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otooziki

otooziki

United Kingdom

December 27, 2008

I pick out local, national or international news stories and offer you my personal opinions...........and (unusually for me) I am being quite outspoken here, so please don’t take offence!(14th November 2008) My town, Boston,  gets its first BNP councillor...So Boston has just got its first British National Party councillor...disappointing but not at all surprising! It is easy to understand why, I think. In these financially uncertain times, with the unemployment figures soaring and very few work or training opportunities, it is easy to blame the local migrant population for all our woes. It is a shame we can’t all see that actually the indigenous working class and the migrant workers are similar victims of the capitalist crisis, and a sense of solidarity in taking on those who enjoy the power and hold the purse strings in this world would be more productive than attacking the rights and wrongs of each other’s existence, but under our current national systems of education, oligarchic media and governance that eludes as a democracy, this realisation will be a long time coming me thinks! (5th December 2008) Terry Wogan resigns from Eurovision Song Contest...So Terry Wogan, who has presented the UK’s Eurovision Programme for 35 years, has quit saying the contest is no longer about the songs. Apparently the voting isn’t fair because Western European countries are not winning anymore, and they are the ones who put the money in so they should be able to buy their victory, sorry, I mean win the contest!‘You’d have to be deaf dumb and blind not to notice that since the East European countries came in the voting has changed and not for the better ... they have been conditioned for voting for themselves and their neighbours...they think we are still on the other side of the Iron Curtain’ (Wogan)So if the general viewing audiences of, say, Belarus votes for Russia, Greece votes for Cyprus, or Azerbaijan votes for Turkey (not all of these were ever behind the Iron Curtain, of course), it is for premeditated political reasons (?) and nothing to do with ordinary citizens having a natural understanding and enjoyment of the language and music of an ethnically similar nearby nation! But I suppose it is OK for Denmark to vote for Sweden, and for the UK to give douze points to Ireland, even if they don’t always bother to return the favour!I, for one, won’t miss Wogan’s cheap sardonic cynicism, and look forward to a fresh presenter in the form of Graham Norton – it seems there is some sort of law that we have to have an Irish presenter, well hey ho! 

More entries: otooziki latest blog posts (3), Stop the War! (1), OTOOZIKI’s BLOG November/December 2008 PART ONE (1), strategies for learning a language (2), my music playlist

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06:42 AM Dec 27 2008

otooziki

otooziki
United Kingdom

PLEASE NOTE - I AM BEING SARCASTIC SOME OF THE TIME ....THIS MEANS THE ENGLISH IS NOT EASY TO UNDERSTAND .... SO TO BE CLEAR:-

 I DISAPPROVE OF THE ELECTION OF A FAR RIGHT (SOME WOULD SAY RACIST) POLITICIAN IN MY TOWN.

 I DISAPPROVE OF TERRY WOGAN'S COMMENTS ABOUT EUROVISION.