Tuesday, 6 June 2017

National Security with Reference to May and Corbyn

Military Intervention

Jeremy Corbyn believes, like many others, that our military intervention in the Middle East and Libya has incited further hatred for the Western world and has destabilised areas creating a hotbed for extremism. Corbyn's own words prior and in reference to the Iraq war sum this up perfectly “it will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations".

Corbyn was involved in anti-Iraq war demonstrations and co-founded the Stop the War Coalition. Theresa May and many other MPs voted in favour of the Iraq war, in favour of bombing Libya and in favour bombing Syria. Terror attacks in the UK have only increased with time.

May and the Manchester Attack

We can't ignore the fact that as Home Secretary May allowed LIFG jihadists to travel freely across Europe. LIFG jihadists were effectively being employed by the Conservative government, "first to remove Mu'ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria" (John Pilger). The alleged Manchester attacker Salman Abedi was part of the LIFG and the FBI warned MI5 of him just last year. See Pilger for more info.

May's Government and Saudi Arabia

Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the recent attacks in London, Manchester and other European cities, stems from, as Mark Curtis says, "the ideology promoted by the ruling family in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, who were at least until recently funding and backing IS". Not only have Saudi Arabia been funding terrorism and promoting extremist ideologies, but they have been bombing Yemen since 2015, with weapons we have sold them. Curtis states "the terrible bombing of Yemen by Saudi aircraft supplied by Britain, armed by Britain and conducted by British-trained pilots is but the latest episode in extreme UK support for Saudi foreign policy. The blood covers the hands of the entire British establishment".

Saudi Arabia is the British government's ally. We have a relationship with them that May has defended on 2 occasions (see links below). May, the Conservative government and the establishment press deceive and mislead on the issue of Saudi Arabia because of self-serving interests. See Curtis for more info.

Corbyn, contrary to the Conservative government, wants to stop selling Saudi Arabia arms and thus wants to help sever funding to Islamic State.

Police and Armed Forces

In spite of warnings from police officers (see links below), May's government drastically cut the police as part of their austerity program. If anyone it is police officers themselves that I trust on this issue.

Steve Hilton, who worked with David Cameron on his coalition strategy, has said that seeing as though May was Home Secretary for 6 years she is ultimately responsible for UK security failures and is rightly surprised that not only has she not resigned but is standing for election.

May and her government have also cut the armed forces. Corbyn and his party, however, pledge to put more money into the police and armed forces.

Here is a recent comment on the police cut issue worth checking out.

 Links

 May on Saudi Arabia



https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesMomentum/videos/460491760962883/?pnref=story

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Monday, 5 June 2017

A Threat to our National Security?

Steve Hilton, who worked with David Cameron on his coalition strategy, has made some good points.

On Twitter Hilton has pointed out that Theresa May, who was Home Secretary for 6 years before becoming PM, is ultimately responsible for UK security failures. In light of recent terror attacks, Hilton is rightly shocked that Theresa May is not only not resigning but is standing for election.

May's government, in spite of their waffle and deceit, has cut the police and armed forces (see links below). 

May and her cabinet have consistently voted in favour of foreign military intervention, which undoubtedly has, in the prophetic words of Jeremy Corbyn, "set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery", that now greatly impinges on European people and Britain's national security.

We can't ignore the fact that as Home Secretary May allowed LIFG jihadists to travel freely across Europe, as they were being essentially employed by the Conservative government. The alleged Manchester attacker Salman Abedi was part of the LIFG and the FBI warned MI5 of him (see John Pilger for more info).

On top of this the Conservatives, to this day, are trying to brainwash the public into thinking Jeremy Corbyn is a terrorist sympathiser.

 I'm not sure if the Conservatives can comprehend the following, but I'm not trying to smear or slander anyone here. I'm not being dishonest. I'm not trying to manipulate or brainwash. I'm simply stating what I've observed and what the evidence has told me. If you can detect a certain unhappy attitude here it stems from witnessing a lot of manipulation and dishonesty in the establishment rags and the Conservative party's underhanded control and power tactics.

Who is the real threat to our national security? May has some questions to answer.

https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesMomentum/videos/460491760962883/?pnref=story

https://www.facebook.com/EalingLabour4Corbyn/videos/538044779919764/
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Sunday, 4 June 2017

Conservative Campaign Tactics

Jeremy Corbyn is a sensible, humane and mature politician, and look at how he's been treated for the past two years.

 One of the Conservatives' main campaign tactics is inciting fear; fear, for example, that one individual, in this case Corbyn, is a threat to our security. Other tactics include distracting from issues that matter, as with the uneven emphasis placed on Brexit when there are many more pressing issues. And lying or not responding to questions in a meaningful way. All these were demonstrated with Theresa May on Question Time a few nights ago.

An example of lying or not responding in a meaningful way would be that May frequently says "we have put record levels of funding in the NHS" when all the evidence (see first four links below) says otherwise. The Conservatives are either completely disconnected from ordinary people and the effects of austerity or they simply don't care and are lying. Can't the majority of the public see this yet? An example of desperate fear-mongering is illustrated in their vicious campaign video which has taken video clips of Corbyn out of context to paint an untrue picture that he's a terrorist sympathiser.

Only an insecure, vicious and dishonest party would use such tactics. Thomas Clark, the author of Another Angry Voice, makes a very good point in one of his recent posts (see last, fifth, link below), where he points out Corbyn's reaction to the recent allegation of Conservative election fraud. Whereas the Conservatives would have unflinchingly leapt at something like this if it had happened with Corbyn, with feral glee and hunger in their eyes, Corbyn states

"Nobody should be commenting on the details of an ongoing case. The police must be allowed to act independently to investigate on the basis of any evidence they’ve got, and the Crown Prosecution Service must be allowed to make its decision on whether to proceed on a case.

It is a very bad road when democratically elected politicians start offering a running commentary on independent judicial processes. We have to have total separation of political and judicial powers in this country.

All politicians need to be extremely careful – politicians are elected to parliament to be held to account by the public"





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Crossroads: Labour or Conservative?

We stand at a crossroads.

We have a Conservative government who, under David Cameron, initiated an austerity program. This program was apparently initiated to deal with the financial crash of 2008, which was a result of neoliberalism. 

Neoliberalism is a system that may sound complicated but, in simple terms, means deregulated or unfettered capitalism and the privatisation of public services. 

 Neoliberalism was applied by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, is inherently individualistic and allows corporations and moneyed classes to accumulate more wealth without any restrictions (through tax cuts for the mega rich, for example). 

 It has been shown that neoliberalism has heightened inequality.

In the UK the austerity program has meant taking money from our public services and thus from those who need it most. This has meant cuts in the armed forces, cuts in the police, cuts in the NHS, cuts in social care, cuts to education and benefit cuts. Austerity continues to this day and May's Conservative government shows no sign of changing it.

We have a Conservative government and PM who have consistently voted in favour of foreign military intervention, Iraq and Libya being the main examples, which in every case has shown to be highly ineffective and harmful and has undoubtedly fuelled recent European terror attacks.

We have a Conservative government and PM who deals arms with Saudi Arabia. At least until recently Saudi Arabia were funding IS (the group responsible for the continuing deaths of Europeans) and are bombing Yemen with the weapons we sold to them.

We have a PM who holds a first strike nuclear policy, meaning she is willing to commit genocide.

We have a mainstream media that reverses reality and who has indisputably and systematically attacked Jeremy Corbyn since he became leader of the Labour party and who have consistently supported the Conservatives.

We have a vicious and highly manipulative Conservative election campaign that rests on disparaging one mild-mannered individual, inciting great fear in the public, distracting from issues that matter and lying to and misleading the British public (also see this link).

We have NHS workers, carers, disabled people and policemen calling out in desperation (see links below) at the savage Conservative austerity cuts and a Conservative party that doesn't adequately address these concerns.

We have a Labour party that holds a transformational fully-costed anti-austerity manifesto. A party who wants to tax corporations and the richest 5% just a little bit more in order to pump desperately-needed money back into our public services to help those less fortunate who have been ravaged by Conservative austerity cuts.

We have a humane, principled, sensitive, resilient and caring leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, who has been steadfastly committed to anti-war and anti-inequality causes throughout his life. Corbyn, unlike May, voted against the Iraq war and against bombing Libya and co-founded the Stop the War Coalition.

If you want a principled trustworthy government and PM who are utterly committed to finding peaceful diplomatic solutions to international conflicts, who want to pump much-needed money back into our public services, who aren't vicious and manipulative, who don't make personal dishonest attacks, who don't fund terrorism (whether directly or indirectly), who aren't willing to commit genocide, then vote Labour in this election.

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A Few Points on May and Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn was an early supporter of gay rights. He voted against section 28, which banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality. Theresa May voted the opposite.

Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives were in favour of apartheid in South Africa. One of Thatcher's cabinet members called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist". It is widely known that Corbyn was arrested in an anti-apartheid demonstration in 1984.

In 2003 Corbyn, unlike May and 412 other MPs, voted against the Iraq war. The Iraq war is now widely known to be a great mistake, as the Chilcot report emphatically confirms.

in 2011 Corbyn, unlike May and 557 MPs, voted against bombing Libya. Our military presence in Libya is now widely known to be a great mistake, as the Libya intervention report emphatically confirms. Do people not learn from previous errors?

As Home Secretary May allowed  threatening "go home vans" to be driven around the country and she wanted to scrap our Human Rights Act. May supported such things to attain more governmental control over ordinary people and take significant freedoms away from them. Only today she has used the London terror attack to say that the internet must be more regulated, because, to iterate, she wants more government control in certain areas.

Admittedly people can change, but Corbyn's consistency, integrity and trustworthiness has been demonstrated throughout his career until the present. The same can't be said for May. One gets the impression with May that, intuitively or instinctively, she does not care about minority groups and their freedoms, but will change her views and principles depending on how popular they are at the time.

If you want a consistent, principled and trustworthy PM who has always cared about minority groups, regardless of whether caring about them was popular at the time, then vote Labour.
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Saturday, 3 June 2017

Question Time with May and Corbyn

I find it hard to understand how some people aren't able to realise the consequences of using nuclear weaponry. Hopefully this isn't the case with most. You can only be sociopathic or deeply, fundamentally ignorant if you are willing to use a nuclear weapon, like Theresa May or a number of members of last night's BBC Question Time. Using nuclear weaponry in every case means the obliteration of life, probably including hundreds and thousands of civilians, and should thus not be seen as an option.

May had an easy ride on QT, that's for sure. If she had attended the leaders debate a few nights ago it would have been a very, very different picture, which would have been sweet to watch. The party leaders in the debate would have known what questions to ask. But instead May pushed Amber Rudd in the firing line.

Strong and stable.

A third of May's QT was spent waffling about Brexit. The audience members asked about 5 questions on this issue. I'm not saying its unimportant but the Conservatives have clearly made Brexit an unevenly massive element of their campaign. Their campaign oscillates between immaturely and viciously disparaging Corbyn and waffling about Brexit negotiations and having a "strong hand in them". They have made it such a large element of their campaign because they don't actually have much else to say. They haven't even costed their manifesto and they haven't really addressed austerity or our foreign policy and how they are going to combat the various issues stemming from these, such as our crisis in social care, education, war and the NHS. They'll say things like "we've put record levels of funding into our NHS", but why is it in such shambles then? Why are nurses going to food banks? I come away from May feeling uninformed, uninspired, lied to and distracted from issues that matter.

A few important points were broached with May last night, such as NHS cuts and it's effects on nurses, but none pursued nearly far enough. Why was May not deeply interrogated about the fact that she is willing to decimate hundreds of thousands of civilians? Couldn't she have been asked what the Naylor report is and why she supports it? Or why Britain is the second biggest arms dealer in the world and why we are selling arms to Saudi Arabia who is bombing Yemen and how this fits into their manipulative dishonest portrayal of Corbyn as a terrorist sympathiser as demonstrated in their vicious campaign video? In light of the fact that May is willing to use Trident as first strike and her government is selling arms to Saudi Arabia who in turn are funding terrorism, why, if anyone, is she not accused of being a terrorist sympathiser?

Curious.

Or maybe not so curious. One thing that has been emphasised, yet again, in last night's QT is that the popular press pretty much run the show. They largely determine the questions, even the irrelevant ones, because they create a landscape that decides what issues are lodged in peoples minds. Why is Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser? Why is Corbyn unwilling to obliterate hundreds of thousands of civilians? We can't trust Corbyn as he's a terrorist sympathiser but, uhhh, we also can't trust him because he won't slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent people in a matter of seconds. Its the press that discourage the audience from asking May difficult and pertinent questions, because they aren't properly reported on and, unlike many issues with Corbyn, aren't pummelled into the minds of the public.


If you want a government that actually addresses the negative effects of austerity and that wouldn't be willing to decimate hundreds of thousands of civilians and large areas of life then vote Labour.
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Friday, 2 June 2017

Tipping Points

Some people might say that Brexit or Donald Trump were tipping points for them. Thousands of civilians and children dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, largely as a consequence of our foreign policy, was my tipping point. Or maybe the way disabled people have been mistreated in our country recently (we must live within our means!). Or depending on how far back you want to go, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Vietnam. The leader of the opposition represents a meaningful alternative to such events and the attitudes and decisions that led to them, which is why this election matters as much as it does.
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