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On April 4th, the Labour Party will have a new leader. Starmer, Nandy or Long-Bailey.

The smart money is on Keir Starmer -chief Remainer,who has promised to campaign for the reintroduction of the EU's freedom of movement for labour. Given that to all intents and purposes Johnson's government has already pre-capitulated to the corporate globalists' agenda, Starmer's quixotic utterances on the issue are wholly inconsequential.

The substantive debate among the leadership contenders has been on the conjoined areas of gender and identity politics.

Whereas once upon a Class analysis of society time,Labour would address unemployment and poverty they are now consumed by men claiming to be women ,the "rights" of individuals to indulge in whatever sexual practices that they wish to and demand full public respect from the rest of society for doing so; ad infinitum . 

And on this egregious and wholly otiose basis some 600,000 individual party members will have the opportunity to cast a vote which in the end will determine who gets to lead the Labour party to its fifth consecutive general election defeat in 2024,which in turn will necessitate the Party having to choose yet another leader in time for 2029.

Once you abandon a sober-minded, Class based analysis of society ,concentration and centralisation of capital etc. you end up precisely where over 100 years of intellectually supine social democratic politics is at virtually without exception right across the continental land mass of Europe-at their historic pre-extinction nadir.

To borrow the line from Pink Floyd's, "dark Side of the Moon" ; I guess there's nothing more to say.

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Labour MP sends Twitter into meltdown over comments babies are born 'without sex'

LABOUR MP Dawn Butler received a furious backlash on Twitter after she claimed "a child is born without sex" during a heated exchange with Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain.

By SVAR NANAN-SEN

PUBLISHED: 08:15, Tue, Feb 18, 2020 | UPDATED: 09:00, Tue, Feb 18, 2020

Ms Butler clashed with Mr Madeley over their definitions of transgender. The ITV Good Morning Britain host stated that when a child is born "they are identified and observed in a particular way." The Labour Party politician hit back saying "a child is born without sex."

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I don't post blogs much as I used to and particularly so in the wake of the triumph,somewhat delayed of Brexit from the the shackles of the EU tyranny.

Three and a half years of railing against the EU funded seditionist procrastination and the attendant Soros backed campaign of unmitigated slander and defamation of the 52% pro Brexit majority by the ubiquitous,Labour led Remain,took its toll.

But the abject failure of that hostile,alien power-backed campaign to undermine and destroy British constitutional government & the accepted norms of democratic legitimacy,has taken its toll on the Labour Party and its supine toadying Trades Union ideological catamites.

The stunning victory of Boris Johnson's Tories in December 2019 sent Labour ( and one cannot genuinely separate Left from Right from Centre from up their own anal tracts) spinning off into the Purgatory of opposition and the ideological wilderness of gender and identity politics.

Which brings us up to date ,in the middle of the Labour leadership contest -Starmer v.Nandy v. Long-Bailey ,to Ms.Butler's deranged utterances that epitomise the cruel insanity of gender and identity politics.

It is now even a recordable hate incident by the Police in the UK if you robustly challenge the very notion of transgenderism.

Let's get to it then,shall we?

What's stopping me?

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There comes a time in the affairs of nations when the past ought to be put behind them.History was ever thus;if it were otherwise then we in the UK  would be stranded in a perpetual imbroglio of recurring grievances and hatreds.

Which of course certain areas such as the Balkans or the Middle east are and are not likely to emerge from them merely by the counting of years and decades as they pass. Were we something like them,then the offspring of the Roundheads and Royalists would still be embroiled in antipathies and conflicts related to their original struggles in the 1640s, which they are not.

72 hours ago,on Saturday 8 November,Ireland held its General Election and things will never be the same again. Sinn Fein irrevocably emerged as a major player in Dublin politics,one that will have important and lasting consequences for the future structure and coherence of the United Kingdom itself.

The UK having gone through its own recent GE2019 in December still under the antiquated,shambolic FPTP system where a single party can emerge with an overall parliamentary majority of 80 seats having garnered around 30% of the votes cast contrasts unfavourably with Ireland's multi-member constituencies with proportional representation /preference voting that seems entirely ,rationally superior and reflective of and responsive to actual political preferences of the electorate.

The Brexit -powered revolution has a long way to go yet,but its initial dynamic cannot now be countermanded.In its wake as an ineluctable outcome,the UK's over-centralised government and administrative apparatus shall change and evolve.

More or less in some cogent and popularly acceptable fashion if we are fortunate.

Then again,given the UK's chequered history on such matters,perhaps not.

In these historically significant periods of imminent transition,giving the go-ahead to vainglorious, metropolitan elitist,crony-corporate capitalist white elephant projects aka HS2 is not what London ought to be concentrating on or doing.

Then again would it be London if it didn't?

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Donald J. Trump tweeted :-

@realDonaldTrump

Big WIN for us in Iowa tonight. Thank you!

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In the wake of an untimely and unforseeable(?) technical/administrative cock-up ,the commencement of the Democratic Party’s process to elect its candidate to challenge Donald Trump in November’s Presidential election,got off to a lamentably worse start than could ever have been contemplated.

Media is everything and Social media is hegemonic;you look bad across its platforms and the stench lingers for a very long time afterward and becomes a kind of urban myth,a legend that is told and retold-where the cause of its initial telling becomes just one more source among many.

Not that the Iowa Caucus or whichever candidate is announced as its winner truly matters.

Donald J.trump will be re-elected President come November.

Lies,lies and bigger lies wrapped up in a  paranoid conspiracy theory involving the government of Russia, continually pumped out by the Democratic Party machine and its leadership and anti-conservative media and commentators since Trump’s victory in 2016 have ensured Trump’s re-election in 2020.

Of the three most likeliest Democratic challengers for their party’s nomination ;Sanders,Biden and Warren present an undistinguished,inseparably mundane and ideologically neutered range to choose from.

And the United States of America,a truly great nation that it is,will somehow,as it has invariably done down the decades,carry on.

#Trump2020 !