Harry's Place

ha ha

Though she was right the first time.

Never trust a f*****g Communist as all NOLS class fighters know :)

Hi, Marcus!!! Long time no talk at you.

Oh, I know a Campbell who is that. And a Cameron who is that.

Well, you know she was betrothed in infancy to the king of Barataria.

Having read the article I am reminded of why I cannot stand the sight of Bea Campbell.

Years ago she had the gall to stand up in front of one of the various Marxism Tiday events I used to go to and denounce the Labour Party for expelling the Militant Tendency/Revolutionary Socialist League. At the time, of course, the CPGB, on whose executive she sat, was busy expelling people in full-on Leninist mode for doing such things as publish a bulletin at their party congress. (The people being expelled were pretty nasty – politically at least – Stalinists, but that hardly excused the hypocrisy.)

What Bea Campbell was doing though, was the usual Leninist trick of excusing any level of lies and double standards on the basis that she was part of the vanguard and us lesser beings in the dirty little compromising social democratic Labour Party needed to follow her lead.

The fact that her party died after the world saw it was founded and sustained by supporters of one of the most cruel dictatorships in the history id humanity clearly has not made her change her outlook, even if she never mentions Lenin any more.

So, her rank hypocrisy ar becoming an “Officer” (ha ha ha) of the Order of the British Empire (what a joke) is excused because she’s a real feminist and Marxist and the Labour Party is “misogynist to the core”. She will always be right because she’s never been compromised by the squalid little business of winning any popular support. After all her mates had an answer to popular opinion – a T34 running over the skull of a Berliner, an Hungarian or a Czech. (Maybe her slogan was “not in my name” – who knows?)

Nothing Labour did or does will ever count – whether it is a minimum wage (once opposed by the Communists because it interfered with free collective bargaining – a slogan dreamed up by the Commies and then stolen by the Thatcherites), tax credits, extended maternity leave or any of the other countless social achievements of my party because we did not drink from the Kool Aid of Leninist truth. (And, of course admitting the dirty Labour Party and its sell out compromisers and reformers were right all along might just lead you to conclude your life was as wasted as Comic Book Guy’s.)

Bea. Just go and fuck right off (yes I am swearing en clar now because I am so annoyed by your arrogance) and take your stinking bllod soaked bauble with you.

Yet more evidence as to why I no longer waste money buying the Grauniad.

GW

“The working class
Can kiss my ass
I’ve got the foreman’s
Job at last!”

There are about 344 comments on the Guardian.

Most of them seem to be either sarcastic or pointing out the contradictions between the spoke/often shouted beliefs that Bea Campbell supposedly holds (or held), and how easy it was for the British establishment to weaken her resolve with a bit of flattery and a gong!

Sir Humphrey would be very pleased.

I’ll be buggered if I bow or curtsy for anyone less than HRBM the Queen, and it’s true that the honours system seems to reward the luvvies for the poxiest of things….but WTF hasn’t Peter Sallis been made a Knight of the Realm? Sir Peter Sallis might just restore my faith a little…

My bet is the whole comment thread on CiF might well get deleted shortly, OBE receiptiants can get a bit touchy and long term politicos, such as Bea, are not known for their sense of humour.

I can understand why an “intergalactic film star” might have chatted her up because that haircut makes her look like Servalan out of Blakes 7.

Her argument seems to be that she hasn’t really compromised her principles because she’s accepted the gong on behalf of others struggling for “equality”. It’s a selfless, even heroic compromise she is making for The People, and if anyone’s principles are being compromised, it’s theirs — for their own good. I’m just surprised that as an activist for “equality” she hasn’t demanded that everyone gets a gong. OK, I admit it, I’m not surprised at all.

What I want to know is who the hell nominated her?

Does anyone remember Bill Bailey and Sean Locke on the Mark Radcliffe show many years ago?

Locke – “I’ve won! I’ve won!! I can’t believe it. I’m Roadie of the Year!”

Bailey – “Hang on. I thought you said that awards impose a false hegemony on society and support the fascism of meritocracy?”

Locke – “Yeah, until I won one.”

What an oily, self-important little arsehole.

Judy: “What I want to know is who the hell nominated her?”

Someone with a very pungent sense of humour, I should think. Might even have been one of us.

Are you hinting that it was you, Cipriano?

Next year:

Martin Jaqcues for services to spectacles.

Mark Perryman for achievement in tee-shirt and sock production.

She has done as much for gender equality as Stalin did for the development of the Peasantry and Mao did for the Kulacs

Repeating what I said on previous thread concerning a recipient of the OBE:
Should not the OBE and the other honours with the term British Empire be renamed (for example) the Order of the UK or some other organization that still exists and has not, like Monty Python’s dead parrot, “run down the Curtain and joined the Choir Invisible” as the British Empire has?

And yes, Comrade Campbell’s hypocracy is positively stomach turning.

Why do people get so hung up over honours though? I mean, either denouncing them furiously or sucking up vigorously in the hope of getting one.

I mean, I know its nice to have one’s merits recognised (I dare say I would accept a earldom were one offered to me) and I accept that it represents a certain power structure that probably needs reforming. But these are minor symbols in both cases.

“Congratulation on your work with children/animals/the elderly/nuclear physics/the Guardian. Would you like a gong?”

“Thank you, kind/Very good of you to think of me, but I don’t really believe in all that sort thing.”

Its the only time i’ve enjoyed reading CIF the comments are very funny.

But this one particularly caught my eye.

>>>>>Heresiarch
16 Jun 09, 4:24pm
I think I know why you really accepted.

The day will come when the government announces some policy you disagree with, and you’ll be able to huffily send the OBE back – and write a long, tortured piece for the Guardian about how you owed it to generations of persecuted women to Make A Statement.

I predict it right here.<<<<<<

hahaha

Yep Metta you are right on the money there buddy.

I been hoping that Lemmy, Trevor Horn, Jon Anderson and Fish would get OBE’s. Brown has no taste.

From the comments: “Radicals don’t accept honours from people with no right to confer them.” Says it all.

I have no objection in principle to be made a Knight or a Duke or a Viscount or something.

wasn’t there a film about an American who become Monarch? like that mesquito ?

Dreadful woman.

wasn’t there a film about an American who become Monarch?

There was “King Ralph”, starring John Goodman. Pretty dumb, frankly. There was also some flick with Grace Kelly I seem to remember.

Beatrice Campbell:“Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was chatted up by an intergalactic film star.”

I bet it was E.T.

Modernityblog: “Wasn’t there a film about an American who become Monarch? like that mesquito?”

Yes there was, “King Ralph” (1991), which starred John Goodman as Ralph Jones, a Las Vegas lounge singer who becomes King of the UK after a freak accident during a group picture wipes out the entire extended Royal Family. Peter O’Toole is the King’s Private Secretary and John Hurt is a British Peer who plots to have Ralph removed so he can become King. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ralph or just google King Ralph
for details.

Why is Dr. David Starkey wearing such large earrings (in reference to the picture at the foot of the article)?

Thanks david A,

King Ralph! King mesquito

Not sure what’s wrong with changing your views from communist to something more mainstream. I seem to remember that a certain Harry Hatchet who started this blog was a communist too. As it happens though, as regards the Honours system, she was roughly right first time.

She obviously understands that she looks like a complete hypocrite (which she is). Else why would she be trying to convince the Guardian readers of the world that it isn’t?

Thanks for that Benji. It’s bloody marvelous to have you back.

I always thought that Beatrix Campbell was bright even if I rarely agreed with her…..that was until I saw her progamme on the alleged Network of Devil worshipers and the Satanic Child abuse that she claims operates throughout the county.
I realised then ,that she is in fact, a loon.

Never trust a posh geordie, it’s a cast iron law; Alastair Graham, Alan Milburn, the lovely Bea herself. What more proof could you need?

Have you ever seen Alan Milburn and La Campbell together in the same room?
QED.

mesquito: Then there is this film of the book:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court:
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King’s niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom’s politic.

The book is great, the film (at least, the Bing Crosby one) is a complete travesty: the former is dark and bleak (as is much of Mark Twain), the latter a frothy concoction.

Rintintin

Yes I remember that she wanted the entire Orkneys depopulated the men castrated and slain, the women put in refuges and reahabilitated so that they could get a job in Tescos.

I remember seeing her in a ‘debate’ with a strong and sane American woman Anthropologist who had investigated the satanic abuse networks in the US, this had involved the digging up of vast areas of several States looking for the ritually murdered children to discover a couple of odd looking dolls and a bloody hunting knife that had no human DNA whatsoever.

Beatrix Campbell was a crude insrulting, bullying monster towards her calm and reasoned sister who in Campbells mind was obviously fraternising with the enemy.

Nasty mean Ms Anthrope that Campbell is; she has done precisely zero for women other than bullying the hell out of those who actually tried to do practical things to improve the status and life conditions of actual women,

I am not surprised that a Queen bee of a transhuman lesbian cyborg colony should encounter an intergalactic star person.

Fortunately she refused or she may have engaged in some fiendish act of replication for her colony, that now fortunately will have become extinct in just a few years.

Though if it was Marlon Brando and his offer involved a back sided compliment of butter, I suppose I could have a wee bit of sympathy for her.

What’s funny, to me, is that anyone should be surprised. The narcissism and laughable rationalisation are entirely in keeping with her character. Over the years, Campbell’s mouthings have blurred into one long hum of distortion, indignation and outright fantasy.

This is a woman who believed in Communism, for God’s sake, and who spoke fondly of that Stasi nightmare, the German Democratic Republic. Her use of statistics is both unreliable and inventive, and emotive terms are redefined so as to implicate as many people as possible in The Siege of Womanhood. And let’s not forget this a woman who told listeners to ABC’s Late Night Live that, “the victims of September 11 are the architects of a mess of their own making.” Hers is a mind in which the men, women and children incinerated en masse, or filmed falling to their deaths, somehow brought that horror upon themselves.

Given who she is, how could she not be revealed as an absurd hypocrite?

Yes I remember that she wanted the entire Orkneys depopulated the men castrated and slain, the women put in refuges and reahabilitated so that they could get a job in Tescos.

Which, never forget, included Quakers. After most of the children were returned home, I recall watching one interviewed. Because he’d been too old to be fostered, he’d been placed in a young offenders’ institution. He came through (no thanks to monstrous women such as this) and was laughing about how he was now equipped to embark on a life of crime with the knowledge he’d obtained.

Damn I missed my punch line;

Though if it was Marlon Brando and his offer involved a back sided compliment of butter, I suppose I could have a wee bit of sympathy for her because;

as any good Marxist-Lenninist Lesbian Femminist Green knows, hand woven Wimmin’s Cooperative Margarine works just as well.

I’m surprised she hasn’t been given a peerage, since the House of Lords now contains any number of utterly unrepentant old sectarian Leftists of a certain generation. But then, so does the Government. And so does David Cameron’s circle.

Trade unionists and activists dismissed an attempt to make the nascent Labour Party anti-monarchist.

The Welfare State, workers’ rights, progressive taxation and full employment by a political movement replete with MBEs, OBEs, CBEs, mayoral chains, aldermen’s gowns, and civic services. A movement which proudly provided a high proportion of Peers of the Realm, Knights of the Garter, members of the Order of Merit, and Companions of Honour. They had rejoiced in their middle periods to be Lords Privy Seal, or Comptrollers of Her Majesty’s Household, or so many other such things, in order to deliver those goods within the parliamentary process in all its ceremony.

Peter Shore denounced the Major Government’s decision to scrap the Royal Yacht, and his support for Canadian against Spanish fishermen not least because Canada and the United Kingdom shared a Head of State.

The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party was founded out of the trade union movement specifically in order to secure for the British workers of Gibraltar the same pay and conditions enjoyed by other British workers.

And so on, and on, and on.

Whereas Labour now feels it necessary to promise in its manifesto that it has “no plans” to abolish the monarchy. It scorns pageantry and despises local government. It wants a monarchy on the cheap, leading to no monarchy at all.

It has betrayed Gibraltar among several other British Overseas Territories, including my own native Saint Helena. And it has carried on the anti-Commonwealth fanaticism of the 1980s Radical Right, the people who would govern under Cameron alongside the future Lord Mulgan, who straddled the worlds of the CPGB and the Trots.

Truly, there is nothing more fightfully NEW Labour than “republicanism”.

David Thompson, above, refers to Campbell’s affection for the old GDR.

It occurs to me that her acceptance of this award suggests she thinks that this country has become sufficient of a Stasi state that she is now comfortable with our equivalent of the Order of Lenin.

If memory serves, Trixie went on several state-funded trips to the GDR and saw fit to coo approvingly about what she found. No doubt readers of the Morning Star were all too willing to nod approvingly. Police states are such magical places to a certain kind of person.

I guess it’s one of those things a righteous gal can just forget about, or not be called on by her colleagues, or somehow rationalise.

Isn’t it funny how the rightist commentators here quickly tipped over into making snide remarks about her looks, her sexuality and general attacks on feminism?

All in your fertile imagination, a, as per usual.

O.B.E. famously stands for Obviously Bought by the Establishment.
I look forward to seeing Beatrix Campbell, O.B.E., and Eric Hobsbawm, C.H., on the board of the Monarchist League.

I am not a communist or ever have been. But I am a republican and I would never accept an honour based on an honours system which bestows on recipients the “honour” of being able to adopt the airs and graces of minor members of the aristocracy. (Nor for that matter a system which bestows different honours on the military according to their rank).

Isn’t it funny how the rightist commentators here quickly tipped over into making snide remarks about her looks, her sexuality and general attacks on feminism?

But her looks are clearly as much a product of her political outlook as any other skinhead’s, the cropped hair making a statement that she rejects a “traditional” feminine appearance. And she herself introduces her article with an anecdote about her sexuality. But I rather doubt she would appreciate a self-appointed Lancelot such as youself riding to her rescue, sunshine.

Not sure what’s wrong with changing your views from communist to something more mainstream.

She claims she hasn’t changed her views, dimwit.

But her looks are clearly as much a product of her political outlook as any other skinhead’s

Have you never seen a picture of Melanie Phillips?

If you think MP is a skinhead, Hector, I recomment an urgent appointment with your friendly neighbourhood optometrist.

An entertaining film version of Twain’s classic satire is “A Connecticut Yankee” (1931) starring Will Rogers who was America’s leading political,social and cultural wit of the 20s & 30s, as a contemporary radio repairman, Yankee Hank who gets a tremendous electric shock trying to repair a radio during a thunderstorm and ends up in King Arthur’s time. One segment of the film has Rogers, an old Oklahoma cowboy, dress up in rodeo outfit and proceed to win a jousting match by lassoing his opponent.

Other film versions include a 1979 annimated film starring another archtypical American charecter, Bugs Bunny in “A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court”. In 1998, Whoopi Goldberg starred as a modern physicist whose time travel experiment goes bad in “A Knight in Camelot”. Fortunately for Whoopi’s charecter, her PC and some other modern items in her backpack time travel with her and she able to use them to convince everyone in 6th Century Britain of her great magical powers. For further information about Twain’s original novel and its many film spinoffs see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthurs_Court

a Isn’t it funny how the rightist commentators here quickly tipped over into making snide remarks about her looks, her sexuality and general attacks on feminism?

Yes. I noticed that. She doe come across as stupid even though she is not blond.

Thanks, David All, I haven’t seen the Will Rogers version. Sounds interesting. Was Will Rogers really a former Oklahoma cowboy, or just in the film?
There was also a really, really dumb pastiche – late 1990s, I think – with a fat black teenager travelling back to Dark Ages England.

“Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was chatted up by an intergalactic film star.”

If only it was this one …

http://www.kyle-brady.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/alien_movie.jpg

Me: Yes, Will Rogers grew up on a ranch in in what was then Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and left school after the 10th grade to learn how to be a cowboy, especially in use of the rope and lariat. Eventually after working as a cowboy in the US, Argentina and South Africa, he became a trick rider in a Wild West Show. His ability not only to do fancy riding tricks, but witty, humorist comments as well made him famous. Rogers, who was one-fourth Cherokee Indian, liked to quip that his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower with the Pilgrims in 1620, “they were there to meet the boat”! For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers or google Will Rogers.

Me, yes in 2001, Martin Lawrence went back to 14th Century England in “Black Knight”, which indeed was mind-rotting in its idiocy.

sackcloth and ashes: Wicked!
(Actually I was wondering if it was Captain Kirk or Doctor Who)

Me: If you get a chance, “A Connecticut Yankee” with Will Rogers is worth taking the time to see.

Just to round things up: In 1995, Disney did a feature film version for young viewers with “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court”. Have no idea how good or bad it was.

’sackcloth and ashes: Wicked!’

You must admit. It’s an improvement on the original.