Ursula – “in Russia you’d be arrested!”

Like a stopped clock right twice a day, even a Guardian much criticised on this site – here and here for instance – managed a decent cartoon by Ella Barton on the mass arrests at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday – latest tally 522 – for the crime of putting pen to placard in support of a non violent action group seeking to stop a genocide.

It’s bad form to explain a joke but this one’s too important not to. The statue being arrested and cautioned at Parliament Square is suffragette Millicent Garrett Fawcett. As I footnoted in my July 31st post on the Israel lobby-funded UK Home Secretary who’d listed Palestine Action as a terrorist outfit:

“… Yvette Cooper has said violence and criminal damage have no place in legitimate protest…”  The hypocrisy is award winning! A few years ago, on the centennial of (some) women getting the vote in Britain, she stood in the Commons sporting a Suffragette rosette the size of an IDF helmet while proudly declaring admiration and gratitude for those who broke unjust laws to pave the way for any such thing as a female member of parliament, let alone a Home Secretary to be. Did the suffragettes eschew violence? They threw bombs for God’s sake! Did they draw the line at criminal damage? Many Palestine Action deeds, like gluing hands to railings outside arms factories where Gaza’s ordeal is prepared, are a straight steal from the suffragette playbook. Bah!

But when it comes to the Extreme Centre now ruling UK and Europe at large (an entitled elite as rabidly Russophobic as it is Israeli genocide-friendly) even satire struggles to keep up.

Here’s EC President “Queen” Ursula von der Leyen telling a heckler, at the very moment of his arrest, that “in Russia you’d be arrested”. 

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