Right The First Time

“The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.”

The Independent did not publish that by accident. It did not necessarily publish every word that Maxine Peake had said. It had checked. It was right the first time. But like Amnesty International, it has been got at since by its fellow pillars of the metropolitan liberal elite who are now back running the Labour Party. Peake should have stood her ground.

In the liberal-elitist little brother that is London, many practices have been imported from the liberal-elitist big brother that is New York. One of those is the branding as “anti-Semitism” of any criticism from the left, but most especially of any that might be made by, or in support of, us uppity Coloreds. They probably even spell it like that, making it a term of abuse, whereas spelt the British way it is a South African badge of honour. Ask my relatives in the Cape.

To say that no one needs to teach asphyxiation because everyone already knows it to be lethal is as ridiculous as to say that no one needs to teach anyone how to shoot people because everyone already knows it to be lethal. And yes, American policing was already racist, sometimes to the point of homicide, as can also the case in Britain. That was why it went looking for this training, and that was the understanding on which that training was provided.

Maxine Peake was right the first time. The Independent was right the first time. Rebecca Long-Bailey was right the first time.