The Great Replacement

The scale used to run from £250 to £10,000. But now it is going to run from £10,000 to £100,000. This huge increase in the rate of compensation for victims of the Windrush scandal has serendipitously been announced on the day that Keir Starmer declined to correct a caller's race replacement theory on his radio programme. It is inconceivable that a QC and frontline politician had failed to notice it.

BAME voters turned out in record numbers to vote for Jeremy Corbyn on both occasions, and considerable numbers of BAME people joined the Labour Party under Corbyn's Leadership. But Starmer has put those votes up for grabs. After all, Johnson was not a Member of Parliament when the Hostile Environment legislation was passed. The withdrawal of the whip from Theresa May would be a masterstroke. Something related to Brexit or to Covid-19 might soon provide an excuse, although that ought not to be necessary. Windrush is reason enough in itself.

Last night's Small Axe was tremendously important, and there has been One Struggle ever since enclosure was funded from the proceeds of the slave trade. There are white, working-class people, mostly men, on my Facebook who were told at school in the 1990s that they could not read. It was never true, any more than it was true of Akala, half white Scottish and half black Jamaican, who was reading Tolkien at home while having been placed at school in the group for pupils with English as a second language. In London. In the Nineties.

These things are still going on. And while there was a Conservative Government then, as there is a Conservative Government now, the wicked "Tories" did not and do not run the state education system on a day-to-day basis. That was and is the Labour Right, racist and misandrist, driven by downward class hatred and by an upward class resentment that oddly manifests itself as the forelock-tugging that has given the nation Starmer as it gave us Tony Blair.

In time for next spring, right-wing Labour Councillors are being reselected mechanically, and the selection is proceeding apace of Buggins' turn believers in the machine as the end in itself, predictable and predicted 20 years ago and more. But the machine is already en route to the scrapyard, and scores of Constituency Labour Parties clearly understand that.

They are affiliating to Corbyn's Project for Peace and Justice, thereby stating that campaigning for peace and justice had nothing to do with already being affiliated to the Labour Party. They are preparing for life after the Labour Party, in a world in which it retained only the paper existence of its Irish and Israeli namesakes, among many other examples of Pasokification. I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?