Sunak Wipes Braverman’s Arse

And so the march in solidarity with the Palestinian people - most of those in Gaza have now been displaced from their homes after weeks of round the clock rocketing, bombing and shelling by the IDF - in London yesterday passed off almost entirely without incident: the few fringe troublemakers are being investigated, and dealt with, by the Metropolitan Police.

P45? For me? No, I don't recognise that document

Considering that even the cops admit 300,000 attended the protest, and that the organisers’ estimate was 800,000, that rather gives the lie to the claims by Home Secretary Suella Braverman that such gatherings are “hate marches”. But what was a hate march was the appearance of 500 or so of the Gammonati, already aled up by mid-morning, and looking for trouble.

This gathering of the far-right brains trust was symbolically led by Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who styles himself Tommy Robinson, and tried to gain access to the Cenotaph, only to be prevented by the Met. Lennon, demonstrating that he is of less than perfect courage, later left his adoring followers in the lurch, escaping in a taxi just before the cops descended on the rabble.

Later on, the Fash - for that was what it was, and is - attempted to get near to the main march, most likely for a bit of afters. The cops waded in and made a significant number of arrests. Indeed, the vast majority of violent incidents and associated arrests involved those on the far right. Who had most likely responded to Ms Braverman’s dog whistling. Thus the Tories’ problem.

What would a sensible Prime Minister, one who was in touch with ordinary voters and grounded in reality, have done? What would a pragmatic and empathetic Prime Minister have done? What would Nietzsche have done? Sadly, Sunak does not inhabit that intellectual plane, instead creating a false equivalence to protect his Home Secretary and gaslight the public.

Here’s the relevant part of his statement: “I condemn the violent, wholly unacceptable scenes we have seen today from the EDL and associated groups and Hamas sympathisers attending the National March for Palestine … What we have seen today does not defend the honour of our Armed Forces, but utterly disrespects them”. Very fine people on both sides.

The Fash turned up? Whoever triggered them, then?

Yes, this is Sunak’s Trump moment. The EDL is effectively moribund; those who turned out from the far right were just thugs looking for some afters. The “Hamas sympathisers” were not their equivalent, and only one group was disrespecting our Armed Forces, by attempting to storm the Cenotaph, and it wasn’t those marching in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The issue, as Louise Raw, who you can tell as she’s a doctor, correctly advised the Met was that “Your issue will be pissed up fash”. And so it came to pass: as John Gafson of Sky News told, “Fighting has broken out as people shouting ‘England ‘till I die’ attempted to reach the Cenotaph”.

Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate added “There's been more far right violence around Westminster tube. Thugs broke through police lines and attacked both police and media”. Beth Rigby of Sky News told that “In wake of clashes in Whitehall, Scotland’s First Minister [Humza Yousuf] says Home Sec’s position untenable and she should resign”. She was nowhere to be seen.

Indeed, Lowles later mused “Graphic video of the far right fighting with the police in central London now. And still not a word of condemnation from [Suella Braverman]”. Sky News told viewers “Protesters were heard chanting 'you're not English anymore' towards officers as violent clashes broke out in Chinatown”. Lowles again: “Chants of ‘There ain’t no black in the Union Jack’ and ‘allah is a paedo’ being heard” Fash goading peaceful protesters.

Lewis Goodall told that, on Lambeth Bridge, “Far right assembled screaming at protestors: ‘allah, allah, who the fuck is allah?’” Our free and fearless press, though, took their cue from Sunak and duly gaslit their readers. Former Murdoch editor David Yelland was unimpressed. “By misrepresenting what happened in London yesterday old newspapers serving old readers doom themselves to the past, the young can see the violence was on one side”.

Rishi Sunak and his press pals are on their way out. The only difference between the two is timescale. Wiping Suella’s arse is not a wise move.

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