The English Football Team - everything the English Ruling Class are not.

I detest the Racist Prime Minister, De Peffeil Johnson, it’s a good bet that I support this England Football Team, because of their willingness to speak to and for the community from which they have emerged.

They are everything he is not.

Emotionally mature, honest, professional, fit, determined to do  their level  best, hard working, dedicated, compassionate, seriously wealthy and speaking truth to Power.

The kind of people one might wish for in public service and governance, at any level.

To be honest, I am not a fan. I do not pay any regular attention to professional sports, even though I really loved running about, and being fit enough to sprint, to jump around, climb and dance for hours for most of  my life - mostly because I am, even at 62, still amazed and awed by this human body, and the capabilities that go with it.

I also understand I am every lucky to be still in reasonable good health - so much of people's health is just good luck and some maintenance. I have many friends life long chronic health issues. None of them are to blame for their condition.

I do understand the physical and mental elements of a good, played for the fun, lightly competitive game. I couldn't even begin to imagine the realities of professional sports activity. That is a serious long term level of commitment. I am a singer songwriter, have been all my life and I have never pushed myself to be a top flight entertainer. I just rolled along. 

Marcus Rashford's public voice intervention on school meals moved me, in that this was something new that I really liked. 

A public celebrity speaking truth to power in the public domain?

Pushing the powerful to be accountable. Demanding change and actuating it. The reaction against his voicing is the old normal. Speaking truth to power is the new normal.

In my long held view, if you have a stage, and you have a voice, then you have a duty besides your entertainment, to use that voice responsibly, for the benefit of the whole wider audience - the community within which we abide.

Gareth Southgate, the team manager, laid out his view in an in depth article earlier this year.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/dear-england-gareth-southgate-euros-soccer

"Our players are role models. And, beyond the confines of the pitch, we must recognise the impact they can have on society. We must give them the confidence to stand up for their teammates and the things that matter to them as people.

I have never believed that we should just stick to football. 

I know my voice carries weight, not because of who I am but because of the position that I hold. At home, I’m below the kids and the dogs in the pecking order but publicly I am the England men’s football team manager. I have a responsibility to the wider community to use my voice, and so do the players.

It’s their duty to continue to interact with the public on matters such as equality, inclusivity and racial injustice, while using the power of their voices to help put debates on the table, raise awareness and educate."

He is, of course, correct.

If the Team playing 'for England' are representing England, then Johnson is not.

Johnson harms the wider community,  uses his voice to lie. This video reveals the Johnson Variant of Football. Deliberate assault, then the pretence at sorrow, the false apology, in order to get away with the bullying.

Institutional Corruption England is not this England team.

Racist Johnson's Empire England is not this England  team.

Sajid Javid Bankers England is not this England  team.

Farage's England is not this England team.

Priti Patel's Home Office England is so not this England  team. 

Football is not coming to that Home Office.

WHO deputy director Mike Ryan described the current English Government’s ‘strategy’ of living  with the virus (Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland are not opening up as a 4th surge of a new Variant, the so-called Johnson Variant is literally taking off on an exponential rise across the United Kingdom) as being ‘emotionally empty and epidemiological stupidity.’ He is correct. The evidence tells us that elimination strategy prevents all the harms associated with slow spread aka mitigation aka living with the virus aka herd immunity via infection.

Mike Ryan answers a question by a BBC Reporter who asks about the English Governments plan to open up, and remove legislated health advice and  support on  July19th.

Johnson, Hancock, Williamson, Duncan Smith, Patel. Coffey, Javid are not decent people.

The truth is that England is full of decent people, people who have done their level best to reduce spread of the virus in spite of the English Government's (undeclared, but blatantly obvious)  Herd Immunity policy. The indecent in power made awful assumptions about ordinary people - they assumed we'd be as selfish as they are. We are not.

The Oligarch mouth piece News Media under-report our decency, and when they do mention it they present it as 'special' and 'extraordinary' (we all know decency and kindness are everywhere, and to us, ordinary) and they hype the divisive bullies, they big up the bigots and promote general all 'round numpties who have more money than sense.

This England Team are made of decent people.

If anything this team is a sign post for global citizens rising above mere nationalism and tribalism, presenting qualities we wish those entrusted with the power to Govern had - and since we know the Rulers do not have any of these qualities, and we can see that they are at war with us and we know that they cannot help themselves, that they will try to co-opt this team's successes, it follows then that we must deny the English Ruling Class this feel good moment at every turn. 

Render onto decency that which is decent.

It is ours, it is not theirs, for they had to be publicly shamed by a young footballer into feeding millions of school children from deliberately impoverished families and communities -  Austerity deliberately exacerbated pre-existing inequities. It was deliberate. The Ruling Class that preside over such collective punishment deserve nothing but approbation. 

Let the players claim all the kudos, the glories and let us shame the Government that tries to ride it, at every turn. Let us delight in speaking truth to Power.

Boo the English Government.  

So no, I will not be cheering England,  per se; I might be cheering the global youth that care so much about our people, our species, our futures  -  a youth who have transcended nationalism. 

I might be cheering young men who stand up to racists, bigots and bullies and do so in public.

And yes I will cheer skill and finesse 'pon the field, whoever presents it.  I love the feeling of fitness, skill, joy and delight that arises from playful agile mobile ability as a human, event though at 62 I experience the limitations of age.  I still love running, it's an amazing capability.

It is PRECISELY because most people think of Racism as a personal flaw, a petty hatred,  a weakness rather than as the social weapon system created by the Ruling Class, that Racism persists within Western Democracies.

We need to up our game.

#ToryRacism 

My ideal fantasy is this.

3-3 draw, extra time takes it to 4 - 4, then penaltys, 5-5, then both teams decide the Omens have decreed a shared trophy, signifying a global youth movement as one species getting ready to kick the arse of the dividers and bullies in power.

#howfuckingexcitingisTHAT

#NextLevel

or

"Now That's What I Call Win-Win Winning!"

I can only dream. I can hold a vision. 

Disco Mix

I have been busy.  Two new songs,  a remix and two blogs.

Here's the Remix. Of  'Wear a Mucking Fask!'

and as we're edging  around the issue of knees and booing..Race is a Weapon in The Class War

Kindest regards

Corneilius

"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."