Was Churchill a sympathetic Fascist?

 

Winston Churchill

In 1919, Winston Churchill sent tanks into Liverpool to deal with striking workers. He also sent the warship Valiant and two destroyers as well as sending in the troops.

We should not forget that Churchill once described Mussolini as "the Roman genius." When Churchill visited Italy in 1927, he told reporters: "If I had been an Italian, I am sure I should have been whole-heartedly with you...against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. But in England we have not yet had to face this danger in the same deadly form. We have our own way of doing things " 

It was the ex-socialist, Mussolini, who coined the term 'Fascism' and he was the first fascist. Churchill thought that Mussolini was doing the world a favour in eradicating Communists. In the 1920s, Italian fascism was not anti-Semitic and many Italian Jews were fascists. The people that Mussolini's Black Shirts murdered, were Socialists, Communists, and Trade Unionists. 

Although Churchill stood up to Hitler, at a time when many Conservatives were sympathetic towards the Nazis, he had written approvingly of Hitler in an essay in 'Great Contemporaries', but this was in the mid-1930s, before the war and the Holocaust. As George Orwell pointed out, the British establishment may have underestimated Hitler and the Nazi's, but they knew that Hitler was on the side of the dividend drawer and that he despised Communists. 

The British establishment had also been sympathetic towards General Franco, and the Spanish nationalist rebels. The historian, Paul Preston, notes that the Italian charge in London, Leonardo Vitetti, "reported that widespread sympathy for the Spanish rebels and for Italian Fascism was to be found within the highest reaches of the Conservative Party." 

According to Preston, the journalist Henry Buckley, was told by a British diplomat, "the essential thing to remember in the case of Spain is that it is civil conflict and that it is very necessary that we stand by our class." (Paul Preston,  A People Betrayed - A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence, and Social Division in Modern Spain). 

At the end of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, Franco wrote to Neville Chamberlain, to thank him for his support. Chamberlain's sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, was a well known fascist sympathiser.

Redwood mocked predictions of traffic jams at Port of Dover

 

John Redwood MP

John Redwood was an advocate for the hardest of Brexits but in November 2017, some seventeen months after the E.U referendum, he urged investors to get their money out of Britain because of the state of the British economy. 

This was published in the Financial Times on 3 November 2017, but received greater prominence after a scathing comment by Forbes commentator, Francis Coppola, who wrote: 

"To protect his job, as an investment manager, he (Redwood), warned his wealthy clients to get their money out before disaster hits. To me, this smacks of disaster capitalism. Engineer a crash while ensuring your own interests are protected, then clean up when it hits. This is despicable behaviour by a lawmaker." 

Redwood, the Conservative MP, for Wokingham, had a £180,000 second job as chief global strategist for Charles Stanley. The video below, shows Redwood mocking predictions of traffic jams and queues at the Port of Dover, in 2017.

Brexit Man says Britain is not North Korea!

 

Anti-Brexit Campaigner - Steve Bray

Since his amplifiers were seized by the police in June, for protesting in Westminster, Steve Bray's crowdfunding appeal, has now reached £230,000, which pays for him to keep going. 

For the last five years, Bray, known as "Stop Brexit Man", has been staging a noisy protest around Westminster where he belts out songs, shouts at leave supporting politicians, and heckles interviewees. Initially, Bray began his protest following the referendum result in 2016, to leave the E.U. Bray, who lived in the town of Port Talbot, in South Wales, said he was dismayed that the people of Port Talbot, who live in one of the most socially deprived areas of the UK, had voted by a majority to leave the E.U. when the E.U. had ploughed shed loads of money into the area.

The new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act', introduced by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, strengthens police powers to curb protests, even one-person protests, to control noise levels and it increases the "controlled" area around parliament. Critics say that the House of Commons is likely to be a focus for protest, because that's where the laws are enacted. 

Bray has denounced the police actions as fascism and he says he will continue to protest. Bray says Britain is not North Korea, and he will defend the right of free speech and the right to protest.

Tamworth voters want 'sex-pest' to step down!

 

Serial Groper - Chris Pincher MP

It's alleged that Boris Johnson said of Christopher Pincher, the serial groper, "Pincher by name, Pincher by nature." Now, some of Pincher's constituents in Tamworth, Staffordshire, are demanding that their disgraced Conservative MP step down after it was claimed he'd drunkenly groped two men in 'Cad's Corner' at the Carlton gentleman's club in Piccadilly. 

'Cad's Corner', acquired its name because it's usually the place where male members of the Carlton Club, stand to stare up the skirts of female guests walking up and down the stairs. The Sunday Telegraph claimed that the Prime Minister, had "turned a blind eye" to sex pest warnings about Pincher, when he appointed him a deputy whip.

China endorses Rishi for UK Prime Minister!

 

China is supporting multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak in his bid to become the next UK Prime Minister. Sunak says he wants a "complete sea change" in relations with Beijing. 

Sunak, a frontrunner to become Britain's next Prime Minister, has family ties to a technology partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF) called 'Infosys' which was set up by his father-in-law, Narayan Murthy. His wife Akshata, who is richer than the Queen, is said to have a 0.91% stake in Infosys. 

The company have been accused of seeking to develop technology that would create a global 'social credit score' system. Social credit scores have been used by authoritarian regimes like China, to deny rights and to restrict movements of individuals who who don't comply with diktats or show insufficient loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.

Truss believes Brits to be the worst idlers in the world!

 

Liz Truss - The New Iron Lady

Penny Mordaunt has been eliminated in the Tory leadership race, following a vile smear campaign against her in the Tory press.

Once again, Liz Truss and the multi-millionaire, little Rishi Sunak, are now vying for the votes of ageing, white, middle-class, pro-hanging, Tory Party members, who will decide who is the next Conservative Prime Minister of the UK.

Boris Johnson's former hatchet man, Dominic Cummings, says Truss will make a worse Prime Minister than Boris Johnson and is a "truly useless Remainer." He described Truss as: "about as close to properly crackers as anybody I've met in Parliament." Since she became the Foreign Secretary for Britain, Truss (46), has hardly distinguished herself.

During talks with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, she appeared not to know the difference between the Baltic and the Black Sea. She was also humiliated by Lavrov, who asked her if she recognised Russian sovereignty over the regions of Voronezh and Rostov. Truss said that Britain didn't recognise Russian sovereignty in these regions, and had to be told that they already belonged to Russia. Another gaffe was when she said that she supported British people going to the Ukraine to fight the Russians. The Foreign Office had to issue a statement saying it urged British citizens not to go. Two British citizens, Aiden Aslin, and Shaun Pinner, are now under sentence of death for fighting in the Ukraine.

A free-market ideologue, Truss is associated with the Thatcherite-leaning Free Enterprise group of Conservatives, who wrote the book 'Britannia Unchained'. The group argued that Britain needed to learn lessons from the tiger economies of the Far East, like China and Singapore. They wrote:

"The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors and businessmen, the British are more interested in football and music."

Truss was severely criticised for her recent comments about Roundhay School, which she attended in the prosperous leafy suburbs of Leeds. She said she saw "children who failed and were let down by low expectations."

Peter Oborne, the respected Conservative author and journalist, believes Truss is "horrifically out of her depth" and described her as a "dangerous joke.'

Is Sunak a closet Marxist?

 

Rishi Sunak

It seems the octopus-like tentacles of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), reached everywhere - into every nook and cranny. 

Multi-millionaire, little Rishi Sunak, was involved as a director of the East London Science School (ELSS), which was opened in 2013. A number of the original founders of the school and directors, were members of the RCP. The Hungarian Marxist, and RCP founder, Professor Frank Furedi, gave a talk at the ELSS in 2014, when Sunak was a director of the school. 

The power couple, Dougie Smith and Munira Mirza, a former RCP member from Oldham, are friends of Rishi. Mirza - known as Boris's Brains - was head of the No 10 Policy Unit, until she resigned in February 2022. She co-authored the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto and had been Boris Johnson's Cultural Advisor, when he was Mayor of London. Dougie Smith, a government Special Advisor (SPAD), with links to GCHQ, once organised "five-star" sexual swinger events known as Fever Parties. 

The school (ELSS), had been recommended by Boris Johnson's team at City Hall. The school was criticised by the Education and Skills Funding Agency for its links to a so-called charity known as the 'Battle of Ideas' which was run by former RCP member Claire Fox. Both Fox and Mirza wrote for the RCP magazine 'Living Marxism' and their website 'Spiked'. In 2019, the ELSS paid the charity £14,400 for an event. 

Although Clair Fox was pro IRA, defended the Warrington bombing, and wanted to abolish the House of Lords, she was nominated for a Peerage by Boris Johnson in 2020. She's now Baroness Fox of Buckley. Fox was a former Brexit Party MEP.  In December 2021, the school was placed into special measures by Ofsted. 

How soi-disant Communists influenced British Conservatism

 

Communist - Alfred Sherman (left) - the architect of 'Thatcherism'.

It's intriguing to read how soi-disant Communists, have influenced the British Conservative Party with their ideas. 

Munira Mirza, who went to Breeze Hiil School, Oldham, was dubbed 'Boris's Brains' and was a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). She wrote for their magazine Living Marxism and their website Spiked. Before resigning in February 2022, Mirza was the Director of the No10 policy unit and co-authored the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. After studying English literature at Oxford, she did an M.A. and PhD in sociology at the University of Kent under Frank Furedi, the Hungarian guru of the RCP. Married to the Tory fixer, Dougie Smith, who is still working for the government, they are seen as the power couple behind Kemi Badenoch and the war on woke. Dougie Smith, previously worked as a speech writer for David Cameron, and as an organiser for exclusive sex parties. 

In 2020, Boris Johnson nominated former RCP member, Claire Fox, for a Peerage, in spite of her previous opposition to the House of Lords and her support for the IRA. Personally, I doubt that Boris even knew who she was, until somebody had a word in his ear. Claire Fox also wrote for Living Marxism and Spiked. She later joined Nigel Farage's Brexit Party and became a Brexit MEP. Despite Farage's claim to have received death threats from the IRA, and Baroness Fox of Buckley, being a former Commie, Farage welcomed her into his party with open arms. 

Many former RCP members now write for the right-wing press. These include former Trotskyist, Brendan O'Niell, and Mick Hume. Hume, who has been described as a 'libertarian Marxist' is a keen Manchester United fan,  and also writes for the Manchester United Fanzine. 

Boris Johnson is not the only Conservative PM to have been advised by Communists. Alfred Sherman, a former Communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, is credited with being the architect of what became known as 'Thatcherism'. In 1948, Sherman was expelled from the CPGB, for being a 'Titoist devationist'. A part-time leader writer for the Daily Telegraph, he also worked alongside Sir Keith Joseph, at the Centre for Policy Studies. Thatcher regarded Sherman as a 'genius', but thought him difficult to get on with. He thought Thatcher was a person of beliefs rather than ideas. 

In his biography of Margaret Thatcher, Charles Moore, says that Thatcher was a kind of 'Stage-door Johnny' who rather than developing her own ideas, collected the ideas of others. He writes:  "Alfred Sherman supplied much of the material at this time. As Alfred Sherman put it characteristically: 'Early Thatcherism was pure Keith, which meant pure Sherman. She lacked coherence'." 

Some of Maggie's supporters were converts from socialism and Sherman cultivated them. Paul Johnson, a former editor of the New Statesman, and a strong Thatcherite, described Maggie, as "the most ignorant politician of her level that I'd come across until I met Tony Blair" 'but she was touchingly aware of her ignorance, being' "the eternal scholarship girl."  Jonathan Aitken, remembered her attending a meeting of the Conservative Philosophy Group, when she talked about "defending Christian values with the Atom Bomb." No wonder, Jim Prior thought her potty. 

Landowners' legal case could end wild camping in England!

 

Wild Camping

Many people have taken up wild camping as a hobby and activity, and probably think they have the right to pitch their tent on open land, whenever they choose to do so. As the Lollard, and peasant revolt leader, John Ball, famously said: "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" But wild camping has become an issue, a cause celebre, since a wealthy landowner, Alexander Darwall, who owns 'Stall Moor', 2,784 acres of south Dartmoor, brought a legal case against the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) who have vowed to defend wild camping.

Darwall, a city fund manager, who uses the Blachford Estate for deer stalking, claims there is no legal right to camp on Dartmoor, which covers an area of 368 square miles, and is roughly the same size as London. Darwall's lawyers in the High Court, argued that camping in Dartmoor must only take place with the landowners consent and is subject to whatever additional conditions and requirements the landowners may stipulate in return for their consent. The DNPA, say that bylaws allow for responsible backpack camping, where campers leave no trace in permitted areas of the national park.

Although Dartmoor is one of the most famous national parks in the UK, some 47% of Dartmoor has 14 owners divided into a collection of families, businesses, royals and farmers, who own a total of 110,619 acres of Dartmoor out of its total of 235,986 acres. By far, the biggest landowner on Dartmoor, is the Duchy of Cornwall.

In the UK, wild camping is illegal in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, unless you get the owners consent and therefore, it constitutes trespass. Wild camping is not illegal in Scotland and technically you can pitch your tent wherever you like including the country's National Parks. People in Scotland benefit from open right-to-roam rules contained in the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

As with the mass trespass of Hayfield Kinder Scout in 1932, by Young Communists like Benny Rothman, which paved the way for National Park legislation in 1949, and long distance footpaths like the Pennine Way, we are likely to see similar acts of mass trespass and civil disobedience, if there is a crackdown on wild camping in places like Dartmoor and elsewhere.

Tory MPs vote to introduce Scabs Charter!

On Monday night, MP's voted by 289 votes to 202, to allow the use of agency worker's as strikebreakers to replace striking worker's during an industrial dispute. The move has been denounced as a scabs charter that will allow bosses to employ 'blackleg' labour to break strikes. 

The use of agency worker's as strikebreakers, was first outlawed in 1973.  Regulation 7 of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003, prohibited employers from using agency worker's to cover an employee who is taking part in a strike or industrial action. Britain, already has some some of strictest anti-union laws in the advanced capitalist world. Many of these laws that were introduced under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, were never repealed by a Labour government. 

Within Europe, Brexit Britain is one of the easiest countries in which to sack worker's. In March, P&O Ferries sacked nearly 800 staff without warning who were then replaced by staff working for less money. The RMT union who represented many of them, said that worker's from India, had been recruited by P&O who were paying them as little as £1.80 an hour. Many of the replacement staff had no seafaring experience. 

Although P&O sacked almost a quarter of its British staff, regional media in France - where it is more difficult to sack worker's and where worker's are more militant - reported that no French P&O employees had been affected. That was also the case in Holland, where P&O gave Dutch staff a 5% pay rise, weeks after sacking British seafarers. 

Despite breaking the law by not giving ministers the legally mandated 45-days notice of intent, a spokesman for the Nautilus Union, which represented around a third of sacked staff, said: "P&O has gotten away with it. There's no fine, there's no legal action, there's only words and hot air."

If a company like P&O, which is owned by the Dubai-based 'DP World', can treat British worker's with such contempt, it's because they can get away with it in a country where worker's have very little legal protection against such practices as fire and rehire and where bosses can deliberately flout employment law with obvious impunity. 

The ending of the ban on using agency worker's as strikebreakers, will now make it more easy for bosses to break strikes. This is why the government have introduced it and why the deliberately ignore calls to ban the practice of fire and rehire which is illegal in Ireland, Spain, and France.

America's love affair with Ayn Rand

 

Ayn Rand and devotee U.S. Republican Paul Ryan

Have you ever wondered why there are hardly any pro-capitalist novels? The only book that I’m aware of that is pro-capitalist, is ‘Atlas Shrugged’, by the Russian emigre, Ayn Rand. I suppose it's because capitalism is seen as representing a largely immoral self-serving system that ultimately enriches a few.

In the novel 'Cannery Row', by John Steinbeck, the marine biologist ‘Doc’, says to Mac and the boys:

 “It has always seemed strange to me that things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

In Ayn Rand's novel 'Atlas Shrugged', her heroes are the capitalist, who like Atlas, hold the sky aloft on their shoulders. Her point is that the ignorant mass of people are totally indebted to the efforts and skills of a small number of talented people, to who they owe their conditions in life and their very existence. Ayn Rand despised altruism, believed in laissez-faire capitalism, and railed against welfare systems. She defined her philosophy like this: metaphysics - reality; epistemology - reason; ethics - rational self- interest; politics- capitalism.

Yet in later life, as her health declined, she finished up claiming Social Security payments and Medicare benefits, under her married name of Ann O'Connor. But like her fellow Russian, nostrum monger, Madame Blavatsky, she sucked a lot of people in with her spurious theories, but she's just another charlatan who couldn't even live up to her own ideals

Labour won't confirm or deny if Starmer has be fined by police!

 

Sir Kier Starmer

The independent blog Skwawkbox, is alleging that Sir Kier Starmer has been fined by Durham police for violating COVID lockdown restrictions. 

The Labour leader and the Labour Party have yet to confirm or deny this allegation. When the so-called 'beergate' scandal broke, Starmer said he would resign if he was fined by the police. Angela Rayner, was also implicated in the scandal by being present at the time of the social gathering.

Boris Johnson Slung Out Of Office!

 

Bungling Boris Slung Out Of Office

Boris Johnson has announced his decision to resign as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party after being slung out of office by rebel Tories, but he's hoping to stay in office until the Autumn. 

The Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Kier Starmer, said Johnson was always unfit for office and had been "responsible for lies, scandal and fraud on an industrial scale " 

Bungling Boris, often compared himself to his great political hero, Winston Churchill, but if he resembled anybody, it was the Edwardian Liberal politician and swindler, Horatio Bottomley, who was imprisoned for fraud and finished up sewing mailbags in Wormwood Scrubs. 

As with Boris Johnson, Bottomley was known to have had many mistresses and had the ability to charm the public, while picking their pockets at the same time.

Rayner criticised for attending the opera at Glyndebourne!

 

Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne Opera

Angela Rayner is right to say that culture is not the preserve of any social class or elite. It's only young Grammar School upstarts like Dominic Raab, who would  think so. The Deputy Prime Minister, probably thinks that the oiks are only interested booze, bingo, baccy and Benidorm.

In my life I have been friendly with four people who were complete opera buffs and were experts on the subject of opera - cognoscenti. One was a copytaker on the newspapers, another was a steeplejack, another was a mill worker, and the other was retired. I've met many working-class people who had an interest in classical music.

The great Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, famously said that when he performed, he always sang for the people in the cheap seats, up in the gods. At La Scala Milan, the opera purists are known as the 'Loggionisti' because they occupy the cheap seats in the theatre, in the upper gallery. The term 'loggione', literally means - 'the cheap seats'. They're also known as the 'Hissing Hooligans' because they will boo what they consider to be a poor performance from a singer which can be devastating. In 2006, the Franco-Sicilian tenor, Roberto Alagna, stormed off the stage at Las Scala, during a production of Aida when he was booed from the cheap seats. Alagna, vowed never to return.

Police confiscate Brexit Man's P.A. system!

 

Steve Bray - Brexit Man

'Stop Brexit Man', Steve Bray, has spent six years shouting outside Parliament.

Mr Bray, a former coin dealer, from Port Talbot, in South Wales, became famous for playing protest songs on a loudspeaker in Parliament Square against the UK leaving the European Union. More recently, he's been protesting over 'Partygate', Boris Johnson, and other Government policies. But yesterday, within hours of a new law coming into effect, police officers seized his amplifiers and P.A. system. As police officers tried to snatch the speakers off Mr Bray, he was heard to shout, "You're fascists." A bystander who witnessed the incident, told the police, "This is a free country."

Under the 'Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act', introduced by the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, a new offence of "recklessly causing public nuisance" has been created. Among other things, this law gives the police the right to "impose conditions on one-person protests", if senior officers "reasonably believe" that the noise it creates, "may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation in the vicinity, or have a significant, relevant impact on people in the vicinity." A demonstrator can be arrested if they "fail to comply with any conditions they knew or ought to have known had been imposed." Breaches of the law carry a six months jail sentence or an unlimited fine.

Critics say that protest is not a gift from the state, but is a fundamental right in a liberal democratic society and that protests by their nature, can be noisy and disruptive. They point out that Parliament makes laws and is therefore likely to be a focal point of protest. They believe that the new law is aimed at curtailing free speech and the right of protest.