Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Why the title?

I am sometimes asked why have 'leftwing' and not 'rightwing' in the Blog title?
The reasoning is quite simple, the hard right are small in number, have precious little true influence and thus are not a genuine problem in this country - they are merely an irritation; an excrescence on the buttock of humanity.
I really do not like the hard left - I believe they are fundamentally wrong on almost every issue - but they gain more respect from me than do the liberal left.
It is this latter group which holds the reins of power. They are into the business of undermining, destroying social structures, wrecking the Christian Faith and corrupting children through the media and the education system - and it is not just with children where their successes lie. These are the people who have little concept of morality and who try to supplant democracy with political manipulation, political correctness, the imposition of bureaucracy, pettiness and anti-democratic practices.
Their sinister influence must be exposed to the light and eradicated.

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