About a hundred Stop the War activists gathered outside BBC Broadcasting House on Saturday to protest against a possible conflict with Iran. They were the usual ragbag of idlers, dreamers, misfits and malcontents. Many of these people are unable to grasp the illogicality of their political positions. A chap selling the Socialist declined to give me a copy for free.
‘In future everything will be shared,’ I said, ‘so start with this paper.’
‘I’ll share it with you,’ he smiled, ‘after you’ve shared your pound with me.’ I paid up and pointed out that the transaction had merely strengthened capitalism. ‘No, it’s building a system that will overthrow capitalism.’
A Marxist asked me to sign a petition in support of ‘anti-Trumpists’ in America. I told him I believed that Britain shouldn’t meddle in other countries’ affairs.
‘Isn’t that the point of the march?’
‘We’re not meddling,’ he said.
‘You’d obviously like to.’
‘The point is the Democrats aren’t strong enough to fight Trumpism.
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