Imperial Measure

The Labour Party emerged out of the demand that the spoils of the British Empire be distributed more equally throughout the population of the United Kingdom as that population existed during the 70 years from 1880. It remains fundamentally unchanged.

Today, the British Empire is the City of London, which is a regulatory Wild West compared to Wall Street, and the eight out of the world's top 10 corporate tax havens that are under British sovereignty, including all of the top three. Britain is also second only to the United Arab Emirates when it comes to using treaties to drive down the withholding tax rates of low income countries.

Before anyone starts, France is in third place, and of the next seven, only Switzerland is not in the EU, which did nothing to prevent the creation of this Third British Empire during our half-century of membership. Well, plenty of the money has made its way to Brussels, one way or another.

Now as ever, that money comes laundered in the blood, sweat and tears of what has come to be called the Global South. Now as ever, although it no longer even pretends to believe in equality, the Labour Party wants that money to be distributed across a broader base of the domestic British population, and specifically to its own electoral base in the public sector middle class.

Not only is that overwhelmingly white, as Britain itself still is, but it is now disproportionately so. The core of Labour's core under-predicts the exam grades of black pupils to a staggering extent. And now as ever, that party fully supports the use of military force to loot the world for those of its voters about whom it is bothered. 

Labour was therefore horrified to find itself led for five years by a man whose primary political identity, like that of many of the huge number of people whom he brought into the party, was defined by his participation in the anti-war, anti-racist and anti-imperialist movement, which is the scourge of the tax havens. Perennial Labour set out to destroy him, and he let it.

But if this year's census went ahead, then it would confirm what everyone already knew, that every ward east of the Irish Sea now contained at least some people whose political roots were at least partly in the liberation struggle of the Global South, and that those residents tended to be younger. Always the world in one city, for many decades London has been the capital of that struggle, which has now fanned out across the entire country. 

Jeremy Corbyn did little or nothing to help himself against the racist and imperialist backlash, but BAME voters remain fiercely loyal to him even now, and he remains a political megastar on the Three Continents, among whose poor and huddled masses he probably has more influence than any other single individual, if only he would use it.

Now, though, Labour is led by a man who is open to white replacement theory and to a British version of the Israeli Nation-State Law, siding with Benjamin Netanyahu against the dark-skinned Other abroad, and therefore also at home; at home, and therefore also abroad.

It was Corbyn who subjected Labour to the IHRA Definition, but it is Keir Starmer who has granted to the questionable representatives of no more than 40 per cent of Britain's infinitesimal Jewish population the right to sit in judgement on allegations of anti-Semitism, empowering them to expel people from a party of which they themselves were not members or even supporters.

If Jews are a "race", then where is the independent panel of black people to judge allegations of the anti-black racism that runs rampant among the Labour Party's staff? Judaism is a religion to which anyone may convert, so where is the independent panel of Muslims to judge allegations of anti-Muslim bigotry in a party whose only hijabi MP has been permitted not to give her address in court for fear of physical attack by members of her own party and supporters of its Leader?

Where is the independent panel of Christians to judge allegations of discrimination against those who are often very left-wing economically and even more commonly very anti-war, and whose Christianity leads them to dissent from the extreme social liberalism that Starmer and his supporters are glad to see entrenched economically as neoliberalism and then imposed on the world by force of arms?

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party, which into the present century included at every level the full range of views on Israel and Palestine, has seized the opportunity to shore up what it thinks is its own new base by requiring fealty to a State that was founded (in point of fact, by anti-British terrorists) on the premise that one group of white people, having been wronged by other white people, was entitled to compensation in the form of any territory that it happened to choose in the nonwhite world, and to hell with the nonwhite people who were already living there.

As for the Liberal Democrats, they welcomed with open arms the MPs who had left the Labour Party after the adoption of the IHRA Definition because it was still not racist and imperialist enough for them. Clearly, the Lib Dems were. They then imposed Luciana Berger as the parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green in an act of race-hustling that was as shameless as it was probably illegal and mercifully unsuccessful. The people now running the Labour Party fall over themselves to say how much they want this person back.

Loose Luciana, the well-munched Berger, has had some things to say about me in her time. So I would welcome her as the Lib Dem candidate for North West Durham. Just as I would welcome whoever was the Labour candidate, campaigning for Starmer to become Prime Minister in order to counteract white genocide by enacting his Nation-State Law. In any event, I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?