Politically Justified

On Tuesday, the Labour MP for Tamworth, one Sarah Edwards, said in the House of Commons that, "The residents of Tamworth want their hotel back." Wes Streeting called Labour's loss of Muslim votes, "Shaking off the fleas." Keir Starmer has explicitly defended the measures that have given polio to the children of Gaza. And so on.

Since it is the Government, then the Government is even worse than the Official Opposition, the party of Lord Davies of Gower, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, retired Detective Chief Inspector with 32 years' experience on the Force, and of the view that the riots were "politically justified"; the party of Donna Jones, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and defender of the rioters as the defenders of "British values".

But even if Labour were in any position to comment, then real civil wars produce giant figures, not Starmer and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Yaxley-Lennon has been tracked down to Cyprus, making the most of his EU passport and of his wallet full of euros. The Home Secretary ought not to have the power to revoke British citizenship. But she does, and she has no plan to give it up. Over to her.

And if Parliament had not been recalled by tomorrow morning, then all MPs worthy of the office should reconvene of their own initiative, even if they had to do it in St Stephen's Tavern. For all Nigel Farage's bluster, Reform UK merely abstained on the two-child benefit cap, while the five MPs elected as Left Independents voted against it. Four of them are Muslims, as are three of the seven MPs from whom the Labour whip has been suspended for their having followed suit.

Therefore, Muslims are the majority of the Independent Left that will certainly vote against the means testing of the winter fuel payment, and in favour of the New Deal for Working People should that ever make it to the floor of the House, as those MPs will no doubt make every effort to ensure that it did. Reform's position on that means test is unclear, while it would undoubtedly vote against that New Deal.

While pre-existing conservative phenomena have been known to ally with Fascism, usually to their own ruin, it is the liberal bourgeoisie that keeps Fascism in reserve for when it might ever face any serious demand to share its economic or social power with anyone who did not have it before the rise of the bourgeois liberal order, or to share its cultural or political power with anyone at all. It activates the F-bomb by rousing exactly the Lumpenproletariat that we see unmistakably on our television screens at the moment. Meanwhile, the working class, the class that comes out as one to clean up, knows its own.