As Sadiq Kahn joins Holocaust commemoration.....

Kudos to Sadiq Kahn for making his first act as Mayor of London an appearance and participation at the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony today. The Daily Mail reports:

The newly-elected mayor swore to be a leader for all faiths in the capital and was at the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in Barnet this afternoon alongside Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who just last week attacked Jeremy Corbyn by saying Labour had a 'severe' problem with anti-Semitism.

Mr Khan's visit today is hugely symbolic and will be interpreted as another pointed criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

Mr Corbyn was notably absent from Mr Khan's official swearing-in ceremony at Southwark Cathedral in South-East London yesterday amid claims that Mr Khan is keen to distance himself from the Labour leader.

Pointed indeed.

The anti-Semitism crisis continues as the Sunday Times (no link£) revealed that a member of the Labour Party's NEC sent an e-mail on May 2nd "claiming the crisis was sparked by the "Israel lobby".

Here we go again, This time Unite official Martin Mayer's missive entitled How the Israel Lobby manufactured the party's anti-Semitism crisis. The whole thing is also a "Blairite right wing attempt" to "undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership".

In order to back up his thoughts Mayer includes a link to an article the extremist "Electronic Intifada" website.

Besides the fact Corbyn is totally useless and undermines himself most of the time his opposition to anti-Semitism outlined at the recent May Day rally is not matched by a courtesy to replying the letter from the leader of the Israeli Labour Party sent to him recently (see here).

Meanwhile Livingstone continues to lose the plot mentioning that Hitler fellow again.

I don't care what anyone says. Israel's Governments may not always be above criticism, but anti-Zionism is today's anti-Semitism.

No other country faces calls for it's dissolution.

Anti-Zionism is a road to genocide.

Never again will our people go quietly into the dark.

Sunday Supplement: Eurovision Picks 2016

The Eurovision Song Contest will be with us next Saturday night so here is my pick of this years entries.

Don't forget the two Semi-Finals will be broadcast on BBC 4 on Tuesday 10th May (8 to 10) and Thursday 12th May (also 8 to 10).

My first choice was the entry from Armenia. I've enjoyed several of their entries and this is a good'un though why Jesus pops up in the video is beyond me....



Next up is Bulgaria. Good chance of winning with this song and will certainly get my vote. But what would I know with my odd tastes in music?



And finally the song from Russia with a singer I am sure will appeal to the ladies. Excellent video. This also stands a good chance of winning I have to say.



I'm sure fellow blogger Phil BC over at All That is Solid will entertain you with his choices soon! Tell him Howie sent ya!

Khan's victory masks Corbyn's failure

No one can deny the scale of Sadiq Khan's victory for Mayor of London who now has a huge personal mandate after facing enormous opposition not only from his direct political opponents but from within his own party. This is not written as an endorsement of what Khan will be like as Mayor, for me and many others the jury remains out. However it is a recognition that Labour did win against seemingly insurmountable odds.

One obvious thing to be said is that those ant-Western fundamentalist types will find they can no longer claim that Muslims are automatically discriminated against in this country. Hopefully this will be a small step toward the Muslim community beginning to integrate within the society they have chosen to live in.

That this will be an uphill struggle is without question and the media reports of Mosques in this country ranting against Face book, the wearing of trousers and opposing anything modern as "un-Islamic".  The struggle against Medievalism will continue for some time to come.

However elsewhere in the UK despite not suffering the scale of losses the pundits predicted, Labour did not move forward. Corbyn himself described Labour as "standing firm". Standing still and sliding back more like. Yes Labour only lost 27 seats but in the current climate they should have begun pushing forward.

In Scotland, once a Labour fiefdom the party has been pushed back into third place by a revived Tory party.

The recent row over ant-Semitism in the party is only part of the reason that Labour is failing. Corbyn is seen as weak and ineffectual by those voters Labour needs to win over if it is to have any hope of gaining power at the next general election.

Labour is weak on defence, terrorism and economy. As for foreign policy the Corbynistas would be a nightmare should they ever gain control of government. It's fortunate for us all that this will never happen.

For now there is little chance Corbyn can be ousted but so long as he and the insane left hold the reigns Labour will never get elected. 

Corbyn has to go sooner rather than later and the real, normal Labour Party restored based on the broad coalition that it needs to be in order to become firstly an effective opposition and then onwards to a party that the electorate will trust in government.

There remain plenty of good people inside the Labour Party and the trade unions will only sustain Corbyn so far before their members will demand some return for their support. If Labour cannot get elected what would be the point of making such substantial financial contributions.

The clock is ticking. This country cannot afford another Tory government.

Corbyn must go.

An underwhelming election

The polls have closed at last. The votes are being counted and over the next 24 hours the nation will see the result of all the shouting, crying and tears shed by the politicians and their supporters.

At least on Social Media. I suspect most people will be like me underwhelmed by the whole thing. The last week or so has just seen the Labour Party tear itself apart over the discovery of very real anti-Semitism in it's ranks.

As for Corbyn's policies? Other than his friendship with Hamas I can't recall a thing.

Zac Goldsmith? Couldn't be bothered to listen.

Galloway? Less than one percent of the vote apparently. People finally got what that jumped up popinjay was all about.

There were elections?  If those I work with or my neighbours are anything to go by the lack of enthusiasm was deafening. Nobody talked about it and the polling station was heaving with...sheer emptiness.

Oh I'll be interested in the results, but then I'm a political blogger with an interest in such things. I'll be posting on Saturday when the full results (including Scotland and Wales) are in but for now I'm off to read a couple of new purchases to review on my other blog.

If anyone is interested I voted for the Women's Equality Party with no second choice vote.

I couldn't put a cross in Labour's box because of Corbyn and his band of Strasserites. Time for him to go. Hopefully a bloody nose tonight will start to help him on his way.

Bet they'll blame the Jews......

Musical Interlude: Number 1 this week in 1974

I just had to take a break from the ever continuing crisis in Labour. (If you do want more go to my Face Book page, it's public. And there's lots more...)

So! Another teaser for this years Eurovision Song Contest next week.

And it needs absolutely no introduction!

Hamas backs Labour under Corbyn

 

Despite a DDoS (Denial of Service) attack Guido Fawkes has continued to expose the connections between Corbyn's Labour and the world of anti-Semitism. Corbyn is a man who you will remember described Hamas, an organisation that seeks the genocide of the Jews in Israel (not Zionists, actual Jews) as his "friends".

Just "diplomacy" Corbyn's supporters once said, but with the continuing exposure of a very real problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, hidden in plain sight as supposedly just "anti-Zionism" the games up for the hard left and if by their "friends ye judge them"

Hamas spokesman Taher A-Nunu said:

“We welcome the declaration of the Labor chairman and see his engagement as a very important statement that is also a painful hit that the Zionist enemy received. Hamas is not and will not be considered a terrorist group and our struggle is reduced to the borders of occupied Palestine. [This is a] Zionist campaign to define Labor party leaders as anti-Semitic... a desperate move that reflects the weakness and confusion of the Zionist entity.”

Actually the opposite seems to be true. At long last the far left anti-imperialist brigade are facing a taste of their own medicine.

The anti-Zionist campaign of distortions, half truths and some down right lies is finally being brought to task.

Israel may not be perfect (what country is?), but it's a democracy under constant threat from tyrants, terrorists and Islamists who use the Palestinian cause for their own ends.

Forward to a two-state solution and peace something Hamas, Hezbollah and the anti-imperialist left don't want no matter what the cost to innocent lives.

Springtime for the anti-Zionists

Jeremy Corbyn made an appearance on the annual May Day march and used the opportunity to speak out against anti-Semitism. I don't doubt that he himself is not an anti-Semite but his collection of "friends" and supporters make his formal opposition a moot point.

Corbyn has been "friends" with some of the most unsavoury organisations and individuals over the years. Take George Galloway for instance who tweeted:

George GallowayVerified account‏@georgegalloway

The Israel lobby has just destroyed the Labour Party. At least this Labour Party. It is an amazing achievement. They'll be dancing in Dimon

Ben Judah writes in the Independent

'And when I visited Bradford, a group of passionate Galloway supporters pinned me to a wall, throttled me and punched me in the head, shouting “Get out you f***ing Jew.”'

Of course Galloway is no longer in the Labour Party, but this Councillor from Nottingham is:



Israel is not Nazi Germany in any shape or form. The analogy is disgusting. How come these types NEVER condemn the crimes of Hamas or the corruption of the PLA/Al Fatah?

Oh and ask Mr Aziz on how Christians and non-Muslims are treated in Pakistan and Bangladesh, or the second class citizenship of the Coptic Christians in Egypt or the Bahai's in Iran or.....

Hamas purged Al Fatah brutally after it won an election in Gaza nearly 10 years ago and err..comrades when will they allow another one. Or do they think like the far left that once in power that's it for eternity.

Islamism and Communism, not so different really.

Then there's that new word for Jews, Zios which seems to have originated in the student politically correct brigade. Now in common use by non other than Blair's foolish convert of a sister-in-law:

Lauren Booth‏@LaurenBoothUK

Lauren Booth Retweeted Nadeem Ahmed

@labourpress @UKLabour has proved itself sadly weak at its core by suspending two MPs at the behest of zio lobby

What these anti-Zionists really object to is that they can no longer get away with dissemanting inaccuarate and distorted propoganda about Israel and the Jews any more.

Fight back against so-called anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism now! 

Expose Hamas, Hezbollah and all these clerical fascist fascist groups and their so-called left wing allies!

Never Again!