Deranged lashing out against ‘Putin bots’ doesn’t help the case of hack associated with security services’ sabotage of UK left and supporter of war
Hack Paul Mason – the ‘left’ journalist whose connections and plotting with the UK security services against the left were exposed by The Grayzone in 2022 – has gone full fascist as the Establishment goes into meltdown following George Galloway’s landslide victory over Labour in the Rochdale by-election in the early hours of Friday morning.
While Sunak has threatened deportation for pro-Gaza protesters and Keir Starmer responded by praising Sunak’s ‘leadership’ – and Galloway has made no secret of his contempt for both ‘leaders’ – Mason reacted by suggesting some kind of parliamentary shutdown of the MP resoundingly elected by the people of Rochdale, bizarrely dressing up this assault on Rochdale voters’ decision as ‘militant democracy’.
It didn’t go well.
Mason began with a call to ‘isolate and ostracise’ Galloway before moving onto a bizarre insistence that the Rochdale result – in which Labour’s vote share fell by more than 85% to considerably lower than the Conservative candidate’s tally – was because of Tory Islamophobia, instead of the rampant Islamophobia of Starmer and his faction.
He then gave full rein to his ego by demanding that ‘I don’t want to see any left activists’ happy about Starmer’s bloodied nose in Rochdale – and laughably including himself as ‘we’ when talking about the left movement:
He then attacked, with a sinister and thinly-veiled threat of action under national security legislation, Galloway’s right to speak his mind in the Commons chamber as ‘Russian TV-style disinfo – farcical when the UK media are lying to the public about events in Gaza and Ukraine daily, and both telling and feeble when the preamble to the 2023 Act says its purpose is to protect ‘freedom of speech… that [is] essential to the UK’s democracy‘. He rounded off with a call for ‘all democratic parties’, by which he presumably (and equally laughably) included Labour and the Tories, to unite against this threat of (not to) democracy:
Galloway responded promptly by reminding Mason of the parliamentary privilege enjoyed by MPs against action for anything they say in the chamber:
Mason quickly trended on Twitter, betraying his paranoid delusions by blaming this on Russian ‘bots’ rather than mockery of his ridiculousness, a fact that was quickly pointed out to him:
Others pointed out Mason’s security service connections – and revelled in the fact that Galloway is again an MP while Mason has been rejected repeatedly as a Labour candidate despite sucking up desperately to Starmer and his handlers:
The way Galloway's voter-powered return to the political stage has put the shits up every kind of power-serving lackey should terrify us: it is a direct measure of *how successfully* they have all been controlling and suppressing the issues and voices that Galloway will now, they fear, be more able to highlight. Literally the only noticeable fly in the elite ointment is Galloway -- and they know it.
It's an unmasking of the elite consensus equivalent to the one we saw when the emergence of Corbyn's lukewarm social democratic programme proved how terrifyingly interconnected and extreme were all elements of the neoliberal-neoimperial establishment -- as they all united to crush the risk of even the mildest progressive change.
M.
Look out also for the collective punishment of Rochdale..
The people of Rochdale can’t be seen to get away with this, and must be forced into corrective action at the next election. Otherwise, goodness knows, the floodgates could open!
If Rochdale has a labor council that could be the first step - censure, and a refusal to work with Galloway after some kind of a false allegation of guess what (?)
This could be a fight like no other.
Re: Look out also for the collective punishment of Rochdale..
With the G.E. possibly just a few months away, who will Labour patachute in? All eyes on Andrew Feinstein in Starmer's constituency. He said yesterday if the community want him to stand he will.