Rightfield

[wilko8]

For your next trick I suggest going to visit the eternal flame at Anfield or the Hillsborough memorial in the centre of Liverpool. I really suggest going if a bunch of pissed up scousers charging the gates is all that you think it was

[davidd]

So many utter w*nkers espousing their "liberal" creds on here lately and in the same posts contradicting themselves. Only just selling out, market forces etc etc ? What a bunch of fucking morons .

[grumpyhack]

Maybe it should be renamed the Political Field and should encourage debate by speakers from both 'right' and 'left' - however you define that these days.

I'm 'left' but I still enjoy hearing a good debate with speakers from across the political spectrum.

I certainly don't believe that any 'side' has a monopoly of all the solutions and I enjoy views being challenged.

I also start from the view, some may call it simplistic or naive, that most people enter politics with a genuine desire to improve the lot of others. When then has to be examined or challenged are the solutions that they propose,

For example, on Overseas Aid, there are differing views on what might help. Some might argue that buying from Primark provides employment, others might say it just helps the rich get richer and the poor stay poor.

So let's have a political field for some decent debates. And some of the information might just rub off.

[wilko8]

before entering the Starbucks arena

[Englishdragon]

Blimey. This ran!

The point I was trying make was that Glastonbury would be a very different festival were it not run by someone with socialist beliefs. Michael Eavis' history, ethos and choices have led to the festival being what it is. Ergo, if you like what the festival is - and not just the Leftfield - then what you are enjoying is the outcome of an enterprise run with socialist views and a socialist conscience. To say you like the festival, but don't agree with it's politics is therefore a contradiction as it's politics made it what it is. It would be very different otherwise. In my opinion.

Edited May 11, 2013 by Englishdragon

[hedgepeg]

as long as we can all just get along and tolerate and be nice to each other for a few days in june i think that would be, dare i say it; 'in the spirit of glastonbury'

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I like the festival because it always seems to have the best line up of any festival, I couldnt give a shit about anything else and Ive made the point time and time again on here that the "spirirt of glastonbury" ect ect is not considered by about 95% of the festival when decided on going to glastonubry or when they are actually there.

Edited May 11, 2013 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[4AssedMonkey]

I like the festival because it always seems to have the best line up of any festival, I couldnt give a shit about anything else and Ive made the point time and time again on here that the "spirirt of glastonbury" ect ect is not considered by about 95% of the festival when decided on going to glastonubry or when they are actually there.

Edited May 11, 2013 by 4AssedMonkey

[gizmoman]

Yes it does. The definition of right wing and in particular conservatism is being against any type of immediate/radical/large scale change. That's what is at the heart of right wing ideology.

[Trotter Fist]

Can we have more line-up suggestions for this?

Think we've got Jim Davidson compering with Nigel Farage and Nick Griffin giving the keynote addresses. Music from Phil Collins and Geri Halliwell, perhaps? Has Ted Nugent got a passport? John Terry might be up for it. That Tory boy who was on Have I Got News For You last night would get em going. Any others?

[knivesout]

jacob rees mogg b2b richard littlejohn dj set

[Witty username here]

The Nazis (national socialists) were clearly not right wing then, they certainly made immediate/radical/large scale change. If the Nazis WERE socialists that might explain their love of mass murder ala Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao etc.

[hedgepeg]

Haha jacob reese mogg on the bassoon

boris 'borrissey' johnson on the tuba

Edited May 11, 2013 by hedgepeg

[fur_q]

The Nazis (national socialists) were clearly not right wing then, they certainly made immediate/radical/large scale change. If the Nazis WERE socialists that might explain their love of mass murder ala Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao etc.

[gizmoman]

Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao - no actual socialists in that bunch. It's also quite clear that the Nazis weren't socialists either - given that they competed against them electorally, and then banned them. Hitler nicked a fair smattering of socialist policy, but that didn't make his ideology a socialist one by any means.

It's quite possible to usher in radical change on the back of a regressive ideology. Fascism was undeniably regressive in it's outlook, presentation, and cultural focus.

[Trotter Fist]

Yesss, it's coming together. I'd love to see Jacob Rhys-Mogg in the dance tent. Do you think he'd bring his nanny?

[fur_q]

Can we have more line-up suggestions for this?

Think we've got Jim Davidson compering with Nigel Farage and Nick Griffin giving the keynote addresses. Music from Phil Collins and Geri Halliwell, perhaps? Has Ted Nugent got a passport? John Terry might be up for it. That Tory boy who was on Have I Got News For You last night would get em going. Any others?

[grumpyhack]

The MPs caught out over their expenses could form a fiddle band.

[gizmoman]

Do tell me about the last elections in The Democratic[\b] People's Republic of Korea.

Neither the left nor right have a monopoly on mass murdering dictators however to call the nazis left wing, (or for that matter to call Stalin a socialist) shows either a massive level of ignorance, wilful or not.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

The Nazis (national socialists) were clearly not right wing then, they certainly made immediate/radical/large scale change. If the Nazis WERE socialists that might explain their love of mass murder ala Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao etc.

Edited May 11, 2013 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[bigfurbdogg]

Glad to see its not just me that thinks the politics at Glastonbury should be a bit more balanced, instead of the current Leftie brainwashing.

[Trotter Fist]

All together now for one last song of the night from the Rightfield, "All we are saaayying, is give - unfettered capitalism, corporate greed, a privatised NHS and an end to immigration - a chance."

[tommmy]

This OP makes me miss Tommmy...

[ukdaasfan]

This thread reminded me of this poster:

[bigfurbdogg]

LOL. And they did. They made it more expensive and erected a bloody great fence around it.