Huge Story Ignored II

More has emerged today on how, rather than have the electorate sack the Government and replace it with a new one, the Government has sacked the electorate and replaced it with a new one. In some quarters, it is being remarked that the communalised society thus created is lethal for a Labour-style party. Where is it, they ask, in Northern Ireland, or Sri Lanka, or Lebanon, or the American South? But New Labour does not want there to be such a party. The destruction and subsequent prevention of such is the whole point of New Labour.

In point of fact, the Irish Catholic communal politics, especially, of yesteryear was of course a significant factor contributing to the emergence of Labour and its sister parties in the Old Commonwealth. The followings of several of the forms of Protestantism involved also amounted to distinct ethnic groups at the time. Again, nothing could better express or embody everything that New Labour is against.

And it was David Cameron whose vehicles toured Ealing Southall blasting out in Asian languages that Hindu, Muslim and Sikh festivals would be made public holidays under the Tories. It was his “Quality of Life Commission” then proposed giving the power to decide these things to “local community leaders”. What else would those figures be given the power to decide in return for filling in every postal voting form in their households in the Bullingdon Boys’ interest, and making sure that all their mates did likewise?

To the statelets thus created – little Caliphates, little Hindutvas, little Khalistans, and so on – people minded to live in such places would flock from the ends of the earth, entrenching the situation for ever. Perhaps when the ultra-Orthodox have been denaturalised by Avigdor Lieberman and his loyalty oath, then Cameron can just give then Stamford Hill, or Salford (bye, bye, Blears), or Gateshead? Then again, perhaps it will be the secular Ashkenazi ultra-nationalists who come to realise that the only way of living the dream among no one but themselves will be if they accept a little bit of Britain, of all places, in which to do so?

Oh, well, we may as well make the best of it. Let us identify the “local communities” to which, in the event of a Cameron victory, we will be evacuating the Christians of Orissa, Darfur, Iraq and Palestine. Just for a start.