I invite you to ask which is more likely: that beige centrist Sadiq Khan is a crazed hatemonger, or that these people are far right crackpots with horrifying views, and we have spent most of a decade being told the concerns of people like that are terrifyingly urgent.
Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of.
Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time.
A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.
There are for real fascists regularly rioting in the streets, burning homes and dragging black people out of cars to beat them. The Tories are egging this on. Again: who has extreme views here? Who are the extremists. Is it you?
Bluntly: if MI6 want the army to have more money for missiles, then they should put C on television and have him make the case directly rather than running parliamentary democracy as an insulting and idiotic travesty.
There exists a permanent political class in the UK. If they're elected you can vote them out.
If appointed they can be disgraced.
But they never go away.
Aside from the fact Floyd was murdered by the cops rather than a citizen, one big difference between these two things is that as far I can tell nobody is trying to say that Henry Nowak deserved to die
It was insulting as fuck 15 years ago for police, MPs and journos to pretend that the cops were too afraid of the Woke Stasi to do their jobs properly, and it’s worse now, after said MPs and journos spent much of the intervening period actively rehabilitating far right politics.
They will never be able to re-write their history — @archivegenocide has stored and secured over 100,000 statements of politicians, like @EmilyThornberry, where they defended and excused flagrant violations of international humanitarian law.
Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites.
The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.
It’s begun: The Great Rewriting of History by the politicians, journalists, media commentators who stayed quiet over Gaza to keep climbing the greasy pole - while a handful of us who spoke-up were smeared, abused, or fired.
As @Hamza_a96 says, don’t let them do it:
Mass poverty and mass hunger blight our society, but we rarely talk about it. Mass poverty is a political choice, made by those who will never experience it. Poverty destroys life chances, reduces life expectancy, and stunts children's development.
The designers of Thatcherism were refreshingly candid about their plans: they wanted to use state power to take money from the (idle, grasping) many (ie workers) and give it to the (farsighted, prudent) few (ie investors). That is the metric on which to judge contemporary govts.
I think a not-insignificant part of this neurosis is that he basically selected his IVF children to be male, and the idea of one actually being a daughter he takes as a personal insult
Kemi Badenoch calls the Nowak murder 'a Stephen Lawrence moment'. The difference is that Nowak's killer was caught and is behind bars; two of Lawrence's killers go unpunished, even though the police know exactly who they are.