ISSUE 46: 25.11.2008
Comrade Darling is in charge now.
So we now apparently have a one-time Marxist with his hands on the levers of power.
Pity we didn’t spot this before he sent us spinning head-long towards socialist destruction.
Alistair Darling was reportedly previously a member of the International Marxist Group.
Is Darling really a Communist sleeper who is now tasked with destroying what is left of our country? Although he does look rather drowsy most of the time we rather think not, but is the country really safe entrusting its economy and its future to one who might look like a good natured badger but has previously aspired to Trotskyism?
Communist ideology is very good at disguising itself over long periods. Remember Burgess and Mclean? We are not suggesting, of course, that Uncle Alistair is a spy but we would love to know if he still holds communist sympathies.
George Galloway, the ex labour MP, is reported as saying that Darling, when younger, was a supporter of the International Marxist Group (IMG). Galloway himself is reportedly a sympathiser of the Stalinist Communist Party of Britain and apparently, it is said, does not care for middle class Trots.
He is further reported as saying that “Red Ally” and his friends around the Black Dwarf (the IMG house mag’) were a colourful part of the Scottish left. And Darling later became the treasurer of what, at that time, was known as the rebel Lothian Regional Council.
While Mr Darling’s politics may have softened, are we really right in permitting someone who has aspired to changing society using those methods so beloved by Marxists and Trotskyists to be in such a sensitive job? Would he have been so permitted had he belonged to the BNP for instance?
It should also be remembered that during the 1960s and 1970s the IMG was strong amongst the radical student community. They supported the IRA in Northern Ireland for instance. Does Mr Darling have any comment to make on whether he personally supported this view? The IRA were fairly keen, at the time, on slaughtering British soldiers, along with numbers of innocent civilians.
If he did support that view, is there not something rather strange in him now being in charge of allocating funds to our armed forces? Particularly when they are so starved of equipment and support.
We are rather baffled as to why Mr Darling had had such an easy ride from the press on this matter. We have had George Osborne’s past links with the Bullingdon Club exposed ad nauseam. Why no comparable raking over Darling’s past? It rather seems to us that youthful indiscretion as a member of a drinking club by the Shadow Chancellor is somewhat less important than membership of a revolutionary organisation aimed at the overthrow of the capitalist system by the Chancellor himself.
Which rather brings us back to where we started. Just what is Darling doing to our economy and what motives really drive him?
Is there a newspaper out there which will investigate his past and present beliefs in Marxism fully? If so, we and possibly the nation as a whole, would be grateful.