Labour right-winger’s appearance on BBC is revealing as she refuses to say Labour will stop arms sales to Israel
Video clips from last week’s episode of BBC Politics North West show just a little of why voters need to vote for socialist Green and independent candidates where they are available, and not for any of the ‘business as usual’ Establishment parties designed to create the illusion of choice while preventing it in reality.
Shadow Foreign Office minister Lisa Nandy appeared on the programme alongside Tory Paul Athans, with Green candidate for Birkenhead Jo Bird to talk about a range of issues in a discussion that only illustrated that there is barely a cigarette paper between the red and blue versions of the Tory party. The red-blue combo could hardly wait before demonstrating just how chummy they are:
And when the discussion became a little more substantive, Nandy couldn’t resist a snide swipe at Bird, who is Jewish, implying Bird was expelled from Labour for antisemitism, but without having the courage to confirm her view when Bird challenged her on it:
Nandy also recited the usual one-sided nonsense about the ‘horror’ of the 7 October Hamas raid into Israel, in which Israel forces killed an ‘immense’ number of their own citizens and made up claims of rape and the beheading of babies. Yet when Bird asked frankly whether Labour, in government, would stop the shipment of weapons that the genocidal Israeli regime is using to murder and maim huge numbers of Palestinian civilians, including tens of thousands of children, Nandy would only say that Labour would take a look at the issue and would act only if it thought Israel was breaking international law. The International Court of Justice has put Israel on trial for genocide and ordered it to cease the slaughter, while the UN and human rights groups have confirmed Israel’s genocide and other war crimes.
And Nandy went on to lie about Iran’s retaliation for Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria – another war crime. Nandy claimed that Iran’s strike was aimed at civilians, while international organisations have admitted only Israeli military facilities were targeted and without even the aim of causing casualties, as the pro-government Chatham House think tank and even the Israeli military have admitted:
If she doesn’t know this, she has no excuse. Nandy, who is standing for re-election in Wigan, has continually defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’, despite the repeated findings against it of genocide and other war crimes. She also recently dismissed condemnation of the genocide as ‘grandstanding’.
Bird is said to be narrowly ahead of Labour in Birkenhead. Voters in the area should certainly support her and not the red or blue friends of apartheid and genocide.
SKWAWKBOX needs your help. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as it is and not what the Establishment wants you to hear – and can afford to without hardship – please click here to arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal or here to set up a monthly donation via GoCardless (SKWAWKBOX will contact you to confirm the GoCardless amount). Thanks for your solidarity so SKWAWKBOX can keep doing its job.
If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.