What's also noteworthy is another political development that has occurred in tandem (some might say, 'in lockstep') with all this, and with Kier Starmer's position on Israel alienating the Labour Party's many Muslim MPs, councillors, and supporters.
The Electoral Commission (the body responsible for registering and regulating political parties in the UK), has received an application for a new party called 'The Party of Islam'.
For now, the Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the application, but that is completely normal. They're very fussy about particular details, and most new parties have their applications rejected two or three times before they finally get it right.
There's nothing to stop the putative Party of Islam amending their application as the EC has advised and resubmitting it, something they almost certainly will do.
It's worth watching Heritage Party leader David Kurten's short video on this situation, because David understands the internal machinations of politics and why this is likely a highly significant development. David says, and I agree with him, that in areas with large Muslim populations, this party could do extremely well indeed, especially at the council level.
All mainstream media focus where it comes to 'politics' is on Westminster - general elections, by-elections, and MPs - but in reality, it is local councils that wield much of the real power, as they are the instruments that central government relies on to enforce its agendas. Local MPs are often little more than ceremonial figure-heads - as most of us know only too well, few of them actually do anything - whereas it is local councils who, for example, were responsible for enforcing the Covid restrictions on the local populace.
If you didn't know (and I didn't until 2020), council representatives are elected by the public. Some areas (including Kirklees, where I reside) have council elections annually, where councillors for each council ward are elected, and some council wards have more than one. I (oh joy...) have three (you can find out who yours are here).
Council elections are far less high-profile than anything involving Westminster, and the press largely ignores them, which is by design, to stop too much "civilian" participation, which is not desirable for the Big Four (Con/Lib/Lab/Green), who like to think they run the show. I have participated in these elections as an independent, and it's almost comical how hostile they are to "outsiders", whilst all endlessly hobnobbing with, and congratulating, each other (they all cheer every time the Monster Raving Loony results are announced, knowing that this joke dead-end release valve for disaffected voters actually helps them. That's why the establishment is always invested in funding dead-end political release valves, like The Reclaim Party).
Despite the hostility from establishment candidates, council elections are actually far easier for "outsiders" to "infiltrate" than general elections are, as you don't need (as you do if standing as a parliamentary candidate) to pay a deposit. Anybody can have a go without parting with a penny. High-level, "glamorous" politics involving big-name MPs is essentially a closed shop, not least because of the £500 deposit and huge campaigning costs, but local council politics is not, and it was on this basis that the smaller pro-freedom parties were set up: that we can't use the electoral system to change things on the national level (Prime Ministers being selected, not elected. and so on), but we might be able to do it at the local level with the councils.
If enough pro-freedom candidates had stood for council and were elected, they would have had real sway at changing the local landscape where it came to, for example, opposing Covid restrictions. You can read more about this, and how and why standing as a council candidate is something that can be well worth doing, here.
The point is that it appears that the Party of Islam has realised this, too.
The Electoral Commission (the body responsible for registering and regulating political parties in the UK), has received an application for a new party called 'The Party of Islam'.
For now, the Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the application, but that is completely normal. They're very fussy about particular details, and most new parties have their applications rejected two or three times before they finally get it right.
There's nothing to stop the putative Party of Islam amending their application as the EC has advised and resubmitting it, something they almost certainly will do.
It's worth watching Heritage Party leader David Kurten's short video on this situation, because David understands the internal machinations of politics and why this is likely a highly significant development. David says, and I agree with him, that in areas with large Muslim populations, this party could do extremely well indeed, especially at the council level.
All mainstream media focus where it comes to 'politics' is on Westminster - general elections, by-elections, and MPs - but in reality, it is local councils that wield much of the real power, as they are the instruments that central government relies on to enforce its agendas. Local MPs are often little more than ceremonial figure-heads - as most of us know only too well, few of them actually do anything - whereas it is local councils who, for example, were responsible for enforcing the Covid restrictions on the local populace.
If you didn't know (and I didn't until 2020), council representatives are elected by the public. Some areas (including Kirklees, where I reside) have council elections annually, where councillors for each council ward are elected, and some council wards have more than one. I (oh joy...) have three (you can find out who yours are here).
Council elections are far less high-profile than anything involving Westminster, and the press largely ignores them, which is by design, to stop too much "civilian" participation, which is not desirable for the Big Four (Con/Lib/Lab/Green), who like to think they run the show. I have participated in these elections as an independent, and it's almost comical how hostile they are to "outsiders", whilst all endlessly hobnobbing with, and congratulating, each other (they all cheer every time the Monster Raving Loony results are announced, knowing that this joke dead-end release valve for disaffected voters actually helps them. That's why the establishment is always invested in funding dead-end political release valves, like The Reclaim Party).
Despite the hostility from establishment candidates, council elections are actually far easier for "outsiders" to "infiltrate" than general elections are, as you don't need (as you do if standing as a parliamentary candidate) to pay a deposit. Anybody can have a go without parting with a penny. High-level, "glamorous" politics involving big-name MPs is essentially a closed shop, not least because of the £500 deposit and huge campaigning costs, but local council politics is not, and it was on this basis that the smaller pro-freedom parties were set up: that we can't use the electoral system to change things on the national level (Prime Ministers being selected, not elected. and so on), but we might be able to do it at the local level with the councils.
If enough pro-freedom candidates had stood for council and were elected, they would have had real sway at changing the local landscape where it came to, for example, opposing Covid restrictions. You can read more about this, and how and why standing as a council candidate is something that can be well worth doing, here.
The point is that it appears that the Party of Islam has realised this, too.
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As David Kurten says in his video, in areas with large Muslim populations, this party would likely do very well at the council level, especially now so many Muslims will be feeling "politically homeless" after Kier Starmer's recent remarks regarding Israel.
This could, plausibly, lead to some local councils becoming overtly Islamic - that is to say, dominated by an explicitly religious political party - something that could have very concerning implications for a secular liberal democracy such as the UK.
This seems a very credible threat, especially because such large swathes of the population don't vote (especially at council elections, which many don't even know exist), including and especially people in the pro-freedom movement, who believe there's no point voting as "it's all rigged", etc. So, if at the next council election, there is a secular pro-freedom candidate (such as the types supported by the Vote Freedom Project) and a Party of Islam candidate, who do you think will get the more votes?
I can tell you easily, at least in areas like Kirklees, where I live, which has a large Muslim population. Specifically because, as I said, pro-freedom secular types overwhelmingly don't vote, whereas more religious people overwhelmingly do.
If you think voting in council elections doesn't matter/doesn't count/it's all rigged anyway, then you are seamlessly delivering the result into the hands of people who think differently - and while I agree at the very highest levels of politics like premiership elections (Prime Ministers/Presidents), it is rigged, having been involved in three local council elections now, and having seen the mechanisms from the inside, I am certain that council elections are not rigged - there isn't the budget and the organisation there to rig them, and too few people even know about them for it to be worth it.
The "rigging" is simply not giving them much media coverage, so ordinary people don't know they can participate - and cynically circulating the message that "your vote doesn't count, if voting mattered they wouldn't let you do it", etc. If you fall into the category of people that believes that, ask yourself this: honestly and without Googling, do you know how to submit an application to stand in the local council elections? Do you know how many nominations you need and how to get them? Do you know where your local council elections are held, and when?
If the answer to any of the aforementioned questions is 'no', then you must ask why that is. If the establishment wanted you to know about local politics and wanted you to participate in it, you would know. You would always have known, as they would teach it in schools (they are state, government-run schools, after all). They don't, because they don't want you involved, because it is actually an area where ordinary, genuinely independent and anti-establishment people can make a difference.
So in the present day, while the Party of Islam is busy rewriting its application to meet EC rules so they can become a formal political force, we continue to have the endless stream of "asylum seekers" (fighting-age men) from primarily Islamic countries flooding into our hotels, student flats, and military bases.
In addition, following the brutal police and army treatment that will undoubtedly be dished out to the pro-Palestine supporters on 11/11, we're going to have more angry Muslims and Muslim sympathisers than ever. And more bloodthirsty Zionists, baying for vengeance ("see, this is what they're like, this is why Israel has to come down hard on them in Palestine").
All these themes are building up to a crescendo of what will look like chaos, but is in reality all being expertly strategised and stage-managed behind the scenes.
"They" are planning an epic cultural clash on Remembrance Day, 11/11 - the day that marks the ritual global sacrificial ritual that was World War I - to set the stage for the third and final orchestrated ritual global sacrifice, World War III..
This could, plausibly, lead to some local councils becoming overtly Islamic - that is to say, dominated by an explicitly religious political party - something that could have very concerning implications for a secular liberal democracy such as the UK.
This seems a very credible threat, especially because such large swathes of the population don't vote (especially at council elections, which many don't even know exist), including and especially people in the pro-freedom movement, who believe there's no point voting as "it's all rigged", etc. So, if at the next council election, there is a secular pro-freedom candidate (such as the types supported by the Vote Freedom Project) and a Party of Islam candidate, who do you think will get the more votes?
I can tell you easily, at least in areas like Kirklees, where I live, which has a large Muslim population. Specifically because, as I said, pro-freedom secular types overwhelmingly don't vote, whereas more religious people overwhelmingly do.
If you think voting in council elections doesn't matter/doesn't count/it's all rigged anyway, then you are seamlessly delivering the result into the hands of people who think differently - and while I agree at the very highest levels of politics like premiership elections (Prime Ministers/Presidents), it is rigged, having been involved in three local council elections now, and having seen the mechanisms from the inside, I am certain that council elections are not rigged - there isn't the budget and the organisation there to rig them, and too few people even know about them for it to be worth it.
The "rigging" is simply not giving them much media coverage, so ordinary people don't know they can participate - and cynically circulating the message that "your vote doesn't count, if voting mattered they wouldn't let you do it", etc. If you fall into the category of people that believes that, ask yourself this: honestly and without Googling, do you know how to submit an application to stand in the local council elections? Do you know how many nominations you need and how to get them? Do you know where your local council elections are held, and when?
If the answer to any of the aforementioned questions is 'no', then you must ask why that is. If the establishment wanted you to know about local politics and wanted you to participate in it, you would know. You would always have known, as they would teach it in schools (they are state, government-run schools, after all). They don't, because they don't want you involved, because it is actually an area where ordinary, genuinely independent and anti-establishment people can make a difference.
So in the present day, while the Party of Islam is busy rewriting its application to meet EC rules so they can become a formal political force, we continue to have the endless stream of "asylum seekers" (fighting-age men) from primarily Islamic countries flooding into our hotels, student flats, and military bases.
In addition, following the brutal police and army treatment that will undoubtedly be dished out to the pro-Palestine supporters on 11/11, we're going to have more angry Muslims and Muslim sympathisers than ever. And more bloodthirsty Zionists, baying for vengeance ("see, this is what they're like, this is why Israel has to come down hard on them in Palestine").
All these themes are building up to a crescendo of what will look like chaos, but is in reality all being expertly strategised and stage-managed behind the scenes.
"They" are planning an epic cultural clash on Remembrance Day, 11/11 - the day that marks the ritual global sacrificial ritual that was World War I - to set the stage for the third and final orchestrated ritual global sacrifice, World War III..
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So, as always, our task remains to resist all propaganda and agitation for violent division and ultimately war (including and especially if that propaganda appears to be emanating from people allegedly "on our side"), and continue to keep focused on what is real and what is true."
https://miriaf.co.uk/an-11th-hour-offensive/
https://miriaf.co.uk/an-11th-hour-offensive/
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Kicking off already this evening in King's Cross Station, London
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Arms Factory Blockaded As Calls for Practical Solidarity With Palestine Grow
'The time to act is now.'
by Polly Smythe
26 October 2023
"Over 150 activists and trade union members are holding a mass picket blockading an arms factory, in protest over the use of UK arms exports in the current genocide against the Palestinian people.
The pickets are blocking the two key entrances to Instro Precision Ltd, a subsidiary of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, at a site in Sandwich, Kent. Protesters are banners that read “Workers for a Free Palestine” and “UK: Stop Arming Israel”.
The action comes in response to a call from Palestinian trade unions for the international labour movement to “end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes” by halting the trading of arms, all funding, and military research.
The UK has consistently sold arms to Israel, despite its illegal occupation of Palestine. UK industry provides 15% of the components in the F35 stealth combat aircraft that are currently being used in the bombardment of Gaza.
A member of Workers in Palestine, a coalition of Palestinian trade unions, said: “Many of the weapons used by Israel to sustain its settler colonial project and inflict catastrophic violence in Palestine are produced internationally, including in the UK.
“Pickets such as todays are a vital form of solidarity with the Palestinian people that can restrain Israel’s military capacity. The time to act is now.”
Abbie, an NHS junior doctor, said: “Seeing fellow doctors and their patients being killed is unbearable, and following the announcement that the healthcare system in Gaza has collapsed, many of us felt we had no choice but to take this action.
“We are disgusted by the role that the UK government and British arms industry is playing in enabling and resourcing the mass killings of civilians, with both the government and Labour shamefully refusing to call for a ceasefire.”
The blockade follows nearly a decade of occupations and direct action against UK factories of Elbit Systems factories by protest group Palestine Action. The Instro site in Kent was occupied by protesters in 2015, over arms sales to Israel and Afghanistan.
It comes amid growing calls for trade unions to commit to practical solidarity with Palestine.
Hundreds of members of Unite, which represents workers at a variety of weapons manufacturers in the UK including Babcock, Leonardo, and Thales, have signed an open letter calling on the union to pledge practical support to workers who refuse to build or handle weapons destined for Israel."
https://novaramedia.com/2023/10/26/arms-factory-blockaded-as-calls-for-practical-solidarity-with-palestine-grow/
'The time to act is now.'
by Polly Smythe
26 October 2023
"Over 150 activists and trade union members are holding a mass picket blockading an arms factory, in protest over the use of UK arms exports in the current genocide against the Palestinian people.
The pickets are blocking the two key entrances to Instro Precision Ltd, a subsidiary of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, at a site in Sandwich, Kent. Protesters are banners that read “Workers for a Free Palestine” and “UK: Stop Arming Israel”.
The action comes in response to a call from Palestinian trade unions for the international labour movement to “end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes” by halting the trading of arms, all funding, and military research.
The UK has consistently sold arms to Israel, despite its illegal occupation of Palestine. UK industry provides 15% of the components in the F35 stealth combat aircraft that are currently being used in the bombardment of Gaza.
A member of Workers in Palestine, a coalition of Palestinian trade unions, said: “Many of the weapons used by Israel to sustain its settler colonial project and inflict catastrophic violence in Palestine are produced internationally, including in the UK.
“Pickets such as todays are a vital form of solidarity with the Palestinian people that can restrain Israel’s military capacity. The time to act is now.”
Abbie, an NHS junior doctor, said: “Seeing fellow doctors and their patients being killed is unbearable, and following the announcement that the healthcare system in Gaza has collapsed, many of us felt we had no choice but to take this action.
“We are disgusted by the role that the UK government and British arms industry is playing in enabling and resourcing the mass killings of civilians, with both the government and Labour shamefully refusing to call for a ceasefire.”
The blockade follows nearly a decade of occupations and direct action against UK factories of Elbit Systems factories by protest group Palestine Action. The Instro site in Kent was occupied by protesters in 2015, over arms sales to Israel and Afghanistan.
It comes amid growing calls for trade unions to commit to practical solidarity with Palestine.
Hundreds of members of Unite, which represents workers at a variety of weapons manufacturers in the UK including Babcock, Leonardo, and Thales, have signed an open letter calling on the union to pledge practical support to workers who refuse to build or handle weapons destined for Israel."
https://novaramedia.com/2023/10/26/arms-factory-blockaded-as-calls-for-practical-solidarity-with-palestine-grow/
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Arms Factory Blockaded As Calls for Practical Solidarity With Palestine Grow
150 activists are picketing an arms factory in Kent in protest at the UK arms trade with Israel.
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Rather than claim division, I would claim there are two intertwined movements right now.
-One is a *medical* freedom movement
-The other is a broad freedom movement
Whereas the *medical* freedom movement is entitled to not cover what is going on in Gaza, the broader freedom movement is choosing to cover it.
Some who are in the *medical* freedom group are now actively against the broad freedom movement, trying to limit the rights to protest of those they disagree with.
Others in the *medical* freedom movement are now aligned with the UK government and giving them carte blanche to violate the right to life of Palestinian civilians, therefore actively mobilizing against the freedom of people of other ethnicities.
I would like to add that when people died after toxic injection in other countries, we cared for them and tried to defend them across borders, we didn't say "It's their problem, I'm not taking sides, they're in another country".
Indiscriminate bombs are the new toxicity. What's to say that what is going on in Gaza can't be exported to any other 15 minute city once the label "terrorist run" is ascribed to it?
This channel aims to be broadly for freedom, including but not solely focused on medical freedom.
As the UK government is directly participating in what is going on in Gaza in at least seven ways, described in the article below, this is definitely a UK problem.
Some take sides with Sunak, Biden, Von der Leyen, and Netanyahu over this, others close their eyes to what former UN human rights commissioners who resigned from the UN over this are clearly describing as genocide.
We will not close our eyes, neither Cory, nor I.
We will keep our eyes open, wide open.
@RobinMG
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-icc-must-investigate-british-ministers-for-gaza-war-crimes-heres-how/
-One is a *medical* freedom movement
-The other is a broad freedom movement
Whereas the *medical* freedom movement is entitled to not cover what is going on in Gaza, the broader freedom movement is choosing to cover it.
Some who are in the *medical* freedom group are now actively against the broad freedom movement, trying to limit the rights to protest of those they disagree with.
Others in the *medical* freedom movement are now aligned with the UK government and giving them carte blanche to violate the right to life of Palestinian civilians, therefore actively mobilizing against the freedom of people of other ethnicities.
I would like to add that when people died after toxic injection in other countries, we cared for them and tried to defend them across borders, we didn't say "It's their problem, I'm not taking sides, they're in another country".
Indiscriminate bombs are the new toxicity. What's to say that what is going on in Gaza can't be exported to any other 15 minute city once the label "terrorist run" is ascribed to it?
This channel aims to be broadly for freedom, including but not solely focused on medical freedom.
As the UK government is directly participating in what is going on in Gaza in at least seven ways, described in the article below, this is definitely a UK problem.
Some take sides with Sunak, Biden, Von der Leyen, and Netanyahu over this, others close their eyes to what former UN human rights commissioners who resigned from the UN over this are clearly describing as genocide.
We will not close our eyes, neither Cory, nor I.
We will keep our eyes open, wide open.
@RobinMG
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-icc-must-investigate-british-ministers-for-gaza-war-crimes-heres-how/
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The times are so extreme that I even agree with Varoufakis..
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Civilians, just in case, eat on the street, while simultaneously watching the massive rocket fire from the IDF.
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"The "human shields" argument is like if London had responded to an IRA attack by dropping thousands of bombs on Belfast, killing thousands of Irish civilians and hundreds of children, and justifying its bombing campaign by calling it an unfortunate but necessary measure to take out the IRA's Belfast Brigade because they're located in the same places as civilians.
It's like if the western political/media class defended and supported the carpet bombing of Belfast, saying "All those thousands of deaths are the fault of the IRA, because they're in Belfast where the civilians are. England has a right to defend itself, after all."
It's like if Belfast was walled in with nowhere for civilians to escape to, and London carpet bombed it targeting schools, churches and hospitals, and the western press framed this relentless assault on civilian buildings as "the UK-IRA war" in which London is exclusively bombing "IRA targets in Belfast".
It's like if the British spent a week dropping military explosives on locations it knew were packed with Irish children, and anyone who criticized this was accused of anti-Britishism and blood libel."
Caitlin Johnstone
https://t.me/robinmg/31537
It's like if the western political/media class defended and supported the carpet bombing of Belfast, saying "All those thousands of deaths are the fault of the IRA, because they're in Belfast where the civilians are. England has a right to defend itself, after all."
It's like if Belfast was walled in with nowhere for civilians to escape to, and London carpet bombed it targeting schools, churches and hospitals, and the western press framed this relentless assault on civilian buildings as "the UK-IRA war" in which London is exclusively bombing "IRA targets in Belfast".
It's like if the British spent a week dropping military explosives on locations it knew were packed with Irish children, and anyone who criticized this was accused of anti-Britishism and blood libel."
Caitlin Johnstone
https://t.me/robinmg/31537
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Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
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