Sir Kier Starmer-oid has admitted to having spoken
to Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel, before embarking on Parliamentary
manoeuvres that scuppered the Scottish National Party's (SNP) motion calling
for a full and immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
It has been widely alleged that Starmer-oid lobbied the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, to break with precedent to let a watered-down Labour motion be debated before the SNP motion that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an "end to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people" and an end to arms sales from Britain to Israel. Starmer is alleged to have told Hoyle that choosing his motion was in the interests of MPs' safety.
It was also reported that as many as 100 Labour MPs, including two shadow cabinet ministers, were planning to rebel against the Labour leader who has been accused of excusing genocide in Gaza and of being a cheerleader for Israeli mass murder. When Labour's amendment passed, the SNP's motion was scuppered and a mass Labour rebellion was avoided. The Commons descended into chaos with SNP and Tory MPs walking out in protest at the way Hoyle had bent the rules to get the Labour leader out of a tight spot. Hoyle later apologised for the way he'd handled matters but said he'd done so in the interests of MPs safety. Since the vote, over 80 MPs have expressed no confidence in Lindsay Hoyle as the Speaker.
Spain recently agreed to ban arm sales to Israel but Britain, the U.S. and Germany, continue to supply the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), with weapons and ammunition to kill Palestinians. Over 29,000 people have been killed in Gaza. Most of these are not members of Hamas but innocent men, women, and children. Well over 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli carpet bombing and Israeli ground forces.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), recently ruled that the conflict in Gaza "may plausibly be genocide", though it stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The UK Conservative government of Rishi Sunak, recently used its seat on the UN Security Council to abstain on a vote calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the U.S. vetoed the motion.
Last November, Labour abstained on a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and this was supported by all three Labour Tameside MPs, Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne), Jonathan Reynolds and Andrew Gwynne. Reynolds, who represents the constituency of Stalybridge & Hyde, is a Vice Chairman of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) and Gwynne, who represents the constituency of Denton & Reddish, is a former Chairman of LFI.
Sir Kier Starmer-oid has stated publicly, "I support Zionism without qualification." Starmer-oid may have avoided a Labour rebellion but his political stance on the conflict in Gaza and the way he bows and scrapes to the Israelis, have lost him the Muslim Labour vote and the Rochdale by-election. It's truly scandalous the way in which the Israeli lobby meddle in British politics and the way in which some British politicians, are in thrall, to this little country in the Middle East.
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