The Tories' Dilemma

A stand-off between the nasty party led by "whoever" and the nastier party led by Farage will leave the crisis in the Tory Party even worse. Just imagine the heart-searching. (Set aside whether they actually have hearts).

Vote Farage and get Corbyn? Vote Johnson (or "whoever") and get Corbyn?

Ironically only the Liberal Democrats can save the Tories if people are trusting enough to vote for them. The LibDems showed their principles when they ditched the issue of tuition fees and made a dirty deal with Cameron.

The BBC report that Vince Cable rejects the result of any election the Liberals didn't win. So it's back to Lloyd George in Cable-land.

A Labour victory is not guaranteed and Labour will have to fight for every vote. However, the effectiveness of the Unite poster campaign against the revolting Tommy Robinson shows what can be achieved by the Labour movement working together.

The BBC persist with their myopic vision of Brexit vs Remain. Whenever a Labour representative tries to say there are other issues which will exist outside or inside the EU the BBC insist they are dodging the issue.

Although I have been expelled from the Labour Party I still believe socialists should work for a Corbyn-led Labour government. A vote of no confidence in "whoever" would be a good start. A Labour movement campaign for a socialist programme would be a good follow-up.

Dodgy Dossier Campbell

Alistair Campbell has sought public sympathy by talking openly about his depression as part of a wider campaign to demystify conditions often regarded as mental illness.

However, the Iraq war in which he was an accomplice of Tony Blair made many people depressed and thousands dead. That is the difference.

Arab Weekly says the following "The British secret service, known as MI6, knew that Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, whose real name is Ali Muhammad Abdul Aziz al-Fakheri, was tortured and failed to blow the whistle despite saying the agency had been “tempted to speak out.” MI6 officers witnessed Libi being sealed alive in a coffin before being loaded onto a military plane bound for Egypt where he was tortured. Despite this knowledge, MI6 sent questions to be posed to Libi by his torturers and received regular updates on what he was saying. One of his tips was that al-Qaeda was linked to Saddam’s alleged nuclear weapons programme and three terrorists had been sent to Iraq for training."

"As it turned out, the intelligence turned up by Libi’s interrogators was bogus. Oddly enough, a man will say almost anything when he is sealed in a claustrophobic environment such as a coffin, subjected to electrocution, beatings and many other forms of torture. Libi later told the CIA, after he was transferred to its custody, that he lied about the intelligence just to make the torture stop." 
The full story is here

Wikipedia says the following: "There were 460,000 deaths in Iraq as direct or indirect result of the war including more than 60% of deaths directly attributable to violence. Overview: Iraqi death estimates by source Summary of casualties of the Iraq War."

 







Campbell has blood on his hands.You would think those deaths would weigh on his conscience.

The latest exploit of this bog-standard Blairite has been to vote Liberal Democrat in the Euro elections. At the time of writing he has not been expelled for this despite the fact that he appears on the BBC every five minutes to attack the Labour Party in one way or another.

General Election Now?

There are two types of people. Those who believe in false dichotomies ... and those who don't.

There are plenty of problems which will not be solved by remaining in the EU or by leaving.

So a decision to call a vote of no confidence in whoever becomes prime minister will put the issues of austerity and privatisation back on the agenda.

And about time too.





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Game of Thrones Sequels - CONTAINS SPOILERS obvs

The finale of "Game of Thrones" is supposedly the final final last episode. And I'm the Queen of Sheba.

This programme leaves the way open to a number of sequels which will distinctly not be about the iron throne which was consumed by dragon fire. Samwell Tarly's suggestion of a republic was rejected with contempt. This is as it should be. The aristos only surrender power when they face losing their heads.

Arya sets off on a voyage of discovery and Arya's journey looks likely to be the most interesting strand to the story.

Tyrion comes across as a great survivor and any series which does not include his sardonic view of life and repeated demands for wine would be a shame.

Jon Snow goes north of the wall to the place where the whole story began. The King of the Dead has met his fate but John Snow's story seems unfinished.

The history of the kingdom of the North can hardly be coming to a conclusion with the accession of Sansa to the throne.

And, as Tolkien observed, it is a mistake to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.