Post by borgr0 on Jul 19, 2024 5:45:30 GMT
According to political theory, the primary task of an opposition is to oppose, to identify dishonesty, to ask awkward questions and offer something different.
When it comes to British foreign policy, and in particular Israel's war on Gaza, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has downed tools - and is failing to do the job of Leader of His Majesty’s Opposition.
Rather than cause problems for the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Starmer makes life easy for him.
It means that something anti-democratic and sinister at Westminster is taking place. Sunak’s Conservatives and Starmer's Labour Party have merged. On Israel and Palestine they form a cross-party cartel.
The real gulf in British politics is not between Tory and Labour. It's between a hegemonic political class at Westminster, largely supported by mass media, hell-bent on supporting an Israeli campaign of indiscriminate slaughter inside Gaza. ..
When it comes to British foreign policy, and in particular Israel's war on Gaza, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has downed tools - and is failing to do the job of Leader of His Majesty’s Opposition.
Rather than cause problems for the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Starmer makes life easy for him.
It means that something anti-democratic and sinister at Westminster is taking place. Sunak’s Conservatives and Starmer's Labour Party have merged. On Israel and Palestine they form a cross-party cartel.
The real gulf in British politics is not between Tory and Labour. It's between a hegemonic political class at Westminster, largely supported by mass media, hell-bent on supporting an Israeli campaign of indiscriminate slaughter inside Gaza. ..
I know Middle East Eye are a propagandist organisation with very evil backers (to pro-terrorists), but Peter Oborne wrote this piece and it's him I'm giving credence to, not the publication
The fact is, he's absolutely right about the hegemonic political class at Westminster who are completely and utterly in hoc to their billionaire donors..
And on the other side an alienated majority of inherently decent British people who support an immediate ceasefire. This estrangement of the British media-political elite from ordinary people screams out for analysis.
Exactly.
