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7 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
David Lammy's repeated insistence on using Churchill - a man who had striking miners shot ("fill their bellies with lead") - in numerous speeches of his as a symbol of human rights & civil liberties, is continually repellent.
Of course it's perfectly true that the tradition of political liberty has been suffused with revolting hypocrites and vultures - but it is the task for people nominally on the left, to try to craft a solid narrative about freedom. Use better symbols and figures!
Oh who am I kidding? This is just the Labour Party, I guess. 😩
Oh and fwiw the full Churchill quote really displays the callousness:

"If the Welsh are striking over hunger, we must fill their bellies with lead".

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People often reference Starmer's involvement with the McLibel case to showcase his left-wing credentials, but it's worth noting that the person who helped write the leaflet which the libel case concerned itself with was a spycop infiltrator named Bob Lambert.

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This is a good point fwiw. A lot of the terminology around this ("libertarian" etc) conceals the fact that our opponents actually quite like the state! It's just that they want to use the state to orient it in a way that benefits a particular class interest.
The mainstream left-right divide has *never* really been a debate about whether one is pro or anti state but always about how one wishes to use it.

When people on the right of this divide accuse say a keynsian of being a mad statist, they're correct but also hypocritical!
The people who actually do have serious qualms about the nature of the state are always excluded.

This is crucial!
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Ish. A lot of the failures of preventing to stop it imo are more placed within the strategic orientation of the movement itself.

A lot of the mobilising efforts were for organising one off (but country wide) "days of action".

That model isn't good enough.

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I'd go much further though into saying something a bit more provocative - namely that it's not just that the "rule of law" (in its idealised form) doesn't exist, it's that they actively hate the idea of it and would never want it actually enforced.
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But crucially this is a PR ruse. They hate the idea - naturally so! If implemented it would threaten their power!
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