Liam Fox, The Great Patriot?

He ran a parallel foreign policy out of his office as Defence Secretary and through his fake charity, since deregistered. He ran it in the interests of the American neoconservatives, who are not even in government in their own country, and in the interests of the racist Israeli Far Right and the Sinhalese genocidists of Sri Lanka, who most unfortunately are in government in their respective countries.

He even appointed an American intelligence operative, without so much as the fig leaf of a British passport, as one of his Special Advisers, meaning that the MoD contained someone with the direct ear of the Secretary of State but who had been refused security clearance.

Why has Liam Fox not been expelled from Parliament and prosecuted? Why is he still in receipt of the Conservative Whip? Those are not rhetorical questions.

We need a robust, but not jingoistic, patriotism in the face of all challenges, whether from the European Union or from the United States, whether from Israel or from the Gulf monarchs, whether from China or from the Russian oligarchs, whether from money markets or from media moguls, whether from separatists or from communalists, whether from anything or anyone at all.

That patriotism absolutely excludes any new Cold War against Russia, China, Iran, or anywhere else. Equally, it precludes any idea of the American Republic’s coercively imposing utopianism, since it rejects that idea’s rewritten Marxism in which the bourgeoisie is the victorious class, because it rejects all class-based politics in favour of “a platform broad enough for all to stand upon”.

Drawing on the valiant history of opposition to all of Stalinism, Maoism, the Trotskyist distinction without a difference, Nazism, Fascism, and the Far Right regimes in Southern Africa, Latin America and elsewhere, today excludes all of Islamists, neoconservatives, those who have imported the communalism of the Indian Subcontinent or elsewhere, those who support or indulge the advocates of the denaturalisation of the Arab and the “ultra-Orthodox” citizens of Israel, and those who have never recanted their former Stalinism, Maoism or Trotskyism, or their former support for those Far Right regimes, admitting that that stance had been wrong at the time.

Hold the line equally against secular liberalism and against Islamisation at home, exemplified and encapsulated by the present debate over the definition of marriage. Hold the line equally against the Islamists and against the Zionists-neocons abroad.

Away with Liam Fox.