Sending the troops into Portland is like sending them into Brighton, perhaps to end the dispute between the council and the bin men. But British Governments have acted with extreme physical violence against those whom they had defined as their internal enemies. Keir Starmer's description of Reform UK as "an enemy hiding in plain sight" recalls Margaret Thatcher's description of the miners as "the Enemy Within". He talks of "battle", so recall that hers against them were absolutely literal. Welcome to the outside. You are not Tories now.
Imagine digital ID during the Miners' Strike. Now imagine it under a Badenoch, Jenrick or Farage Government, never mind under whoever might succeed any of those as a Conservative or Reform Prime Minister. By the next General Election, Starmer may have sailed off to enjoy both his tax-free inheritance and, by special legislation with his very name in its title, his tax-free pension. But whoever was Labour Leader by then will be urging a Labour vote to keep Nigel Farage away from the digital ID system that already existed. Here's a thought. Just do not set it up in the first place. Even if Labour won in 2029, then that would only keep those powers in the hands of the people who had yesterday detained George Galloway at Gatwick. At seven o'clock this evening, The Mother of All Talk Shows will be one for the ages.
George's opening monologue was devastating.
ReplyDeleteNo one expects much from those whom one has helped on the way, but Shabana Mahmood has serious questions to answer, speaking to her much-praised character.
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