What would a left wing coalition government look like in Ireland? Just look across the water and you will see a lot more death. That’s a taste of things to come.
When you are a conservative voter like me and Labour get elected in the UK, you make your peace with it. Ok that’s not quite true. About a year before the election I anticipated the win and decided to move the entire family back from London to Ireland. Sure, that wasn’t the entire reason we moved, and some might say it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire but it was in the mix. Sure enough the election victory came and Sir Keir entered number 10 as the first Labour Prime Minister since Tony Blair.
How bad could it be, you ask yourself? Maybe they will do what they were created to do. Protect the working man. Build some houses. Get a hold of the out of control immigration numbers that have been under cutting Labour communities for decades. That’s not what we got.
Instead, what the British voter has been subjected to is a series of changes that taken together are not just dangerous but bizarre. I say bizarre, as it is the only word that I can think of for a government that brings in all of these changes at once and in such a short period of time. I can understand a single change (even though I thoroughly disagree with it) but this Parliament has spent its time chasing after the weak and vulnerable. It’s deeply unsettling.
Early on Starmer made sure all the “Far–Right Thugs” who got angry over the stabbing to death of three girls at a dance class in Southport were sent to prison. Fair enough you might say, but there wasn’t really anything fair in the sentence of grandfather Peter Lynch who was banged up pretty much straight away despite serious health conditions and then he took his own life in prison.
And there wasn’t anything fair in the sentence of Lucy Connolly who sent a very stupid tweet and then deleted it. She did not – like Kneecap – have the benefit of 6 lawyers, 3 of whom were senior counsel, so she pleaded guilty and received a lengthy term imprisonment despite strong mitigating circumstances.
Those riots were all connected to people who have had enough of the immigration regime in Britain. They had also had enough of the “grooming gangs.” These were gangs of Pakistani men who preyed on white working – class girls for years. Lots of people spoke out against this, including Irish passport holder Tommy Robinson, but they were all called racist. When things came to a head after Christmas due to Elon Musk, Starmer resisted a full public inquiry into the Muslim rape gangs and accused those who demanded one of “jumping on the far – right bandwagon.”
Last week, Starmer jumped on that bandwagon due to the publication of the Casey report. I wrote about that here. In short, Labour spent months refusing an inquiry into rape gangs, which had been covered up for years, only to cave to pressure eventually. That was at the start of last week.
Last week was a bad one if you were a pre-born infant or a vulnerable old person. First, the feminists in the Labour party hijacked a standard policing bill to push through a measure that decriminalised abortion for women up to birth. This does not mean women can procure an abortion legally in England at 6 or 7 or 8 months pregnant (although that will be the next demand.) But it does greatly reduce the legal protection for pre – born late term infants under the criminal law. This mirrors the current law that Ireland voted for at the last referendum.
Against this background the Labour government are preparing to cut disability payments. This is after they made cuts to the old folks (many of whom will be older Irish immigrants) winter fuel allowance, a move so unpopular Starmer had to perform a partial U–turn. Although welfare payments are unsustainable it is expected some MPs will rebel.
So after making things worse for the old and the disabled, on Friday Parliament voted for ‘assisted dying’. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has now cleared the House of Commons by 23 votes and goes to the Lords. Many Labour MPs on the left of the party voted against this bill, saying correctly that it will make life much more difficult for vulnerable people.
What it also changes is the culture. There will now be a cultural expectation that those at the end of their lives just hurry up and put themselves and their family out of their misery. The public supported this measure – unlike the abortion one – but it still sets up a dangerous regime. Doctors can proactively suggest the option of assisted dying to a patient and final oversight of the High Court is being replaced by a panel that is neither a court nor a tribunal. Despite all the concerns Parliament voted the bill through anyway.
There you have it. In one week Britain has become a hostile environment for pre-born infants and the old, sick and disabled. It’s sad to see.
There are a few things that make this entire Labour show bizarre. I don’t think you have to be Catholic or worry about the culture of death to think that focusing on changes that will result in more death – more dead pre-born infants and more dead sick and vulnerable people – is weird. Also, none of these issues were in the Labour manifesto before the general election. They are niche issues pushed through either in a Private members bill or amendments to governments bills by MPs who want to be seen as relevant. Sure, they believe in the change but that only makes matters worse.
The election was fought on the cost of living crisis and ending the small boats crisis. Labour were not voted into office to make a very liberal abortion regime more liberal and introduce assisted dying in a socialised health system that is getting worse. People wanted more money put into the NHS but I doubt it was to build a lethal injection ward.
But this is always what you get these days – niche issues pushed on the public. And it is exactly what you’d have in Ireland. The ordinary Irish voter votes in say Labour and Sinn Fein hoping this lot might fix the housing crisis or stand up for their own working class consistencies in the face of the open border maniacs who keep opening IPAs centres in their already underfunded towns. Is that what you get? No.
What you will get with a left wing coalition will be: an assisted dying bill, more transgender rainbow nonsense, a move to liberalise the abortion law, more hate speech law and a couple of other bat shit crazy measures I can’t even think of right now because I’m not a bat shit crazy person. Oh yes, they will bore on about not having the children prepare for their communion and confirmation in the schools because that’s right at the top of the list of priorities for families right now. Give me strength.
I might not be mystic meg but I know a political trend when I see one. You have been warned.