8 neo-liberal, establishment cowards have left the Labour Party. Good riddance to shite!

Regarding the 8 MPs who have now left the Labour Party, I say good riddance. All 8 of them are Blairites and wedded to neoliberal, establishment ideology that is now very much at odds with the values, policies and direction that Corbyn is thankfully taking the party in. These 8 are angry that a guy who genuinely believes in the founding ideology, values and principles of the Labour Party and the working class, labour movement is now leading the party. Dear me, how awful that must be.

These 8 cowards, who are so much in favour of a second referendum because that is the democratic thing to do, aren't even brave enough to call by elections and give their constituents the chance to vote for them and show how much they support their decision. Additionally, they have registered their group as a private company so that they can avoid the public scrutinizing where their donations are coming from. Furthermore, as they are not willing to call by elections, that means that they will be able to hold on to their salaries and expenses for another few years. What shinning, moral, decent examples of politicians this group really is.

All of them have used the manufactured smear of anti-Semitism and institutional racism card as one of the primary reasons for leaving the party. That is just pure bullshit. This becomes even more obvious once you realise that 6 of these MPs belong to the group 'Friends of Israel'. Now, whilst I myself do NOT in any way shape or form condone genuine racist or anti-Semitic abuse of ordinary Jewish people; the distinction must be made between that and any fair and legitimate criticism of the brutal, oppressive, ultra Zionist, apartheid policies of the Israeli state, with regard to their disgusting and inhumane treatment of Palestinians. The main issue here is that this particular and very powerful and influential lobby group was set up to support and further these repressive policies, whilst at the same time attacking, smearing and ruining anyone who legitimately challenges these policies. As it is, more and more people are finally waking up to the Zionist ideology of the Israeli state and anyone who supports it. Therefore, these butt hurt, Israeli toady MPs will do the bidding of their masters and scream racist and Anti-Semite at anyone who dares to challenge this vile orthodoxy. As such I'm not surprised they feel the party (the majority of members have woken up to this and are now actively challenging these policies) feel that it has become tainted with anti-Semitism. Now, by the same token I'm not trying to say that there is no genuine and nasty racist behaviour in Labour, I'm sure there is and that needs routing out and should never be allowed or excused. However, there is a big but very subtle difference between the two. That was why Corbyn was against signing the full IHRA because it basically makes any genuine criticism of the Israeli state illegal. It is not that Corbyn is himself Anti-Semitic (if he was he wouldn't have supported the struggles of the Palestinian people) He simply wanted to allow people to legally challenge and criticise those policies without being branded racist or Anti-Semitic. However, to Israel such progressive thinking can't be tolerated and must be eradicated. It is interesting how all this supposed institutional racism only really started once Corbyn won his second leadership contest with an even bigger landslide majority. The rightwing, neoliberal Blairites had been totally humiliated and had lost their best chance to get rid of him, so this narrative was suddenly manufactured as a last ditch attempt.

Finally, if you look at the voting records of each of these MPs, they have consistently voted for every interventionist war and attack on a sovereign country, including Libya and Syria. They voted in favour of May's austerity policies, including things like Universal Credit and harsher benefit sanctions for the sick and disabled. they voted against independent inquiries into Iraq  and have voted to increase privatisation of our public services. A few of them even voted against raising taxes on the banks and increasing regulations on the financial sector. These scum are the very antithesis of what the Labour Party was founded to do. They are in no way supportive of the working class, of fighting for their rights, trade unions, social housing. They are a disgrace to the Labour movement and I for one am VERY glad to see the back of them. They are cowards and Corbyn's Labour Party is far better rid of them.

An alternative review of some of this years top news stories from a perspective that you won't get from MSM

Here is a fantastic news review of some of this years top news stories from one of the last, great investigative Journalists, John Pilger. In this video they examine some of the top news stories of 2018 from an alternative (and much more honest) perspective than you will ever get from the MSM.

Enjoy and I wish you all a very happy new year. I'm hoping to be back writing more blogs in the new year. Hopefully, you will join me and enjoy my take on the coming political and cultural events in 2019.

All the best.

Tories using censorship to hide the truth about arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Shocking video footage,

This shocking video has surfaced today of Amber Rudd (it would appear) passing a note to the chair of an election debate in her local town, when one of her rivals starts telling the truth about her dealings with banks and their involvement with selling arms to Saudi Arabia. The chair then proceeds to stop this gentleman from speaking. In effect censoring him and stopping him from speaking truth to the people listening. That can only ever be wrong and this information, this video of shocking censorship needs to be seen and spread as widely as possible.

I would advise everyone to read this information and watch the accompanying youtube video.

Given what happened last night in London, the only way to combat this terror is to shine the light of open transparency onto our own governments shady dealings. It's all very well for the PM to stand outside Downing Street and spout of strong rhetoric, but the truth is that our dealings with tyrannical and totalitarian regimes and the role that they play in bringing terror back to our shores needs to be fully understood and made widely known to the British people.

Again, I would strongly advise readers to look at the information provided in this link. Also, possibly of interest, this video has been tweeted over 100 times to leading journalists in the MSM and so far the response has been absolute silence, It would seem non of the MSM outlets have any desire to show this video.

Can you imagine how quickly it would have been picked up and shown around had it been Corbyn or a senior Labour figure doing this. Hypocrisy of the highest order.

Here is the link:
https://skwawkbox.org/2017/06/04/explosive-rudd-tries-to-censor-election-opponent-to-hide-saudi-terror-allegations-ge17/

Election 2017: My thoughts

I know I haven't written anything in a long time, but I've been so angered and engaged by this election that I felt it was time I got back on the horse.

Right up I'm going to nail my colours to the mast. I'm voting Labour. I know that from my previous posts that will shock and surprise many of you. However, let me give you the reasons why.

First, I like and trust Corbyn. He is a man with integrity and has genuine, traditional Labour values and principles at his heart. He's not a Blair clone, who was little more than a 'red Tory.' If Thatcher can genuinely and honestly describe Blair as 'my greatest achievement in politics' that should tell you all you need to know about 'Teflon Tony' That being said, I don't trust May as far as I could throw her. My reasons for this are as follows:

Regards her promise to clamp down on tax avoidance and the like; I recently discovered that her husband is senior exec of a $1.4 tn investment firm who profit from tax avoiding companies and were heavily highlighted in the Panama Papers scandal. The one where Cameron tried to tell us all it was 'a private matter.' Therefore, how can we trust her to make multi-national companies pay their fair share of tax and clamp down on tax avoidance, when her own husband works for a company that makes money from helping firms avoid paying tax?

Regards her plans for education, I have watched over the last 6 years as school budgets have been cut to ribbons and schools have had to let go of vital support staff and cut down to the bone special need provision. This has meant larger class sizes, less and less resources, fewer qualified staff. Many schools often now have to use HLTA (Higher level teaching assistants) to fill in for proper, fully qualified teachers. It has also meant that the needs of children with learning difficulties are not being met and so they are left to fail without adequate support. It is absolutely disgusting. I myself, lost my own job as a 1-1 tutor even though I got fantastic results and was a huge help to the students I worked with. Simply because of cuts.

Regards her condemnation of extremists and terrorists. How can we trust this woman, who cries for victims of the attack in Manchester, when she is selling £billions worth of bombs and weapons to Saudi Arabia? Those same bombs have been shown to be used in Yemen to bomb and kill innocent women and children.  Furthermore, Saudi sell these weapons on to rebel groups such as ISIS et al who amazingly are wedded to a version of wahhabisim that is promoted and encouraged by Saudi Arabia  In addition, Britain helped to overthrow Ghadafi and de-stabalise Libya in the much lauded 'Arab Spring' and is now supporting and funding Syrian rebels against Assad. These rebels are largely made up of Al Nusra, who, for those who don't know, are strongly affiliated and linked to Al Qaeda. Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up. Not to mention that as Home Secretary, she cut funding to police and other essential emergency service. She was warned a couple of years ago by the police federation that if she cut police numbers we would be vulnerable to attack. She, in turn, accused the police federation of scaremongering and said that the cuts wouldn't change anything. Hmmm, looks like she was proven wrong.


Finally, in terms of the NHS and the increased privatisation. How can we trust a government to fully fund, staff and resource the NHS when a large number of cabinet MPs (the very core of the government) have shares and vested interests in private medical companies, who are being given very lucrative contracts to run services and hospitals around the country? There is a very insightful video doing the rounds  from Youtube all about the Conservatives plans  to implement the proposals of the Naylor Report (I'll provide a link).

When you actually understand what is covered and recommended in that report (which I have checked for myself and everything the guy says in the video is factual and accurate) it is absolutely terrifying and would basically crush the NHS for good. I make no wonder May and her government endorse it. I would urge each and every reader to take the time to watch the 11 minute Youtube video and consider the damage that this report will do to our NHS.

For these reason, I have decided to support Corbyn. I know Labour aren't perfect and what they propose may very well come to nothing.  I'm not stupid or naive enough to think they can provide a magic bullet of solutions. I know they can't, it would be impossible. That being said, I'm will to take a chance on hope as opposed to the hell that will definitely be the reality under a Conservative/May government.

Brexit: A few brilliant thoughts by Pat Condell

Basically, this gentleman sums up my thoughts on a fantastic result. I was going to write about this, but he has done my job for me. OK, so maybe that's a bit lazy, but if you can't say it any better, why not let someone else say it for you?

He hits the nail on the head. Enjoy.

Brexit The Movie. Please watch before you vote

For those of you who haven't seen this and are unsure about which way to vote tomorrow. I politely ask that you watch this documentary before you vote.

Many thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0

A couple of recent points that have annoyed me about the silly people who intend to vote for us to stay in the EU

As the vitally important EU referendum approaches (I've already filled in my postal ballot with a X next to Leave) mud is being slung by both camps. However, there are a couple of points that I have been getting incredibly annoyed with.

First, I have several friends who work or worked for the NHS and all will vote Remain. This to me is total crazy. If we vote to remain later this month, the EU WILL sledgehammer TTIP through and that WILL kill off the NHS for good, as it will be swamped with American private healthcare insurance and business. We won't be able to stop that and I would argue within 5-10 years, we will have insurance based healthcare - shudder!

The fact remains that if we vote leave, we give ourselves a VERY SMALL chance of being able to fend off TTIP, if enough of this apathetic country finally wakes the hell up and gets off its backside and forces the Government to back down. Now, I realise that is asking a HUGE amount given our stiff-upper-lip, don't rock the boat mentality and our astounding lack or willingness to take direct action against our governments who continually shit all over us. However, I'm hopeful that for something like this, our country might finally get off its bum and fight back. We have done recently with the suggested and vile attempted attacks on disabled people and their benefits. The government were forced to back down over that issue.  Although, if it came to having to fight both our own government and the faceless, totalitarian behemoth that is the EU, I just know this pathetic country wouldn't have the stomach for it. It is one thing to stand up to your own government; it is asking WAY too much to expect us to fight two HUGE battles. I hope people can understand what I'm saying here.

This is why I'm totally infuriated with my friends misguided belief that it is better to remain within the corrupt, totalitarian EU, than stand on our own to protect our amazing NHS. It makes me want to scream. They rightly love the NHS, get so angry with Jeremy Hunt for all the crap he's caused, but yet they still will vote to remain. I just don't understand their thinking. I make no wonder Hunt is telling us to remain, because then when the EU does force through TTIP and destroys the NHS, he'll be able to sit back and say there was nothing he could do. It was an EU order that we let in all these American private healthcare companies to take over the NHS. It's win/win for him.

The second thing that has annoyed me is the attacks on Farage for saying that if we remain in the EU and are forced to take in a load of migrants from Syria, Algeria et al; there is a strong chance that we COULD (and that was the wording he used) see the same kind of sex attacks as we saw in Cologne. He is absolutely right to point that out. He's NOT saying it WILL happen, but that it could happen, there is a huge difference. That is not scaremongering, that is simply being honest. I'm not saying for one moment that all male migrants are vile sex attackers (of course they're not) I'm sure most of them are kind, gentle and decent people, who only want a better life. However, the fact remains that if (and it is a big if) we do have to take in migrants from that part of Africa/Middle East we ARE taking in people whose attitude towards women (though again let me stress that this not the case for all the people from those places) is, in large part, vastly inferior to our own. Therefore, it COULD lead to the same kind of issues that other European countries have increasingly experienced since the migrant crisis started.

I've voted to Leave and I hope Britain sees the light and does the same. I really do.