I have no doubt that the Jews will be delighted to have Richard Desmond as their poster boy. What Keir Stramer's disciplining of Steve Reed really means is that no one in the Labour Party is now allowed to criticise Desmond's dodgy dealings with Robert Jenrick.
And that is because Starmer's own right-wing Labour base is up to its municipal neck in dodgy deals with property developers. Well, if the Left, or even Steve Reed, cannot criticise that because such criticism would be "anti-Semitic", then nor can anyone else. Including you. "Anti-Semitism" is now the catchall, with mere accusation considered to be proof. We told you that this would happen.
Several people have been in touch to point out that, as I myself have repeatedly mentioned, it was under Jeremy Corbyn that the Labour Party adopted the IHRA Definition, which is denial of BAME, refugee and migrant experience redolent of the Windrush scandal and of the fire at Grenfell Tower, and it was under Jeremy Corbyn that the Labour Party expelled Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and Tony Greenstein, all of whom had been members in good standing under Tony Blair.
And that is because Starmer's own right-wing Labour base is up to its municipal neck in dodgy deals with property developers. Well, if the Left, or even Steve Reed, cannot criticise that because such criticism would be "anti-Semitic", then nor can anyone else. Including you. "Anti-Semitism" is now the catchall, with mere accusation considered to be proof. We told you that this would happen.
Several people have been in touch to point out that, as I myself have repeatedly mentioned, it was under Jeremy Corbyn that the Labour Party adopted the IHRA Definition, which is denial of BAME, refugee and migrant experience redolent of the Windrush scandal and of the fire at Grenfell Tower, and it was under Jeremy Corbyn that the Labour Party expelled Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and Tony Greenstein, all of whom had been members in good standing under Tony Blair.
Point well taken. As is the point that it was Starmer who declined to bring charges in relation to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, an event that will be come to be seen as having a greater significance than has generally been appreciated hitherto, since Britain's population of Latin American extraction is now quite large, and it is rising at a considerable rate.
Boris Johnson ought to emulate Disraeli's brilliant doubling of the electorate, the effects of which can still be felt and always will be. He should legislate so that parliamentary candidates would have to be British citizens in Great Britain, or British or Irish citizens in Northern Ireland, but there would be no nationality requirement for voting, or indeed for standing in local elections. Why would people not vote for the party that had given them the vote, rather than for the party that had never done so? That worked for Disraeli, and we still feel the effects. It could work for Johnson, with effects no less longlasting.
Starmer's own seat of Holborn and St Pancras could fall. Camden is 19 per cent Other White, 4.9 per cent Black African, four per cent Other Asian, 2.9 per cent Chinese, 2.3 per cent Other, 1.7 per cent Other Black, and 1.6 per cent Arab. In the 2020s, the ageing Afro-Caribbean and South Asian grandees who back Starmer are irrelevant to BAME London and to BAME Britain.
Countries join and leave the Commonwealth quite frequently. The present system enfranchises Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, but not Americans or Israelis. Is that what those who write above the line in the Daily Telegraph want? It says that Ghanaians are more "like us" than Germans are, and that Swazis are more "like us" than Swedes are. Is that what those who write below the line in the Daily Mail want?
Moreover, there is still enough time, even under the present circumstances, to enact legislation to hold all English local elections on the same day, beginning on Thursday 6th May 2021, with each of us voting for one candidate, and with the requisite number of Councillors for that Ward elected at the end. There would be a few Conservative losses as a result of this, but by far the biggest loser would be the Labour Party, and these days that means that by far the biggest winner would be the Conservative Party, together with its Independent allies or at least cooperators in areas such as this one.
And if the Government did greatly increase the Conservative electorate as I suggested, then Labour's adoption of the IHRA's hierarchy of race, with the top spot given to the white adherents of a religion to which anyone may convert, would be just another point in Labour's disfavour with the people whom it had never enfranchised.
Roll on Super Thursday, 6th May 2021. We are already planning to devastate the municipal Labour Right in the Red Wall areas. Do so in the Black Wall areas as well. Vote for whoever was best placed to defeat Labour in each ward. If necessary, organise those candidates. If necessary, be those candidates. Know your strength. And use it.
Use it ward by ward to vote for whoever was best placed to defeat Labour at next year's elections to Durham County Council. Deprive Labour of every seat, and then work with what came next. The most prized trophy of all is, of course, the Leader's seat. And the need to unseat this particular Leader demonstrates the fundamental unity between the Red Wall and the Black Wall.
That defeat would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. We would make sure of that. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, some of us know just the man to do this. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at his election, and not least at his election against this opponent. And we would show them doing it.
Boris Johnson ought to emulate Disraeli's brilliant doubling of the electorate, the effects of which can still be felt and always will be. He should legislate so that parliamentary candidates would have to be British citizens in Great Britain, or British or Irish citizens in Northern Ireland, but there would be no nationality requirement for voting, or indeed for standing in local elections. Why would people not vote for the party that had given them the vote, rather than for the party that had never done so? That worked for Disraeli, and we still feel the effects. It could work for Johnson, with effects no less longlasting.
Starmer's own seat of Holborn and St Pancras could fall. Camden is 19 per cent Other White, 4.9 per cent Black African, four per cent Other Asian, 2.9 per cent Chinese, 2.3 per cent Other, 1.7 per cent Other Black, and 1.6 per cent Arab. In the 2020s, the ageing Afro-Caribbean and South Asian grandees who back Starmer are irrelevant to BAME London and to BAME Britain.
Countries join and leave the Commonwealth quite frequently. The present system enfranchises Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, but not Americans or Israelis. Is that what those who write above the line in the Daily Telegraph want? It says that Ghanaians are more "like us" than Germans are, and that Swazis are more "like us" than Swedes are. Is that what those who write below the line in the Daily Mail want?
Moreover, there is still enough time, even under the present circumstances, to enact legislation to hold all English local elections on the same day, beginning on Thursday 6th May 2021, with each of us voting for one candidate, and with the requisite number of Councillors for that Ward elected at the end. There would be a few Conservative losses as a result of this, but by far the biggest loser would be the Labour Party, and these days that means that by far the biggest winner would be the Conservative Party, together with its Independent allies or at least cooperators in areas such as this one.
And if the Government did greatly increase the Conservative electorate as I suggested, then Labour's adoption of the IHRA's hierarchy of race, with the top spot given to the white adherents of a religion to which anyone may convert, would be just another point in Labour's disfavour with the people whom it had never enfranchised.
Roll on Super Thursday, 6th May 2021. We are already planning to devastate the municipal Labour Right in the Red Wall areas. Do so in the Black Wall areas as well. Vote for whoever was best placed to defeat Labour in each ward. If necessary, organise those candidates. If necessary, be those candidates. Know your strength. And use it.
Use it ward by ward to vote for whoever was best placed to defeat Labour at next year's elections to Durham County Council. Deprive Labour of every seat, and then work with what came next. The most prized trophy of all is, of course, the Leader's seat. And the need to unseat this particular Leader demonstrates the fundamental unity between the Red Wall and the Black Wall.
That defeat would be heard from the souks to the favelas, from the Dalit colonies to the Rohingya camps, and from Kashmir, to Crimea, to the scattered outposts of Diego Garcia. We would make sure of that. Armed with an impeccably local running mate in order to stop the target from slipping through, some of us know just the man to do this. They would dance in the streets of the annexed Jordan Valley at his election, and not least at his election against this opponent. And we would show them doing it.
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