How to stop a contemptuous holder of too much power that elections can give them! Vote 'NO' on 6 May 2010 in Tower Hamlets, Vote ‘NO’ to 'mayor'

2355 [2320] Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday
28 April 2010.

By © Muhammad Haque.


“Mortified!” he said! “Penitent sinner” he feigned. But Gillian Duffy had already been assigned a minder! WE shall see and hear the consequences of THAT in the days to come! She was already ‘booked’ on a career that nothing could have prepared her for! In the hours, days, weeks and months that follow, we shall be witnessing in some detail the further unravelling of the ‘powerful politician’. But will this ‘cultural shock’ or ‘shock in the culture’ last? I suspect that it will not. Why Gordon Brown’s ‘private’ conversation in the chauffer-driven, aides-carrying limousine was AT ALL in the ‘news’ is of course to be seen in the true context: there is an election on. And every single ‘candidate' of whatever stature and seeking whatever slot of received legitimacy, is transformed into as near a truly [!!!] humble being as we are EVER likely to find them in society. And this is the problem with ‘democracy’. It is so peripheral to the rest of life, the rest of the year. Once the dictates of democracy – as manifest in the ritually organised elections - are terminated [as they will be after the scheduled poll results are consistently officially announced and acted on] the temporary ‘culture’ of almost civilised ‘discourse’ will be a thing of the past!
Gordon Brown was of course held to account by default. That instance of holding of the ‘most powerful man in the land’ to accountability [originally done on radio in front of world wide TV network cameras, many of those live] was not done by Brown’s volunteering to face the facts and tell the truth about his insulting and unbecoming behaviour. His ‘private’ psychology and the resulting sound byte as recorded by the BBC radio [and played on BBC Radio 2 as fronted by the very careerist Mr Jeremy Vine] would not be parts of the proceedings in the normal parts of the year. And there lies the problem with accountability. What happens to the rights, the entitlements and to the equality ‘provisions’ that are flaunted ['manifesto'-ed] by all manner of ‘in’ candidates at times such as these [‘powered by election’!] to ‘bigoted’ people who can only tell of their lives, as Gillian Duffy did? How do they survive the attitude of heightened arrogance as displayed by Gordon Brown? What would a powerful mayor in post after ‘elected legitimacy’ think of ordinary people in Tower Hamlets if the people expressed views that were based on their experiences, their feelings? What could an ordinary person in Tower Hamlets do to focus the appropriate attention on the ‘normal private attitude’ of an elected mayor who is so hypocritical, so out of touch, so full of contempt for ordinary humanity that they could put on the smile, utter the amicable words in public but would do the opposite when inside the protection, the fortified boundaries of their ‘power castle’? For a start, by the ordinary voters in Tower Hamlets VOTING ‘NO’ on 6 May 2010 on the ‘referendum’ about the future of the local Tower Hamlets Council

[To be continued]