General election 2017

After Tony Blair won his landslide victory in 1997, I wondered if the Tories will ever get elected again.  Twenty years later I am asking the same question to myself but this time it is whether Labour will get back in.  I think we are seeing the death of the Labour party in front of our very eyes, which is sad because weak oppositions lead to bad governments.

EU referendum vote - the real winners and losers

The winners

The British public
Whether you voted leave or remain, this is a victory for the people. In recent years, the EU has proved to be a failed project and governance has returned to governments that are voted in by the people.

Boris Johnson
Bojo was a Europhile who in the late stages switched to leave.  Yes, he was opportunistic and yes he made a gamble. But it was a correct gamble despite what all the polls were saying right up to the vote.  Had there been a remain victory he would be finished right now.

Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP
Despite supporting remain, the Sturgeon and the SNP have got the result it wanted, it now has the momentum and moral backing for a second independence referendum thanks to a 60/40 vote for remain.  And it is likely to win such a referendum.

Ruth Davidson
The Scottish Tory leader was the only Remainer Tory who came out of the referendum campaign with any credit.  She was an unknown who was wheeled out in the last BBC EU debate at Wembley alongside her fellow 'B' team Sadiq Khan and Frances O'Grady then came out of it as a political big hitter.

The losers

David Cameron
He gambled and lost, nothing more needs to be said.

The europhiles within the conservative party
Cameron went for the referendum in order to prevent more eurosceptic Tory MPs from defecting to UKIP, now the europhiles are isolated.  I would not be surprised if the europhiles form a breakaway party or even defect to the Lib Dems.

Jeremy Corbyn
For a man who has been a long time critic of the EU from a left point of view, this has been a major misjudgement.  If he had stuck with his principles and led the leave campaign his standing would have been greatly enhanced and given Labour a great electoral boost.  Instead now his future is uncertain.

The Labour party and the left in general
From the results it was the Labour heartlands in the North and Midlands that carried Leave vote.  It was working class voters of all colours who basically won it for leave, the very same voters whom the remainers, especially from the left, labelled as racists, xenophobes etc.  The left failed to account for the working class grievances which included immigration.  The likes of Eddie Izzard, Bob Geldolf and Charlotte Church sneering at the leave vote only enhanced this gulf.  Labour is in danger of being a party of inner London, Manchester and Liverpool and a party for student radicals.  Unless this is resolved I can see a mass exodus of its vote to UKIP at the next election.

Hilary Benn gets new rectum courtesy of Brillo

The late Tony Benn's flesh and blood got seriously skewered by Brillo last night, enjoy!

Jackie Walker suspension and reinstatement

After a short break its back to politcs, this time its the recent re-instatement of leading Momentum campaigner Jackie Walker back into the Labour party.  She was suspended for comments she made on social media about the role of Jews and the African slave trade.  Walker is of Black African and Jewish descent.In the remark below, Walker calls the African slave trade the "African holocaust", thereby linking its severity with the Nazi Holocaust.

“As I’m sure you know, millions more Africans were killed in the African holocaust and their oppression continues today on a global scale in a way it doesn’t for Jews.”

Couple of things

• Although shocking, the African slave trade was not the destruction of a race of people, which was the aim of the Nazi holocaust.
• Even though she does not mention it, she is likely to be referring to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. White Europeans did not have a monopoly on the slave trade, there has been an Arab slave trade in East Africa and it still exists today.  This is even mentioned in some strategy games.
• In the Nazi holocaust it was non-Jews killing Jews but in the African slave trade it was black Africans who captured and sold their fellow black Africans to both the Arabs and the Europeans.  Yep, you heard it, black Africans are even more culpable in slavery than both the Europeans and Arabs put together.  How did it happen? The black slaves would be prisoners of war in tribal battles.  According to anthropologists different tribes would trade slaves amongst themselves.  When the Arabs and later the Europeans arrived, this was ramped up.  

Walker then describes Jews as "chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade". And as a follow up asks, ‘what do you think the Jews should do about their contribution to the African Holocaust? What debt do they owe?’. My reply is nothing.  If one group is uniquely held responsible for its very small role then that surely is racist, which is ironic coming from an anti-racism campaigner.  Especially a Jewish one.

Me thinks this woman has self-hate issues and is using her blackness to act them out.  This is prevalent in a small part of the Jewish community especially amongst 'antizionist Jews' who are using the 'plight' of the Palestinians to act out their self hate.

Naz Shah

I just found this little upload from Youtube

Its about that nasty, smelly, anti-semitic Labour MP Naz Shah, who has resigned from being a parlimentary aide to shadow chancellor John McDonnell. Here Labour front bencher Lisa Nandy MP is taken to task for it, with Liam Fox MP adding a few titbits. A couple of telling comments.

1. Nandy says that the majority of Labour members are not antisemitic.  That's ok then, so it means a minority are.  So when will Labour do something about them?
2. Naz Shah said she did not agree with some of the racist images and posts that she shared.  So why did she share them then? She's either too thick or thinks the public is too thick.
3. Liam Fox makes a very telling point, its not only the images and posts that you share but also the underlying sentiment behind it.  This suggests that Shah strongly believed in antisemitism. 

So another Labour member has been rumbled for anti-semitism, in other news, scientists discover that doing push ups is good for your biceps.

Labour party and anti-semitism

Last week the UK Labour party under Jez Corbyn re-admitted a self-hating anti-semite Jew Tony Greenstein back in its ranks.  Greenstein portrays himself as an 'anti-zionist' Jew and is indeed a son of a rabbi. In this article, he derides his critics as 'zionist scum' and once mentioned to a critic that if a group of White house staff or evangelical christians were vaporized, he would not lose any sleep, charming!  This comes in the wake of the Labour councillor Vicky Kirkby's Jews have big noses scandal.

For me this is nothing new, Hitler himself was partially jewish and the question to ask is, why do some Jews hate themselves for being Jews so much?  As for Labour and anti-semitism, I think this goes back to 1990's. When the USSR fell the left needed new holes to felch from, anti-semitism in the form of antizionism is one of these holes.

Corbyn's shadow cabinet

Now that Jeremy Corbyn has named is shadow cabinet, there were very few surprises. Apart from leadership rival Andy Burnham, every one is on the hard left.  There are a new faces (Lisa Nandy) but then there are the old dinosaurs in Diane "whities divide and rule" Abbott and IRA fan John McDonnel as shadow chancellor.  I cannot see how this lot will help Labour win back to those swing voters in the marginals who deserted to the Tories in the last election.  Corbyn is turning a party that should be trying to win elections into a six form Sociology debating class. Bit sad as I think the Tories need a strong opposition to hold them to account. Apart from Cameron and the Tories, the big winner from all this is UKIP, who I think will challenge Labour very hard in its heartland. 

Jeremy Corbyn is unclear

..... about the need to kill a British jihadi with a RAF drone strike. Jez, maybe its because he has joined a group that is at war with the British people and which has promised terrorist attacks on British soil.  Does that help, Jez?  Lest we forget, the people already killed by IS in Syria and Iraq already, I would not lose sleep over his death.