The Rwandan plan is toast (compassion returns to UK politics)

I’ve had some real misgivings about the modern labour party, its leadership and the general direction of travel.

As a party member I voted for Keir Starmer precisely because he’s a human rights lawyer. It’s no coincidence that this blog and channel has been so silent for so long as I’ve found myself unable to understand how human rights and compassion fit into some of the decisions taken by the party in opposition.

But today I’m beginning to be reassured. There are many things Sir Keir could have prioritised this week, this month or even this quarter.

Choosing to stop the flights to Rwanda bodes extremely well in my book.

Like so many other past and present party members I’ll be watching with interest. Labour has such a massive majority that the party can pass whatever it wants in the house. Just like the tories over most of the last fourteen and a half years, it can do what it likes.

The tories chose self-serving, nest-feathering exploitation and the rape of our economy for personal profit. That’ll take some time to repair but, over time, I expect great things from Labour.

There will be interesting times ahead!

Please share this petition and take it closer to victory?

I just signed the petition calling to all political parties to stop NHS privatisation and say no to charging patients. Will you join me and add your name? https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-nhs-privatisation-petition?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast44736&submit=true

My MP, Mark Jenkinson shamed on a Christmas card

This Christmas send the gift of understanding to your nearest and dearest by exposing the vilest of our political establishment. This Christmas card, created by Cold War Steve, casts the likes of Farage, Rees-Mogg and my own MP, Mark Jenkinson in their true, narrow-minded and mean-spirited colours. Even better, 100% of the profits from sale of the cards goes to the charity ‘Refugee action’ whose work supports those desperate individuals who so many of our politicians would abandon despite our international commitments and legal obligations.

I’ll be off to pop one in the post to my local constituency tory club shortly. I’m sure many of them will enjoy the joke just as much as the rest of us will.

Visit http://www.coldwarsteve.com

RNLI: Better than you!

Last weekend scores, perhaps hundreds of black balaclava clad thugs descended upon lifeboat stations across the South coast. They proceeded to obstruct and intimidate the brave men and women of the RNLI who risk their lives to save others day and night.

These far right thugs claim to represent the wishes of British people but they’re about as far removed from the British values of compassion. courage and tolerance as it is possible to get. They’re the real traitors.

We see you. Why are you not ashamed?

For the love of lifeboats!

5 years ago I made a video talking to myself about #lifeboats, #asylumseekers, #Farage & Patel trying to get the #RNLI to break international #law. It took a bit of editing in ‘post’ but I think it turned out OK. The RNLI bit is at 8 minutes 50…
https://youtu.be/RNywwPcsfcg?is=ZRlcCUTExbqgM8kI

Don’t fight just ’cause you’re white!

You tell us we’re the Master race,

But you’re anything but that,

How dare you look me in the face,

And claim to speak for me you racist tw*t?

My Coronation oath to King CharlesIII

This Saturday the British taxpayer will fork out £350,000,000 for the privilege of putting a hat on a man’s head. We’ll also be asked to swear an oath, a kind of promise to this man.

I wasn’t all that keen on the pre-written oath presented by the media to us all so I’ve written my own. It goes like this…

Armistice! But did we forget?

After the end of World War 1, as countries across the globe took stock of the calamity that had befallen them, nation after nation made a commitment to honour the dream that so many serving soldiers, sailors and airmen had given their lives for.

As the reasons for the conflict became clearer to ordinary people the phrase ‘Lest we forget’ came to signify not only the millions of lives cut short but also the motivations and political ambitions of those who brought them to war in the first place. Nationalistic pride, a belief in our own mythical, almost mystical superiority and contempt for ‘Johnny foreigner’ bred an arrogance that was at once both isolationist and entitled.

Coupled with the unbridled political ambition of a few key players both in and out of government, the stage was (is) set for a conflict of gargantuan, of epic proportions.

Such was the situation in the run up to August 1914.

Such is the situation today.

Lest we forget!

Premiere: Lest we forget – a warning from history

Premieres on Armistice Day. A video outlining the real reasons behind World War I and the risks of history repeating itself.

After the end of World War 1, as countries across the globe took stock of the calamity that had befallen them, nation after nation made a commitment to honour the dream that so many serving soldiers, sailors and airmen had given their lives for. As the reasons for the conflict became clearer to ordinary people the phrase ‘Lest we forget’ came to signify not only the millions of lives cut short but also the motivations and political ambitions of those who brought them to war in the first place.

To forget the hateful, profiteering, nationalistic tactics of war mongering politicians and investors is to risk repeating the same mistakes again.

Click the link below and on screen to set your alert on YouTube.

Lest we forget… perhaps we already have!

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