Despite wanting to be Prime Minister, Kemi Badenoch is apparently unaware that it is not for a politician to demand a criminal prosecution. She is scared of Robert Jenrick, so she is simply not a serious person.
And in a sign of what her Premiership would be like, she is pursuing a feud with popular entertainers who happened to be among the daily-lengthening list of people who had made her look silly.
"The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP" is a bit strong, like a lot of Kneecap's output. Yet only when they criticised Israel did anyone apart from the humiliated Badenoch see a problem with them.
Earlier this month, hundreds turned out, and 30 marching bands played, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Wesley Somerville of the proscribed Ulster Volunteer Force. "UVF" adorned many of the wreaths laid in honour of a man who had accidentally blown himself up while perpetrating the Miami Showband massacre.
Last year, those same elements rioted side by side with the Tricolour-wavers who returned their hospitality in Dublin on Saturday. They even brought their own flags, as their hosts had done as guests.
Such are the connections formed in and by the overlapping worlds of British intelligence and organised crime. All cultures have wrong 'uns. Are these new ones muscling in on carefully carved up turf?
One of the speakers was Dublin City Councillor Malachy Steenson, a Planter surname like McDonald or McGregor. A Special Criminal Court convict, Councillor Steenson has been associated with the proscribed Official IRA, with the proscribed Continuity IRA, with the proscribed Real IRA, and with the proscribed INLA. He boasts that, "I was never a member of the Provos." Nor was DJ Próvaí, who with his bandmates is the least of any credible politician's worries. Though not of Badenoch's.
Didn't you once suggest a rap battle between Badenoch and Kneecap?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes. Kemi Badenoch should challenge Kneecap to a rap battle, and Kneecap should reply that they would rap against her in Yoruba, if she would rap against them in Irish.
DeleteThe UVF were there openly. Justin Barrett told an American reporter to "go and be a Jew somewhere else". Black people were racially abused. There were Nazi salutes. Lots of people were paid to be there. Loads of people were coked up and it was freely on sale.
ReplyDeleteAnd paid by whom? Whoever it was, they were paying enough to make cocaine affordable.
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