The Independent has run a story on the close links between the Left and Islamist extremists…but just how far up the political Left’s chain of command does the UAF/Islamist influence reach? Just how entangled is the Labour Party with Unite Against Fascism?
And does the BBC show any interest in the close ties between the Labour Party leader and the UAF?
The BBC has no excuse not to be all over this…a Labour leader in hock to a union which is trying to rig elections and which has close ties to an extremist, violent ‘anti-Fascist’ group in league with extremist Islamists.
What’s not to like for any journalist worth his salt?
Why is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?
The article is based upon a report which calls out the left for embracing fundamentalists……
Siding With The Oppressor….The Pro-Islamist Left
The BBC are not interested in such stories important thought they are, just how important you may only realise once you start looking a bit more deeply.
But what if it was the ‘Right’, the Tories, who were joining forces with some extremist ideologues? The BBC would make that front page news….Panorama, Newsnight and Today would be all over that story.
What if….
What if Cameron had become Tory leader only because of the financial and strategic backing of a powerful political lobby group?
What if that lobby group then tried to take over the Tory party by packing the constituency party groups with its own people in order to ensure the selection of candidates to become MPs who would do the bidding of the lobby group?
What if that lobby group’s political director was also chairman of the EDL and he had close ties to Cameron?
What if a Tory MP was also one of the ‘elected officers’ of the EDL?
What if the Tory Mayor of London was an ‘honorary president’ of the EDL?
What if the EDL then joined forces with an extremist far right group that advocated killing Gays, Jews, beating wives and imposing a strict, oppressive, backward legal regime upon anyone under its influence?
What if the Mayor of London invites a leading ‘scholar’ from that extremist group to the UK and defended his views as ‘moderate’, as the view of a highly respected scholar who is a leading figure in his community?
You might think that is all a bit far fetched….but as with the best stories it is all based on fact…just the names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Instead of Cameron how about ‘Ed Miliband’? The lobby group? The Unite union.
Unite’s, until recently, political director, Steve Hart, is chairman of the violent activist group Unite Against Fascism…the UAF.
Steve Hart has been replaced by Jennie Formby as political director at Unite but she is of the same mindset:
Jennie Formby @JennieUnite 22 Jun Join us in telling the Home Secretary that #PeddlersOfHate Geller and Spencer are not welcome in the UK http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/refuse-them-a-visa …
Hart still works for Unite in their newly created think tank ‘CLASS’….which has as its media and policy expert one Owen Jones.
Dan Hodges in the Telegraph tells us that Jones is Miliband’s blue eyed boy at the moment, untouchable for some reason:
I’ve just taken a call from a shadow cabinet adviser who asked me whether I’d seen the Daily Politics, with Owen Jones and Labour MP Simon Danczuk crossing swords over welfare. I said I had. (Owen got a proper shoeing from the Honourable Member for Rochdale, by the way.)
“Well, Simon’s going to find he’s in trouble for that. Ed’s office have told people we’re not allowed to criticise Owen Jones,” they said. So I checked with another shadow cabinet source, and it’s true. Apparently, Owen Jones is the Labour Party equivalent of a “Made Man”.
It’s been an open secret in Labour circles for some time that Miliband’s office have been courting the 29-year-old Independent journalist, with one insider saying Miliband’s senior adviser Stewart Wood has been acting as his “handler”.
So you can see how Hart, still chair of UAF, has contacts all the way to the top of the Labour party…and not just through Jones:
Steve Hart has been at the heart of London Labour politics for over a decade, having forged close relations with Ken Livingstone’s mayoral administration. When Livingstone’s former chief of staff, Simon Fletcher moved in to a senior position at the London Labour party before the last election, Hart’s influence increased.
When the continuity Kennites took control of key positions in the London Labour party after the general election, Steve Hart’s role in London Labour grew.
And when Simon Fletcher joined Ed Miliband’s office with responsibility for union liaison, earlier this year, Hart’s personal connections extended right to the top of the party.
CLASS is a Unite ‘front’ organisation:
The Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) is a new think tank established in 2012 to act as a centre for left debate and discussion. Originating in the labour movement, Class works with a broad coalition of supporters, academics and experts to develop and advance alternative policies for today.
It works from the same address as Unite:
128 Theobalds Road,
London WC1X 8TN
Unite, Unite House,
128 Theobald’s Road,
Holborn, London, WC1X 8TN
Labour MP Peter Hain is an elected officer of the UAF.
Ken Livingstone is honorary president of the UAF.
The UAF has close ties to Islamist groups. One of its vice chairmen being Islamist Azad Ali.
Unite has been caught trying to rig elections in its favour by packing the membership of Labour constituencies with Unite members:
Revealed: The document that explains how Unite intends to take over the Labour party
It’s a major decision to accuse Labour’s biggest donor of packing a constituency with ringers and trying to subvert a parliamentary selection, but one that was inescapable given the facts.
Uncut understands that in the last three months of 2012, the membership of Falkirk West CLP increased by over half – from 200 members, it grew by 130 to 330.
These weren’t members attracted by the magic of Arnie Graf’s community organising, or an inspirational Ed Miliband speech.
They were shipped in, en masse, by Unite.
Why did Steve Hart leave his position as Unite’s political director?…….because he failed to keep the machiavellian scheme to take Labour over out of the Press:
Steve Hart was national political director of a political operation that is seen to be misfiring. The fiasco over the selection of Labour’s European candidates is symptomatic of a wider problem.
The issue for Hart within the union is not the fixing – no one in the union disagrees with the goal of installing Unite placemen and women as Labour candidates.
The problem has been the scrutiny and headlines generated by the clumsy nature of the fixing. Motions criticising the selection process have rippled across London CLPs with the row making front page news in the national press.
Len McCluskey has had to publicly defend Unite’s conduct and the union has become embroiled in a running row that has made Unite activity in candidate selection an increasingly sensitive topic within the Labour party.
This is not how a political operation is meant to work. The dark arts require shadows, not the harsh spotlight of national newspaper stories.
Still, at least someone on the Left has woken up to some aspects of the ‘moderate face of Islam’ so beloved of the BBC:
As a little footnote to my piece on the Turkish protests, a little nugget I have just discovered (h/t: Harry’s Place). In what seems now like quite a prescient interview earlier this year, King Abdullah of Jordan is quoted as saying the following:
”Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride,” Abdullah told the Atlantic. ”Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off.”
In the context of the reaction to the protests, and the frustrating comments of many that he is a “moderate”, I find these words particularly chilling
Whilst the BBC report the goings on in Falkirk West where Unite tried to rig things in their favour they look no further, they turn over no stones even though the work has been done for them….more often than not by Left wing blogs.
The BBC has no excuse not to be all over this…a Labour leader in hock to a union which is trying to rig elections and which has close ties to an extremist, violent ‘anti-Fascist’ group in league with extremist Islamists.
What’s not to like for any journalist worth his salt?
UAF’s honorary presidents are Ken Livingstone and Doreen Lawrence.
Our elected officers for 2013 are:
Chair
– Steve Hart, political officer, Unite
Vice chair – Christine Blower, general secretary, NUT
Vice chair – Hugh Lanning, deputy general secretary, PCS
Vice chair – Azad Ali
Vice chair – Jennifer Moses, national official for equality and training, NASUWT
Treasurer – Jane Loftus, deputy general secretary, CWU
Joint secretary – Weyman Bennett
Joint secretary – Sabby Dhalu
Assistant secretary – Brian Richardson
Assistant secretary – Jude Woodward
Parliamentary Officer – Peter Hain MP
European officer – Claude Moraes MEP
European officer – Glyn Ford
Unite’s think tank CLASS and its officers:
Steve Hart, Chair – Political Director at Unite the Union (no longer)
Tim Roache, President – Regional Secretary at GMB
Geoff Shears, Vice President – President of Union Solidarity International
Christine Blower – NUT
Manuel Cortes – TSSA
Keith Ewing – Kings College London
Billy Hayes – CWU
John Hendy QC
Carolyn Jones – Director of the Institute of Employment Rights
James McGowan – Head of Policy and Communications at ASLEF
Andrew Murray – Chief of Staff at Unite the Union
Dave Watson – Senior Policy Advisor at PCS
the national socalist labour party left and the far left uaf etc are the new right and the far right,these people constantly complain without any proof that if ever the bnp or there arch enemys the edl ever got in power they would deny them there freedom of speech,but hang on hypocrites with double standards,you are the ones who want to deny the edl there freedom of speech ,you are the ones who wanted to ban democrats like geller and spencer from the uk,you are the ones who violenty attack anybody that does not agree with your far left islamist/ideology,you are the one who discriminate against anybody with centre right views including ukip supporters,the true far right fascists can be seen on any demo posing as uaf supporters shoulder to shoulder with there islamist allies,you have been outed and wont fool us anymore and.as a footnote concerning the fake uaf,when are the police going to arrest the ex vice chair of the uaf martin smith for the alleged allegations of rapes and i stress alleged rapes made by 2 young female members of the socalist workers party.nobody is above the law martin smith in this country.
solid again Alan, what, about the right though?
Cameron is a signatory?
Warsi and the OIC? how about giving that absurd Islamophobia task force, legitimacy eh! is Taylor still there Steen, Bottomley, Garnier on the UAF
(for anyone who wants to rectify low blood pressure)
Click to access islamophobiabriefing.pdf
Stuart Andrew, Eric Ollerenshaw, Lord Sheik, Peter Bottomley, Iain Stuart, Dr Julian Lewis all Tories, all on the this nonsensical set up Lib Dems like Simon Hughes … which Simon Hughes
THIS Simon Hughes …
“We need you [Muslims] to lead our politics” says Simon Hughes.
So who is this “we”? Who gave Hughes the right to speak for all of us? Why does Hughes, a gay liberal, say that we need Muslims (who are very broadly anti-Liberal, anti-Gay, and not progressive on women’s rights) to govern us? I can only think he was carried away by the vibes from the audience and, like many cynical politicians, told them what he thought they wanted to hear. This kind of psycho-passive worship of otherness, in the face of so much evidence, is ruining Britain.
“Islamophilila “… D Murray
“kowtowing, Murray details, is not limited to minor incidents, or petty individuals, but extends through the highest ranks of Western society.
Tony Blair, David Cameron, Gen. John Allen, Simon Hughes MP and others are shown up for their swooning praise for Islam and its prophet.”
add to that in capital letters … B B C
Heartily recommend this book of Douglas Murray( ebook, £4.99).
Funny, and a shafting of the craven lefty elite that suck up to Islam, whilst fearlessly trampling on the empty nests of dead churches.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-23143625
I see the BBC failed to make this a prominent article, just like they failed to amend the article which attacked the EDL in regards to the Muswell Hill fire, long before there was a grain of evidence to support their views.
Maryam Namazie, who I see is involved in the original report, has been warning of this outcome for years….She was once the darling of the left, but now they can’t stand her, because born a Muslim, she understood the religion/ideology oh so well and dared to walk away..
owen jones= oxbridge edcuated middle class wobbly faced privilaged marxist living in the posh surburbs in stockport,typical member of the labour party.p.s and he earns a nice £150.000 a year working for the independant leftie rag…….http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352704/Femen-activists-sneak-Swedish-mosque-wearing-burkas-throwing-robes-reveal-bare-breasted-protest.html
It worries me that David Cameron also supports the sinister UAF. The more I see and hear of our prime minister the more I am reminded of Neville Chamberlain. He just doesn’t seem to have the moral courage to confront the evil in our midst. So much easier to make soothing noises and waffle.
Neville Chamberlain attempted to placate a bullying, corrupt monster. I think Dave is doing the same. Chamberlain had his now infamous “peace in our time.” Dave has the mantra “religion of peace.”
Of course the real difference is that in the thirties there was a chap called Winston Churchill waiting in the wings.
Who have we got?
Yes.It must be stressed that Cameron must know about the sinister aspects of the UAF and he still remains on their site as a founding supporter. Given his determination to crush the EDL – which is the primary purpose of the UAF – and the fact that the Woolwich killer was filmed speaking at one of their rally’s, one has to seriously think about the pro-Islamic strategy, pursued since he set up the Task Force to combat extremism. Word is that he is likely to take the advice of Hope Not Hate, and the Association of Pakistani Lawyers in a recent document and impose an outright ban on the EDL, leaving the street thugs of the UAF to flatten out any residual opposition to the Islamics. I see the UAF have already disrupted a UKIP meeting, whom they have also defined as a Nazi party. Any doubts about the authoritarian nature of UAF then have a look at the censorship imposed on their FB page – any call for moderation, for encouragement of discussion with opponents, any weakening of their no platform position, is quickly removed.
As an Oxbridge graduate how will Cameron react to the UAF’s plans to disrupt and prevent Tommy Robinson from speaking at the Oxford Union? He seems to share a concept alien to the Oxbridge tradition, which is prevent debate rather than attempt to win it. Perhaps he will arrange for the arrest of Robinson beforehand.
If you value democracy, be very afraid of the sinister nature of the UAF.
Nothing makes your mind up more quickly than actual evidence.
I know from personal abuse from the yobbish types, (who were in cohorts with GMB on this occasion), when together with some of my local friends, (all of us pensioners and ex-servicemen like me), went along last month to Hove Town Hall, to discover what Nigel Farage’s is bringing to the political scene.
On entering Hove Town Hall we were shouted at and incorrectly labelled ‘Facists’ and ‘Racist’ by this un- democratic bunch, who then unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the meeting.
Mainly connected with the left and Labour. Who would have ever guessed?
Cameron’s attitude towards the UAF is probably coloured by the knowledge that if he is critical of them the BBC and its media fellow travellers will accuse him of everything up to tacit support of the BNP and EDL.
I find all three organisations loathsome and if they want to fight each other let’s hand them some machetes, close off the street, and let them improve the genetic make up of the country.
Exactly.
It is also extremely naïve to think that anyone, who does not have direct experience of the UAF, knows that they are violent. Why? Because whenever there is violence it is reported as being at a rally the UAF are protesting against. Their part in it is rarely, if ever, reported.
I have never seen a march or protest where the UAF have turned up that has not turned violent. Even when the UAF are marching themselves with no opposition they cause trouble.
In the ’80’s I went on an ANL march against a fascist bookshop in London. I left after an hour or so because, for all of that time, these anti-racist had been flinging racial taunts at a black policeman!
They are no better than football hooligans. All they want is a punch up.
great article and a dire warning of how far “progressivism” has infiltrated our country.
Newsnight will run with this story for sure! (not)
What? And these journalists needed ink to reach this conclusion? It’s like a chain of idiocy: the Marxist EU is using Muslim extremists as useful idiots in their undermining and removal of Christian culture, and in turn the Muslims are using Far-left anarchist buffoons as use(less) idiots in their attempts to cause jihad. Personally, I pray for the day we can set up a colony for the great unwashed on the Moon, so we might have a rest from this despicable rabble of bearded extremists and smelly middle class Art History, Pop Music, Sociology and Drama students.
As the ‘bus ride’ and Erdogan in Turkey, the same is with Morci in Egypt. As with the Marxist, once they have power they will never give it up without a fight and on the streets too if necessary. We have seen many examples in history. Morci said in his speech that the revolution must be defended, I will carry on. That is code for, to hell with democracy and the wishes of the people.
The same will apply here if the Hard Left gets its way, they will make it impossible for anyone to remove them.
Where is the BBC in this? They know all this, they are sympathic to Islamism and the Left, ‘on the bus and in bed’ you might say; they do not object to its rise. Note how often they emphasise that Morci is an elected leader and how thus they de-legitimise the millions of protesters who know he has betrayed their democratic will, and is turning Egypt into a strict Islamic State. The BBC don’t like to say this. They seem to support him. What would their reaction be to a few thousand on the streets here objecting to something or other; they would immediately side with the demonstrators (unless it was Tommy Robinson of course, but OK with the UAF ) especially if the issue was on their agenda, and demand change. There are plenty of examples of this as we all know, and could list but we don’t have enough space.
Yes the BBC seem in confusion over Egypt, as once again their editorial line has put them on ‘the side of history’
Don’t forget they tell us ,at some length, on News Night
that 13 million Egyptians voted for Morsi.
Fair enough if only they took a similar line with elected strong men they don’t care for , like Putin or even Berlusconi And no comparison with morsi’s elevation to Pharaoh for life and their favourite Austrian dictator?
In the studio Paxo makes an arse of his self forgetting title (or was it deliberate ) of bishop general of Coptic church ,who turns out to be the most erudite speaker and almost hugs spokeswoman for Muslim Brotherhood ( though she probably needed one ,even at risk of subsequent stoning )
Here’s a tip BBC ,to save yourself further embarrassment, report all the news all the time and let us make up our own minds.
the bbc would be horrified if it let us make up our own minds.
Supplementary.
“Why is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/why-is-the-left-so-blinkered-to-islamic-extremism.html
UAF filth in action, and the type of odds they like when attacking a 70 year old:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b02_1370111676
A few years ago I had a run in with these UAF types. In those days Ken Livingstone was mayor of London and each May Day he gave over Trafalgar Square to far left groups. Apart from the ghastly UAF there was Hope Not Hate, Socialist Workers (surely an oxymoron!) a gaggle anarchists and a group who claimed to be pacifists. This lot had a huge papier mache model of George W Bush with a placard informing us he was “The World’s Greatest Terrorist.” When I gently remonstrated with them (ahem) I was surrounded by an irate howling mob. Apparently I’m a war mongering fascist who revels in the wanton slaughter of children in the middle east! I’m afraid that I’m rather more Charles Hawtrey than Charles Bronson so the boys in blue had to come to my assistance. But it was an ugly occasion and one I won’t forget. And these “pacifists” turned out to be the most aggressive people I’ve ever met.
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood and Mardell.
Mardell now tries to distance his Obamessiah from the Sharia imposers, the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is despite the fact that Obama has supported it all along.
In fact, Mardell, in his article, does not even mention the Muslim Brotherhood, the outfit supported by Obama (and Beeboids) in Egypt, Syria, Gaza, Qatar, Turkey, etc.
“Obama’s Egyptian balancing act”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23175795
Alternative:
“Obama Administration Middle East Policy: See What I’ve Been Trying to Tell You?”
A self-interview by Barry Rubin.
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/obama-administration-middle-east-policy.html