According to the great 1960s street corner orator Jack Lelieve the Tories were originally bog-trotting bandits from the west of Ireland. But today they are members of the Conservative Party from any part of the British Isles. They have become respectable with the passing of time.

 

The Labour Party was founded to promote the same ideology that motivated the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Both the USSR and Nazi Germany were guilty of mass murder on an industrial scale but the word "socialist" is not immediately identified with genocide.

 

Liberalism – the love of liberty – came from the French Revolution but our Liberal Democratic Party is not blamed for the guillotine or the bloody excesses of the Committee of Public Safety. When we think of Liberals we picture the vacant but amiable face of Nick Clegg rather than the cold green eyes of Citizen Maximilien Robespierre.

 

Israel is the only remaining racist state. They cling to the myth that they are God's chosen people and in order to colonise Palestine they have forced the Palestinians into Ghettoes just as the Nazis did to them in Poland. But America props up the Zionist enclave with billions of dollars a year as they committ the same atrocities that ravaged Europe almost seventy years ago. The Nazis were hanged for crimes against humanity but every political party supports a regime that is just as guilty.

 

The original fascists were Italian servicemen who returned from WW1 to face unemployment and economic collapse. In 1922 they united under Benito Mussolini to rescue their country. They were not racists; the only ethnic minority in Italy were the Jews who were represented in the Fascist Grand Council. When Italian troops marched across the Ogaden desert in 1935 they found an abandoned Eritrean child. They promptly adopted her and the fascist anthem "Faccetta Nera" was born. Faccetta Nera – little black face – told the story of a poor girl who was taken to Italy to enjoy her freedom. There is nothing even remotely racist about this song; it is about generosity, patriotism and human solidarity. But today the word "fascist" is used as a political insult.

 

Language changes and we all use words that we had not heard of twenty years ago. New words are adopted and existing words change meaning. "Socialism" used to suggest concentration camps but now it stands for equal opportunities. ‘’Zionism" stood for racial supremacism but now it's just harmless Israeli nationalism. And "fascism" means violence and dictatorship instead of order and progress.

 

But fashion is a fickle thing. Between 1933 and 1945 it was de rigueur to be a Nazi in Germany but today it’s actually a crime to believe in National Socialism. One day acceptable labels such as "inclusive" and "multi-cultural" may be as obnoxious as "racist" and "fascist" are today.