Nigel Farage, A Milkshake, Jo Cox And Why George Orwell Is Being Proved Nearly Right With Brexit Britain

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

As I mentioned in a previous post. On Monday the leader of The Brexit Party, currently leasing in the polls for the European Parliament Nigel Farage was hit by a Milkshake was campaigning in Tyneside.
I mentioned at that time that whilst part of me was laughing my head off the other half was happy that it was a Milkshake and not something more lethal. As what you could get was Farage becoming a right wing martyr.

And I thought I was going to leave it there until early this morning when I saw a tweet on my feed. It was a comment on another Twitter feed which basically bemoaned what happened to Farage saying that the attack could have been with another more deadlier weapon. It echoed coverage of the incident in the British mainstream media which treated the attack (with let's not forget, a milkshake) as if it was Disunited Kingdom version of the Kennedy assassination.

But what the Twitter comment reminded me was that it is about three years since the murder of the Member of Parliament Jo Cox. Killed with a gun and a knife by an extreme right winger near her local constituency office. The commentator used the phrase, which I feel needs further discussion, that her murder seems to have been "erased" out of the public story. It was to me an interesting phrase. for it seemed to echo Winston Smith's job for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984.

What is happening in Brexit Britain I'd argue is that George Orwell is being proved nearly right. History is not being erased by the right-wing press. It's being manipulated and then deliberately forgotten.

Jo Cox's murderer is a case in point. Her killer, acknowledged to be a man who supported the extreme right wing, was described by the right wing media as having mental health problems. Perhaps so. But just like the countless (unfortunately) atrocities perpetrated by men with guns they have been galvanised into action by right wing political philosophies. Philosophies that may not say "Go and kill" but nonetheless paint people and groups that disagree with them not just as opponents but as enemies.

And yet her murder. And her right wing murderer. Is now being not erased but forgotten. So an incident of a milkshake being thrown at Farage, a milkshake, is treated more seriously than the actual brutal murder of an MP. It makes Farage a victim. Whereas the real victim of Britain today is unable to put her point of view.

The information is there if you look for it. But you have to look. The mainstream media will not (as a rule) remind you of it. Perhaps because you will then question the political views of the people who pulled the trigger.

And this sort of deliberate amnesia continues. What about that bus during the EU referendum and it's goal the money that went to the EU should go to the National Health Service instead? Where has that promise gone.

So Orwell was nearly right. The truth is out there. But no one in power is going to remind you of it.

Until the next time.