A National Disgrace

This country is rapidly turning into a fucking disgrace.  As if it isn't bad enough that, in the face of continued cuts to public services, more and more of the poor are being forced to rely on food banks and charities in order to survive, that we have huge multinational corporations making vast profits here, yet paying no tax, apparently with impunity, that wages are falling for workers whilst the wealthy get tax cuts, our ruling classes now seem to think that racism is OK.  First of all we have those mobile billboards driving around London basically saying 'Darkies Go Home' - a piece of blatant racism justified by the government on the grounds that it is part of a crackdown on illegal immigrants, then we have professional 'posh boy' and Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg having to distance himself from a Tory-affiliated group he'd addressed when it became clear that they were a bunch of racists.  I say 'became clear' - a look at their Facebook page would apparently have been enough to tell him that well in advance.  These are the clowns calling for Doreen Lawrence - recently made a Labour peer - to be repatriated to her 'country of origin'.  But, because he went to public school and is therefore a 'good chap', it seems that we must give Rees-Mogg the benefit of the doubt.

Which is more than can be said for that cock end of a UKIP MEP, with his barely coherent tirade about British aid being sent to 'Bongo Bongo Land' where the natives use it to buy designer sunglasses.  This sort of thing would be offensive if you heard it being said by some oaf in the saloon bar of your local pub, but what makes it worse is that, in this case, it is coming from the lips of an elected representative - one who represents this country in the European parliament.  Is this really the kind of image we want to be projecting to our European partners?  As if it isn't bad enough that we send them our lager louts every Summer, now we're sending out-and-out bigots as our official representatives.  Actually, is it any wonder that our youth behave so badly when on their Mediterranean holidays when this is the sort of example being set by their representatives?  But, getting back to the point, this ignorant UKIP bastard then compounded his sins by trying to justify himself.  He ludicrously claimed that because there was no real country called 'Bong Bongo Land', then he couldn't possibly have offended anyone.

I find this sort of thing depressing, when someone is so stupid that they think they are being clever by employing smart arsery of this kind.  Of course there isn't a real country called 'Bongo Bongo Land'.  However, it is well established derogatory term for any country from the developing world, (not the 'Third World', somewhere else he denies exists), but particularly Africa, populated by people who aren't white.  It is especially insulting as it represents a refusal to differentiate a multitude of different cultures and races, instead just lumping them together as 'Bongo Bongo Land'.  Rather than showing this pillock's intelligence (as he clearly thinks that it does), his 'justification' of his words simply serves to further underline his arrogance and ignorance.  But the most depressing aspect of this whole business is that he was allowed to spout this bollocks, on TV, virtually unchallenged by presenters.  Is this what we've come to in Britain - the passive acceptance of casual racism?  Really, we're a fucking disgrace, whichever way you look at it.  These days I'm, quite frankly, ashamed to be British.  I'm ashamed to live in such a society.  The likes of Norway and Denmark look more appealing by the day!