Home Secretary and Defence Secretary – as well as their boss Keir Starmer and ousted colleagues – validate anti-refugee bigotry
Labour government figures have spoken against the far-right’s racist violence and destruction – but the red Tory faction running the government and party have an appalling record of pandering to and inciting the anti-immigrant bigotry now running rampant on our streets.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was behind Labour’s infamous racist ‘controls on immigration’ mug – and was rightly lambasted for it by thousands of respondents after she went through the motions of condemning the fascist violence:
Of course, the far-right racists that Labour has pandered to throughout Keir Starmer’s diseased tenure as ‘Labour’ ‘leader’ were not happy at even this rote condemnation, but Labour continued to pander – and has only intensified its pandering since the fascist Reform party allowed it to get into power. Cooper’s first major action as Home Secretary was to announce a huge crackdown on on poor immigrants working in beauty salons and car-washes, allocating a thousand staff to her ‘new’ programme.
Right-winger Jon Ashworth, now ousted in Leicester South by an anti-racist independent, was only following his boss’s lead when he scapegoated Bangladeshis during the election campaign:
And even the appallingly-racist Tory policy of deporting refugees to Rwanda was only condemned by Starmer’s party on grounds of cost and inefficiency, not the obvious moral horror that it is.
And the BBC and other media bear guilt for amplifying Labour’s racist narrative, even when the voices are no longer in Parliament, as barrister ‘Cremant Communarde’ pointed out:
Just before the general election Starmer – expecting a fascist victory in France that did not materialise – said he would work with National Front ghoul Marine le Pen against immigrants and welcomed ‘unhinged racist’ Tory MPs into Labour – and in 2022, said he wanted immigrants ‘tagged’, fuelling the racist narrative.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves, not wanting to miss out on the anti-immigrant fun, said around the same time that the issue with the Tories’ treatment of refugees was that they were not deporting enough people fast enough.
And John Healey, now Defence Secretary, was happy to scapegoat vulnerable asylum seekers:
Of course, Starmer is currently exploiting the explosion of racist thuggery to attack the rights and freedoms of every UK citizen, particularly those trying to save innocent Palestinians or our climate. So he may not be keen to crack too keen to crack down just yet – and this may be reflected in the relatively softly-softly approach of police to the racist mobs, a stark contrast to the the treatment of police and judiciary to peaceful anti-genocide and climate protesters:
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It shows how thick they are, Red Tories are living proof of the Law of Deminishing Returns, let them carry on with their race to the bottom, it served the cheap and nasty party well
The funny thing (well, not really funny) is that despite the racist pandering to the racist right, those rioters, not known for critical thinking, are buying the lies about Labour “supporting mass migration”…
So the pandering served at legitimating racist rhetoric and did not make Labour attractive to the extreme right…
Morale of the story: never pander to the extreme right and always do the moral thing.
and I hazard a guess, with the aim of making fascism acceptable. Please catch up om German history of the late 20s and then during the period 1933 till 1945. Let that be a warning. Economic situation situation then has parallels to todays scenario.
I’ll tell ya what pisses people off.
When MPs flip their second hones and claim all sorts of expenses, while the average Joe gets shat on from a great height.
And when MPs cry poverty and have guests more-or-less pay to attend their wedding, while they determine that the disabled should jump through friggin hoops to prove they are too ill to work.
Or when someone sells off the nation’s gold reserves for billions less than what it was worth a year later, or even 25 years later..
And when they tell you that YOU have to live within your means while they live the life of fucking Riley on YOUR DIME.
Amirite, mizzz (and Mr) balls?
There’s an element of misdirected anger towards these asylum seekers and immigrants, and it’s caused by these aloof fuckers in the corridors of Westminster.
THAT’S where the anger should be directed.
Let us hope he enjoys the same success as he did in July:
https://labourlist.org/2024/08/labour-jonathan-ashworth-return-to-parliament/
Ashworth’s ousting! A chink of light in these dark times.
Off the subject but –
it gets me that at the end of WW2*** when we were on the bones of
our backsides with much of the UK in ruins from the bombs and
struggling to even produce food
… the country was STILL able to invest in the Welfare State .
According to “Front Row” (R4 program at 7.15pm) this was largely due to
two politicians – Ellen Wilkinson and Jenny Lee who had the courage to champion
their ideals. In an edition of the program broadcast recently there was a review
of two plays which featured their influence of each on government policies.
*** I was a war baby and can remember a lot of this – in particular my mother
saying to me while putting me to bed : “At least now YOU will have the chance
of a good Education ..”