I awoke this morning to news of direct hostilities having once more broken out between the US and Iran, but will put that on hold …
Are you familiar with Katie Halper – comedian, podcaster and scourge of the genocidal colonial settler state? You’ll find her on her eponymous channel, The Katie Halper Show, and on Useful Idiots, where she co-hosts with her fellow Jewish anti Zionist, Aaron Maté. Both have featured multiple times on my site.
I didn’t know she followed politics in my country though. Not till last night, when her guest on TKHS was one Jeremy Corbyn, responding to the resignation speech six days ago of the man who replaced him as Labour leader before going on to become prime minister on the lowest voter turnout since 1885.
You may recall my opening a post, the day before he announced a foot dragging resignation forced on him by Andy Burnham’s by-election victory in Makerfield, with this:
If Mandelson is the Prince of Darkness … Keir Starmer has to be the Mogul of Mediocrity. God knows, we’ve had no shortage of liars at Number 10 but the plot to oust the most popular Labour Leader since 1945 and install this man in his place, though conceived and implemented by minds a good deal sharper than his, required Starmer to pose as a man of the Left. On this basis, aided by media undermining of Jeremy Corbyn in the vilest possible ways, he took over. And then? As figurehead to a victory by default – by 2024 a one-eyed donkey would have trounced the Tories – in an election whose turnout hit an all time low (such was Britain’s enthusiasm for the politics of Tweedledum and Tweedledee) he proceeded to renege on every last one of his electoral pledges.
The king is dead. Long live the king!
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So what did ‘Jezza’ have to say to Katie in response to the outgoing speech of his successor? It’ll take just under twenty minutes of your Sunday morning to find out.
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