Labour Party

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The Labour Party is a Marxist political party in the United Kingdom founded on February 15, 1906, which describes itself as socialist. The party anthem is We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here. It has been, since 1924, the principal parliamentary party of The Left in Britain, but has never held it in Northern Ireland. Labour won the United Kingdom General Election on 4 July 2024 and now has 402 sitting Members, out of 650, in the UK Parliament.[1]

It is today the largest party in the Welsh Assembly[2]; but only the third party in the Scottish Parliament (with a mere 22 seats out of 129).

At the end of 2021 the Labour Party had 432,000 members in the UK[3], making it the country's largest political party, by far.

Labour's UK leader since 4 April 2020 has been Sir Keir Starmer, who has only been a Member of Parliament since 2015. He had previously practised as a Human Rights barrister. Since July 2024 he has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Labour promotes aliens and women at the expense of the indigenous population, and men. In 2024, 90 of the United Kingdom's Members of Parliament were non-white, 66 of whom were members of the Labour Party, the largest proportion by far of any party.[4]

History

In the 20th century the Labour Party and its "conscience", the Fabian Society, moved from forms of Humanism etc., to adopt Marxism, and gradually replaced the Liberal Party as the main Left-wing opposition to the Conservative Party, in 1924. It had several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-31, then as a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940-1945, and then as a majority government, under Clement Attlee in 1945-51. They returned to office under Harold Wilson in 1964-70, and again in 1974-79 under Wilson and James Callaghan, though with a precarious and declining majority, losing to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party in May 1979. They remained out of office until 1997.

So-called New Labour won a 179 seat majority (on a voter turnout of just 59.4%) in the 1997 General Election under the leadership of Tony Blair, its first general election victory since October 1974 and their largest vote since the General Election of 1970, in which it gained 40.7% of the vote.[5] Under Blair, Labour had increasingly been the recipient of large private donations. They collected £10.5 million from fundraising in 1996 and £6 million came in through "high value" donations before the election. Donors included Matthew Harding, the Chelsea Football Club Vice-Chairman, and Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One racing chief, who both gave one million pounds. Four of the new Labour Life Peers, all Jewish, had given donations of more than £5000 in 1996: David Sainsbury, Chairman of the supermarket chain, Sir David Puttnam, the film producer, Michael Montague, homosexual businessman, and Ruth Rendell, the crime authoress. Other donors included Jeremy Irons, the actor, and Jewish publisher Paul Hamlyn. Labour Life Peer, Swraj Paul, an Indian, also contributed through his family's steel business, the Caparo Group. Company donations increaswed markedly. the largest, more than £1 million, came from the Political-Animal Lobby to support Labour's opposition to foxhunting.[6]

Blair's Labour Party went on to vandalise the British Constitution, notably the judicial system and especially attacking the House of Lords, great 'hate symbols' for socialists. They set the seeds of the dissolution of the United Kingdom with devolution for Wales and Scotland which their own member of parliament, Tam Dalyell, called "The End of Britain". The political commentator Peter Hitchins called it "a slow-motion revolution".[7][8]

The Labour Party's large majority in the House of Commons was slightly reduced to 167 in the 2001 General Election and more substantially reduced to 66 in 2005. On 6 May 2010 Labour were defeated by David Cameron's Conservatives who gained a 78 seat majority (65% turnout). Labour remained out of office for 14 years.

In the General Election held on 7 May, 2015, the Labour Party emerged with just 232 seats (30.4% of the national vote),[9] and were wiped out in Scotland. Its Jewish leader, Ed Miliband resigned the following day. He was followed by the Far-Left Jeremy Corbyn who caused considerable controversy (as discussed in the article on him.) Labour again lost the general election, under him, in December 2019 and he subsequently stood down.

After 14 years of Conservative Party government the country had become hopelessly disillusioned. On a voter turnout of just 59.9% Labour won the General Election held on 4 July 2024, gaining a majority in the House of Commons of 174 seats. They however had the lowest vote share, 33.7% (and only 23% of the total electorate), of any government in the 20th century.

Supporters of aggression

The Labour Party have a long history of predatory bloodlust and war-mongering, especially when it comes to causes which are not in the true interests of the British people; especially in modern times. They were amongst the most enthusiastic supporters of the Second World War through participating in the Focus Group and ramping up propaganda against Germany. At this time, many of their rivals wanted peace in Europe and worked for it feverishly (including both Lloyd-George and Neville Chamberlain) but Labour wanted war. They eventually worked with Winston Churchill in government, resulting in the destruction of Europe and incineration of over one million civilians, the brainwashing of the population of occupied Europe with Liberal-Socialist dogmas and ideologies, the loss of the British Empire and realistic British influence as a great power, furthering the aims of internationalism and globalism. They support Britain remaining a member of NATO despite the Cold War being over since 1992, and despite knowing that NATO is just a proxy force for the United States. In this respect Blair's Labour government took the United Kingdom into the Iraq War at the behest of the USA on false premises.[10]

Jewish controversies

The Party has supported Zionism in foreign policy and in domestic affairs and has had a strong Jewish influence, especially since the 1970s with the infiltration of Trotskyist groups such as Militant. Under Zionist Tony Blair, they were the architects[11] of the very unpopular participation in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, which over a million people protested against, and in which hundreds of young British soldiers were killed, for no obvious benefit to Britain.

Under Jeremy Corbyn the party hierarchy adopted what was seen to be a more robust policy towards Israel and her genocide against the original Arab population of Palestine, who had lived there long before the advent of Mohammedism and possibly even before the arrival of any Jews in that region. Naturally the Jewish Lobby being immensely powerful all manner of execration was heaped upon Corbyn who was given the blanket label of "anti-semitic". For someone who had been in Parliament for so long he should have realised this was an untouchable subject. Ultimately it assisted in his downfall as leader.

The Far-Left Wikipedia has an entire page titled "Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party" as part of their series of pages dedicated to "Antisemitism". (Really, you couldn't make it up.)

Quotes

I do not believe much in the limited idea of an international police force which is to be merely a sort of super-force over a large number of national armies, navies and air forces. We believe that it is necessary to get rid of all national armies, navies and air forces and to substitute an international police force for it. You have to go the whole way. We ought to envisage the creation of an international police force as a deliberate attempt to build up a World State.
Clement Attlee, 13 December 1933, House of Commons.[12]
There has long been a Zionist presence in the Labour Party. Poale Zion, linked with the Israeli Labour Party, affiliated in 1920, and the Labour Friends of Israel could count on a wide range of MPs and some union leaders for support. The Labour government's backing for Israel, extending as we now know to secret nuclear collaboration, was important in the 1967 war which led to the conquest of so much territory.
Charlie Pottins, 1 April 2006, Harold Wilson's Handler?[13]
The British Labour Party had been linked to the Evangelical movement since its beginnings and this usually involved sympathy for Zionism. Despite the fact that the influence of the Evangelicals in Britain was waning, the Labour Party still tended to voice a positive opinion on Zionism. In October 1938, the Labour Party reiterated its support for the ideal of the Balfour Declaration, declaring, "As early as 1917 British Labour declared its support of the Jewish desire to establish a Homeland in Palestine."
David W. Schmidt, 2011, Partners Together in This Great Enterprise
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Tam Dalyell named 'Lord' Levy (Tony Blair's personal envoy on the Middle East), Peter Mandelson (whose father was Jewish), and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, as three of the leading figures who had influenced Blair's policies on the Middle East. He told The Daily Telegraph: "If it is a question of launching an assault on Syria or Iran… then one has to be candid." Blair, he said, was also indirectly influenced by Jewish people in the Bush administration, including Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, and Ari Fleischer, the President's press secretary.
Stuart Littlewood, 29 June 2013.[14]

See also

External links

References

  1. https://members.parliament.uk/parties/Commons
  2. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/full-list-wales-60-members-20532580
  3. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05125/
  4. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123206/non-white-mps-in-uk-parliament-by-political-party
  5. Butler, David, & Kavanagh, Dennis, The British General Election of 1997, Macmillan, London, 1997. ISBN: 0-333-64775-0.
  6. Daily Telegraph, London, 12 November 1997
  7. Sutherland, Keith, editor, The Rape of the Constitution?, various contributors, Imprint Academic UK, 2000, ISBN: 0-907845-70-3
  8. Murray, Andrew, A New Labour Nightmare, Verso pubs. London, 2003, ISBN: 1-85984-552-5
  9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2015-32594267?ocid=socialflow_facebook
  10. Wood, Nicholas, War Crime or Just War?-The Iraq War 2003-2005 - The case Against Blair, edited by Anabella Pellens, South Hill Press, London, 2005, ISBNN: 0-9528443-1-1.
  11. MP's who voted for war with Iraq. Karl Winn. Retrieved on 14 March 2012.
  12. The NWO: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories. Western Spring. Retrieved on 14 March 2013.
  13. Harold Wilson's Handler?. Random Pottins. Retrieved on 14 March 2012.
  14. Cameron’s 'Torah' government. My Catbird Seat. Retrieved on 14 March 2013.
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