I posted this on Twitter this morning:
Labour's satisfaction with the status quo is truly alarming.
No wonder Farage is is doing so well.
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LINO opposing protest………against genocide.
LINO happy with the way things are………………genocide in Gaza by Israel
Thus in summary: His Majesties gov supports gencoide committed by Israel and goes after those protesting against it.
Do we need a new acronym? Labour Supports Genocide in Gaza – LSGIG -it is quite snappy. Perhaps the new protest group could call itself that?
Or Yvette Supports…etc YSGIG.
Keep digging LINO – you are well on your way to electroal elimination & deservedly so.
Labour friends of genocide.
Yes – on behalf of the people who fund it and provide Starmer with superb glasses, and excellent hair mousse, I’m quiet sure Labour (well a fair amount if it) is happy with the status quo.
For the record though, I’ve never seen the State as a perfect organ. The British state’s list of crimes is a long one. I was thinking about the Aberfan disaster the other day, which involved a nationalised industry’s coal pit and a slag heap that was created after nationalisation. The government of the day even made the memorial fund for the disaster contribute to the clean up! (the money was later paid back…….in 1997! I ask you…………………).
But this shows you something about British rule, which as ever acts as a window to how our society is actually set up. The almost grudging concessions made by those in power even when they set out to improve matters. Another example is NI contributions which were set up to help people qualify for free health care – but it was based on working people – not the unemployed, carers(!) or disabled and that was never really sorted effectively out to this day. Why? Why was the debt for building social housing – a Westminster policy – dumped on the shoulders of local government?
You’d just love to be there and hear the discussions when these decisions were made and who made them and on what basis. I think that these decisions are riven with bias, subjectivity, discrimination – all within the state apparatus. So the State emerges as a place of debate and fighting between those who want to do more and those who want to do less, playing of course to their constituencies (the rich, the poorer).
But what has not helped the State, made this worse, is to have been infested/ inculcated with people who do not believe in it or who carry with them the motives of capital or a private sector way of doing things . And I think that has not improved the state at all – in fact it it has tipped the scales in favour of the do less or nothing brigade already in Whitehall. The private sector mindset is also much more cavalier about risk (working in the built environment I know this for a fact) because it is good at displacing risk onto others and this appetite for risk, in order to simplify problems is hugely amplified and protected/made worse by the State’s proclivity to see itself as sovereign and answerable to no one when it chooses. It’s the worst coming together of attitudes you can think of.
For me this is a good enough reason to not ask politely for anything these days.
Thanks. These two articles may provide useful politico economic ammunition in the ongoing social democrat’s fight against British far right political populist ignorant duplicities:
https://mailchi.mp/dcu/jean-monnet-network-prosper-newsletter-2?e=2102d35dc0
https://www.irishnews.com/news/politics/cost-of-united-ireland-would-be-3bn-in-first-year-UOAUZ2QTXNHKZFUUKAIR7N5GMM/?utm_source=Morning+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0f84ffb858-MORNING_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_03_07_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_da6327494b-0f84ffb858-114816420&mc_cid=0f84ffb858
Thanks
Apologies for posting twice:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/03/met-police-accused-of-assault-on-right-to-protest-after-tenfold-rise-in-nuisance-law-arrests
“less than 3% of arrests for conspiracy to cause a public nuisance in the past five years resulted in a prosecution”.
The plods are completely out of control wrt protest. This also means that instead of focusing on what concerns citizens (mostly petty crime) they focus on that which makes politicos look bad – protest. Thus we have: political plod, targeted at Uk serfs that dare to disagree with UK politicians. Seems to me there is a case to be made against the police for a waste of public funds. As for the Met’ sack the whole of the top echelon – all of them, ghastly bunch, also – what is the Mayor doing? Does he think this is a good use of plod time & resource?
Thanks for raising this
I was going to do it, but how many blogs should I write a day?
The point in the article is well made.
Me plus the others try & pull out stuff that might be relevant – & add a comment or two. Adds a dimension to the blog I think.
By the way – DDN has published a video by LowKey on Israeli influence on UK politicos. It fits quite well with the supression of protest & is, frankly shameful that the Uk political class are manipulated to this extent.
Yes but the police can ruin peoples lives without having to prosecute them – they seem to be able to confiscate people’s laptops, phones , enter their property, and leave them in a state where they can’t work, can’t communicate – such is the carte blanche given to police by recent anti protest laws.
Grace Blakeley in a NEF podcast with David Edgerton in February (here: https://neweconomics.org/2025/02/is-the-labour-government-delivering-on-its-promises) said something that has stuck with me since, when she quoted some of Ralph Milliband’s work:
“Labour is now a party made up of well meaning liberals without the socialists to keep them honest” – a party without socialists to keep them honest (as in the past Labour was always an amalgam of liberals and socialists).
I thought that summed up the modern Labour party succinctly. However now it is not even a liberal party (as Labour seems to want to be Tory in so many ways).
Very sad.
Much to agree with
The right to protest has never been in question.
However, the right to protest and in the process disrupt the lives of thousands of ordinary citizens going about their business is very much in question, and quite rightly so.
Tell me how you are protesting if you do not disrupt the lives of others?
That is the whole point, and that right to disrupt is upheld in human rights.
You, I guess, are fascist. You certainly comment like one.
It really depends how you envisage the lives of ordinary citizens. If you have the mythical rosy England view of warm beer, cricket on the village green etc, then you may feel you have a point. If however you mean a grossly unequal society, at the mercy of corporations and an authoritarian government selling off the last of the institutions that made the country a better place, then your duty is to protest.
Thank you, Natalie.
Did you know that your right to vote was, in part, won by disrupting the sport of kings, literally? You should ask Charles III what happened to his predecessor’s horse at Epsom.
My great grandfather Ludovic and great great grandfather Camille helped organise strikes at the sugar estates and docks and other forms of civil disobedience in Mauritius in 1936, leading to the foundation of the Mauritian Labour Party (Parti Travailliste) soon after, and independence in 1968.
Across the Indian Ocean, the ANC, founded in 1913, mobilised against what was becoming known as apartheid.
Some history lessons would not go amiss.
Agreed
Protest without disruption is a polite request. Do you really think taht women would have ‘been given’ the vote by men if they had not disrupted lives?
Using the police to suppress protest is not something I agree with but has an element of logic to it. Proscribing a non-violent direct action group as a terrorist organisation marks a dramatic increase in state illiberalism that ought to terrify all of us, no matter our political persuasion and no matter what we might think of the protestors. Dying my hair pink and throwing paint on a building isn’t my cup of tea but defending the right of others to throw paint in a functioning democracy is!
“ disrupt the lives of thousands of ordinary citizens going about their business”. This is the whole point. Ordinary citizens need to have their lives disrupted and stop blindly accepting things as they are!
It’s almost as if the Labour Party exists to protect the interests of the billionaire class and not ordinary people. Imagine that! Two nearly identical parties serving the interests of the rich and powerful, each acting to ‘book end’ at left and right what can be tolerated in public discourse and what can be ‘sensibly’ delivered by elected politicians. Surely not!
I truly don’t think Labour is being run by its own party/members. I believe the shots are being called by others who hold the strings of the puppet Starmer and I believe them to be US/Israeli.
There is no sense at all of normal politics in this. It is a series of attempts to break down the status quo and remove the personal freedoms we have all grown up with.
There’s something much bigger afoot.
It is certainly not being run by its members
That we know….
This podcast might help shed some light on who is funding this UK Uniparty.
I would also recommend European Powell’s research on UK state corporate capture, also on substack.
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-silicon-valley
I’ve felt that the last ten years or so have seen our say in the democratic institutions of this country have declined to the point of nothing. As surveillance tech and social media use has increased, so has the ability by those in power to access, manipulate and control us. If the 2010’s were the decade the rich won, this is the decade they consolidate that power. If the rich are to stand in opposition to the poor, they need affordable guard labour. This guard labour is now provided by technology. They are comfortable enough now to let the mask slip. Trump’s “big beautiful bill” has been passed in the States, evidence that the government there no longer fears it’s people. ICE is now funded to the tune of $150billion, giving Trump his private army. If you think they aren’t coming for the UK next, either through Starmer or Farage, you are a more optimistic person than I. They will fail eventually, as all authoritarians do, but the damage along the way is going to be catastrophic, and there is no hint in that Labour will do anything but deliver us all to the highest bidding fascists.
I agree with you albeit I would refer to such individuals not as the rich but as the ruling class. This global authoritarian movement includes all classes as it is a worldview rather than just any one political party. As such it’s tenets of faith are what we need to comprehend, analyse and destroy if we are to survive their predatory cruelty. These true believers are not new in human history they are simply another iteration of intolerant religious fanaticism with all the trappings of a sacred king, priesthood, obedient followers and crusading armies.