made an absolute nonsense of a political occasion.
BRING BACK DEMOCRACY AND FREE SPEECH!
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