Ugly conference scenes reminiscent of abuse of Jewish Walter Wolfgang and Starmer’s use of armed police
The fascism of Keir Starmer’s right-wing Labour has again been on show after a young man was assaulted and dragged out of the hall at the party’s conference today for calling for the UK to end its equipping of Israel’s genocide in Gaza:
The protester and several others, including one who held up a banner that read: “Still arming Israel, still backing polluters.” were held by police for around an hour after their removal. The scenes were reminiscent of the violent removal of Jewish left-winger Walter Wolfgang during the Blair years and of Starmer’s intimidation tactic in 2021 of putting armed police at the end of each row of seats during his first conference speech.
The principled interruption came during Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s droning speech. In response to the call to stop supporting genocide, she could only must that Labour is not a ‘party of protest’.
Under Keir Starmer and his fellow cowards and sociopaths, it’s not a party of principle or humanity either.
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Complaint made?
Doesn’t have to be from the lad** what got grabbed by the throat.
Arrogant prick would’ve looked very silly trying to pick his teeth out of his shite with broken fingers, had he tried that with me.
**looks suspiciously like Anthony Gordon
Toffee, who is he?
Gordon’s a footballer, Sabine. Originally from Liverpool, too.
I wonder if @Doug will agree that the lad looks like him – especially in the photo at the top of the article.
Thanks for explaining that to me.
Was anything mentioned about the £3bn p.a. for Ukraine in that kid’s heckle?
Meanwhile, the Genocidal maniacs the likes of Reeves, Starmer, Streeting et al are backing unconditionally are running an advertising trailer for their next Genocide on live TV:
“Lebanon will be annihilated.”
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1837934064286027881
And a significant number of delegates in that hall are quite willing to applaud the fascism on display. Not least of which was on display in Reeve’s smug expression at the end of that video clip.
Is there sufficient time before the end of this farce of a Conference for a mass protest to be organised outside the venue to do a Neil Warnock as the delegate depart at the end of a day’s session?
Right Wing Lab is truly a disgusting party as the Genocidal Zionist Occupation Force is allowed to do what it wants.
And see lumpen delegates applauding as young lad violently thrown out, would think grabbing someone by the throat is assault.
Lad should sue, would be nice to take them for £4m.
I see one of our local ‘Labour’ councillors has just resigned from Labour – she’s evidently another one who has had enough of Labour’s current direction of travel …
“Enough is Enough” she says, citing the Winter Fuel Allowance, Gaza and the government’s general self-serving culture.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gateshead-council-councillor-resigned-labour-29990709
… the council leader’s response sounds like he’s terrified a load more of his councillors are about to up and follow suit!
And some people think it’s the “Far Right” boogeymen we’ve got to worry about. The baying crypto-fascists in that hall with that fuck-off union jack backdrop are waàaay more dangerous.
True snuff Timfrom. But the fascists have always needed a thug cutting edge. Moron in picture isn’t cryptoman.
Apparently, what passes for the Labour Party has adopted a new Rule making principle into its constitution.
This is known as the ‘Tacit Rules Principle’. These are Rules which are not written down anywhere, but which supercede all other written Rules.
There are 15 of these Rules. Which are as follows:
“Rule 1: Recorded history began on October 7 2023. Maybe some things happened before that date, but nobody can remember.
Rule 2: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 1. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or Iran.
Rule 3: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.
Rule 4: Israel never bombs civilians, it bombs terrorists. If shocking numbers of civilians die it’s because they were actually terrorists, or because terrorists killed them, or because a terrorist stood too close to them. If none of those reasons apply then it’s for some other mysterious reason we are still waiting for the IDF to investigate.
Rule 5: Criticizing anything Israel does means you hate Jewish people. There is no other reason anyone could possibly oppose military explosives being dropped on areas packed full of children besides a seething, obsessive hatred for a small Abrahamic faith.
Rule 6: Nothing Israel does is ever as bad as the hateful criticisms described in Rule 5. Criticism of Israel’s actions is always worse than Israel’s actions themselves, because those critics hate Jews and wish to commit another Holocaust. Preventing this must consume 100 percent of our political energy and attention.
Rule 7: Israel can never be the victimizer, it can only ever be the victim. If Israel attacks Lebanon, it’s because Hezbollah attacked it completely unprovoked while Israel was innocently minding its own business trying to commit a little genocide in peace. If people protest against Israel bombing entire cities into dust, then Israel is the victim because the protests made Israel’s supporters feel sad.
Rule 8: The fact that Israel is literally always in a state of war with its neighbors and with displaced indigenous populations must be interpreted as proof that Rule 7 is true instead of proof that Rule 7 is ridiculous nonsense.
Rule 9: Arab lives are much, much less important to us than western lives or Israeli lives. Nobody is allowed to think too hard about why this might be.
Rule 10: The media always tell the truth about Israel and its various conflicts. If you doubt this then you are likely in violation of Rule 5.
Rule 11: Unsubstantiated claims which portray Israel’s enemies in a negative light may be reported as factual news stories without any fact checking or qualifications, while extensively evidenced records of Israeli criminality must be reported on with extreme skepticism and doubtful qualifiers like “Lebanon says” or “according to the Hamas-run health ministry”. This is important to do because otherwise you might get accused of being a propagandist.
Rule 12: Israel must continue to exist in its current iteration no matter what it costs or how many people need to die. There is no need to present any logically or morally grounded reasons why this is the case. If you dispute this then you are likely in violation of Rule 5.
Rule 13: The US government has never lied about anything ever, and is always on the right side of every conflict.
Rule 14: (Americans only) Nothing that happens in the middle east is as urgent or significant as making sure the correct person wins the US presidential election. Ignore any inconvenient facts which distract you from this mission of unparalleled importance.
Rule 15: Israel must be protected because it is the last bastion of freedom and democracy in the middle east, no matter how many journalists it has to assassinate, no matter how many press institutions it needs to shut down, no matter how many protests its supporters need to dismantle, no matter how much free speech it needs to eliminate, no matter how many civil rights it needs to erase, and no matter how many elections its lobbyists need to buy.”
With thanks to one of the few genuine journalists still operating, Caitlin Johnson:
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/09/24/15-rules-for-discussing-israeli-warmongering/
He should report this matter to the police.
If no action, should consider a private prosecution.
Delegates in 2007 applauded Gordon Brown’s speech which included racism and a BNP/NF slogan:
“British jobs for British workers”
Maybe the bloke being escorted out was a holocaust denying anti semite. You can’t tell these days, so jail em, bugger em and impoverish them. Safety first.