Notes from afar on the post-socialist ‘Labour’ conference
Actually, the bit about the sausages was the most effective of Starmer’s strategies
I was surprised to hear there appeared to be at least three socialists left to attend conference – well, people with a scrap of conscience, anyway. One was assaulted and dragged from the hall, the second suspended the third, as far as I know, merely sneered at. Let’s add that to the evidence sheet when the charges of complicity in genocide catch up with this government. Sir Keir Starmer actually got a chortle from the Labour membership for laughing at an anti-genocide protestor.
Okay, I’m joking, a bit. The header pic is not this year’s Party conference. The “sausages” did go viral, though. It took our minds off them disallowing the winter fuel allowance motion (which would have allowed a debate on the issue), and drowned out the worst thing Starmer said about Israel but it was probably an accident, not a strategy.
If any of the chortlers from that conference hall read this, I don’t think they’d know what I’m talking about because the remnant of the Labour Party really do not know that the vast majority of the people on this planet have rejected both genocide and apartheid, that a critical mass of the world’s population — including most British people — have seen the blatant unfairness of most politicians’ stance on the plight of the Palestinian people.
Starmer said, if the reporting I’ve seen is accurate, that he favours “a re-commitment to the two-state solution: recognized Palestinian state alongside a safe, secure Israel.”
That is, he thinks he can get away with going back to the old, Blairite party talk, back when the balance of the population thought saying “two-state solution” made politicians sound fair minded and civilized – but we know now, those of us no longer in the Party: we know that the Palestinians have suffered decades of endless terror at the hands of Israel, whilst the rest of the world made clear their main concern was that Israel be “safe and secure”.
Starmer expects a decimated and newly traumatized nation, the Palestinians, to share a border with the genocidal, apartheid state that he seeks to preserve and protect. It would not occur to him that it might be they, just now, who could do with some safety and security.
I don’t know about you, but I do not think we are safe and secure ourselves, while we have a government that can close its eyes to genocide, and seek only to protect the perpetrators.
PS I’ll put up with the pylons if you’re delivering genuinely clean, affordable energy but you can stick your extra prisons. If you need more space, release the activists, the petty criminals led into trouble by poverty and all those arrested for behaviour stemming from trauma and others’ violence (that list, by the way, covers most female convicts).
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