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Priyamvada Gopal

@PriyamvadaGopal

Feb 16

We know who will win the British elections in 2024: Britain's governing class.

Ordinary British people have already lost whether they recognise this now or not.

It is in this context that we have to repeatedly deal with the fatuous sub-juvenile question: 'why, do you want the Tories to win?'

Personally, grateful to Keir Starmer for his clarifying statement making clear that Labour Party's allegiance is to power & profit. From now on, the sacred democratic duty of holding power to account will have to be undertaken by millions of ordinary people. The duty of protest.

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Priyamvada Gopal

@PriyamvadaGopal

Feb 15

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1625787745707737088

Who will form a party of protest? Protest, challenge, interrogation, opposition, questioning--those things are the lifeblood of real democracy. Not the 'service' of the rich.

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1625787745707737088

Anyway, glad to know I don't have to vote for Labour assuming they will carry my protest to Parliament. At least we are agreed on that.

"Service" is the classic bullshit term used by the rich to pretent swanning around and throwing a few crumbs here and there is the way to keep society running (See, e.g. Royal Family 'service'. 'Service's' main point is to keep the majority of us 'servile'.

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Priyamvada Gopal

@PriyamvadaGopal

Feb 15

Heard some fascinating things on picket today. One student's lecturer was teaching today, & when the student pressed him on why, the lecturer answered: 'I'll participate in industrial action only if it become truly disruptive'.

The pickets are insufficiently radical for them.

Another person, white male but not a student, crossed the picket, saying 'I'm a foreigner, it doesn't concern me.'

That's not how it works, but you do you.

It was an incredibly polite picket, anyone who wanted to get through was simply offered a leaflet. Didn't stop one individual posting an outright lie anonymously online claiming 'militant strikers' were on that pickets not letting them return books. If this is militant, dear god.

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Priyamvada Gopal

@PriyamvadaGopal

Oct 19, 2022

So pointless reminding the likes of Suella that if it wasn't for the 'wokerati', she wouldn't be in the UK, be educated, be a lawyer, enter the professions, be able to vote, be able to stand for elected office & be a minister. All we can do is to stand up to the lies.

This is the tragic burden of those who fight for change: clearing the path for hypocritical dross. Still we persevere, there's no other moral choice.

Many I know are personally heartsick at having helped cleared the path for institutional collaborators who never took a single risk themselves. But the alternative is silence.

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Priyamvada Gopal

@PriyamvadaGopal

Oct 19, 2022

Braverman's despicable & authoritarian Public Order Bill need not remind us of Russia, Iran or Egypt.

It is the British Empire's response to any form of resistance. Harsh, violent anti-protest & sedition measures kept by postcolonial states--& now coming home. Warned against.

Other countries, including Nazi Germany, took inspiration from the Empire's playbook. Again, imperial amnesia means the familiar is not recognised & treated as alien. So we can perpetuate the myth that Britain is the home of democracy & freedom.

British dissidents--one thinks of Frederic Harrison's Six Letters on Martial Law--repeatedly warned that harsh measures to clamp down on protest in the colonies would come home.

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