Dan Hodges: The ProvoCATeur


Dan Hodges is a cruel man, and an asinine commentator.  Labour polls +2 whenever Dan Hodges retweets his own tweets due to not liking the responses. Toby Young did the same when he complained that a moronic-left-y-mob got him the sack from a prestigious educative role earlier this year; I gleefully announced to him: I was one of them.  I think he knew of my political influences. Rod Liddle, who’s an outright racist in pen format, yet is a charming gent in real life. There’s a cloggy eloquence about his persona, speaking to him requires a sneering forthright tone, otherwise you’ll get mixed up with background noise. Rotund in sound and has a habit in occupying space in coffee shops. Far from Liddle in pen format – however, Dan Hodges is vile, worth repeating.

There’s something peculiar about the Right-Wing authorship these past months and you can understand why Chris Williamson said: “I know it’s the silly season, but it’s all gone beyond silly…” ideal conditions for Hodges to go-forth-and-multiply; for he’s spreading the fascist gospel according to Dan, predestined for a hot clime ----- perdition. Hodges is schadenfreude too he couldn’t help but to relay a Left-Wing smear claiming Tory delegates were threatened during the 2015 Tory Conference, while writing a piece on the horrific murder of Jo Cox in June 2016. Vile man, yes, worth repeating; how dare he claims that a Politician’s death is mourned for minutes, try telling that to Jo’s family. Wrapped in bereavement for the foreseeable future; knowing full well her legacy is still yet to flourish or take shape out of the white noise of growing hatred towards a Social Movement. Hatred is the new currency of British politics Hodges applauds.

Remarkably, the transparency of social media enables voyeurs an opportunity to depict how media commentators view the world, Hodges pays homage to the ‘ordinary member of the public’ trotting out their rehearsed line about politicians’ sequacious mantra; to grab fifteen minutes of fame on social media – lo-and behold, Andy Warhol will be perfervidly screen-printing the words; “how many more times is a tomfool going to misquote me;” in a Philadelphia cheesy cloud. Naturally, Hodges can write what he likes, but then surely this allows one to have a license to be disparaging, well funnily enough, Dan Hodges invited this audience by saying democracy won’t work if robust disagreement was censored. It’s the Right-Wing self-appointed consortium that’s stifling freedom of information and speech in equal measures by determining what is ‘Fake News?’

Research usually exterminates smear campaigns; alas, the summer waves of rhetoric keeps coming, and from a pragmatist viewpoint it has been a season of bewilderment on par to living in the head of Boris Johnson during his Bullingdon Club  days when he burnt fifty pound notes in front of the homeless to become a fully-fledged member.  What’s innate is the means to which the mainstream media have bought the bull, collectively. Odd disparities and comparatives have been made by Dan Hodges of late: claiming that ‘Traditional Britain’ is built on a Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Bannon association. Bannon is American, hence, is a White Supremacist. I don’t recall ‘Traditional Britain’ advocating white supremacy at any point in history. But this was stated as if this was a fact – surely this is devolved of journalistic responsibility. Proof that the Right-Wing media-gravy-train think they’re immune to independent inquiries into disingenuous content. The failure of research is seismic.

Hodges, alerts his social media following that Jeremy Corbyn is associated with torturers and axe-murderers; (without any responsibility offering names, credible sources etc.) and asked followers for feedback.  A singular, tenacious voice of reason from Arieh Kovler replied: ‘Bannon works closely with racists and supports them politically, but avoids expressing racism himself and says he opposes racism. Sound familiar?’   --- One chard of sun-light shines through a 1.1K thunder cloud of hate.  His response, Dan Hodges ‘retweeted’ the post to get a response he preferred -- Sigmund Freud quoted: “the voice of reason is small, but very persistent.”  But what sticks in my throat, is the underlining white supremacy association with a ‘Traditional Britain.’ You don’t need me to inform you how dangerous this rhetoric is, duly for the implications are deranging and absurd in a civilised democracy.

We all could adopt the stance of ‘intentional ignorance’ and ignore ‘custom and practice,’ perhaps dismiss them on some absurd grounds. Or we can take custom and practice and explicit doctrine seriously along with actual history of humanitarian intervention departing from respectable norms and open a gateway towards computing what’s happening in the Western world.  Hodges comments like: “Is it me , or does it feel like we’ve all been transported back to 1936.”  Doesn’t offer hope to the logically minded; because he’s not dousing down the Nazism propaganda he’s a provocateur of the evil; and writes for a newspaper with original links to the perverse ideology. Brexit being the motivator of protectionism, which Dan Hodges advocates with glee and a little jump of anticipation.  I say this having read his view of the Theresa May Chequer's White Paper; indeed, May’s strategy is starting to work, apparently. Who is he, Sally Morgan? The whole of Westminster is on a recess - May is on a rambling sojourn in Switzerland, she’s probably looking at the local cheese thinking it’s as strong and stable as her tenure and Brexit White Paper.


My revulsion for Dan Hodges is summed up with a comment about his favourite subject (s) Jeremy Corbyn and that wreath on August 15th 2018. After being told the Munich Attackers weren’t buried in the Tunis cemetery. His default idiocy is spectacular: ‘No, Neither is Elvis. That’s not the claim. The claim was those who helped plan and facilitate the attack are buried in the graveyard. And they are.’  Worse still 2.2K follows liked the comment. However, it proves the Corbyn witch hunt duly of the premise, every one of us have laid a wreath in a grave yard in which bad people were buried. Unless he believes Jeremy Corbyn is the Messiah and is as pure as freshly laid snow - in retrospect, his hirsute appearance resembles a biblical prophet then again who’s actually met one in real life… For a start, a youthful one would be 2,000 years old. Obviously, (((Dan Hodges))) social media melodramatics replicates his Mother dearest --- actress Glenda Jackson; revering on the side of fiction -- And it is not only Nigel Farage and the Tory's who're guilty of nepotism. 

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