Warmonger Starmer: this is a mock-up, of course – don’t expect him to climb into a uniform and get his own hands dirty. He’ll just talk about it.
Keir Starmer has visited Ukraine, where he made clear his desire for the war between that country and Russia to continue.
He prefaced a tweeted video of his comments with what I understand to be a fascist slogan associated with Nazi collaborators who participated in the Holocaust:
This idiot is tweeting the slogan of Stepan Bandera's OUN-B. Nazi collaborators who were responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the holocaust. https://t.co/GuBR7K9RiC
Notice that he actually said, on behalf of the Labour Party, that he was “showing our support for the conflict“.
I can only agree with Chris Williamson, below: the correct approach to a conflict between other nations is to offer to act as a mediator between the two and seem a negotiated end to hostilities through diplomacy.
It has been suggested that the two countries almost reached such a negotiated cessation of conflict – in April 2022 – until Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine and talked President Zelenskyy out of it. With Johnson out of power in the UK, it seems to me that renewed talks might bring about peace.
But it seems Starmer also wants the bloodshed to continue:
What Sir Keir Starmer means is that if a Labour govt is elected next year, he will continue to facilitate the slaughter of more Ukrainians and won't try to bring the war in #Ukraine to end through diplomacy.
So there you have it. The leader of the UK’s Labour Party mouths platitudes about the suffering of the Ukrainian people but supports ongoing war in that country and quotes Holocaust perpetrators for good (bad?) measure.
He is a dangerous warmonger and deserves nothing from you but contempt.
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Why did Liz Truss wear the same dress for her Tory conference speech as fictional fascist dictator Vivienne Rook (played by Emma Thompson in Russell T Davies’ drama Years and Years) when she announced the introduction of concentration camps to the UK?
Was it because their policies are so similar? After all, it is current Tory policy to send refugees arriving in the UK to an internment camp in Rwanda.
Was Truss trolling us with a blatant visual clue about the direction she intends to take?
Certainly Years and Years creator Russell T Davies thought something was going on…
“This is getting weird,” he wrote on Instagram of Truss’s decision to wear the ‘Forever’ dress.
Is it, though?
I mean, Chloe Smith, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, quite clearly models herself on the dictator Servalan (as played by the late, great Jacqueline Pearce) from classic BBC science fantasy Blakes 7:
Servalan.
Chloe Smith.
They could have been separated at birth.
What This Writer wants to know is: who else among the current Tory cabinet is modelling themselves as well-known fascists?
Is Jacob Rees-Mogg about to go the whole hog and grow a little square moustache under his nose?
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Warning signs of fascism: the UK’s government displays every one of these.
Schrodinger’s commentator: This Writer feels both heartened and disheartened by Late Night Mash‘s segment, ‘Get ready for Fascism!’
The reason?
I’ve been doing that – and warning about it for years. Since 2013, according to my files, although this piece is from 2020, after Boris Johnson’s government started accelerating the process towards turning full-fascist.
And Mash is only on Dave, a TV channel with only a small audience. It’s good that the segment has been broadcast, but only a few people will have seen it, and fewer still will accept that it is a comment on what is actually happening – despite the factual information it contains.
This Site also has a small audience. But we might be able to expand the number of people seeing this – if those of you who do read this would actually share it (or at least the video clip) with your own friends and followers.
Will you?
Here it is:
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Liz Truss: bad choices already mean we have another rotten prime minister.
This Site has a lot of time for Richard Murphy. As an economist, he seems to be on the side of the people, rather than selfish commercial interests, and he also seems to know the right way to run an economy.
That’s why I was very interested to read his thoughts on the early decisions of Liz Truss as Tory leader and prime minister.
He’s horrified:
The portent of things to come came when Truss’s senior adviser team was announced. Her economics advisers come from the Taxpayer’s Alliance and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Both are secretive far-right think tanks.
Another adviser also comes from the IEA. Truss has made clear her course. She will use her time in office to seek to dismantle the state. As a result she sets herself on a collision course with the civil service and the people of this country.
That’s a prediction, right there: Truss will seek to dismantle the state.
She managed to beat it, however, by appointing Jacob Rees Mogg to be Business Secretary, with responsibility for the environment. The man is a climate change denier. It is almost impossible to imagine a worse appointment.
So: Truss intends to bring in more pollution as part of a policy of climate change denial.
Her sackings were also significant. She has reduced her support base to Johnson loyalists who sided with her against Sunak. It is an incredibly narrow base inside a Tory party that is already deeply divided, and more than able to sack those Prime Ministers they do not like.
The Bank will read this as inflationary. They will be increasing interest rates as a result. An increase to 3% is now forecast by Christmas. The knock-on effect will be a bigger household budget crisis for some than that caused by energy. Mortgage costs will skyrocket.
So: Truss is determined to worsen your money woes, not ease them.
Outside parliament, it is hard to see how any of this is going to sell well. An energy price cap at £2,500 will not look like a lot of help for many struggling households.
And in all this there is no hint of support for any businesses, except banks and energy companies who are exploiting the current situation for all it is worth. The supposed march of the entrepreneurs that Truss and her cohort believe in is not going to happen.
And this will not be by chance. The IEA is a particular exponent of the idea of the zombie company, as they describe them, which they say only survives because of low interest rates and the implicit state aid that provides.
They call the process they are set upon ‘creative destruction’. By creating conflict and collision courses it seems that Truss is intent on this destruction. But there will be nothing creative about it. That was never possible, anyway. There will just be victims.
They believe that out there in the economy are new businesses who have only been waiting for the destruction of government for them to emerge into the marketplace so that they can replace the services the government supplies now.
Truss is, therefore, setting out to fail. Her appointments and priorities prove it. The collision course she is set upon is dangerous. The cost to us all of her choices will be enormous.
The time to create the agenda for a post-neoliberal world, where economic and social justice and a belief in the virtues of accountable democracy has arrived. That’s where I will be going with my thinking now. We can do better than this. To survive, we have to.
To survive, we have to do better than this. He’s saying that if Truss sees through her agenda, we won’t.
Mr Murphy also had this to say about Truss’s immediate spending plans with regard to the current cost of living crisis:
Unless Truss spends £150 billion this winter then we’re deep in it. £45bn is required to keep households going. Public services need £80bn, including for pay rises, and business needs at least £25bn of support. The odds Truss will do this? Zero. Get ready for a nightmare.
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Sunak: if he replaces the man directly behind him on the left, he’ll sink the UK into a mire of extremist fascism – while pretending he’s fighting extremism.
He says he won’t target people who criticise his extremist government with this new plan.
But who would be stupid enough to believe him?
I refer, of course, to Rishi Sunak, who has said those who speak extreme hatred toward the UK will be treated as extremists and referred to the government’s deradicalisation programme Prevent, if he becomes prime minister:
Does he have any notion, any idea, any comprehension, any understanding, of how dangerous and inflamatory this is ⬇️
"Rishi Sunak: People who vilify Britain will be treated as extremists" https://t.co/YpQupGXGr8
People who display hatred through speech or writing would be referred to Prevent programme, Mr Sunak pledged.
The former Chancellor’s team clarified that the changes would not include criticism of the government or any government policy, and was not legally binding.
Extremism is defined in the 2011 Prevent strategy as “vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs”, as well as calls for the death of armed forces personnel.
Sunak’s team vowed to broaden that out to include “vilification of the UK” to ensure “those with an extreme hatred of our country that leads them to pose a risk to national security can be identified and diverted away from a destructive path”.
Sharp minds have already taken a look at that idea – and found it wanting:
This is as laughable as it is problematic. How will they define extreme hatred of Britain? They can’t, so this will serve to 1) vilify dissent and 2) continue to target minority communities. pic.twitter.com/xth8u7Kqma
— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
Just take a look at how those who want discussions of the Empire and slavery in schools are portrayed by the media and the government.
It is very easy for a government invested in the culture wars, to frame any criticism as hatred of Britain.
So this is about dissent.
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— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
And this is why this is so revealing, Does this sound familiar? Compare this with the texts in the black box, from the leaked Shawcross report. The 'complaints' Sunak mentions? That's the Shawcross report he's talking about. pic.twitter.com/IKAdhyBOio
— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
Extremists have been convicted for making nailbombs to kill as many immigrants as possible, for attacking elderly brown men with an axe, for planning massacres at mosques. And yet, not a single one of them framed as hating Britain. I bet you don’t even know their names. 8/
— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
How about Andrew Dymock, jailed for leading multiple neo-nazi groups? Ben Raymond, co-founder of National Action? Benjamin Hannan, a serving Metropolitan Police Officer, also a member of National Action? Are these convicted extremists framed as hating Britain?
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— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
This shouldn’t be dismissed as just a Sunak campaign move.This is bigger than individual politicians. This is part of a systemic downplaying of the threat of the far-right by the government, media, and even in academia, of the threat faced by far-right extremism.
Why? 12/
— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
This is a coordinated move to further criminalise dissent, while simultaneously detaching far-right extremism from UK counterterrorism
This is part of the consolidation of an authoritarian, extremist government.
Which will sadly, breed even more extremism, of all kinds.
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— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
I also wanted to add this thread here by @TanjaBueltmann where she makes an excellent point regarding viewing this alongside the plans to scrap the HRAhttps://t.co/lq6WCm5ADn
— Dr Maria W. Norris she/her (@MariaWNorris) August 3, 2022
So in fact, it seems Sunak is planning to breed far-right political extremism in the UK by targeting – as extremists – people who disagree with his plan for far-right Tory government.
He’ll use it to Prevent (capital letter intended) people from demanding independence for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
And he’ll use it to steamroller opposition to the imminent bonfire of your human and working rights.
And that’s probably just for starters.
If you’re not up in arms about this, you’re asleep and need to wake up.
Some are happy to protest passively:
Tweeting about how much I hate England every day until Rishi drags me away to camp. Can't wait tbh. All my faves will be there ❤
Others are making the point more forcefully – that this is yet another example of the fascism that has underscored Tory politics for more than a decade now:
They've already criminalised protest and made it legal for police to commit crime.
They're currently trying to scrap the Human Rights Act and ban workers striking.
And now they're proposing re-education camps for critics.
Just *when* exactly can we start calling this fascism?
This Site has been calling the Conservative government out over its fascism for years – and been vilified for it.
Are you all ready to accept, now, that I might have a point?
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On the very day the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act that bans “noisy” protest became law, police swooped on anti-Brexit campaigner Steve Bray and confiscated his amplifiers.
Mr Bray, of Port Talbot, has been a regular feature in Westminster for many years, protesting against Brexit. He regularly used his equipment to broadcast protest songs about Boris Johnson, notably during Prime Minister’s Questions.
But after the new Act came into force, which extends a “controlled area” around Westminster where activities like sleeping in a tent are restricted, around 15 police officers swooped on Mr Bray and took his equipment:
On the day that “noisy” protest becomes unlawful under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, at least 20 police officers have just surrounded anti-Brexit protestor Steve Bray outside the Houses of Parliament and seized his loud speaker. @LBCpic.twitter.com/ljwwHOO8me
One clause that commenced this morning is for police to “impose conditions on one-person protests” – a law critics have speculated was drawn up because of Mr Bray.
A senior police officer can impose conditions on a one-person protest if they “reasonably believe” the noise it creates “may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation in the vicinity, or have a significant, relevant impact on people in the vicinity.”
This disruption includes if people in the organisation can’t “reasonably carry out any one of their activities for a prolonged period of time.”
This Writer has seen no evidence that this was the case when Mr Bray’s equipment was taken.
I would certainly encourage you to read the Mirror article, especially the comments by representatives of organisations opposing the draconian measures in the Act. They make its consequences very clear.
This is likely to be the mildest example of the new policy’s enforcement.
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Paul Collier: does his appointment make Michael Gove’s ‘Levelling Up’ project racist?
Is this an admission that Boris Johnson’s Tory government intends to treat non-white citizens as second-class (or worse)?
It seems so.
Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up (as if that title means anything), has appointed Paul Collier to advise him on his plan for the nation.
The development economist at Oxford University is infamous for having claimed that immigration has made indigenous British people a “minority” in London.
He also said nobody born in the UK but with even one parent who was an immigrant should consider themselves indigenous, and that people born of immigrants who had been here longer may only call themselves indigenous if they have integrated into society.
And this is the man Gove wants to advise on the 12 points of his “Levelling Up” plan, including schemes to improve everything from pay, jobs, research and development spending and transport connectivity in struggling areas, to “restoring local pride”.
Does this mean the only people who’ll receive “Levelling Up” help are those who can trace their ancestry back to Alfred the Great? I think even the Queen might have a problem with that.
It certainly seems geared to exclude large numbers of the population on the basis of race.
And this would fit with the Johnson government’s fascism, as it would identify ethnic minorities as enemies who may deprive areas of “Levelling Up” funding, in a bid to unify Collier’s “indigenous” people against them.
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Yes, UK, you have a fascist government: check out the last item on the list – “fraudulent elections”.
So much for the Tories not wanting a “papers please” society!
After making a huge fuss about Covid passports, because they don’t want UK citizens to have to prove their identity or be deprived of their rights, earlier this week Conservative MPs overwhelmingly passed a Bill to demand that UK citizens must prove their identity in a specific way before being allowed to vote.
There is no justification for this law. The claim is that it will prevent impersonation of other voters at the ballot box, as though there has been an epidemic of this electoral crime.
But there was only one case of election fraud by “personation” in 2019. One.
The Bill was supported by 327 Conservative MPs – that’s 326 more people than committed the crime it’s supposed to protect against.
We must therefore conclude that Boris Johnson’s government is lying again – and ask what real reason the Tories could have for imposing this unnecessary restriction on the UK’s electorate.
The answer is simple: it will ensure that between one million and 3.5 million people will not be able to vote at elections.
And it’s not a random two million people, either. This is a targeted attack:
BREAKING: The Tories have passed their voter ID law, ensuring that 1 million poor people, who would never vote Tory, won't vote for anyone now x
And the effect will be recordable because only general elections and elections in England will be affected by the new law.
You will need to show voter ID at a UK General Election but not for Scottish or Welsh Government elections because neither of those nations are run by actual fascists.
See, This Site and others have been warning you about the fact that your Conservative government’s political position is full-on fascist, for years; fraudulent elections constitute the 14th of the 14 signs of fascism.
And even now, Tory “useful idiots” will scream at you that it’s all a lie, they’re not rigging elections and there’s a real need to save you from a nonexistent threat.
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It asked, “Which of the policies that were announced and/or confirmed at this years party conference are either Tory or Fascist.” As if that would settle the matter.
Do you like the wording – the attempt to restrict me to policies from the party conference? I did.
Of course it was setting up a false argument because none of those policies matter one whit.
Keir Starmer lied his way into the Labour Party leadership and he has been lying ever since.
He was elected on 10 pledges that he has since abandoned in their entirety and I have absolutely no doubt that he will also abandon any policy he has announced since then – whether at the party conference or not – as soon as they become inconvenient to him.
Here’s a tweet, in response to a similar Starmerite, if anybody needs clarification of this point:
Just a quick shout out, Keir Starmer literally won the leadership claiming to be a completely different person with a completely different set of objectives and values. pic.twitter.com/kK1xuN8kL1
Starmer’s words mean nothing at all. Those of us who criticise him aren’t paying any attention to his empty words – because we are watching what he is actually doing.
This evidence reveals that he has spent the whole of his time as leader conducting a protracted persecution of his own party members – particularly left-wing Jews, making this an anti-Semitic attack as well – with false accusations of anti-Semitism that carry absolutely no weight in the real world – at the behest of his apparent masters at the Israeli Embassy.
It shows that he has supported Boris Johnson’s Conservative government when it has inflicted dazzlingly stupid and genocidal policies on us, such as almost every measure to do with Covid-19 that has been inflicted on us.
It shows that he can’t win elections because people see him as a pale blue Tory. The two mentioned by Howard Beckett, below, are just the latest in a long line:
Keir Starmer has never offered a word of solidarity to Zarah Sultana. Not after she broke down in tears in Parliament describing the Islamophobia she’s faced. Not after she was told to “go back to your country” whilst on bereavement leave. Never. Why? https://t.co/bPM8SG7xpT
Because he’s a sexist, a racist and an Islamophobe, that’s why.
I’ve discussed Starmer’s treatment of Ms Sultana in a previous article as follows:
Now, that race hate and intolerance are making themselves clear within the ranks of the Parliamentary Labour Party, as it seems Starmer is planning to deselect four sitting MPs – for the crime of being black:
It seems the claim is that some in local party groups are stirring up unrest on the basis that some of the named black women were selected as supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, rather than as representatives of the people in the constituencies.
Among those facing deselection is Zarah Sultana, who is widely accepted to have been one of the most effective MPs in a Labour Party that has been rendered toothless by Starmer’s leadership:
She recently highlighted the racist abuse she receives from members of the public, posting on Twitter an email she received on her return from bereavement leave after the death of her grandmother:
What has Starmer done to support his MP in the face of this racism?
Nothing.
I’ll say it again:
He has done nothing.
He supports genocidal racists and he undermines people of colour in his own organisation – while pretending to be pious for the cameras.
What a verminous, racist hypocrite.
My words are supported by the evidence from Ms Sultana herself. She has given an interview to LabourList that is searing in comparison with that website’s usual deference to Starmer:
“You expect support and solidarity from people in your party.
“I haven’t had a single word of solidarity from the current leadership,” she says. “Angela Rayner, Nick Thomas-Symonds, Louise Haigh, Kim Leadbeater, all of those guys got in touch – and I didn’t get anything from the leadership at all.” In fact, she adds: “I’ve never spoken to Keir.” Asking questions at parliamentary party meetings is the closest they have had to a conversation, the Labour MP says.
Sultana believes that, as a young Muslim woman, she is treated differently not only by those who send abusive emails and letters, but also by her colleagues. “I learnt this lesson very early on,” she says. Sultana points out that her maiden speech referring to “40 years of Thatcherism” caused uproar, yet nobody blinked an eye when Lisa Nandy talked about “40 years of economic decline” during the leadership election and said “the consensus that Thatcher built lasted all the way through the New Labour years”. Sultana was told that senior MPs were advising other 2019 newcomers: “you don’t want to do what Zarah did with her maiden speech”.
Only a handful of Labour MPs have been reported as being particularly under threat of deselection, yet two of this small number are Muslim women. “To me, if we’re just talking about optics – and it shouldn’t just be about the optics, it should be about the people who are affected – that just doesn’t look very good,” Sultana observes. Asked about the chances of her being triggered, she says: “I have no sense that I’m more under threat than anyone else… I’m really hopeful that I will have [members’] support.”
“The people providing those quotes [for articles about her potential deselection] were citing things like Prevent, and they were citing things like Palestine… as though it’s not a normal concern to have,” she says. “I was really shocked because someone’s obviously given a green light to this.”
Yes indeed – and the buck stops with Keir Starmer.
So, judging Starmer by his actions, we see that he himself is a Tory supporter/enabler – that demonstrates the Tory aspect of his behaviour.
And for the fascism, look no further than the sexism, racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and persecution that has characterised his attitude towards his own party members.
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One rule for him: remember, Dominic Raab is the Tory minister who couldn’t be bothered to return to work from holiday when Kabul fell. He breaks government rules habitually yet presumes to lecture us on the law.
Remember: this is what the UK voted for:
In a move designed to strengthen authoritarianism, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said today that an overhaul of the U.K.’s Human Rights Act would include a “mechanism” to “correct” rulings by the European Court of Human Rights. We live in dangerous times as fascism looms large.
Dominic Raab has decided that if human rights judges in the UK make decisions that he doesn’t like, he will override them in blatant disregard of the rule of law.
This is what the UK voted for.
In a blatant rhetorical reversal of what actually happens, he has said that he would stop “judicial legislation” – that is, judges making UK law. But they don’t; they never have. They simply apply the law of the land to individual cases. Stopping this would be breaking the law.
You see, so-called “case law” – legal precedents set by judges – are only examples of the way the law should be interpreted when applied to particular situations, to be followed if such situations arise again in order to avoid contradiction and confusion. They are not situations in which judges take legislative power for themselves and Raab is lying by suggesting that.
But this is what the UK voted for.
He said he wanted to stop the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg from dictating law to the UK, but…
1 The Human Rights Act is British law, enforced by British Judges in British Courts 2 If our Parliament doesn’t like a judgment, then it has a mechanism to override it, it’s called Legislation 3 Blaming foreigners for it is dishonest 4 Challenging Govt is the basis of democracy pic.twitter.com/yH8YIDdPig
Human rights lawyer Jessica Simor QC said that Raab’s plan would have an effect opposite to what he was suggesting, because it would mean
more complaints going to Strasbourg and more rulings against the UK, unless the government intended to pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights altogether, which would be “a step into a dark place for this country and the world”
But if that happened, it’s what the UK voted for.
The former head of the government’s legal service, Jonathan Jones, said:
As parliament is already able to legislate to correct flaws in the law, it appeared Mr Raab was trying to use a new mechanism to allow ministers to take this step without obtaining MPs’ approval.
In other words: dictatorship.
It’s what the UK voted for.
Cambridge professor of public law Mark Elliott pointed to a recent Supreme Court ruling, saying that allowing a minister to overrule a decision of the judiciary simply because he did not agree with it would cut across “principles that are fundamental components of the rule of law”.
It’s what the UK voted for.
“If that is what is in contemplation, then that is profoundly problematic,” said Prof Elliott. “Indeed it turns constitutional principle on its head.
“Ministerial power to do this would itself be deeply troubling. It would reassign a basic judicial role – interpreting the law – to ministers.
“Ultimately, this all strikes me as part of a project to enhance executive supremacy by treating courts, whether foreign or domestic, as unwelcome interlopers.
“And yet all of this masquerades as an attempt to protect parliament. The reality of this executive power project, as we might call it, is that it will be the executive that is the principal beneficiary of such changes, and the loser will be basic standards of good governance.”
It’s what the UK voted for.
You don't really expect better from Raab do you – it was only recently that he discovered he lived on an island, we know he is illiterate in Geography & maths so he's bound to be just as illiterate in comprehension & law is way too complicated for him. https://t.co/xuYPVP4uJF
Did anybody know? This Writer made clear what was going to happen in articles published before the 2019 election but I don’t have the reach of the mass media organisations who were screaming at everyone to vote Tory or else face a future of horrific Communism under Jeremy Corbyn.
It seems that, faced with such an onslaught, many people voted without thinking.
And isn’t that exactly how the Hitlers and Mussolinis of the 20th century took power?
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