A few hundred Cease the Battle activists gathered outdoors BBC Broadcasting Home on Saturday to protest in opposition to a potential battle with I
A few hundred Cease the Battle activists gathered outdoors BBC Broadcasting Home on Saturday to protest in opposition to a potential battle with Iran. They have been the standard ragbag of idlers, dreamers, misfits and malcontents. Many of those individuals are unable to understand the illogicality of their political positions. A chap promoting the Socialist declined to present me a replica free of charge.
‘In future every little thing will probably be shared,’ I mentioned, ‘so begin with this paper.’
‘I’ll share it with you,’ he smiled, ‘after you’ve shared your pound with me.’ I paid up and identified that the transaction had merely strengthened capitalism. ‘No, it’s constructing a system that can overthrow capitalism.’
A Marxist requested me to signal a petition in assist of ‘anti-Trumpists’ in America. I informed him I believed that Britain shouldn’t meddle in different international locations’ affairs.
‘Isn’t that the purpose of the march?’
‘We’re not meddling,’ he mentioned.
‘You’d clearly prefer to.’
‘The purpose is the Democrats aren’t robust sufficient to struggle Trumpism.’
The group set off for Trafalgar Sq., with their numbers strengthening as they moved down Regent Road. They waved placards and chanted political nursery-rhymes via loud-hailers:
‘One! Two! Three! 4!
No to Trump, and no to struggle.
5! Six! Seven! Eight!
Cease the killing, cease the hate.’
In Trafalgar Sq. they occupied lower than half the central space. Whole numbers? Three or 4 thousand maybe. A number of audio system warmed up the gang, together with Unite chief of workers Andrew Murray. One speaker referred to as Soleimani’s loss of life ‘an act of terror’, whose goal was to ‘save Trump’s pores and skin’ in the course of the upcoming impeachment course of.
Is that true? If that’s the case, which Republican senators supplied to assist the president provided that he vaporised an Iranian warlord?
An analogous argument was peddled by former Respect chief Salma Yaqoob. ‘We all know they wish to carry on this struggle,’ she mentioned.
Cease the Battle appeared that it wished the struggle to begin as a result of a battle would enhance its standing and make its doomster predictions come true.
The prize for the day’s most contradictory speech went to Steve Hedley of the RMT. He sneered at Trump as a ‘draft-dodger’, seemingly unaware that the avoidance of navy service is taken into account a excessive advantage by anti-war activists. He supplied few phrases of assist for the 9 Ukrainian airline workers killed by the Iranian regime, regardless that his union represents Rail, Maritime and Transport staff. And he completed with a name to arms. ‘No struggle however the class struggle,’ he shouted, failing to understand that the aim of Cease The Battle is to cease wars. And if he actually needs a ‘class struggle’ he ought to confront the members of his railway union who divide passengers into ‘commonplace’ and ‘first’ class.
Subsequent up, veteran activist Tariq Ali, who at all times carries himself with immense distinction. His thick white hair and raffish moustache have been offset by a pair of sunshades which gave him the air of a dictator-for-life. He made a brief speech after which launched the headline act.
‘Jeremy Corbyn is right here,’ he panted. ‘He has arrived. Welcome house. We’d like you right here.’
Corbyn approached the mike with a tartan scarf flapping round his neck. The group had already struck up a cry of ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ which at all times feels like a mourner’s dirge. However he was in no temper to indulge his worshippers by letting their music ring out throughout the sq.. He lower them off and plunged into his speech:
‘Mates, thanks all for being right here at present to be the voice for peace that’s desperately wanted on this nation and all around the globe.’
He supplied the feeblest condemnation of Iran for destroying a passenger-jet:
‘Let’s recognise the horror of the households of people who died within the airliner are affected by now…That is an appalling act and half of a complete sample of appalling acts all throughout the area.’
Transferring onto generalities, he urged the British authorities to assist ‘democracy, worldwide justice and human rights around the globe.’
He gave the impression of Miss United Kingdom expressing her hopes for mankind at a magnificence contest. He then delivered a plea for world peace in nearly indecipherable prose:
‘Let’s make this yr’s nuclear non-proliferation evaluate convention, at first of Could, an actual one – for as soon as – the place we recognise the potential energy of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to finish the proliferation of nuclear weapons and assist to result in nuclear disarmament around the globe.’
Hardly a candidate for the Dictionary of Quotations.
The unhappy reality about Cease the Battle is that their objective – to halt western adventurism within the Center East – is a wonderful one however they communicate solely to the grumble-bunnies of the far-left who loath prosperity and who lengthy for an anti-capitalist revolution. With higher leaders, Cease the Battle might win the…
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