Majority Report

56 Labour MPs voted with 76 per cent of the population, and 10 of those were Muslims. There was no Muslim anywhere among the other 69 votes for a ceasefire, nor was either of the tellers a Muslim. Nothing like 127 constituencies have sizeable Muslim populations, and those which do, do not include Tiverton and Honiton, or North Down, or Dwyfor Meirionnydd, or Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.

To that section of feminism which is disgracing itself over this war, why would some of you cede all authority to the nosiest voices among the Jewish half of one per cent of the population, but not to the noisiest voices among that half of one per cent which professed a gender identity different from its biological sex? By doing the former, why are you lining up with the far more powerful people who do the latter? Why do you never mention that, unlike Hamas, two parties in Israel’s ruling coalition do not allow women to be candidates for public office, and both of those parties were already in government on 7th October? Why do you make such a fuss of Tel Aviv Pride, at which your gender-critical views would be thoroughly unwelcome, to put it politely, since it is Asia’s largest example of the specifically LGBT+ events against which you demonstrate in your own country?

You have cut yourselves off from both streams of the material realism on which you depend, the ancestrally Marxist, and the Thomist as the cause dearest to the hearts of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition partners, the eradication of Christianity from the Holy Land, proceeds apace even in the Old City of Jerusalem itself. Instead, you have chosen Thatcherism, including Blairism. With its concept of the self-made man or the self-made woman, that has inevitably ended up as gender self-identification, which was unknown in 2010, meaning that it has arisen entirely under a Conservative Government.

Margaret Thatcher was last depicted on British television, for the first time in quite a while, in December’s Prince Andrew: The Musical, the title of which spoke for itself, and in which she was played by one Baga Chipz, a drag queen. Well, of course. A figure comparable to Thatcher, emerging in the Britain of the 2020s, would be assumed to be a transwoman, just as Thatcher herself emerged in the Britain of everything from Danny La Rue and Dick Emery to David Bowie and The Rocky Horror Show.

Hence Thatcher’s destruction of the stockades of male employment, which were the economic basis of paternal authority in the family and in the wider community, an authority that cannot be restored before the restoration of that basis. Thatcher created the modern Labour Party, the party of middle-class women who used the power of the State to control everyone else, but especially working-class men. Truly, as she herself said, her greatest achievement was New Labour. Leo Abse, who had had the measure of the milk-snatcher, also had the measure of Tony Blair’s androgyny. 

Led by the working class, the struggle for economic equality is the struggle against a capitalist system that was founded on the transatlantic slave trade. That trade financed enclosure, meaning that there has always been One Struggle, and it has always been against something that was fundamentally racist.

Today, as the likes of “Tommy Robinson” recognise and celebrate, the world’s preeminent example of the specific phenomenon of white violence against people of colour is the oppression of the Palestinians, making it central to the class struggle. You are siding with those who rioted at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, injuring nine Police Officers, as had always been the intention from the decision to go equipped with bladed articles but not with firearms. Your boys had not gone to shoot Hamas. They had gone to stab the Police. You have chosen that side. We are the 76 per cent for a reason.

The Israelis themselves now admit they have no evidence of any rapes, just as there were only 1200 rather than 1400 dead, only one of whom was a baby, neither beheaded nor baked. Expect that figure to fall further. That is before we even start about Hamas bases under hospitals, and what not. What next, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? The people who say this are the people who said that. We have already had at least one attempt at a feminist war. How did Afghanistan work out for you? Then again, it did you no harm at all. Upper-middle-class white women did not have to fight it.

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair’s Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.