Sanction This

You too could have a body like this.

If there is a silver lining to this Government, then it is that people who might otherwise have been sympathetic to assisted suicide would be damned to see such power vested in the State while it was under such control. Wes Streeting has decided that those of the unemployed who also were part of the overweight majority were lab rats for intravenous medical experimentation. This country should be sanctioned.

As it is, then it is benefit claimants who are to be yet further sanctioned. There is to be State snooping into the bank accounts of people with nothing in them, but the line will have been crossed, so that it will come to us all sooner or later, and my money would be on sooner. No more Winter Fuel Payment for 90 per cent of pensioners. No more bus passes at all. The two-child benefit cap retained as a point of principle. PIP replaced with vouchers, an aspiration that, in relation to benefits in general, has been fundamental to Blairism from the very start, and never forget that the pension is a benefit. And the assessment procedure changed to reduce claims on mental health grounds by a fixed target amount, entirely regardless of clinical considerations.

John Harris gives Kemi Badenoch a well-deserved piece of his mind about neurodiversity and mental health, but it is Liz Kendall who is in government, planning to send hectoring Starmerrhoids into hospitals to jeer at the mentally ill to "pull yourself together" and "get a job". Will hospital authorities allow this? Will psychiatric nurses? Will psychiatrists? You have to be gravely ill to be hospitalised on mental health grounds. Assisted suicide, indeed. Like Streeting, and therefore also like Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, Kendall should be sanctioned in person by other states and by international bodies.

As should Starmer, David Lammy and Jonathan Reynolds for the continued British arming of Israel. Says Giorgia Meloni, who is a literally a Fascist and who tagged along with the WASP and WASP-adjacent defunding of UNRWA what seems like an aeon ago, "The Italian policy of completely blocking of all new licences is much more restrictive than that applied by our partners in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. We have blocked everything." Quite.

Meloni should ban members of the present British Government from Italy, as she should ban Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and logically therefore also Benjamin Netanyahu. Everywhere should at least until, in the British case, Starmer had walked the walk and sanctioned those Israelis. David Cameron was advised not to do so because it would have been, "political in the runup to the General Election." Give that a moment to sink in. The line now is "ongoing dialogue". With whom, and about what? With this Israeli Government, there is nothing left to discuss, if there ever was, and it is no longer open to discussion, if it ever was. Starmer and Lammy know this. As Cameron's advisers understood, they are actively on the side of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Sanction all four of them to Kingdom Come.