IN DEFENCE OF THE MIDDLE GROUND.

 

Warning: This blog post contains references to Gary Lineker and the UK's Immigration Policy.
Yanny Mac accepts no responsibility for any actions caused by potential triggers.

It seems to me that none of you are correct.

If in fact as I suspect, you are in either Chairman Gary's camp or Kommandant Braverman's kampf, you are both guilty of aiding the Establishment, in their age-old desire to 'Divide & Rule'.

These polarised debates of 'Whose Side Are You On?' merely allow those in power to go about their day passing legislation, debating for debate's sake, and justifying their salaries and their positions of power, whilst we scrap over tired ideologies and extreme points of opinion.

Regardless of which token party is in the ascendancy, the act of governing requires tedious bureaucracy, a good dollop of deceit, and the occasional sleight of hand.
To keep us otherwise engaged & benighted, allows our oft-Knighted leaders to go about their dull days, spending our money, meeting manifesto pledges, and making laws for us to abide by whilst we are not looking.

Take 'Twitteneker-Gate' for example.

Whilst we were furiously staking our claims -

"The BBC is corrupt!"  "Lineker for King!"  "Defend our shores!"
"Are Elon & Gary best mates?"  "Sky Sports - All the Premiership Goals - With full punditry!"

- the government rejected all but one of the claims for 'Bathing Water Status' on our rivers (i.e. can we stop putting shit & piss in the water in the pursuit of profit?), our PM gave away £500MILLION to France to 'try and stop people using boats to get to the island of UK', and the white elephant of Tory vanity projects HS2, was put on hold to save us more cash, destroying plans and fragile infrastructures in one fell swoop!

We should be angry!
But the social media shitstorm surrounding BBC impartiality isn't what we should be angry about!

I like Lineker.
I like nationalised industries such as the BBC.
I used to like football, but remain steadfast in my dislike for the elite end of it.

I agree that Lineker broke his employers' rules.
I agree that it's government's responsibility to hold the BBC to account.

I don't like how much of our licence fee is spent bankrolling Lineker's salary, or Clarksons (as was), or Baldings, or Ken Bruces, or Rylan Clarks.
I didn't like Lineker's half-arsed 'meh' about Qatari slavery, misogyny & homophobia, only to follow the sheep to the desert like a hypocrite!

I'm particularly annoyed that the DG at Auntie Beeb is a huge donor to the Tory Party.
I'm also catatonic at how much he is paid!

I believe the BBC is a good thing, and the pursuit of impartiality the correct one.

And I do believe passionately in free speech, that does not incite pain, suffering or violence.

So whose side should I take, whilst our leaders are palming-off responsibility, destroying the fragile economies of the North, and shitting in our bathing water?

The answer is neither of them.
Binary opposition diminishes us.
It stops us looking at things holistically, and for the benefit of the whole.

I value everyone's opinion.
But for opinions to matter, there must be nuance.
And without nuance or respect for the middle ground, we are destined to repeat Divide & Rule, and utlimately get nowhere; and get there very fast.

***YM wrote this rather quickly in light of necessity, and apologises to his old English & History teachers for the repeated use of 'Got', 'Get' and 'Getting'.