Trouble Ahead... and It's Not Just from Islamist Killers!

We've had a rough time recently in the UK with terrorist murders in London and Manchester - and these vile assassins may strike again in the coming months. Fortunately, we've got our police, the army and our security services to protect us. But there are now threats of more riots, serious anti-social behaviour and unruly demonstrations on our streets. So where are the threats coming from? Well—there are escalating numbers of potentially violent Labour lefties. But there are also "nice" liberals who write for newspapers like The Guardian and broadcast freely on our once cherished and previously not too biased BBC.

It's been a while since Jeremy Corbyn was a student at the then notoriously left-wing Polytechnic of North London and for many years he has defied his Labour whips and opposed a whole host of reasonable measures in our House of Commons. Suddenly, however, his time appears to have come. He steadfastly refused to attend an Armed Forces Day memorial ceremony 15 minutes from Glastonbury, where he addressed fawning crowds and later declared his support for the "peace movement" while pulling pints for music revellers.

His Shadow, Chancellor John McDonnell, called for massive numbers to protest on the "Day of Rage" demonstration after the Grenfell Tower fire, where only a few hundred turned up. But on the last day at Glastonbury, "Money Tree" McDonnell appeared on LeftField with Guardian journalist John Harris to claim that the Grenfell Tower victims were "murdered by political decisions" over decades when not enough houses were built and the fire services were cut. Corbyn's former love-interest and Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, blamed the Grenfell Tower fire on the Tories, who she said considered people in social housing as "second class citizens" who were given "second class standards of safety."

Diane, who suffers from diabetes, hasn't always been brilliant with numbers—so would extra police cost "an additional £3000 ... or perhaps £30,000 ... or maybe £3million?" She disappeared the last time she floundered with numbers, but after the Grenfell Tower disaster, she was back on stage with more blunders at a Labour conference. First off she referred to Grenfell Tower as Grenfell House and claimed it was 23 rather than 24 stories high. "Grenfell House is not just an accident," she declared. "It is not just an unfortunate incident. Those hundreds of people (80 actually) died as a direct consequence of Tory attitudes to social housing." So overall Diane was out on the fatalities by well over 200!

None of this matters too much for our class warrior, Jeremy. He feels he's got the youngsters on board, and if anything gets even marginally out of line, his supporters will cause trouble. A little while back police in East London stopped a young black man—Edir Frederico Da Costa—in his car. Edir, known as Edson to his friends, was taken to hospital where, six days later, he died. As a consequence, on Sunday June 26, angry, mainly black, demonstrators rioted in East London with Black Lives Matter posters. They lit fires, while throwing bricks at windows and at our police, injuring six officers.

So where to next, and how are our "nice" lib lefties responding in the media? Well—in a word, irresponsibly! The Guardian recently had a cartoon by Mark Rowson that blamed the Finsbury Park Mosque attack by deranged Welsh alcoholic Darren Osborne on The Sun and The Daily Mail—two of our most popular UK newspapers! But then Guardian writer Sophie Haewood wrote that she looked forward to the day when all Daily Mail readers (over three million) were dead! This is pretty grim stuff in our left/lib media. But Sophie Haewood's brother, Jonathan, is a former Labour parliamentary candidate and is presently CEO of IMPRESS, which is supposedly an independent press monitoring organisation.

Fake news is almost as popular on the British left as it was with Donald in the US. We have an alarming crescendo of it coming from the Labour left pretty well on a daily basis. First off, during the recent election campaign, there were allegations that Theresa May was anti-lesbian and that her husband Phillip was a director of G4S, which runs prisons, and it was alleged that he was therefore corruptly benefiting from G4S links to our Government. Both of these allegations were totally without foundation. But possibly the most damaging Labour lefty fake news evolved around Byron Davies, the Tory MP for Gower in Wales, who had a 27 seat majority. In the run-up to the last election, Davies's Facebook page was bombarded with obscene and hostile messages—with an escalating number of nasty and untrue allegations arriving daily. The man was horrendously defamed by Facebook's "Byron Davies Watch" group and eventually, his seat went to Labour's schoolteacher, Tonia Antoniazzi, a member—would you believe—of Facebook's 300-member "Byron Davies Watch" group!

The omens just now are not good for most of us in the UK. If we don't get another Islamist assault soon, it would seem that Labour inspired riots are definitely on the horizon. But on the light side: our mainly lib/left teachers are doing their best by responding to suggestions from Dr. Joanna Williams that lessons on transgender life "just confuse primary pupils." In response, teachers at the forefront on transgender issues are proposing that all parents should buy and read a book called Dogs Don't Do Ballet—so there we have it!!

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