Suealla Braverman is no longer the Home Secretary! She’s gone! “Resigned” (sacked) after a minor difference of opinion with, pretty much, everybody. She upset the Prime Minister, pissed off the police, made enemies of the Pro-Palestinian marchers, royally aggravated the Labour party (most things do that) and only made friends with a group of neo-nazis. A step to the right a little too far for even her own party’s hard-liners.

The police ban far right wing marches, but not ‘far lefties’, was her point. Therefore it has bias. Which is odd because most people see the police as one step removed from the English Defence League anyway. Then she accused the Pro-Pally marches as being ‘hate marches’ as they descend into virulent antisemitism, but only a minority of the participants. Dressing up as Hamas fighters, using the star of David in a lot of horrible ways, singing ‘from the River to the Sea’ without accompaniment, nasty, but definitely a minority. Yet the fact remains that all the other, non-extremist, either totally committed to this (and pretty much any other) cause, or blissfully ignorant of the full meanings of what is shouted out or written ‘in their name’ marchers are happy to share the proverbial platform with these extremists.

The police were right not to ban the march. You simply can’t because then we no longer have the rights to free speech and protest which we should all protect with our very souls. But the marchers should themselves be sensitive to their environment and should have called it off. March next weekend. Tuesday morning. Thursday night. Because to insist on a march on Remembrance weekend is exceptionally disrespectful to pretty much the entire country. Other than those opposed to King and Government on principle in every way, who relish the opportunity to spit in the face of authority as well as ‘making their point’. And as that really describes the fundamental demographic of those marchers, it went full steam ahead.

The Right Wing extremists were there ‘to protect the Cenotaph’! Which they did by drinking 14 pints of lager each and singing football chants, then trying to engage the police in a big fight. They were basically there because they don’t like Muslims. Oddly, they used to not like Jews so we must presume a policy change in Nazi Central.

The irony being that the EDF feel suddenly ‘protective’ of Jews and Jewish sensitivity and accuse the hard left of anti-semitism. Which is weird because when Moseley and his blackshirts marched against the Jews in 1930s, it was the trade unionists and dockers who stood against them.

Never mind; Suella’s out now and David Cameron is in. In a new role as ‘Foreign Minister responsible for avoiding foreigners’, following his Brexit success. Even though he never wanted it himself. John Major is to be Ireland Secretary, Ted Heath is Welfare and Pensions and Winston Churchill gets the Ministry of Defence.

Happy Monday

A xxxx