Cameron Off The Rails

David Cameron lied to Parliament at PMQs today when he suggested that the RMT was affiliated to the Labour Party. It has not been for quite some time.

In fact, it was the Conservative Party that last year welcomed, with some fanfare, John Marek, who was fiercely anti-monarchist and anti-hunting while Labour MP for Wrexham, and who went on to become the founder and only ever Leader of Forward Wales, a Welsh separatist, Welsh-speaking supremacist, economically Hard Left, unyieldingly Politically Correct, Tommy Sheridan-endorsed, RMT-funded party which was only dissolved last January.

Marek (whose party is still given as Forward Wales on the list of former MPs who continue to hold House of Commons passes) joins Johanna Kaschke, late of Respect and of the Communist Party, who left Labour in 2007 after having failed to secure its nomination for Bethnal Green & Bow, and who ended that year by joining the Conservative Party, in which she has rapidly become quite a well-connected activist.

And he joins the entire SWP faction of Respect in Tower Hamlets, which not long ago defected to the Conservative Party en bloc after having fallen out with the Islamists. Around the country, local factions of various Asian and other origins routinely defect from Labour or other things to the Conservatives on frankly communal grounds, and are always welcomed with open arms.

But of course they are. It was David Cameron's vehicles that 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" (don't laugh, it's real) that 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.

They all obviously find the 1980s Radical Right's company as congenial as they find each other's. As well they might. Blue is the new Red-Brown.