Ah the games that are played in politics in the name of retaining control by manipulating public opinion and confusticating the masses.
Much is being made overnight of Channel 4 getting their coverage pulled by the authorities for trying to report on an apparent unscheduled clandestine visit by Gordy, Son of the Manse, Keeper of the Crypt, and Haverer of the Vow, Broon, to the northern palace of the House of Sax Thingummybob to meet with the heir to the heir to the Iron Throne, keeper of the dragons, the deputy-deputy-high-heid-yin of the big hoose at the end of the Mall in London.
A meeting, it seems, to discuss their cunning plans to foil the perfectly reasonable and entirely normal aspirations of demonstrably at least half the population of Scotland.
Gordy, having escaped the dungeon yet again, has just co-incidentally, again, re-focused his ‘think tank” (or perhaps it’s his fish tank) towards building a positive case for the union in Scotland, again.
My take on it is this. We’ll hear very little more about it. To the many many Scots, now engaged in the civic journey to rightful self-determination, firmly steeped in the ways of the British nationalist propaganda playbook, those who are now finely tuned to such things, it should be, and is, clear what is afoot.
You’ve got to think of the target audience. Who this stuff is aimed at. Who the whole send up the younger generation of royals (who are not quite yet tarnished with the weird, ritualistic nature of their privileged background, the scandals, the infidelities, and worse) to Scotland to charm the natives and see off this independence lark is geared towards.
The targets are the not yet convinced members of our communities, the unengaged and the many fine and ordinary folk who see politics and who governs them as being not high priorities in their lives (which is fair enough, in most other modern normal and sovereign first world western countries they shouldn’t have to think about it too much).
Meetings of establishment figures, politicians, senior royal staff and ranking members of that family themselves can, and do, happen at any time they are felt to be necessary, without the public’s knowledge and without public scrutiny. The details of such meetings are not publically reported. So why do this, and why now?
Like the now infamous Elizabeth the First’s Crathie Kirk Rap of the week before the referendum in 2014 this is a less than subtle staged moment, to do nothing else than simply remind the many that when it comes to the crunch, although they may not say so publically, because as hereditary living deities they are strictly apolitical (snigger) that they, the royal family, back the union, first, foremost and always.
The idea of Scotland being for the Joe the Toff scares the bejasus out of them, and more importantly those with the real power who manage them and use them as totemic symbols of continuity.
Oh woe is us, the forces of union have drafted in the big guns early, a touch of premature obviation perhaps?
Roll on independence, where our governments, chosen by us, can use their energies, all of it, for the betterment of the people of Scotland, all of them, rather than on nonsense like propaganda.
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