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Labour motion on Gaza may split the party’s MPs

Keir Starmer: his support for Israel will split the Labour Party.

Keir Starmer: what a spectacular way to throw away electoral superiority.

Only a few weeks ago, he was set to lead his hollowed-out, right-wing Labour Party to victory in the next general election.

But now, because he blindly supports Israel in its genocide of the people of Gaza, he seems certain to split his own MPs in a vote on the conflict, to take place on November 15.

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Here’s the BBC:

The party said its Commons motion would reflect its “concerns” over the lack of aid reaching Gaza and the “scale of civilian casualties”.

But it will echo the Labour leader’s position, and stop short of urging an immediate ceasefire in the conflict.

Dozens of Labour MPs have defied their leader to call for a ceasefire.

And 19 members of the frontbench have also publicly diverged from their party’s official position.

One of them, shadow minister Imran Hussain, quit his position last week in order to campaign for an immediate ceasefire.

In addition, nearly 50 councillors have resigned from the party, over the leadership’s position on the war.

Sir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate, because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.

Instead, Labour, like the Conservative government, the United States and the European Union, is calling for “humanitarian pauses” to help aid reach Gaza.

Compared with a formal ceasefire, these pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours. And they are implemented with the aim of providing humanitarian support only, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions.

So Starmer wants to modify the Israeli strategy away from murdering everybody in Gaza – genocide – to making it possible for everybody in Gaza to leave and become refugees elsewhere – another Nakba.

Israel would probably be fine with this. Israel just wants the land, to destroy Palestine and to remove any evidence that Palestine ever existed.

Evidence:

Killing all the Palestinians would be Israel’s favourite way of achieving this; nobody would be left to try to take revenge. But depriving Palestinians of any ability to take revenge anyway would be an acceptable second choice – to that country.

To the international community, both propositions should be out of the question. Palestine has the right to exist.

Consider the following:

Obviously the post is responding to criticism of Jeremy Corbyn for refusing to use pejorative language when referring to Hamas. But the blueprint for peace talks that it mentions is good. Isn’t it?

An amendment by the SNP calls for an immediate ceasefire – as demanded by some Labour MPs:

This Writer has no idea why Lorna MacGillivray mentions Scottish independence. The rest is all good stuff though – isn’t it?

And that is the reason Labour MPs were expected to be… uncomfortable… on the night before the vote:

So Labour is likely to split over this vote and Starmer is going to have to make some heads roll – or look weak. And he’ll still lose votes.

And the motion will fail because the Tories will just steamroller it with their huge majority.

That’s the reason this happened:

In a nutshell, then:

Labour leader Keir Starmer wants his party to vote for “humanitarian pauses” that will help get humanitarian support to the people of Gaza – but not for a ceasefire that could lead to a negotiated peace settlement; the demand will split the party. And the Tory Party will vote down the motion anyway.

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Tory Party Splitting and Mogg and Other Factions Publishing their Own Manifestos | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

Here’s some more fun from my brother, the Beast – and terrible news for the ghouls in the Tory Party:

Just found this story in today’s Guardian, ‘Tory turmoil as third of voters desert party and factions launch rival manifestos’ by Toby Helm and Michael Savage. It begins

‘The coalition of voters that delivered the Tories a big majority at the last election is crumbling, according to dramatic new evidence that the party is losing support in key battlegrounds across England.

The findings, revealed in a special poll of 2019 Tory voters for the Observer, comes as Rishi Sunak faces a series of competing and contradictory demands from warring Tory factions ahead of the party’s conference in Manchester.

With the prime minister also attempting to breathe new life into his government during his first conference as leader, MPs in “red wall” seats will present him with a plea to “turbocharge” the northern economy after the HS2 fiasco, while figures on the right are to present their own manifesto this week. Liz Truss is also set to demand lower taxes and a smaller state.

It comes as exclusive polling for the Observer reveals that a third of those who voted Conservative in 2019 now intend to switch to other parties. It suggests that the Tories have lost voters in crucial areas – their southern heartlands and “red wall” seats in the Midlands.

See: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tory-turmoil-as-third-of-voters-desert-party-and-factions-launch-rival-manifestoes/ar-AA1hvj2T?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d30f2c254f534281bbf53ad6e6319818&ei=22

Something like this was occurring in the Tory party decades ago, after Blair kept beating them in elections. The Tory party then was on the edge of dissolution, as told in the book Back from the Brink. A friend who read that told me that the Tories were on the point of changing their name to the English Nationalists as some kind of survival strategy. None of the Tory factions have policies that will really benefit the country, and in the case of Truss it’s more of the policies that nearly destroyed it.

Unfortunately I don’t trust Starmer to deliver anything different.

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The Tories are splintering again, with a new faction. What does it mean?

Apparently a new faction is rising among the Conservative Party, based around the failed ideas of Liz Truss.

So this new group is full of swivel-eyed loons who can’t learn from mistakes. No surprises there!

But it makes Rishi Sunak’s job much harder. Already he has lost pieces of legislation due to rebellions by members of his own party…

… and as Phil Moorhouse was making the video clip above, Sunak lost another piece of legislation, due to another rebellion.

He is weak, and he is vulnerable.

And he’s in an impossible position. The longer he holds on, the less he will be able to achieve. But he knows that, the sooner he calls an election, the more heavily he is likely to lose.

The local elections in May are likely to make this situation even worse.

He’s likely to make concessions, simply to keep his party functioning.

And those concessions are likely to bring further harm upon you.

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Will the ‘Conservative Democratic Organisation’ splinter the Tory party?

Priti Patel and Boris Johnson.

A trio of Boris Johnson’s adherents have launched a new party-within-the-Conservative-Party, apparently to oust Rishi Sunak and put their idol back on top.

The Conservative Democratic Organisation (I fear the “democratic” in the title may be ornamental – like “socialist” in the title of the former National Socialist German Workers’ Party) claims to be seeking to restore influence to members’ views:

It has been launched by David Campbell Bannerman, Lord Peter Cruddas and Priti Patel – all firm supporters of Boris Johnson, for reasons that may be revealed in the video linked below.

Sky’s Sam Coates has published an article about it which he made available on Twitter – and check out the comment here:

What does it all mean?

Well, we presume it means a leadership challenge for Rishi Sunak – either after next May’s local elections if the Tories perform poorly, or in October when his year’s ‘grace’ period after he was crowned Tory leader is over.

And we may speculate on whether it will split the Tories; their party has already been described as a coagulation of five or more different groups, and this new element may drive a wedge between them.

Or it may be a damp squib.

Here’s Phil Moorhouse of A Different Bias with his take on it, which I don’t think I could better:

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The Tories have been fighting each other like cats in a sack [VIDEO]

Apologies if you thought you were going to see Michael Gove mud-wrestling Therese Coffey (I don’t think scenes of that nature would be allowed online anyway).

But it is true that the Conservative Party has split in every direction since Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s catastrophic “fiscal event” of September 23, and this became crystal clear during their conference earlier this week.

And someone had the bright idea of finding interview clips of them badmouthing each other, and editing them together.

Here’s the result:

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Will the Union survive now Northern Ireland is more Catholic than Protestant?

It had to happen eventually. Latest census information shows there are more Catholics in Northern Ireland than Protestants – for the first time.

What does this mean for what was supposed to be a permanent Protestant state in the north of the island of Ireland?

Here’s the discussion:

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Is the Conservative Party splitting over fracking?

This is what fracking is: It has the potential to cause huge harm.

The return to fracking by Liz Truss and her government won’t relieve the energy crisis – and it seems Conservative MPs know it.

Is a split opening up within the Tory Party?

I offer this clip for your consideration:

Ah well – we can still laugh about it:

Can’t we?

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All the talk of Welsh Labour separating from the national party and the Tories are doing it first!

This is doubly hilarious for This Writer, considering the response I’ve had from my MP over the confidence vote in Boris Johnson:

The Welsh Conservatives are considering splitting from the English party… risking fresh embarrassment for Boris Johnson.

Senior party officials in Wales decided at a meeting this week to take steps to separate from the English Conservative Party, with one source saying that the partygate scandal was the “last straw”.

Partygate was the main reason for the “confidence” vote in Boris Johnson’s leadership of the national (UK) Conservative Party last Monday (June 6).

Ahead of the vote, I wrote to my (Conservative) MP, Fay Jones, urging her to ditch him.

Here’s part of her response:

“I have thought long and hard about the PM and his ability to lead… But the Prime Minister promised that things have changed and they have. Our response to the war in Ukraine has been outstanding and closer to home, the Government is standing by tens of millions of hard-working families during the cost of living challenge.

“I had to think long and hard about the impact of a leadership election on the country. I want Ministers focussing on the passport backlog, the stalemate at the DVLA and ways to reduce eye watering fuel bills – not their own careers. That’s why I support the Prime Minister and his ability to get things done.”

Her comments about Johnson’s achievements are nonsense, of course. Johnson’s response to Ukraine has been to put the UK in danger and Chancellor Rishi Sunak had to be pushed into helping us with the cost of living.

Perhaps that’s why her fellow Welsh Tories are sidelining this soundbite-spouting Johnson mouthpiece and dragging her with them in a different direction.

There have been rumours – for years – that Welsh Labour would also separate from its national parent party, as it much more closely resembles original Labour ideals than Keir Starmer’s pale blue Tory Party in Westminster.

Perhaps this will prompt Mark Drakeford to take the plunge at last.

Source: Welsh Tories consider splitting from Conservatives in England

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Johnson’s deflections won’t stop us seeing through his weasel words

Pretty hats: Boris Johnson probably thinks the sight of him in a turban will stop most people from being angry at him for partying it up in breach of his own rules and then lying about it.

Isn’t it a bitter indictment against the UK’s Tory government that, while his own MPs debate whether he can be allowed to continue as prime minister, Boris Johnson is playing ‘fancy dress’ in India.

After a Parliamentary motion for Johnson’s behaviour – in attending Downing Street parties and telling falsehoods about it – to be investigated by a committee of MPs was passed “on the nod” – without even a vote, after Tory resistance crumbled, he was asked for his comment.

And of course he dissembled,

saying that people wanted the government to “get on and focus on the issues on which we were elected”.

We should be able to see through this kind of doubletalk by now. People do want a government that focuses on the issues facing the UK – but Johnson didn’t say anything about doing that!

He didn’t say anything about what he would be doing – he just gave us a bit of flannel about what we all know we want.

That’s part of the reason he has to go.

Back home, another leading Tory spoke up against Johnson: Tobias Ellwood, chair of the Commons Defence Committee, dismissed suggestions by Johnson’s allies that he should stay in post to manage the Ukraine crisis as using the war as a “fig leaf”.

[He] said Conservative MPs were “deeply troubled” and warned that the ongoing row about lockdown parties was doing “long-term damage to the party’s brand”.

He accused No 10 of lacking “discipline, focus and leadership” and predicted the prime minister would face a vote of no confidence, which could force him out of office.

And Johnson loyalists seem to be declaring civil war on the likes of Ellwood, along with Steve Baker and others who spoke in the debate yesterday.

Conor Burns, minister of state for Northern Ireland, told the BBC some of his colleagues had never supported Johnson.

“If the prime minister stepped off Westminster Bridge and walked down the Thames on top of water they would say it was because he couldn’t swim,” he said.

This Writer looks forward to seeing Johnson’s attempt to walk on water, as Mr Burns seems to think him capable of it.

Until that far-off day, I shall have to satisfy myself with observing the fallout in the Tory ranks.

There’s rancour in the ranks – and it’s likely to get a lot worse.

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Founding union splits from Labour in disgust at Starmer – hours before his big speech

BFAWU president Ian Hodson: the union has disaffiliated from Labour – the party it helped create – after Starmer’s rabble threatened to expel him over a connection with a proscribed organisation.

One of the trade unions that founded the Labour Party has disaffiliated from it – in disgust at Keir Starmer’s insistence on waging a “factional internal war” instead of opposing Boris Johnson’s far-right government.

The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) had said it would hold a vote on disaffiliation after Labour threatened to expel its national president, Ian Hodson, over connections with one of the organisations that Starmer’s Labour recently proscribed for no very good reason.

Hodson had dealings with Labour Against the Witchhunt – a support organisation for party members falsely accused of anti-Semitism by Keir Starmer’s auto-guilting disciplinary machine – until 2017.

It was proscribed by Starmer’s perversion of the party earlier this year, making any action against Hodson retrospective – and therefore unreasonable.

The union had planned a disaffiliation vote to coincide with Starmer’s speech at the Labour conference in Brighton this week – but the announcement was made the day before, heaping humiliation on the party’s non-leader.

He is the only Labour leader ever to drive away one of the organisations that helped found the party.

In a statement, the union made its reasoning clear [boldings mine]:

“We need footballers to campaign to ensure our schoolchildren get a hot meal. Workers in our sector, who keep the nation fed, are relying on charity and good will from family and friends to put food on their tables. They rely on help to feed their families, with 7.5% relying on food banks, according to our recent survey.

“But instead of concentrating on these issues we have a factional internal war led by the leadership. We have a real crisis in the country and instead of leadership, the party’s leader  chooses to divide the trade unions and the membership by proposing changes to the way elections for his successor will take place.

“We don’t see that as a political party with any expectations of winning an election. It’s just the leader trying to secure the right wing faction’s chosen successor.

“The decision taken by our delegates doesn’t mean we are leaving the political scene; it means we will become more political and we will ensure our members’ political voice is heard as we did when we started the campaign for £10 per hour in 2014.

“Today we want to see £15 per hour for all workers, the abolition of zero hours contracts and ending discrimination of young people by dispensing with youth rates.

“The BFAWU will not be bullied by bosses or politicians. When you pick on one of us you take on all of us. That’s what solidarity means.”

In the light of this announcement, Keir Starmer should be dreading the moment when he takes the stage for his speech.

He was probably hoping for applause – but now he’ll be lucky to avoid catcalls. Personally, This Writer would pelt him with rotten vegetables.

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