An evil ruler oppresses a nation, a few choose to resist… I’m not talking about the student protests, I’m talking about Hanukkah and to my jewish friends, I wish you all a happy hannukah (or whatever the proper greeting is in hebrew!) 
Yet the parallels cannot be ignored with contemporary cirumstances. Echoes of Antiochus forcing a new mythology upon the Jewish people were on display today with David Cameron’s flippant remark “I’d rather be a son of Thatcher than a son of Brown” in response to Ed Miliband’s comment that the government were the children of Thatcher. Thus, call me Dave would have us believe that Brown, who saved us from a possible bank crash akin to Wall Street, is worse than a woman whose policies divided a nation and placed many into poverty and dismembered society. This is akin to Antiochus attempting to place a statue of Zeus into the temple of Jerusalem- trying to force their ideology on to us all!
My friend Jo, stated on her blog that Labour must capitlaise on this slip of the slick Tory rebranding http://jo2308.typepad.com/political_frames/2010/12/dont-waste-the-gift-of-thatchers-children-ed.html , and I commented saying that “it just shows how out of touch the Tories are with the normal of people of Britain, and is a sign they may want to repeat her handiwork”. We, like the Maccabees of 161 BC, must resist and oppose this attempted ideological whitewash. We must fight them on the tuition fee rise, like the students in the sit ins, we must oppose them on the public sector cuts. We must resist their myth of the necessity of deficit reduction at all costs and the continual scapegoating of the previous government. We must be the light in this darkness that miraculously keeps burning. Our ideals and beliefs are at stake!
Happy hanukkah comrades!
An evil ruler oppresses a nation,
Con artist, his weapon is mis-information,
He tries to rewrite history,
Forcefeed us with his false ideology,
He seeks to put his idol in our sanctuary.
We must resist,
For the sake of all we hold dear,
For the sake of all that is just, all what we believe,
We must resist,
We must be the Maccabees,
Never ceasing in our fight,
In this darkess, let there be light,
Let the light burn,
Miraculously let our candle keep on burning!
Tags: David cameron, Ed Miliband, hanukkah, thatcher, Uni fees
Powerful allegory Anthony & a great reminder of the damage Thatcher did to the nation.