Paul Malpas

Scenes played out on the television screens yesterday in Greece made me think of that day in July 1789 when the sans culottes stormed the Bastille in Paris and put in motion the violence that led to 10 years of the French Revolution, where most of the second estate (the nobility or those that were exempt from tax) fled the country or if dilatory, were executed.  This revolution took France a long time to recover from and get back on its fiscal feet, but it certainly turned their medieval form of government around and also that of most other developed countries round the world.  In fact it put the shit up the British Government so much that it was many years before they recovered their savoir faire. They thought the revolution would come to England and it certainly made for improvement in political thinking in the land of John Bull.

The very same conditions that festered the French revolution into being are occurring in Ireland and England at the moment.  Years of fiscal mismanagement have taken their toll.  The First Estate (The Clergy) have been running rampant for years and the Second Estate (The Nobility now in the form of bankers, politicians and lawyers) have all  deliberately and cynically conned us, the Third Estate, for long enough.  They need all clearing out, and it is up to us the sans culottes, the disenchanted, the deceived, call us what you like, to start a revolution.

In Ireland where the First Estate has virtually vanished up its own arsehole and where despite the recent blip in the polls, the Fianna Fail government, who are  part of the Second Estate is still reaching out its scrawny arm to every town in Ireland and telling the people what they can and cannot do and appointing ill-qualified  officers of government to all aspects of life, even as far down as managers of Social Welfare Offices.  These officers do not need to be qualified for the job in hand, they just need to preach the Fianna Fail gospel and the grateful masses attending will then praise the lord or whatever Cowan calls himself these days.  The other parties have no chance whilst this subterfuge or legerdemain continues.

In England, the First Estate is a docile little kitten with no voice, the Second Estate consisting of paedophilic politicians, grafting bankers, self appointed lords and a legal system containing members of the first three categories, allows blackmail and corruption to run rife and in fact, if you are not being blackmailed by some other obnoxious offender you will get nowhere. The Third Estate is just right for revolution.  Life is has become one big conspiracy theory and conspiracy is slowly becoming the truth.  The case of Hollie Greig is one such point.  Hollie, a Downs Syndrome girl cannot get justice for her abuse because her paedophilic ring of abusers in Aberdeen pull strings in Edinburgh and in London.  But the day has come the revolution has arrived, the truth will out and let us defrock this corrupt Second Estate of ours.

It is no use having the revolution in Greece, Portugal or Spain, they are not big enough to influence the world, although I can see the possibility of having something like a World Cup Draw for disillusioned revolutionary peoples. No, those countries are not powerful enough, let us have it in a country with a strong establishment, an establishment that has got too big for its boots.  Let us start the revolution in England and its half brother Ireland.

We have been told recovery due to fiscal mismanagement is going to take years, the French Revolution with all its violence took 10 years, my non-violent revolution based on civil disobedience will or might take longer but we will vanquish the bastards of the Second Estate.  We  will write another Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen and this time make it work.  The Philosophes will be vindicated.

As Richard Price, a Dissenter, said in his keynote speech to the Society for the Commemoration of the Revolution of Great Britain in 1789:-

Tremble all ye oppressors of the world!  Take warning all ye supporters of slavish governments……Call no more reformation; innovation.  You cannot hold the world in darkness.  Struggle no longer against increasing light and liberality.  Restore to mankind their rights; and consent to the correction of abuses, before they and you are destroyed together.

The forces of oppression,  tyranny and misery need to be overcome.

Vive Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite.

It is sad that the talentless ignoramuses who inhabit the Fine Gael party have done enough to make sure that George Lee threw in the towel with their hapless party.  Whether through ignorance, disbelief or pure jealousy, these clueless politicians decided to give George the bums rush and thus deny Irish politics of the one talented specimen the Dail had. These sons of publicans and solicitors sons, who have shuffled in their father’s footsteps since 1922 have shown themselves to be the diluted talent of diluted talent.

Why cannot the talented people in our society not rise to the top in the political echelon, the money ain’t that bad and there is plenty of time to earn more  if everyone forgot about the fact that politicians are needed as funereal appendages and fillers-in of pot holes?  The Dail only meets for 80 days per year so that leaves plenty of time for the talented and truthful to earn an extra crust.  It is only the “Never done a day’s work in his life” politician, who these days inhabit the Dail and pay regular lip-service to the incumbent arseholes who dwell in the Cabinet Office and pass legislation that they have probably read about on the backs of cornflake packets. Funeral attendance and road maintenance should be left to the equally talentless and hibernatory local authorities and semi-grieving friends and family.  Let the politicians do what they should be doing ie, govern, and they surely would if they had that gift.

The sons of father’s sons have proved time and time again in all historic societies that they have neither the wit nor the acumen to deal successfully with matters of import.  Therefore why not start again.  Form a new party.

A new party filled with people of talent, not hucksters and corner-boys who are in the system because they are no good at anything else.  People believe George and his ilk because they know he speaks the truth, they know he is not trotting out garbage.  The listeners to the Lifeline programme proved that the other day when in a snap poll a massive % voted for the correctness of George Lee’s actions in the face of disapproval and criticism by the politicians.

The Progressive Democrats did it nearly 30 years ago and managed to hold on to a semblance of power for a long time, but when they got fed up kicking Charlie Haughey’s arse, which was their raison d’etre, they reverted back to whence they came, members of the Fianna Fail party.

This new party of sense, truth and talent could take this country by the scruff of the electorate’s neck and shake out these 90 year old encumbrances that make people take the FF or FG side no matter what.  The country is in a mess like it has never been since the Famine.  The people want a new way.  It is there for the taking and I am sure there is enough commercial money knocking about to ensure early funding.  Commercial money that does not want to see itself squandered like it has been; commercial money that is not after a regular supply of brown envelopes. This new way is  a tangible and necessary process.  So arise George Lee and David McWilliams, you two could be the Daniel O’Connells of the 21st century in Irish politics.  It will not be easy but you are young enough and good enough.