Story Of The Blues

In this verbose world in which we live in, I have often said that we can glean far more from what is not said than from what is said. As Dr Winston O'Boogie aka John Lennon stated, 'A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.'

Fresh from my latest trip to Poland, it was interesting to see a good example in today's Daily Mail. No doubt the Mail's readership are too busy celebrating their electoral successes to be bothered with commenting on stories, but two pieces caught my eye.

Firstly, the usual immigration/asylum story. I was in Poland when the story broke over figures showing that many Poles were returning home. Not so long ago the right-wing press turned this into a desertion as opposed to the previous flooding/swamping.

Now, we have a bit of a non-story about some people (according to an Immigration Officer) reportedly giving the weather (so much for global warming huh!) and the NHS as a reason for LEAVING Open-Door UK. I can't be arsed saying more as the article is by our fiend (sic) James Slack and a cursory perusal of his words show that the actual figures of people involved may be counted on one of Littlejohn's hairy-palmed hands.

Suffice to say, there are 70+ comments. Read them. I bet you can't guess what the rational green-inkers of Mail Land say about this one. Click here if you dare.

I'm not one to have sour grapes about results. The blue boys won and the reds have only themselves to blame for own goals etc.

.............which of course leads us to the second story:

'Football success is nothing compared to my father's triumph in surviving horrors of Auschwitz', says Chelsea boss Avram Grant

As with a lot of stories about Nazis and the BNP in the Oswald Mosley-supporting Mail, NO COMMENTS!as

For the first time ever, a BNP candidate stood in my area. He secured over 200 votes. We did not receive any literature from this scum party (oh but it's a legitimate party, Eric) but still people voted for this evil group. We can blame scaremongering, the press, (or having a printing business if you are Cooke of Tamworth) but have no doubts that these Fascists would go down the same path that led to Avram Grant's father being subjected to the torture of Auschwitz.

So I say congrats to Chelsea and hope the Tories enjoy their success; but the reds will be back.

Normally, I wouldn't be interested in what rabid old sons of Fascists get up to behind closed doors, but Max Mosley's alleged indiscretions have produced another one of those jaw-dropping moments of Mail hypocrisy. Maybe he was invited to a 'Nuremburg Rally' party and thought this was just Bernie Ecclestone organising a Le Mans-type event at the Nurburgring.

Formula One boss Max Mosley 'exposed as sadomasochist in Nazi orgy with five prostitutes' bellowed this guardian of our morals. The headline was altered slightly a couple of days later as it emerged the Formula 1 'boss' had instructed lawyers against The News of the World for the original expose as reported in The Times.

The Mail, of course, makes much of the fact that Max is the son of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Strangely, no mention is made of the Mail's infamous support for the man and its headline, 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts'. Nor is there any report of the Mail's owner in 1930s sympathetic treatment of the Nazis and support for appeasement.

Given the obsession of the Mail and others on immigration, gypsies and lefties, little appears to have changed. The worry is that the constant scapegoating of these groups will lead to consequences we hoped had been confined to European history.