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They already have their Pasionara: Lynda Lee-Potter. They have their Aung San Suu Kyi: Richard Littlejohn. Exactly what the petrol protesters need now is an anthem. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is both apt and familiar - however it doesn't quite capture the intensity of feeling, will it? How about the Internationale?
At recent Labour party conferences, the singing of James O'Connell's pungently phrased ditty has naturally caused some awkwardness. It may hardly be appropriate for the friends of Lord Levy and Geoffrey Robinson to become warbling abuse from the "rich man's frown". Nor could the helmsmen of the third way unblushingly swear to not "change its colour now". For that brand-new Daily Mail direct activists, however, with their recently acquired taste for the thrills of threat, protest and civil disobedience,[url=http://parajumpersoutletjackets.webmium.com/][b]parajumpers outlet store[/b][/url], the song might be just right. All it needs is a quick rejig to create it up to date: "Look 'round, the farmers love its blaze, The sturdy truckers chant its praise, In Wapping's vaults its hymns are sung, Lee-Potter swells the surging throng." Or similar. Admittedly, an allegiance to the Warning sign isn't something one often associates using the publications of Associated Newspapers, nor with the ones from Rupert Murdoch's News International, but stranger everything has happened. In fact they happened this week. On Monday, the Mail headed an innovator page with the question "When could it be right to man the barricades?". The solution, by Leo McKinstry, the Labour councillor turned Daily Mail pundit, deserves to be a classic of protest literature. "Protest is the lifeblood of democracy," he declared. "Mass protests reveal that people care enough concerning the issue that they're prepared to take action. In my Essex village there has been much talk recently about building a major new housing development." Should talk not prevail, he averred, he'd be "quite willing to undertake any type of protest,[url=http://wheretobuyrogerviviershoes.webmium.com/][b]where to buy roger vivier shoes buy roger vivier shoes online[/b][/url], even lying within bulldozer, to try and halt the destruction of another greenfield site". While one prays that McKinstry's martyrdom won't be required (for that nation can ill manage to lose this intriguing double apostate), it may take a sacrifice about this scale to convince regular Daily Mail readers that their paper's conversion to direct action is not just a little bit of temporary posturing designed to justify its own part in inciting the current hysteria and hoarding. Somehow, we must reconcile McKinstry's injunction to "learn from the French in showing a larger willingness to challenge our political masters" having a leader published under fourteen days before where the paper reflected on the French government's shameful indulgence of the Channel blockade. "Police stood and watched as the chaos deepened. To nobody's astonishment Paris then cravenly caved in to the fishermen. Such as the truck drivers,[url=http://parajumersoutletdeutschland.albirank.net/][b]http://parajumersoutletdeutschland.albirank.net/[/b][/url], civil servants, railway workers and farmers, the blockaders have taken on the government and won without doubt. Not to mention every victory simply encourages more militancy." Obviously. When it comes to condemning caving in to militancy, no one does it better than the Mail. In fact, until this week, a belief in standing to militants was as much a part of the paper's tradition as its hatred of men who club fluffy seals to death and disapproval of neighbours who grow 20 foot leylandii. If the offenders were French truckers or air traffic controllers, British teachers or railwaymen, anti-capitalism demonstrators or even the women of Greenham Common,[url=http://parajumpersoutletjackets.webmium.com/][b]parajumpers jackets[/b][/url], it seemed that no argument could ever be sufficient to justify "disobeying our elected government and wasting taxpayers' money". But which was before the paper's Damascene moment on the A1: pasaran! This time,[url=http://peutereyjacketsuppliers.webmium.com/][b]Peuterey sale[/b][/url], the paper believes, the federal government would prosper to cave in - or, to become genteel about this, "the chancellor must show flexibility". Why are these militants different from ordinary militants? Well, for one thing, the Mail points out, the protesters aren't your usual unwashed. "Truck drivers like a race would be the old-fashioned type of British working class," says Lee-Potter, urging her readers to back the blockade. "They aren't anarchists, troublemakers or fascists." Their supporters, a reporter confirms, aren't the little people linked to the great protest movements of the past, but large people, respectable individuals who wear "expensive deck shoes", drive Renault Meganes and talk in "cultured tones" of "holidays within the Pyrenees". People, in a nutshell, who can manage to pay a high price for petrol. It follows when these prosperous and exquisitely shod picketers happen to be moved to interfere, such as the despised French fishermen,[url=http://giuseppezanottisneakerssale.webmium.com/][b]giuseppe zanotti men's sneakers for Sale[/b][/url], "with the free movement of people and goods", then the government, not the protesters, must be to blame. "What has happened is a direct consequence of a cynical, arrogant government losing touch with the electorate on a bread-and-butter issue," argued a leader. That is possibly the closest the Mail has ever arrived at endorsing Henry David Thoreau's essay About the Duty of Civil Disobedience: "All men recognise the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and also to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are wonderful and unendurable." Motorists, he may have added, also recognise this right when the government's tyranny is negligible or nonexistent. Within the Telegraph,[url=http://parajumpersoutletjackets.webmium.com/][b]parajumpers bear vest outlet Hampton Roads Technology Council[/b][/url], Janet Daley calls the petrol tax "unethical". Peter Hitchens complains that "nobody is listening". Littlejohn says we could "do having a bit more civil disobedience", adding: "I'm surprised nobody has taken a chainsaw to a couple speed cameras or sprayed black paint over the lenses." Let alone: with sufficient encouragement his dream may soon become a reality. As the motorists' party grows in strength and confidence, who knows what outrages its members may not perpetrate, secure in the knowledge that their offences are ethically sanctioned? And petrol tax could be just the beginning. When the deck-shoed crusaders succeed with fuel, there's every reason behind them to proceed to campaign for cheaper mortgages and cut-price lawnmowers, for more ethical sales of hostess trolleys and tax-exempt anti-cellulite creams. Which isn't, alas, to say that direct action has been manufactured safe. When the audience of Les Mis has demonstrated the effectiveness of picketing, you'll discover to be copycats among the hoi polloi. As the Mail said from the recent French climb-down, "every victory simply encourages more militancy". Before we all know it, civil disorder may have been reappropriated through the usual troublemakers: pedestrians in cheap shoes who think nothing of holding the whole country to ransom. So when that occurs, the government mustn't,[url=http://giuseppezanottisneakerssale.webmium.com/][b]http://giuseppezanottisneakerssale.webmium.com/[/b][/url], on any account, cave in.
We must praise them like we should In an extract from Andrew Rawnsley's new book, relations between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were characterised by one observer as "like a marriage, a tempestuous marriage". But marriage is for grown-ups. More than anything, the rivalry between your two - in particular Brown's alleged outburst: "You stole my fucking budget" - recalls the behaviour of highly competitive, if unusually devious,[url=http://wheretobuyrogerviviershoes.webmium.com/][b]where to buy roger vivier shoes[/b][/url], infants. Blaise Pascal: " 'Mine, thine. This dog is mine,' those poor children accustomed to say; 'that is my place in the sun.' Here is the primitive model for that usurpation from the whole earth." The a feeling of untrammelled attention-seeking is just reinforced with a fascinating comment which Rawnsley attributes to Blair: "When I sit within the garden of Chequers, and also the sun is on my face, I know who's the prime minister." It is quite too simple to imagine Blair clambering onto his desk to chant: "I'm the king from the castle, you are the dirty rascal." Can anything be done to ensure they are behave? Though some commentators think that things can only get worse, a rapprochement might not be impossible. In The Parent/Child Game, a great book on family relations, Sue Jenner argues that it's never past too far to alter. What we can do, in the first place, is start a child-centred reward programme. Every time Tony is friendly to Gordon, a commentator should say: "It's so lovely when you're friendly, Tony!" And when Gordon decides to talk about responsibility with Tony, he too ought to be praised enthusiastically. "Well, done Gordon, You've shared with Tony! Such a good, sharing boy you are!" The outcomes of her programme may not be immediate, but Jenner is adamant it works. So praise,[url=http://peutereyjacketsuppliers.webmium.com/][b]Peuterey Jacket outlet[/b][/url], praise, praise. And well done both Gordon and Tony for letting John continue radio stations to protect the petrol tax yesterday morning. What good sharing boys both of you are!
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