About Labour, Corbyn, and the Jewish/Israeli lobby in the UK (a blog post first published in 2019)
I happened to see that a blog post from 7 years ago, early 2019, has had quite a few hits in the past few days. Looking at it, I think that it has held up rather well:
Sky’s @EdConwaySky is shown inside the Bank of England's gold vault, one of the 12 vast vaults where the world's largest single deposit of gold is kept on behalf of its many owners pic.twitter.com/esTVFVPk2U
Well, according to both the Jewish lobby and the “antifa” loonies (and also the pro-migration invasion idiots and malfeasors), I am a “far right” (whatever that means) “extremist” (whatever that means).
Ironically, one of the more accurate newspaper/msm reports about my free speech trial and sentencing of 2023/2024 was that of the Jerusalem Post:
Firstly, I don't have a clue who you are or who you represent, but what I can say is you don't represent me, my family or the majority of British people.
I was raised in Manchester in the 70s and 80s. At the age of 16 I joined the British Army and for the next 24 years I served…
[“Firstly, I don’t have a clue who you are or who you represent, but what I can say is you don’t represent me, my family or the majority of British people. I was raised in Manchester in the 70s and 80s. At the age of 16 I joined the British Army and for the next 24 years I served all over the world protecting British interests and Britain. After leaving the Army we settled in a small village in Lincolnshire. Until last week I had not visited Manchester for around 20 years. Last week we decided to drive to the Manchester Museum with the children. All I can say is WTF has happened to Manchester? My grandfather, who saw active service in WW2, would be turning in his grave. Not in a derogatory way, but you don’t and never will understand the normal hardworking British man or woman. It’s not in your blood or DNA. Through British history there has always been a time when an uprising is needed. That time is now. I’m not an ethNat or a Nazi, but I am a realist and it is time to stop and say no more. If millions have to leave who should not be here or are taking the piss, then so be it. In the words of @RupertLowe10, “I don’t care.” What I care about is my ancestral home being destroyed by people who don’t respect our culture or beliefs. Throwing threats around and using the very weak “Neo Nazi” label will not work anymore, the momentum is there and the people are rising. Have a nice day…“]
I agree, almost entirely, with that second tweeter. As to the first one, why is he even here? Some kind of Egyptian Muslim apostate, and convert to Judaism, it seems. I too had never heard of him (and wish I were still ignorant of his existence).
Seems to think of himself as an “intellectual”, apparently.
More tweets
Reminder that despite Elon Musk’s increasingly strange efforts, only 8% of the British public even know who Rupert Lowe is. https://t.co/xmxKZGLzUA
It is really quite funny how out of touch msm Westminster Bubblers such as Dan Hodges are. Now and then, opinion polling organizations ask members of the public whether they have heard of prominent politicians. Often, even members of the Cabinet score below 10%.
Starmers lack of political instinct is what will destroy his government. The job market will soon be filled with ex single term MPs who've never had a meaningful job!
Starmer-stein clings to his own job, and will do until people start to stamp on his fingers to make him let go. Starmer also keeps members of the Jewish lobby that surrounds him in place for as long as possible.
Regular readers of the blog may recall that, weeks ago, I was thinking that the “big three” at Gorton and Denton (Reform UK, Green Party, Labour) would all come in around 30%, and that the result might be very close. Since then, my long-distance view has altered to the extent that I feel that Labour is lagging behind the other two, with Reform possibly leading marginally from the Greens.
Today, while I think that Labour has faltered and probably failed, it may still be able to muster about half of the 50.8% it scored in 2024. It has a well-oiled machine for getting votes out, as corrupt “democratic” parties often do. Still, my view remains that this will be between the Greens and Reform, and the Greens are being exposed as rather loonie as the days go by.
Many former Labour voters may simply abstain. Many undecideds may also abstain, but who knows?
If I had to guess, it would be Reform, and there is no doubt that Matt Goodwin is the standout candidate as an individual, but there is no certainty.
Starmer-stein’s failed regime is toast, though, unless Labour can actually win (and, realistically, win by a good margin, in view of last year’s 50.8%).
The Gorton and Denton by-election is only one seat, but a very solid Labour seat until last year. To lose it will send a strong signal that Starmer-stein’s government has run out of road with the voters.
Snowmageddon in Moscow: nearly three feet of snow on ground. According to the World Meteorological Organization, Moscow’s Vnukovo district was one of the snowiest places on Earth in the last 24 hours:https://t.co/rtsrAv00sXpic.twitter.com/Zm4Z10NUk7
The government of Hungary has decided to block the European Union’s 90-billion-euro aid package for Ukraine because of Kiev's move to stop Russian oil flows via the Druzhba pipeline, Peter Szijjarto said:https://t.co/hCtDqPfMvHpic.twitter.com/fYl3ImUTOv
Maria Zakharova says Europe rightfully isn't at the Ukraine negotiating table anymore, because when it was there previously, it betrayed Moscow and reneged on agreements:https://t.co/pFQxHMkzQApic.twitter.com/ZyXSNCCioN
The Israel's intelligence predicts an increase in Iran's ballistic missile arsenal by 2027
Representatives of the Israel's Defense Army (IDF) in a statement to the "Ynet" portal: According to our estimates, by 2027, Iran will have at least 5,000 modern ballistic missiles. At… pic.twitter.com/O2d7xugRpH
[“…Israel’s intelligence predicts an increase in Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal by 2027
Representatives of the Israel’s Defense Army (IDF) in a statement to the “Ynet” portal: According to our estimates, by 2027, Iran will have at least 5,000 modern ballistic missiles. At the moment, Tehran produces about 100 missiles per month.
Military officials warn that even the most advanced multi-layered air and missile defense systems are not able to completely prevent damage in the event of massive and prolonged attacks.“]
Israel is doomed in the medium-term, but it has to be noted that even the complete destruction of the Israeli state, should that happen, would not end the menace of Zionism in the rest of the world.
Jewish National Fund UK chair: ‘Jews have no future in England’
“In an interview with the Jerusalem Post earlier this month, Jewish National Fund UK chair Samuel Hayek warned British Jews may “feel more comfortable” after the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn but “the underlying issues have not gone away”.
“In addition to suggesting British Jews should consider emigration, he said: “Let’s assume that Corbyn would have become prime minister. We all know our lives would have changed without recognition. We cannot even understand it fully.”
“Is it easy to sell their businesses?” he asked. “Could they do it quickly? Where would they go? To South Africa, the United States, Canada – hopefully, Israel.”
A Jew like Giles Coren can suggest that someone (Mira bar-Hillel, a Jewish, but anti-Zionist, journalist) who is both named, and known to Coren, be killed by Jew Zionists, but will the police take any interest? No, of course not; yet if you, as an English person, say “boo” not even to a Jew but about him (or her, or it), the skies will fall in as the police —or even, maybe, their “anti-terror command”— play at being a poundland KGB.
Labour Party
Why are Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves parading a 5% VAT cut as the solution to crippling energy bill rises?
Average energy bill in 2021 – £1,277 Average energy bill in 2022 – over £1,800
Increase – over £523 Amount Labour's scrapping VAT will save – £90
Interesting, and typical of many tweets seen this morning. Looks as if Keir Starmer’s Jewish-lobby “Labour” Party (Rachel Reeves, like Starmer and all his Shadow Cabinet, being a fervent member of Labour Friends of Israel) is not convincing many. I concede that Twitter is very unrepresentative, but offline I have not met an openly Labour supporter or voter for about 7 years.
That is one reason why I took a very early look, a few days ago, at the Erdington by-election. That looks very much like it is going to be a straight Labour-Conservative fight, in a situation where both main System parties have lost public confidence. The question is, which party is hated and/or despised the most?
In recent by-elections, the Conservative Party has done badly, losing two hitherto safe Con seats, but to the LibDems as relatively uncontroversial third party, not to Labour. Both Chesham and Amersham, and North Shropshire, were considered safe Con seats. Birmingham Erdington has been a safe Labour seat since the 1930s (with a near-upset in 1983).
The Conservative Party vote-share fell hugely in the two by-elections mentioned; it also fell at the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election (won narrowly by Labour), and that at Old Sidcup and Bexley (won easily by the Conservatives).
However, in all those by-elections except Old Bexley, the Labour vote also fell, and by a considerable amount. The Labour percentage vote-shares were: Batley and Spen 35.3%; Old Bexley and Sidcup 30.9%; North Shropshire 9.7%; Chesham and Amersham 1.6%.
Another, earlier, 2021 by-election, was that held at Hartlepool, in March 2021. There, in a seat always Labour since its establishment in 1974 (and usually also in the predecessor constituency), and where Labour candidates almost always scored over 50% (Peter Mandelson 60.7% in 1997), Labour’s losing (to Conservatives) 2021 by-election vote-share was only 28.7%.
None of Labour’s 2021 by-election results can be plausibly laid at the door of the departed Jeremy Corbyn.
Out of those 5 by-elections, only one success (Batley and Spen) and only one increase in vote-share (Old Bexley and Sidcup). To me, the results show that Labour is being seen as not only unpopular but as actually irrelevant. As I have noted before, the Keir Starmer “pitch” to the public is, more or less, “we support what the Government is doing, on the whole, but it should be doing it better, and while down on one knee and wearing a facemask“. Not very inspiring.
The odds must be that the Birmingham Erdington by-election will go Labour’s way, but I am unsure about that. Until the past few weeks, I should have said that the Cons were only a couple of points behind Lab in the constituency. Now? Hard to say. This may be a battle between two blocs of apathy…
Afternoon music
Islington North: more Labour Party news
“A high-profile Labour woman who lost her seat ‘thanks to Jeremy Corbyn‘ should be the candidate to end his Commons career, it was suggested last night.
Party insiders say that one of several female MPs who lost in the disastrous 2019 election would be Labour’s best choice to stand against the former leader in his North London stronghold, Islington North.
Mr Corbyn is currently barred from standing as the Labour candidate in the next General Election because of a bitter antisemitism row with Sir Keir Starmer.” [Mail on Sunday]
I think that one can guess what (((type))) of individual thought up that bitter and vindictive “pound of flesh” idea…
Mary Creagh was one of the most active and fervent pro-Israel drones in the Commons; Ruth Smeeth, half-Jewish and descended on one side from East London gangsters, was exposed by Wikileaks as listed as a “to be strictly protected” secret informant by the U.S. Embassy in London. In effect, an agent or spy, to put it one way. It is not known (by me) whether she was paid for that. Before becoming an MP, she was also employed by the Israeli propaganda operation known as BICOM.
Both women were or are members of Labour Friends of Israel. Both were found well-paid jobs heading non-governmental orgs after the electors of their constituencies disposed of them.
As to what might well happen if one of those two is selected by the Jewish-lobby “Labour” Party now headed by Keir Starmer to contest Islington North, that might be interesting.
Islington North is a very solid Labour stronghold. The last election there won by the Conservative Party was in 1935. No Labour Party candidate since 1931 has recorded a vote-share below 40%.
Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983, and his peak vote-share of 73% (in 2017) exceeded even that which he achieved in 1997 (69.3%) and that of the winning Labour candidate in 1945 (67.4%). In 2019, his vote was at 64.3%. Only when he was first elected in 1983 did his vote-share dip below 50% (40.4%), and that was because the Social Democratic Party stood, and garnered a vote of 22.4% (Con 25.3%).
How much of that solid Labour voting is for Labour label, and how much for Corbyn? We have seen many past examples of former Labour MPs standing as independent or small-party candidates, only to be swept away. No doubt Starmer and “Labour Friends of Israel” hope that that will happen in this case. I doubt it.
This situation is, as far as I know, unprecedented. Former Labour ministers have stood against Labour in the past (notably in the SDP days), and with mixed but generally poor results. Never, however, has a former Labour Party leader stood for election in a constituency, against an official Labour Party candidate.
Corbyn is extremely well-known, to say the least, both in the country generally (since 2015) and in the constituency (since 1983; 38 years…).
I should think that, in such unique circumstances, Corbyn would have every chance if he stood as Independent, or Independent Labour. I doubt that, with his background, he would start a new party.
The Conservative Party vote-share in the constituency peaked at 66.07% in 1931; since then, there has been an uneven but gradual decline overall. In the 1980s and 1990s, mostly in the 20%-30% range, and lower since then: the elections 1997-2019 show 12.9%, 10.8%, 11.9%, 14.2%, 17.2%, 12.5%, and finally 10.2%.
There is every chance that the Conservative vote will slip below 10% —maybe even below 5%— next time. That means that the contest will be between Corbyn (if he stands) and whoever Labour selects to oppose him. Corbyn may well be the front-runner.
As to the LibDems, their vote peaked at 29.9% in 2005, and in the last few elections has been in the 10%-20% range (15.6% in 2019). It may be that they could mount something of a challenge in a 4-horse race. If Con votes joined with LibDem votes, on 2019 figures, that might add up to 25% or so, but it seems unlikely even then, that they could do better than a second place.
A situation to watch.
Mary Creagh
I just saw a comment by one of Mary Creagh’s former Wakefield constituents:
“Mary Creagh was our mp, unfortunately. She is the most arrogant, self-important, waste of space. She literally did nothihng for the Wakefield area. Her attitude is appalling, she just could not be bothered with the area. Goodness knows why people voted for her. Islington is welcome to her. Strange isn’t it that she is still blaming someone else for her loss. She lost because she asserted remain when our area had voted leave and still the penny has not dropped for her. Her sense of entltlement is staggering. Watch out Islington!“
Mary Creagh had her eyes on things far more important to her than the poor people of Wakefield, namely the interests of Israel and the Jewish lobby, followed by the pro-EU Remain campaign. Her own career and money too, of course…
Seeing TV reportage of Mary Creagh crying in anger and frustration, after the voters of Wakefield binned her, was stellar.
Addendum: saw this comment about Islington Labour voters: “Young professionals who have never lived through a Labour government. Could they cope through another Winter of Discontent with constant strikes, sitting my candlelight with no heating and rubbish piled up in the street?“
The “”Winter of Discontent” myth has become as ingrained as the old “holo (you know what)” farrago! I was in the UK (aged 22) during the said winter. There were strikes in some parts of the economy, yes, for a few weeks in some cases. Few people had their electricity supply interrupted; same with heating. As for rubbish piling up, yes, but only in some areas, and for a few weeks. The whole thing was short in duration and limited in effect(s). It was not the Siege of Leningrad. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent.
The “Winter of Discontent” has become one of those things that many think is so, but is only partly so, a bit like the aforesaid “holo” stuff and various other situations (eg that the UK only had basic foodstuffs until about 20 years ago, or that there were large numbers of blacks living in the UK in the 1960s or even 1950s.
You often see people moaning also about how terrible the whole of the 1970s were, with light and heat cut off because of strikes, and similar “facts”. In fact, the “three day week” and the power cuts affected mainly businesses, lasted weeks not months (in late 1973) and few domestic users were even affected. A few, for short periods. Yet you see people, even those who were there at the time spinning nonsense in newspaper comments sections, or on Twitter, about how they spent much of the 1970s without heat, light, or even food!
It does make me wonder about the fallibility of human memory.
Tweets seen
Dr woke @LouiseRawAuthor demonstrates her commitment to free speech by closing down comments to just those who agree with her. Life inside the woke bubble. pic.twitter.com/SMgIRtmGZd
“Doctor”? Hardy ha ha…The law should be clarified as to who is entitled to use the designation and who should not (e.g. someone whose doctorate is merely a Ph.D. based on a study of a strike in a match factory in 1888…).
Rod Liddle strikes me (though I have never met him) as a remarkably unpleasant person, with some of whose views (not re. the “panicdemic”, obviously) I agree, from time to time. Why anyone should think his views on medicine in any way authoritative, I have no idea; Liddle’s mature-student degree was in Social Psychology: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Liddle.
Late afternoon music
Late tweets
The elimination of reminders of our past is part and parcel of the plan to eliminate our future. Nationalists must learn about, celebrate, safeguard and teach children our culture & heritage, because no-one else will.#greatreplacement#Resistancehttps://t.co/BgyTuB1sl2
For more on La Boetie, the father of civil resistance, read my essay on his importance to us now in this groundbreaking book. Because #Resistance to the #GreatReset tyranny is obligatory. And this book will help make it effective. Order yours on this link!https://t.co/7GRPvjNfQ7
That last tweet would make more sense if Twitter hadn't blocked the one I sent just before it – a quote from the 16th century founder of civil disobedience and non-violent res*stance to tyr*anny, Etienne de la Boetie. Hitler and Stallingborough banned his writings too!
Sometimes, non-violent resistance can work, if the regime opposed is not completely brutal and/or deranged; and if the time is right. It worked in the Baltic republics, the DDR and other Soviet satellites in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and indeed in the Russian core of the Soviet Union in the same period, but it would never have worked in, say, 1970s Cambodia.
If you get 3-4 shots of the same thing in 1 year, and you still get infected and transmit the pathogen, then please don’t call it a vaccine. Call it whatever you like, but don’t call it a vaccine.
Ian Robert Millard 