A Red Card for Racism?

You may have noticed that I never mention football on this blog. I find it so sleep-inducingly boring, I'm just not interested, on any level

I am interested in politics though, and it's always been one of my bug bears (bares?), when people try to bring politics into sport. Any sport

 

You know where I'm going with this, don't you...

 

Since I was a child, there's always been a campaign doing the rounds, to 'Kick racism out of football'. It's usually only about certain people who think it's a good idea to make monkey noises at black players, or throw bananas on the pitch

 

That of course, is 'bad racism'. The idea that there can be good racism is a festering boil that's been on the arse of England for some time now. This morning, I woke up to a radio news broadcast that proved the campaign to get racism out of football, has spectacularly failed in the name of 'good racism'

 

The Muslims hate Jews kind of racism

 

Apparently Tel Aviv fans have been banned from attending a football match in Brimingham. Of course it's all been done under the guise of public safety, but the comments on social media this morning from the pople behind the ban prove it's nothing of the sort

 

'For your own safety' is bad enough in practice. It's been used to arrest counter protesters who've turned up to the many pro palestine terrorist marches that have plagued London for the last two years, but this has nothing to do with safety, it's just hatred of one group of people for political and religious reasons

 

The UK Home Office always has a list of countries that we're not advised to visit. They don't use the term Shithole, but it's always those countries

The idea that Britain would become a country that isn't safe to visit... Well, I don't have the words. The idea that the reason would be islamic fundamentalism, is even worse than the words I don't have

 

All the party leaders have rightly condemned this, but the only one who can actually do anything about it is Starmer

Will he? If he does, he'll have a big muslim problem to contend with. If he doesn't, he'll be admitting that he's handing the country over to them. Personally I doubt he has the courage to do anything more than release a harshly worded Tweet 

 

Our country has been circling the drain for some time now. This morning, I think it gave it's last gurgle