Jeebus

What did 2TK do to bring on this outburst? How long before he is described as a fascist? And in that case, what does that make Nige?

“.. of forming an argument in Labour,”

Well he does know something about creating arguments. With everybody he’s ever met for example.

I shoulda known better – to lie to one as beautiful as you

As The Guardian reports this morning:

The open letter, titled Women Against the Far Right, follows a surge in protests outside accommodation housing asylum seekers and far-right attempts to exploit a number of cases of alleged sexual crimes involving asylum seekers.

All the signatories practically without exception support Trans molestation of women and girls . The problem with crying ‘far right’ is it has a diminishing impact – despite attempts by various mainstream media outlets to portray Farage as a Nazi it isn’t gaining wider traction. I’d also guess most of those signatories are fine with anti-semitism in Palestine – because we know Murphy is.

They are right to protest, of course. The claims made by right-wing protestors have no basis in fact. That is not to say people do not have a right to be angry about the failings of the neoliberal state, but to claim that because people are migrants, they are a disproportionate threat to women and girls is wrong; there is no evidence for that.

The Grooming gangs scandal again breezily denied. No link between certain cultures and disdain for women?Big statements as backed up by evidence as most of his claims vis a vis ‘economics’ in general.

At the same time, I note the FT reporting:

Unsurprisingly, I again share the view of these scholars. They, too, are right to protest. What they have to say is very obviously correct. There is genocide going on in Gaza.

It meets no definition of genocide I have ever seen – setting up food points for refugees and issuing advance warning of attacks wasn’t in the playbook of the Interhamwe (for example) His anti-semitism now almost overt.

So, why link these two pieces? That is because we have now reached the point where we are dependent upon academics, public intellectuals, politicians on the fringe of the mainstream, and others to point out what our mainstream political parties will not say – because they are too frightened, intimidated, cowardly, and politically inept – to address the defining issue of this moment, which is the threat from fascism that has to be called out. That is the action they are refusing to undertake.

Labour has no such excuse. Firstly, it is the government, and so it is tasked with our defence—including the threat from extremism—which is what we are seeing on our streets, in our media, and in our political future. It is failing to do that. As a government, few failings can be ranked higher than this: it is consciously ignoring the greatest existential threat to the UK state since World War II, and is desperately hoping that we will not notice.

Nobody barring a number of fringe cranks thinks that the Reform party is genuinely fascist. I would also point out that as the great Bloke in Spain points out – your policies or variants thereof have been tried ad nauseam by governments across the last 3 decades. They have failed totally and are to a large extent responsible for the dire and straitened circumstances we find ourselves in

Secondly, the Labour Party, as I always understood it, should have had no hesitation or difficulty in opposing those ideas that fascists are now succeeding with. Instead, it is cowering behind the Union Jack and the cross of St George—as if these will provide some form of totemic resistance against the forces of evil that are so obviously threatening this country. Keir Starmer actually said in a BBC interview yesterday that he and his family have a cross of St George in their flat in Downing Street. As the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, what does he think he is doing?

The Prime Minister of England (among the UK) has an English flag in his Downing street abode. I am guessing if it was a Saltire or the Welsh flag you wouldn’t give a toss. Frankly based on my rarely glimpsed social media feeds the only people concerned by the Flags being put up are all like you , members of the Control Left who hate the indigenous population with such a visceral passion that you want them removed and their ability to talk freely savagely restricted. Well I’ve got news for you – what goes around comes around.

Thirdly, if there was anyone capable of forming an argument in Labour, they very obviously either quit or were handed a P45 some time ago. We are now dependent on others picking up the political cause of fighting fascism in this country, as Labour is clearly incapable of doing so—all those with sufficient fire to resist having long departed the scene, culled by Starmer in his ruthless quest for power, which has, in so many ways, created the opportunity for Farage to flourish.

As Steve says – you’re a boorish cretin barred from hostelries across the Fens, and despite our hosts scepticism I continue to maintain that there’s something awry about your professional bona fides. The notion that even if there were a fascist takeover you’d be among those ‘fighting on the beaches’ is risible in the extreme.

The moves by the two groups do, then, encourage me. They say there are still people of courage, intellectual credibility, and conviction who will fight for what is right, even if our government has given up doing so, having already agreed to concede the 2029 election. We will need everyone we can with those qualities if we are to preserve what is of value in this country, as the basis for what could be even better still. That is a promise fascism can never provide.

A bunch of left wing academics who overtly despise the working class and most of the country’s white population are going to save us from Reform? To quote Wesley Snipes from ‘Demolition Man’:

‘Damn, you’ve been had’

I think this has to be one of his funniest yet – after Gary Stevenson’s agent rejected him earlier in the week he is Now reliant on a bunch of pro Islam female quislings to ‘save the country’??

but to claim that because people are migrants, they are a disproportionate threat to women and girls is wrong; there is no evidence for that.

He’s right there, though. It’s not because people are migrants, it’s because people are medaeval misogynistic goat-fuckers. My nephew from Hong Kong will statistically never be a problem for any woman, yet he was the one turned back at the airport with a valid entry and work visa and put on a ‘plane back home. During a study break from training to be an airline pilot, FFS!

https://genocidescholars.org/resources/the-definition-of-genocide/

The important part is
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

It was a targeting or intelligence error guv, so it ain’t genocide shirley.

Marius:

“What did 2TK do to bring on this outburst?”

Well, I suspect that Murphy has used his powers of observation and memory (yes he does have them) to observe and remember that 2TK has pushed people who disagreed with him out.

And Murphy disagrees with 2TK because Starmer’s not listening hard enough to him. Which is obvious because he’s not following Murphy’s program of the day.

That’s it really. No further explanation required.

Now its ‘ultra-neoliberalism’!

Next is mega-ultra-neoliberalism!

rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.

I think the asylum seekers are doing a good enough job making that link themselves.