In Liz we DON’T Truss (it’s a play on her campaign slogan, which is itself a play on words): she’ll end your right to free speech, and to campaign for fair pay and decent working conditions.
Tory leadership contender Liz Truss vowed to clamp down on free speech and protest after being interrupted by critics of her police on climate change.
Her speech at a hustings in the Winter Gardens at Eastbourne was halted when six activists from Green New Deal Rising loudly criticised her:
In response, Truss said: “Can I just say a few words on the militant people who try and disrupt our country, and who try and disrupt our democratic process, and who try and disrupt our essential services?
“I would legislate immediately to make sure that we are standing up to militant trade unions who stop ordinary commuters getting into work, and I would legislate to protect our essential services.
“And I will make sure that militant activists such as Extinction Rebellion are not able to disrupt ordinary people who work hard and do the right thing and go into work.”
If you think that sounds good, think again.
Truss was saying she would remove your right to free speech and rescind your right to demand acceptable pay and benefits at work.
You may be happy that other people will be stopped from disrupting your day, but will you be as happy when you have a serious issue of your own and get arrested for trying to raise it?
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Why do people bother to pay the licence fee when BBC News feeds them lies?
The current editor-approved attack line against socialists is that people who – rightly – heckled Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour conference were mocking him for talking about his mother being in intensive care.
This is a lie.
See it in action in this clip in which Laura Pidcock was asked for her reaction:
"It was long, wasn't it? I didn't think that was his moment"
Note that the false implication about Starmer’s mother isn’t fanfared – it’s just slipped into the clip to take you by surprise.
Here’s the reality of the situation:
Are the BBC really going with the line “Keir was heckled over his mother being in intensive care”. This is an appalling reframing of what happened. Starmer wanted to talk up the importance of NHS nurses so he was heckled over his refusal to commit to a proper pay rise for them!
The correct news angle would have been to ask why Starmer doesn’t support a 15 per cent pay rise for nurses if he appreciates the work they did for (among others) his own mother. Isn’t it hypocritical and insensitive of him to use his own mother in such a way?
Starmer’s speech was full of similar howlers. Top of this list is his announcement of a new organisation, Labour Friends of the Police, on the day we heard how a police officer used his powers to arrest, kidnap, rape and murder a woman, and then burned the body.
If that is the kind of friend Keir Starmer wants, then he is no friend of yours.
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Offensive gesture: when This Writer discussed Starmer’s speech with a non-political friend, the other person said this pose, struck by the Labour leader while mocking a heckler, deeply angered him.
This Writer was away at a (genuine) funeral so I missed the (metaphorical) funeral for Keir Starmer’s political career that some may call his first Labour conference speech as party leader.
I’ve been catching up on it later and my goodness, it was a stinker!
For once, the mainstream media’s vain attempts to whitewash this disaster weren’t the most astonishing part of the fiasco. And there’s a wide choice of other shockers from which to choose.
Top of my list is his referencing of a Nazi slogan – “beauty of work”. He tried to claim he was referring to words by W.H. Auden, but I’ve had a (quick, admittedly) look and can’t find that phrase connected with the great poet anywhere.
Our good friend, the Skwawkbox blog, has found a connection with Nazism, though: “‘Schönheit der Arbeit’ was the slogan of a propaganda department of the Nazi regime from 1934 to 1945… SdA aimed to keep the population in what its rulers considered their place.”
I am curious to see how his allies on the Board of Deputies of British Jews justify their support for a man who directly quotes Nazi propaganda.
Alternatively, we could discuss the part where Starmer said he spent the summer of 2010 helping to put terrorists behind bars while Boris Johnson was writing Telegraph articles defending his right not to wear a cycle helmet.
Maybe, as Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer did indeed help to keep terrorists behind bars in a supervisory way – the same supervisory way in which he had failed to put Jimmy Savile behind bars the previous year; he had not been directly involved.
After Savile died in 2013 and his offences against children became public knowledge, Starmer commissioned an investigation that criticised prosecutors and the police over their handling of allegations against the late broadcaster. Too little, too late.
The only incident in 2010 in which I can find direct involvement in anti-terrorist activity by Starmer is his ruling on the case of Binyam Mohamed, a terror suspect who had been arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and tortured under the supervision of four FBI officers. According to Novara Media,
Mohamed was kept in a 2m by 2.5m cell, beaten frequently with a leather strap and hung from the ceiling for an entire week. During this period, he was visited by MI5 agents who observed his punishment first-hand, and warned that if he did not answer their questions he would be sent to a country whose laws would permit the use of more extreme interrogation tactics. This is precisely what happened three months later. The CIA transferred him to a secret prison in Morocco, where his captors repeatedly slashed his penis and chest with razor blades, burnt him with hot liquid and forced him to stay awake for 48-hour periods while playing loud repetitive music. MI5 continued to oversee the operation from afar, providing Mohamed’s interrogators with specific questions about his contacts in the UK and discussing the timescale of his detention with them. After he was released without charge, Mohamed produced evidence of British involvement in his torture, and it fell to Starmer to decide whether the lead MI5 officer would be prosecuted. Starmer declared he would not. He later made the same ruling in relation to an MI6 officer accused of sanctioning the torture of detainees in Bagram Air Base.
Perhaps Starmer meant something else in his speech.
No wonder he was heckled to hell and back – despite having employed police to intimidate conference delegates…
The gang of officers posted themselves at the end of each of the rows of seats, and then walked through each line to stand at the side of the next block. This is intimidation. pic.twitter.com/UOtikPX1ls
— Bonnie #OrdinaryLeft #BlackLivesMatter #JoinAUnion (@BonnieCraven) September 29, 2021
… and, indeed, allegedly bussing in ‘day visitors’ to bolster his support in the hall:
There are loads of empty seats, and at least half of the people in the hall are NOT here as delegates but day visitors. They've shipped people in.
— Bonnie #OrdinaryLeft #BlackLivesMatter #JoinAUnion (@BonnieCraven) September 29, 2021
(And that hall was still riddled with empty seats, prompting comparisons with Jeremy Corbyn’s speeches – when queues to see him speak stretched around the conference venues and his words had to be broadcast to overflow rooms to meet demand – as Skwawkbox (again) reminds us.)
When Starmer said people turned to the Tories in 2019 “because they didn’t believe that our promises were credible,” someone shouted out: “It was your Brexit policy!” leaving the Labour leader rattled.
After another heckle he tried to save face by saying, “At this time on a Wednesday it’s normally the Tories who are heckling me. It doesn’t bother me then; it won’t bother me now.” But it should; these heckles were from people who would have been shouting in support of him if he had performed well in any way during the conference.
During a section of his speech on the value of work, former Big Brother contestant Carole Vincent shouted at length, starting, “They want to be paid properly!” The remainder of her oration was lost as Starmer responded “Shouting slogans or changing lives, conference!”
The trouble was, she wasn’t shouting slogans, as she explained later: “He had ignored…people who had been standing up and asking for him to guarantee the 15 per cent rise for the NHS; a £15 [per hour] minimum wage.” Fair points.
Sadly, the best video clip I could find to demonstrate these interruptions is from The Sun, so I present it with apologies for the lapse of standards. If anyone can find a more wholesome source, please get in touch so I can replace this:
The peroration – the conclusion of the speech and the part intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience – seemed to be a demand for us all to knuckle under and obey our masters:
“This is a big moment that demands leadership. Leadership founded on the principles that have informed my life and with which I honour where I have come from.
“Work. Care. Equality. Security. I think of these values as British values. I think of them as the values that take you right to the heart of the British public. That is where this party must always be.
“And I think of these values as my heirloom. The word loom, from which that idea comes, is another word for tool.”
Funny that he should mention the word “tool” again in his speech. Previously, he had said, “”My dad was a tool maker in a factory. In a sense so was Boris Johnson’s dad.”
Well, it turns out that Starmer’s dad was a tool maker in exactly the same sense, because that’s exactly how Starmer himself came across here.
If these principles have informed Starmer’s life, why was he unable to demonstrate them to delegates at the Labour conference?
Security? He wouldn’t offer low-paid workers the security of a £15-per-hour minimum wage. His shadow minister for Employment Rights quit because of it.
Equality? He pushed through rule changes that enormously increased the power of Labour MPs while reducing that of the wider membership.
Care? He showed he couldn’t care less about the grassroots members who campaign for Labour when he ignored – completely – a campaigner for a Green New Deal.
Work? His leadership doesn’t.
And that Nazi reference is deeply worrying.
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The only job he’s good for: what a shame Boris Johnson was pictured mopping out flood-hit buildings in November, while he was after general election votes, and not in February, when he didn’t need them. He doesn’t care about your hardship.
What did he expect?
Boris Johnson went AWOL during the February floods, hiding away in a stately home while thousands of others saw their homes submerged – in stark contrast to his behaviour on the campaign trail last November, when he saw a chance to grab a few votes by pretending to care.
We know he doesn’t care, because he and his Tories voted down a motion of thanks for all the emergency workers, Environment Agency staff, council workers and volunteers who actually did turn up to help those affected by the severe weather.
That motion also included a call for an independent inquiry into the floods, looking at the level of funding for flood defences and an examination of lessons to be learned.
But rather than launch such a review, which is likely to be damaging to him and his government, Johnson’s new Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has simply announced that he will double the amount of funding to be spent on flood defences over the next few years.
Johnson himself tried to fob off critics, saying that he had been “directing operations” and “working round the clock on various things”.
But to those who who called him a “traitor” during a long-delayed visit to flood-hit Bewdley on the banks of the River Severn, he admitted that any such interference would only get in the way.
He was referring to personal visits but what does he know about flood defence operations?
Nothing.
So any claim to be “directing operations” is nonsense.
Indeed, it seems Johnson has to be prompted by public embarrassment before he’ll agree to do anything.
His government has announced £500 council tax breaks for people affected by flooding, alongside other hardship relief measures – but this was only after one council – Derbyshire – accused him of hypocrisy after saying he would support local government and then turning his back.
So – again – it is impossible to believe a word Johnson says.
He hoped to ignore the millions of pounds worth of harm done to UK citizens while it was happening, and then lie that he had been working hard. The people who held him to account should be congratulated.
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Boris Johnson’s unpopularity with the public could not be more graphically demonstrated than whenever he comes into contact with real people.
Today (September 13), he was heckled by a man while trying to give a speech in Rotherham. His inability to cope was hilarious:
“I’m all in favour of our MPs,” said the prime minister.
“Then why are you not with them in Parliament, sorting out the mess that you have created?” the man cried.
Rather than answer the concerns raised, BoJob simply tried to talk over him – without much success:
This is symptomatic of the reception Mr Johnson receives wherever he goes. Here’s a lady telling him his claim that austerity has ended is “just a fairy tale” (which it is, of course):
He even gets it from his fellow national leaders. We all remember how statesmanlike Leo Varadkar looked – and how much like a backward schoolboy Mr Johnson looked next to him – as the Irish prime minister listed the problems Mr Johnson had created for himself, the UK and Ireland with his reckless Brexit policy:
Mr Johnson seems impervious to all these criticisms.
Perhaps there is a reason for this…
Selective deafness?
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“Tory policy kills”: Zac Goldsmith (seated) could do nothing about protestors at his Glastonbury event.
Hear, hear.
Goldsmith was the Tory whose campaign to become London Mayor was reprimanded for Islamophobia.
It seems he went to Glastonbury intending to ‘greenwash’ Tory austerity policies, but festival-goers weren’t having any of it.
And how many disabled people have died because of Tory policies? You won’t get a straight answer from the DWP about that.
Conservative Party MP Zac Goldsmith has been heckled at a speaker’s event at Glastonbury Festival, with audience members reacting to his answers with cries of “blah blah blah, f***ing bulls**t”.
Goldsmith, who represents Richmond Park and North Kingston, was appearing at the festival’s Speakers Forum to talk about austerity and the environment, in a session moderated by BBC journalist Justin Rowlatt.
According to Somerset Live, the event quickly spiralled out of control when protestors carrying a banner reading “Tory policy kills” entered the tent. Goldsmith was subsequently booed throughout the session, despite Rowlatt’s attempts to intervene.
Protestors additionally shouted, “How many disabled people have died?” while expressing their disdain at the MP’s answers to questions.
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A bell-ringing Santa Claus told Michael Gove he won’t get any presents this year – but we all know he won’t get the gift he wanted after Theresa May won the ‘confidence’ vote triggered against her last week.
The bad news is, Mr Gove isn’t even getting a lump of coal.
Mad Santa heckled Mr Gove as he tried to enter Parliament, saying, “No presents for you, Mr Gove!” He also said the Environment Secretary was a “very naughty boy”.
It turns out that Santa is a Remainer. Personally, I didn’t know Lapland was a member of the EU and Brexit would harm Santa’s situation so much – but now we all know. And we can understand why he would despise Mr Gove, a Brexiter.
Of course, what Mr Gove really wanted for Christmas was a chance to take over from Theresa May as Prime Minister – remember the way he backstabbed Boris Johnson in 2016?
Sadly – for him – she won the vote (although sadly – for her – she didn’t win by a big enough margin, her party is utterly divided and her Brexit plan is ruined).
So everybody’s a loser.
Here’s the video clip. Enjoy the sign that says, “Brexit: A ho ho hopeless mess!”
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Here’s an excellent observation on the Jeremy Corbyn ‘heckle’ incident.
This Site reported on the exchange here, and there’s a great follow-up on the Skwawkbox site, as follows. This Writer agrees with all the sentiments expressed below:
Facebook user Lell Gee made a comment that shed a bright light on the significance of Corbyn’s reaction:
For those who can’t read images, Lell Gee wrote: “Isn’t it telling that during all the slurs and verbal assaults on Corbyn personally he never lost his temper, but when he is talking about the British people’s suffering under this current regime he gets angry and passionate? This is a man who genuinely cares about the public and is desperate to help them.”
Corbyn faced lies, slurs, insults, mockery of his clothes and worse from the Tory benches. From right-wing Labour MPs not fit to represent their members, he faced lies, disloyalty, smears, briefing, undermining and an attempt to crush him.
And he didn’t lose his temper once – or even appear close.
But when Tories sneer and dismiss the vulnerable, the put-upon and those discarded by this consciously-cruel government? Then this ensues:
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Conservative Party whip Andrew Griffiths needs to come clean.
It has been alleged that this man, the MP for Burton, made an “ageist and inappropriate remark” while Jeremy Corbyn was responding to Philip Hammond’s Budget speech.
As Mr Corbyn spoke in defence of elderly people suffering cuts in care budgets, it has been suggested that Mr Griffiths – hiding out of sight of the Speaker’s chair – said the Labour leader should “be in a care home” himself.
Mr Corbyn heard – and you can watch his reaction here:
If you want to know why 3.5m people extra voted for Labour in Junethen see this clip. The anger not just in Corbyn's voice but on the entire front bench is the anger shared by millions in Britain suffering under this cruel Tory Government. pic.twitter.com/eS1UjtBUHk#Budget2017
As Labour MPs got to their feet and pointed towards the exit, shouting “shame on you”,and “get out”, a visibly infuriated Mr Corbyn snapped: “I hope the honourable member begins to understand what it’s like to wait for social care stuck in a hospital bed while other people are having to give up their work to care for them.
“The uncaring, uncouth attitude of certain members opposite needs to be called out.”
Members of Parliament and the public have expressed their fury at the heckle:
A Tory Whip trying to drown out Jeremy Corbyn talking about child poverty. Tory MPs crouching down on the steps between benches to try to shout down Jeremy's speech, unseen by the Chair. Our democracy and government should be better than this.
Some have called for the Speaker and his team to take action:
I wish to make complaint, the bullying tactics shown by Tory MPs during Corbyns speech were an insult to the mother of all parliaments and the Speaker should crack down on this sort of behaviour, they should of been removed.
— Will Never Vote Labour Again **All Lives Matter** (@Isobel_waby) November 22, 2017
Mr Deputy Speaker failed to control this today, he should evicted a couple of the bullies, when they behave like children, treat them like children, this debate was seen across the UK and was a disgusting example of Parliament, even worse the Deputy Speaker and the Tories. https://t.co/P0h2IOjqtH
— Will Never Vote Labour Again **All Lives Matter** (@Isobel_waby) November 22, 2017
And Mr Griffiths was suggested as the culprit:
It is alleged that @AndrewGriffiths was the Tory MP that disgracefully heckled Jeremy Corbyn today, suggesting he should 'be in a care home'. He did this out of sight of the speakers chair, like a little playground bully ducking for cover. And he's a Tory whip. Spineless.
So Andrew Griffiths needs to clarify matters – right now.
If he did say the offending words, he must apologise to Mr Corbyn, to elderly care home residents – and their carers, to Parliament, to his colleagues in the Tory Whip’s office – who will have been disgraced if one of their colleagues misbehaved in such a manner, to the general public… and to his constituents in Burton, who would be humiliated if their representative was responsible for such childish behaviour.
It is disrespectful – not just to the Leader of the Opposition, but to the occasion, to Parliament, and to the people of the United Kingdom.
If Mr Griffiths did say those words, then the electorate of Burton would be well-advised to reconsider their decision to put him in Parliament with a majority of more than 10,000. His local Conservative Association would be wise to think about fielding another candidate at the next general election (which may not be too far in the future, remember).
But if he didn’t, then he needs to find out who was responsible and force that person to own up.
In that circumstance, the real culprit would be doubly cowardly, having not only made the comment, but having let Mr Griffiths take the blame for it. One could argue that as a Whip, responsible for maintaining discipline in his party, it is Mr Griffiths’ responsibility.
So its up to Andrew Griffiths. What is he going to do?
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David Icke’s website took a characteristically strong view of Cameron’s performance.
Late last night (Tuesday), this writer was surprised to read a tweet from arch-Tory Andrew Neil, asking, “Does anybody feel that wheels are falling off Tory campaign?”
Perhaps Mr Neil had seen David Cameron’s performance at an Age UK meeting yesterday, where pensioners – widely believed to be the Conservative Party’s most loyal and likely supporters – did everything but climb onto the stage and physically rip the comedy prime minister apart.
If they are representative of all the UK’s senior citizens, then yes – not only have the wheels fallen off Cameron’s cart but the horse has bolted.
Arriving late, Cameron explained himself by saying he had just taken his 175th cabinet meeting. This display of pride at his longevity in-post impressed nobody – let’s face it, the man was facing a crowd whose defining feature is longevity. Perhaps Cameron himself was impressed by his (non-)achievement. If so, one has to wonder why; one of his first acts as prime minister was to fix the length of the current Parliament.
It was at the questions that he really fell to pieces. The first was about his diabolical treatment of the National Health Service – on which many elderly people must rely, of course. Why was it falling apart? Cameron’s claim that there was an army of carers, plus more doctors* and nurses, was met with a succinct reply from several areas: “Rubbish!”
“The NHS needs more money,” shouted a member of the audience, while another shouted: “You promised free prescriptions… we want the NHS how it used to be.”
Following on from this, Cameron tried to tell these experts on the subject that his government had protected health and social care budgets. Big mistake – as some pointed out loudly: “The social care budget has been slashed.”
Here’s The Guardian‘s coverage of the next question: “‘I am 91 …’ Dave began to applaud enthusiastically, remembering that a good TV chat show host always likes to give an old person a clap for having stayed alive so long. He quickly stopped once he realised no one else had joined in and started stroking his chin instead. In that moment, no one had ever cared more or listened harder than Dave.”
Moving on, Cameron told the tough crowd he would not have a Cabinet member responsible for the elderly: “I don’t want you to blame other people. I want you to blame me.” The response? “We are. We do.”
“It’s a dream come true that I am able to ask you a question,” said a member of the audience. “Then you’ve got very low standards!” was the instant response from the others.
Challenged on his arrogant suggestion that he would not serve a third term (when he hasn’t even won a second and only got into his first by the back door), Cameron began, “What I did in my kitchen…” and was drowned out by the laughter of people who have lived long enough to have done the kinds of things in their kitchens that only feature in Cameron’s buddy George Osborne’s dreams.
“Some people have said I have been too generous to old people.” – “Not us.”
“I hope I can count on your support for a future Conservative government.” – “Not a chance.”
*It takes seven years to train a doctor; any new arrivals on wards during Cameron’s time as PM would have been initiated under the previous Labour government.
Afterwards, Asima Rentulla told ITV News: “The NHS is not protected. We rely on the NHS. The NHS is ours.”
And Graham Curtis said: “The social care budget is being slashed and slashed and slashed and the National Health Service is having to backfill what’s happening there… He was being very disingenuous.”
It was a situation that Cameron couldn’t control. The opinion polls might put his Tories close to Labour and the right-wing press might be praising him to the heavens, but there’s no way to hide the honest reaction of the public when they finally get a chance to confront the man who has caused so much unnecessary misery.
On this performance, Cameron’s days in politics – let alone in office – are numbered.
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