New Gulf-Penisluar Times reporter Maria St Leggins, (recently divorced and needing a new income) was dispatched to Cario to follow the first free elections in Egypt and garner opinion.
The first man she spoke to Karim el don'tharmme was in an estatic mood, 'This is a proud day for all Eygptians as we get a say in how our country is run for the first time. I myself are going to vote for one of Honsi Mubarak's men from the old regime. Being a dictator isn't easy and its a lifetime job so you need someone with experience. These newcomers just don't have the staying power. Yes, jobs were hard and the economy terrible but the humous was cheap and we were proud to see Honsi and his family in London, New York and Qatar dripping with money.'
Others though had different views, Mohamed Whattacha was voting for one of the Islamic candidates, 'when it comes to dictatorships these guys mean business. First thing they will do if they win is ban all other parties for being un-Islamic, hell they might even ban themselves for having independent thought. Yes life might be tough under Islamic rule but I for one are looking for to 40 years of religious persecution where I can inform on my neighbor for blashpemy.I don't really want a say in my own life as I will probably get it wrong, best to leave that thing to the experts.'
Maria caught up with one man who was looking even further back, Ahmed el labnah, 'Don't listen to these men, they don't know a real dictatorship when they see one. I want to vote for the British to come back. Now those guys knew how to run a country. Yes you could get imprisoned, yes they ran all the companies for their benefit, but look at the roads!, looks at the railways! and they were just so polite.'
One thing is for sure this will be a life changing election for the Egyptian people as they select their next dictator and as Maria St Leggins, (recently remarried to a hopeful presidential candidate), 'I feel so happy for these people and their new freedoms. I really hope my husband wins so I can visit the poor people in their homes to bring a little joy but I am especially looking to build a ridicoulsy huge shoe and easter egg collection.'
No- Egytians have voted for the next US/IMF stooge
ReplyDeleteIf its a stooge it's a Qatari, Saudi one. They are the ones pumping the money in now for their friends in the Muslim brotherhood.
DeleteNo imperialists lackies. The IMF and the MB, the historic right-wing party of the Egyptian bourgeoisie, have a long tradition of attacking the Egyptian working class. In the 1970s the MB supported the Infitah (economic opening) carried out by Mubarak’s predecessor Sadat, which aimed to roll back the social reforms previously granted by the Egyptian regime under Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser. Like the more recent policies under Mubarak, they provoked bitter class struggles.
ReplyDeleteWhen Sadat announced plans to cancel food subsidies in January 1977, the Egyptian masses rose up all over the country in bread riots. The protests were brutally crushed by the army, but Sadat reacted by withdrawing some of his policies.
Some bourgeois commentators voiced their concern about the revolutionary implications of IMF policies. In the Egyptian daily Al Masry Al Youm, Ahmad Shokr warns that “just as Mubarak’s reforms over the years were met with popular agitation so too may those of Egypt’s new rulers should they choose to follow a similar trajectory.”