DownUnder wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2024 6:50 pm
Labour have sure had it tough over the last week with the racist riots, only one month into their tenure. They seem to have dealt with the problem pretty impressively though.
Certainly Labour came down on the rioters hard (I don’t think many reasonable people would argue that this wasn’t a series of riots by thugs rather than peaceful protest, and hence unlawful). It’s full of complexities though. You could suspect that these riots were orchestrated by hidden figures, given that this sort of thing didn’t happen during 14 years of Tory (mis)rule but broke out a mere month after Labour’s tenure began. It’s true that you could argue there were a few incendiary factors such as the jailing of
Anjem Choudary only days earlier, which may have focussed the right-wing elements on the very real threat of Islamic extremism, but even so, as things panned out, the rumours that the murderer of the three poor girls in Stockport was a Muslim asylum seeker turned out to be a whole web of lies, and at least some of those that gave these lies momentum have been rightly jailed.
Things get much murkier when you look into rumours that Tommy Robinson’s EDL was actually co-founded by Jewish people with links to Israel, given the hard-to-refute photographic footage available on the Web showing Robinson mixing with Israeli dignitaries and, additionally, footage of him openly supporting Israel’s fight against the Palestinians. At first sight it would seem absurd that Israel would want to encourage civil unrest in the UK, but Israel certainly appears to be interfering in UK politics given the large proportion of both Conservative and Labour MPs who have ‘sponsored’ by them, so maybe this is merely the entrance to a rabbit hole. More of that at a later date, probably in a separate thread, but you can check with Companies House, a verifiable UK Government resource, that the EDL was initially named the English And Jewish Defence League, for some reason, and that, amongst the principal people in at least one of its several incarnations listed there is a Helen Gower, who also appears in this article:
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/09/09/g ... eam-tommy/
This is a mere starting point for further research, because that particular web would appear to be much more complex.
Obviously the whole dynamics of this unrest is complex, and it can’t be denied that the uncontrolled immigration, much of it illegal, has been one of the main factors in creating the incendiary tinderbox that eventually burst into flames. It seems stunningly naïve of politicians to think that an endless flood of immigrants at a time of declining living standards wasn’t going to cause a growing resentment that was just waiting for a spark to ignite it. The fact that it ignited when it did definitely raises suspicions that it was to some extent orchestrated, and a cynic might go further and argue that politicians knew they were fanning the flames when they failed to deal with the growing numbers of asylum seekers over the course of two decades or more, by ensuring that those without genuine grounds for asylum were removed from the country rather than housed for months or years at the taxpayer’s expense at a time when the demands on the national budget were already overwhelming. It gets even more complex, and, for example, people can rightly argue that Britain has played its fair share in destabilising much of Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe over the centuries, and so themselves creating some of the factors in this mass movement of displaced peoples, but there are always breaking points in any given construct, and given the economic models currently in play you can’t just overload a system and expect it will continue to support the weight. Ultimately, one of my fundamental beliefs is that a lasting solution to such issues will only arise when there is a global shift away from old tribal boundaries and towards a recognition that we all communally own the planet and that, furthermore, the distribution of resources should not be dictated by the artificial construct of individual ‘wealth’ These are, of course, far too radical ideas to see the light of day anytime soon, in our lifetimes even, and would give the neoliberals currently running the show in many parts of the world acute apoplexy that would merely incite them further rather than prove terminal. So in the meantime we can look forward to decades more of unrest, assuming that said unrest isn’t itself terminal for life on the planet, and hope, at best, that we are able to steer things a little bit further towards a lasting and stable solution that suits us all. The very purpose of these forums and the website is exactly that, and I have no illusions regarding the extent to which any individual, or group of individuals, can contribute towards the greater whole, but each ripple can add to a momentum that will, hopefully, become an irrepressible wave.