Thank you,
J. Comrades and
friends. Hillary Ben's history was so
deficient, Lindsay. I'm not sure that
£20 worth of history books will do
it, he told the House of Commons,
looking across at the Conservative
benches into the lobby with whom he was
about to try and lead as many Labor
members as possible and he reminded them
that the whole house had stood against
Hitler and Mussolini.
That's not the history I recall. As it
happens, the
appeasers of Hitler and Mussolini were
there in profusion on the conservative
benches and many many of them including
some in the palace itself look forward
to a victory for Hitlerism.
He prayed and aid the international
brigade as somehow being a labor
achievement. But labor was against the
international brigades. The
international brigades were communists
and troskists and leftists and trade
union leaders like Jack Jones.
The official labor policy was for
non-intervention in the Spanish Civil
War. And above all, he imagined that we
had forgotten his own personal history.
As a man who voted for and went around
the country and the TV studios arguing
for the invasion of Iraq and its
subsequent occupation, which produced
ISIS in the first place, as even Tony
Blair now, at least partly
acknowledges. He imagined that we'd
forgotten that he had supported the NATO
bombardment of Libya, which destroyed
Libya and put ISIS in power in those
parts of the country that al-Qaeda are
not in power in. destroying Libya as a
state, destroying Iraq as a state, a
kind of corpse that can be picked over
by ISIS, by the Turkish government,
which as an earlier speaker John Ree, I
think, uh, mentioned, has now been
invaded today by the Turkish military
and a new axis of confrontation now
exists between Iraq and Turkey, who are
we going to back in those
circumstances, the regime in Iraq that
we put into power on the point of our
day with our invasion and occupation or
our NATO ally about whom more in a
minute Turkey. So we might be about to
have a war between Iraq and Turkey, a
war between half the world and Syria and
the other half of the world standing by
Syria's side, as John put it, bringing
us into the very real danger of a
confrontation that could escalate into a
world war. Don't underestimate it. No
one imagined when the pistol shots ran
out in SVO that that would lead to a
cataclysm of four bloody years in which
an ocean of blood flowed in the First
World War. Another piece of history Mr.
Ben could usefully have been reminded
of. I don't have much time. So I only
have time to deal with a point which has
been referred to before but I'm in a
position uh a personal uh position to
comment uh I hope tellingly on it. As I
was coming in here it was on the
BBC news that Simon Danchuk the Labour
MP
for
Rodale had been sent a death threat.
John mentioned the horror stories of
several Twitter feeds. I've been sent
more death threats than any political
figure in the whole of Britain. And I
reported
them and I've reported them to the
Metropolitan
Police. And never once did they make the
BBC
news. Never once was anybody arrested.
In fact, the police tell me that they
can't arrest anybody because Twitter
won't give them. Who thought we would
lived in a police state? Twitter won't
give them the identity of the holders of
Twitter accounts. So I I took that a
little bit painfully to be honest that
Danuk made the BBC news but it's it's
what he said
next without contradiction by the BBC
and he's repeating it on social media
now. He blamed Jeremy Corbin for the
fact that he got a death threat. I mean
what have you got to do to get expelled
out the Labor Party? I really don't
know. standards. Standards must be so
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standards. As many speakers have pointed
out, they're trying to intimidate us,
not the other way around.
MPs who vote for
war have the cheek to complain about I
rate
emails or angry
constituents. They've obviously never
faced an angry foreman in a workplace if
they think that
being subjected to postup notes on your
office window constitutes bullying and
intimidation. It's us that they are
trying to
intimidate and in part it has worked in
Waltham. The
gigantic conspiracy not just a lie. A
picture is produced on a Facebook page
opened by somebody who lives in Kent but
was posting from
leads. Shows a picture just before it's
closed down just hours after it was
open.
a picture of apparently angry Muslims
outside the local MP's
home, terrifying her
children. She has no children. It wasn't
her home. The Muslims weren't angry.
They were going into the mosque. The
picture was of the local mosque, Queens
Road Mosque in Waltham Stone.
Now, that's I'm not a conspiracy
theorist, but I want to know who that
guy was that opened that Facebook
account and put that picture up. Because
that
lie, that lie went around the world
before the truth had got its boots on.
But the truth boots are coming on
now. And more of that later. I've only
got one minute left. I just want to
therefore close with this. If we allow
ourselves to be
intimidated out of doing our democratic
duty, we will have
betrayed, as John put it, the levelers,
the chartists, the tall martyrs, the
pioneers, the suffragettes, the people
who did fight for Spain, the people who
agitated
for confrontation with Hitler and
Mussolini. We would be betraying them if
we did not continue our work.
They are
trying They are trying as part of their
regime change
project to separate Jeremy Corbin from
the stop the war movement to separate
Jeremy Corbin from Ken Livingstone from
John Macdonald from Momentum so that
he'll cut his roots and cut the senus of
those of us who love him and wish him
Well, so that when they come for him,
there's nobody left to protest. We are
the protesters and we are going on and
on and on until the end.
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