And so it goes...this is my final blog of 2019.A year of consistent achievement,innovation and progress seen on my many fronts -some personal,some of wider significance.And at the centre of them all,Wakefield. Google #WakeyLit19 ,checkout all 3 of the articles published by Wakefield Express , go to the #WakeyLit19 facebook page. As a pioneering project on its first test run, it succeeded in proving that its underlying ethos and theory works.
Mary Creagh back in May 2019 however wanted nothing to with it.This from her email to me :-
"I must admit I felt some surprise when I received your email, given you have made several negative comments about me on Twitter and Facebook. I attach a couple of these but, as we know, there are many more.
I hope you understand my apprehension about your request following your comments on social media. Using language like ‘traitor’ ‘shill’ and ‘paranoid delusions’ to attack me on a personal level makes it difficult for us to work together constructively.
I am therefore unable to accept your invitation to be Patron of your project."
In December ,after 14 long years as Labour MP ,the leading Labour EU supporting Remoaner was defeated by the Tories' last minute replacement candidate and for the first time since 1932,the parliamentary constituency of Wakefield elected a Conservative MP.
"Traitor" "shill" and "paranoid delusions". Confirmed.
Clinical,disinterested,unbiased observations on objective psychological and political phenomena are never personal.
Around 66% of Wakefield's electorate had voted Leave in the EURef 2016,of whom Creagh and other leading Labour Remain MPs said variously at times were- thick,uneducated,stupid,racist xenophobic,insular,little englanders.
Now we know who's on the right side of History and whose analysis and insights accord with reality.
Her party political acolytes had long since prostituted and devalued the once impeccable stature of the Black Horse Poets - of whom Creagh had been appointed as Patron back in 2008- by relocating the group's base to the sectarian,party political shithole venue aka The Red Shed.
Their subsequent official ideologically motivated boycott of the proceedings of #WakeyLit19-in the wake of Creagh's idiotic email came as no surprise.
Vacuous sloganising and faux-moralising about world and national political events and personalities - in lieu of writing and developing Poetry-has long since been de rigeur for Performance Poet/Spoken word artists/poets across the UK.
What an epitaph to mediocrity.
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