Reaction formation
is believed to occur when someone finds an idea in themselves so
especially threatening that they deal with it by enthusiastically
embracing its opposite, and so it is with the New Labour Party and
Socialism.
The stand-out in
this field is Councillor Terry (TKMax) Kelly of Renfrewshire
District. There is a strong suspicion that Councillor Kelly is a
closet Socialist, despite his support for Blair's Government, his
support of the selling off of council housing to a private limited
company and his latest aberration, the stigmatising of a foodbank
user who dared to criticise the policies of the Cameron government.
Still, on his blog, he claims to be a socialist. How can this be ?
The councillor runs
the most vile, hate-filled blog it has been my misfortune to read.
It is filled with spiteful venom and really obnoxious, and often has
a special place for the Socialists. But Terry claims to be a
socialist and although I do not know him personally, I'm told by
those who do that he's 'ok'. So it's difficult to believe that a
vile hate-filled, spiteful, venomous, obnoxious person could charm
the voters, could they ? Unless they were modelled on Blair. I
believe the explanation is that Terry is reacting to his own shame at
allowing his own Socialism to be sold down the river for a place at
the council table and a pay of around £460 per week. But he says
he's a socialist and how could anyone think one of Tony Blair's New
Labour people would tell a lie ? I mean, I'm sure that if they live
long enough, maybe four or five hundred years, Tony Robinson and the
Time Team will find those weapons of mass destruction, right ?
So he embraces all
of the Tory policies with enthusiasm, attacking foodbank users,
manipulating Renfrewshire's assets for tax avoidance and promoting
big business at the Braehead Shopping Development. He gets into bed
with Cameron's Tories to fight against independence with more vitriol
than the Tories themselves. Nothing is too right wing for Terry,
because we believe he has to do it to cover up his embarrassment and
shame at having sold his Socialism for a paltry portion of silver and
a small sliver of power. Ashamed of his own cowardice he has to try
to be a bully, but he's not scary enough. That he has to be obnoxious, and
to lose all respect among decent people is a very small price to pay
when you have already committed the major act of betrayal of your
community and working class heritage, and you can always pass off
anger at yourself as strong commitment to principle if you are loud
enough.
And as for the real
Socialists, he hates us worst, because we are a constant reminder to
him of his shame and betrayal. We are the open sore that just wont
heal, we wont go away no matter what he does. We haunt him like a
bad dream of what he believes but dare not admit because were he to
come out of the closet as a socialist by action rather than just
words then his leader, Councillor McMillan, would dispense with the
services of his court jester as quickly as you can say Gulf War, and
then he's off the gravy train.
