by Given that it seems inevitable that we will soon have a Labor government, it is now worth considering how evil that might be.
The Conservatives have spent the last few days warning of the well-known fate of the Labor Party. Which is perhaps inevitable. But to continue the Rumsfeld-ism, we should spend at least some time dwelling on the unknown unknown. The things we know we don’t know yet.
The question of the large number of Labor MPs who will join in the expected landslide is extremely important. Does anyone in the public have any idea what this new Labor MPs will look like? Or how will they act once in Westminster? I do not think so. Sources within Labor have tried in recent months to confirm that the party’s candidate selection technique is tied to them. That is to say that the party leaders have tried to ensure that the people standing in this election are “don’t scare the horses” on the left rather than the feared Corbyn-ista leaders after the election. recent years party.
But I suspect that after the election, we will find out two things about the new MPs. The first is that there will be a cohort – whatever their numbers – that will represent the worst of the modern Left. They will include demagogues and fanatics. People who want to drag their party and this country towards a radical left. The party leadership may keep these people on the back benches, but still they will pull things their way to some extent. The second discovery we are likely to make is that the new intake will include a large number of people who knew how to act as moderators in the selection process of their party but will be redder when they are inside the House of Commons . But as I say, these are things we know we can’t do right now. We can only hope.
What we do know for sure is what the top of the Labor party will look like. The first thing to notice is the lack of amazing, incredible talent. Keir Starmer himself is a famous lawyer, but he is a weak man. In fact his idea of leadership is to say that he is a strong leader. The facts prove otherwise. When a wind blows in any area that is not his immediate area of expertise he bends to it.
Think of the moment when politicians in 2020 were prompted to “take a knee” because of the actions of one rogue police officer in Minnesota. Did the killing of George Floyd say anything about the state of America? Personally I don’t think so. But did he say anything about the situation in Britain? Definitely not. But Starmer was one of those weak leaders around the world who was so taken in by a movement of mostly ideologies – whose intention was to interpret the entire history of the West through the lens of George Floyd – that he was happy to relieve himself of this unnecessary sign. . An action that his deputy Minister, Angela Rayner, joined him.
Will that same wind blow sometime? Maybe. But what is certain is that other winds will blow, and there is a definite chance that they will bring our next Prime Minister with them. What destination we don’t know yet.
The same pattern happened with the stupid gender debate that wasted so much of everyone’s time. Thanks to a few scientifically illiterate academics in America, much of the Western world has quickly been convinced that our species is essentially hermaphroditic. We are expected to pretend that biological sex is not a fixture of our species and that people can be whatever sex they want. This is clearly scientifically illiterate. It goes without saying that it leads to dangerous results. But the misunderstanding of the Labor Party contributed greatly.
Keir Starmer did not stand up to the lone voice in his party – Rosie Duffield – who is pushing against this visible trend. In fact, he left her out to dry. At the same time, his Shadow Foreign Secretary demonstrated the kind of biological illiteracy we must accept as normal practice at the top of the Labor party. This is a man – let’s not forget – who once said on a radio program that a man born can develop a cervix.
This is as disturbing to someone about to take one of the major offices of state as it would be if Lammy went on live radio and announced that it is possible to turn base metals into gold. Except that such a belief would be relatively harmless. If our future Foreign Secretary believed in alchemy, at least he would not give the green light to medical frauds to mutilate children’s bodies. Again, this is a wind that blows. And the “adults” in the Labor Party have completely failed to stand up to him. Expect similar failures to guide their decision-making on every issue from zero carbon to immigration.
Speaking of Lammy, the country will go in many other directions next. Last week he made a statesman-like anxious announcement in the House of Commons. Specifically, he gave his party’s full support to the ICC’s activities. This is an organization that no sovereign democracy should ever admit or join. He is trying to prosecute a democratically elected leader for the first time in its history.
America and Israel are among the democracies wise enough to never sign up to this political and partisan sham. Body advised by solicitor-clerk Helena Kennedy. But this country – and the incoming Labor government in particular – seems to be at ease with the idea that sectarian campaigners should consider the conduct of wars involving allies (and no doubt ourselves in the to come). Good luck with that.
Finally, of course, we know that the Labor supremacy was against the public vote that we took part in eight years ago. Will Labor decide to bring us back into the EU during their time in office? It seems to me that they will not at least be tempted to do so – through some door or other. That means reopening a decision that seemed to have convinced this country again.
These are, therefore, some signs of what our country will soon be. One run by people who believe in outsourcing foreign and domestic policy, and turning the UK into a sort of mid-sized NGO. It is an indictment of the current government that this inadequate B team would be seen as so favorable to them.
