Rishi Sunak vs Keir Starmer?

Recent years in Britain has been the scene of a political catastrophe, from David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to the soon to be Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Is this a fait accompli or could there be other developments in the making?

Looking at the teams - and this is about teams - what are the major differences between the two teams?

This is a specially tricky time both in national affairs and in international affairs. There are major concerns in terms of international events that could send countries over the edge. We need to look in both directions - across the Atlantic to see what is happening in the USA and across the Channel to see what is happening in France. If the unthinkable happens, whoever is Prime Minister in Britain might be dealing with Donald Trump in the USA and with Marine Le Pen in France.

Could we end up with a hung Parliament? Could the unthinkable happen leading to a Conservative win, whatever tight it might be?

If anything, apart from mass media reactions and the fact that not less than 73 Conservative MPs announced that they will not be standing for re-election, there is widespread apathy. Could the Labout Party be divided along national borders, ethnic differences and ideological differences to the point that an easy victory can turn out to be not just a tight victory but also a tight defeat?

Who can we believe? Can we believe mass media? Both major parties are losing membership support and voters are crossing new boundaries. Both Greens and Reform did pretty well all things considered and this in local elections - particularly in London. Could disaffected voters look for other alternatives?

We don't usually agree with Diane Abbott, but she is spot on on the causes of the crisis in Eastern Europe

Over and over again, the USA has been directly responsible for destabilization and migration crisis. The second campaign in Iraq was an unmitigated disaster that destabilized even more an already unstable Middle East and threatens to lead Europe towards chaos. The major defeat in Afghanistan was yet another disaster and one of the longest wars on recent records. 

American and British warmongering will generate one of the worst economical and political crisis in Europe and most probably turn back the clock towards the 1930 with well known consequences.

Extinction Rebellion: yet more disruption as if we hadn't had enough disruption

Diane Abbott MP's participation during a LBC radio programme became legendary when having been asked how much money was going to be necessary to increase the number of Police officers she gave a figure that would have been the equivalent of spending £10 per Police officer.  

Since then, the Labour MP has complained that she has suffered torrents of abuse during her political career. When she was asked on radio, pressed for time, she gave a figure from the top of her head because she hadn't actually calculated beforehand how much it would be necessary to recruit Police officers that the Labour Party had been talking about for so long in Parliament and outside Parliament when criticizing Conservative governments past and present.

Policing rallies and demonstrations, enforcing Lockdown meaures and dealing with chaos and disorder while protecting public and private property does not come cheap. Police officers that would normally be carrying out regular duties have to be concentrated in big numbers on the streets to prevent public disorder and to deal with cases of violence when violence unavoidably erupts. Extra hours are piled up and all the monies invested in big deployments, arrests and legal proceedings consume even faster a very tight Police budget. As if the number of rallies and demonstrations we have been dealing with was not enough, the news kids on the block - Extinction Rebellion - are now threatening us with further actions and this time focusing on banking institutions. You can bet that, yet again, sizeable amounts of money will be taken out of the Police budget to prevent disorder and to deal with unavoidable confrontations on the streets. As we come out of the quarentine imposed to deal with a pandemic, and as numbers of peoples walking around rise, spring and summer don't look like seasons of the year that you will be able to enjoy, but more as seasons of the year that you will have to suffer thanks to people who believe that generating chaos and disorder they are promoting a healthier environment.

As new legislation is being introduced to tackle disorder, the very same people whose actions serve to justify the passing of stricter legislation are once again creating chaos on the streets and are now going to be joined by the new kids on the block and by other individuals who couldn't care less about any cause and are only around to engage in disreputable behaviour including violence and destruction of public and private property. As always, policing and clean up operations will be paid for by Joe Public.

Council Tax letters were already sent by local authorities including increases of the fees house owners have to pay at a time when local authorities are under additional financial stress, party because of the pandemic, partly because of expenses that rise year on year. So, less money for Police services and less monies for local services delibered by local authorities and this at a time when the Treasury is struggling with vast amounts of borrowing to deal with the pandemic and to protect peoples' jobs. Furlough schemes are basically state subsidies to support those who have lost their income and to keep those who are still working at work.

Any actions that could undermine the operations of vital financial services are a direct attack against the United Kingdom. Such actions can be said to be carried out to promote a healthier environment, but are the de-facto acts of terrorism at a time when the country is slowly, but surely heading towards relative normality. This is a time when we should be supporting the creation of new jobs. Extinction Rebellion doesn't care about jobs and this is also a way to say that Extinction Rebellion could not care less about millions of families in the United Kingdom that have lost their incomes or are struggling to survive with reduced incomes.

   

Now Labour wants to follow Britain First

After being routed in its homelands during the 2019 General Election, an election in wich the Conservative Party got a sizeable majority by becoming the party of the white working class (statistically more white working class people voted for the Conservative Party than they voted for the Labour Party), Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer wants his party to use national flags and put on a suit to try and regain the confidence of British voters.

According to him, a posher Labour Party might become a more attractive option, but if this an issue merely of flags and suits and not of real policies the chances are that his approach will not find favour amongst those whose support he needs to turn the tide that has gone against the Labour Party after a series of scandals involving anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and outright fraud. One example is the once popular Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson who fell from grace after being accussed of being involved in a conspiracyu to commit bribery and witnerss intimidation. 

Before Joe Anderson, members of the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet have shown worrying signs of incompetence when Diane Abbott discussed on live radio his options to improve Police services. Something about the amount of money needed to recruit new Police Officers. Emily Thornberry didn't do that well when she publicly acknowledge that she wasn't aware of the names of key political figures in the international arena, people she would have had to deal with if she had been Foreign Secretary.

If anything, the removal of Jeremty Corbyn also helped remove many members of his Shadow Cabinet, but it hasn't helped to improve the Labour Party's standing in terms of competence. 

Having the Labour Party taken  to the courts by its former Leader is not a show of unity. If the party whip is not returned to Jeremy Corbyn, Jeremy Corbynb would be facto not allowed to stand in a General Election for the seat he now represents. And what about Labour Party supporters? During his term in office as party Leader, Jeremy Corbyn managed to increase Labour Party membership. The irony was that Labour Party members liked Jeremy Corbyn as much as the Parliamentary Labour Party disliked Jeremy Corbyn. What happened in the northern seats that used to be represented by Labour MPs might very well have been retaliation by the Labour Party grassroots against the Parliamentary Labour Party that got rid of Jeremy Corbyn.

Using the tactics of the so called Far Right could be for Keir Starmer a fatal mistake. What would the likes of the UAF, Hope Not Hate, Searchlight and others say when they see the Labour Party dressed in Britain First's clothes? For decades the Labour Party tried to convince British voters that Natinonalism was poisonous and that whoever went around with national flags was racist, Fascist and xenophobe. Labour Party authorities literally replaced national flags with European Union flags. After Brexit, they cannot use European Union flags to hide symbols that they actually hate.

Will the Labour Party that actively campaigned against British Nationalism now turn around and say that they are British Nationalists and that they no longer believe what they used to preach by demonising anybody who dared to stand for British Nationalism?

 

2008: BNP seen as Anti-Semitic - 2019: Labour seen as Anti-Semitic

2008 - Anti-Semites?

2019 - Anti-Semites?

How times change! In 2008, Hope Not Hate (aka Hate Not Hope) and UAF (United Against Freedom) and other political and para-political organisations were shocked by the news that Richard Barnbrook (former Labourt Party member) had won a seat at the London Assembly. Oh God! The Nazis, the Fascists, the Racists, the Anti-Semites have entered the London Assembly. The BBC, Sky News and others called about the shocking rise of the Far Right, although no-one seemed to have paid attention to the fact that the Far Right had a very similar platform to the Labour platform including nationalisation of public services including public transport and shared the views of many Labour Party grassroots - the old working class - that expressed their discontent because the Labour Party was moving farther and farther away from the interests of working men and women and favouring a Globalist Agenda that supported Multinationals.

Some ten years later, the heat is turning towards the Far Left but the arguments are exactly the same. Listening to Luciana Berger and others explaining that they left the Labour Party because the Labour Party is Racist and Anti-Semitic shows that the Labour Party seems to be the new British National Party in the minds of many politicians and mass media, including those like Amber Rudd that used racist vocabulary even when she is desperately trying to show that she is not Racist. The "Coloured Lady" is not "Coloured". She is a British citizen of African descent. But the former Home Secretary who is back in the cabinet who knows for how long doesn't seem to get things right. She seems to have created a new political label. Amber Rudd is not Far Left nor Far Right. Amber Rudd is Far Wrong.

Interestingly enough, the CAA and Mr Falter are proving what they so vigorously deny both in their statements via the mass media and in the courtrooms. They are showing the massive influence of Zionist Lobbies in the United Kingdom and playing a political game. Why they target Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party? Because under its new Leadership the Labour Party is strongly denouncing the atrocities and abuses committed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu with its policies of occupation, oppression, annexation and aggression in the Middle East. When you see Orthodox Jews being attacked on the streets of Israel by Jewish servicemen that follow orders of Benjamin Netanyahu you are tempted to believe that this is not 2019 Israel but Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a scandal. It is grotesque. If you replaced Stars of David with Swastikas, you could be led to believe that this is not the State of Israel but some Totalitarian Regime of the 1930s and 1940s. 

While the Labour Party is being attacked by those who claim that it is Anti-Semite, the Conservative Party is being attacked by those who claim that it is Anti-Muslim. The British political scene is being used as a battlefield to deal with foreign agendas and in the meantime time is being wasted that should be used to solve the many problems that Britain is facing on a daily basis. 

Some say that Europe is becoming more and more Anti-Semite and others say that Europe is becoming more and more Anti-Muslim. Sooner than later the political imbalances created by Muslim issues and Jewish issues is going to turn into a gigantic nightmare and  violence is already spreading.

What looks like a potpourri of different issues is actually the representation of different pieces of the same political puzzle. 

Tolerance is being replaced by ideologically driven intolerance and this inevitably leads to violence. The gap between rulers and the ruled is growing and growing. Real dialogue is vanishing being replaced with repression. Proper governance is vanishing and in its place we have water cannons, guns and brutality. What is happening in French streets is not reassuring. 

Is this what we call Democracy? To have the high moral ground to criticise other countries, we must ensure that we don't engage in the same kind of actions that we criticise. France is a mess and in such environment it is no wonder that all kinds of Extremist views can prosper. Europe is no more Anti-Semitic nor Anti-Muslim than before. What we are seeing is the rise of intolerance and discontent that can have many faces.