I do not agree with internment and such like. But at the hands of Boris Johnson and Priti Patel, of all people, the Right is about to learn what it is to be a political dissident in Britain, the country that they were taught at their funny schools did not have any. They will whine themselves to Kingdom Come about being treated as everyone else always had been, and it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. But that laughter would still be wrong.
If Johnson and Patel want to strike at the belly of the Beast, then the Labour Party is now led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions. Unlike the Conservative Party, it subscribes to the IHRA Definition. It no longer supports the Chagossian cause, or self-determination for Kashmir. It has replaced Diane Abbott with an all-white Shadow Home Office team that has been outflanked from the left by Patel. It refuses to participate in the new commission on inequality.
If Johnson and Patel want to strike at the belly of the Beast, then the Labour Party is now led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions. Unlike the Conservative Party, it subscribes to the IHRA Definition. It no longer supports the Chagossian cause, or self-determination for Kashmir. It has replaced Diane Abbott with an all-white Shadow Home Office team that has been outflanked from the left by Patel. It refuses to participate in the new commission on inequality.
The Labour Party's staff has been shown to be rampantly racist; one of those who have been so exposed has been calling me a "mulatto" since 2003, when he was on the staff of the then Government Chief Whip. And Labour has failed to oppose an early relaxation of the lockdown despite the far greater risk of Covid-19 to BAME people. If anyone should be interned or what have you, then it is KKKeir Starmer, the members of his Shadow Home Office team, and the past and present staff of the Labour Party.
Black Lives Matter and its supporters are not necessarily wrong to demonstrate against the continued civic celebration of long-dead people of whom only the demonstrators have ever heard. (Contrary to Johnson's implicit claim in today's Telegraph, there has never been the slightest suggestion of taking down the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square.) But such protests would be far more useful outside the offices of the Labour Party and of its leading figures.
There is little chance, however, of picketing a Labour Party Conference. Between the IHRA Definition, and Starmer's outburst on Kashmir, such an event would now be uninsurable, even London might think twice about its security measures, and nowhere else would consider them. Labour Party Conferences will henceforth be held on Zoom, if at all.
Not that I much rate the protesters, at least not here in the North East. On Thursday 12th March, following a trial during which the matter of my being mixed-race had been raised at some length by the Prosecution, I was convicted at Durham Crown Court by an all-white jury that would have acquitted a white defendant on the same evidence. I was sentenced at Newcastle on Wednesday 10th June. It was a test of the credibility of the fairly noisy anti-racist scene on and around Tyneside that it would attend in my support. It failed that test.
Overtly racist actions are still being pursued against me by the Crown Prosecution Service in its capacity as an enforcement agency of the racist right-wing Labour machine, and as part of that machine's close alliance with the racist liberal wing of the Catholic Church. The former is directly on behalf of the sometime Labour Party staffer who has been racially abusing me for most of my adult life. Should those come to court, then attendance in my support would be the last chance for the ostentatious anti-racists of the North East to walk the walk.
Black Lives Matter and its supporters are not necessarily wrong to demonstrate against the continued civic celebration of long-dead people of whom only the demonstrators have ever heard. (Contrary to Johnson's implicit claim in today's Telegraph, there has never been the slightest suggestion of taking down the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square.) But such protests would be far more useful outside the offices of the Labour Party and of its leading figures.
There is little chance, however, of picketing a Labour Party Conference. Between the IHRA Definition, and Starmer's outburst on Kashmir, such an event would now be uninsurable, even London might think twice about its security measures, and nowhere else would consider them. Labour Party Conferences will henceforth be held on Zoom, if at all.
Not that I much rate the protesters, at least not here in the North East. On Thursday 12th March, following a trial during which the matter of my being mixed-race had been raised at some length by the Prosecution, I was convicted at Durham Crown Court by an all-white jury that would have acquitted a white defendant on the same evidence. I was sentenced at Newcastle on Wednesday 10th June. It was a test of the credibility of the fairly noisy anti-racist scene on and around Tyneside that it would attend in my support. It failed that test.
Overtly racist actions are still being pursued against me by the Crown Prosecution Service in its capacity as an enforcement agency of the racist right-wing Labour machine, and as part of that machine's close alliance with the racist liberal wing of the Catholic Church. The former is directly on behalf of the sometime Labour Party staffer who has been racially abusing me for most of my adult life. Should those come to court, then attendance in my support would be the last chance for the ostentatious anti-racists of the North East to walk the walk.
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