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Britain is spiralling down into disaster: it’s remorseless drift to the right increasingly resembling that of a fascist dictatorship. News and opinion pieces today only reinforce my deep sense of dread.
The cross party ‘unequivocal support’ for Israeli genocide in Gaza saw Downing Street draped in the flag of an apartheid state, one engaged in the industrial and racist murder of innocents.
Fascism manufactures consent by dehumanising people and Israel uses Hamas to do this. Only a fascist would conflate all Palestinians with Hamas, but the UK’s political and media class has followed Israel’s lead without a murmur.
An appalling article in today’s Guardian by Polly Toynbee encapsulates how the Labour Party now stands disgraced. Toynbee weeps crocodile tears for the dead and then argues that a ceasefire is mere ‘semantics’, not worth spoiling Labour’s unity and electoral chances over.
This type of headfuckery in service of moral cowardice has become endemic in Labour and Britain. The refusal to make and win ANY moral argument – lest it involve electoral risk or a judgement that might ruffle somebody’s ego or identity politics – has invoked a moral bankruptcy. Fascism grows in a vacuum of moral challenge.
Starmer’s team clearly think that gaslighting and brow beating those opposing genocide in Gaza is a winner. Keir donned his Orwellian death mask this morning to argue that a ceasefire will create more violence than affording Israel complete licence.
Remember that only a trickle of aid is reaching anyone in Gaza because it has been deliberately blocked by Israel: an atrocity worsened by the lack of a ceasefire. Starmer explicitly supports Israel’s ‘right’ to deprive Gazans of all basic services and over 2 million people are thus being starved and dehydrated. Operations on the maimed and injured are carried out by light of mobile phones and children must endure them without anaesthetic.
Israel is killing a Palestinian child every ten minutes but Stamer waits for his cues from Washington, sacks people who protest and then lies about why he is sacking them. This is the man riding high in the polls who will soon be elected as a British prime minister.
Suella Braverman is a fascist opportunist – utterly ruthless and unprincipled. Yesterday she rushed to the media to declare that the 500,000 people (including thousands of Jews) who marched for peace in London on Saturday were ‘hate marchers’ – the media amplifying without comment.
This from the woman sacked for abuses of power in office but swiftly reinstated: a far-right ghoul who has risen to prominence by lionising racists, grandstanding a hatred of asylum seekers and trying to implement an unlawful and grotesque deportation scheme via Rwanda.
British concentration camps are but a few short steps from here and yet she is tipped by many to be the next leader of the Conservative Party. Our electoral choices are effectively zero. The press ruthlessly maintains this duopoly and suppresses any debate about foodbank Britain’s terrifying lurch to the right. Sounds like a dictatorship to me.
This adroit little bit of juxtaposition in The Guardian is indicative – but then who is surprised?
UK hacks are amongst the least trusted, closed minded and biased media in the world and bear a unique responsibility for this creep of fascism.
On Remembrance Sunday, Sunak, Starmer and the UK media will wrap themselves in the sacrifices of more honourable men. ‘Lest We Forget’ will be beamed across the land – but many seem to have forgotten what fascism is and what our ancestors laid down their lives to defeat.
The poppy this year will be stained in the blood of dead Palestinian children – if that offends you I don’t give a fuck. Britain needs to take a long look in the mirror of Gaza and step back from the abyss.
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