Burnham plans to take Starmer’s ‘censor for Israel’ plan even further

Presumptive new PM Andy Burnham has indicated that he will not undo any of his defunct predecessor’s war on UK rights and freedoms in support of Israel. In fact, he has made clear that he doesn’t think it’s tough enough and intends to take it further.

Burnham picks up where Starmer left off

For example, Burnham has said that he wants the under-16s ban to be delivered with urgency and reinforced the lies about doing it to ‘protect children’. But he thinks it is only a starting point: a “critical first step”.

Burnham made a milksop apology yesterday for Labour’s ‘stance’ on Palestine, but he still hasn’t called the Gaza genocide a genocide. And he stopped a long way short of flagging even an interest in any significant change to the UK’s slavish support for Israel and its crimes.

Instead, he waffled absolute nonsense about “ensur[ing] the Israeli government adheres to international law” – something the terror colony will never do. He even threw in his hope “to keep the prospect of a two-state solution alive”. The ‘two-state solution’ has always been a complete con, but never more than now when Israel has stolen most of Gaza and has broken the West Bank into fragments it continues to consume brutally.

Zionist horror show

None of this will come as any surprise to those who have watched as Burnham was first manoeuvred into place by, then surrounded himself with, an array of the usual pro-Israel horrors of the Labour right. These have included some of the same handlers around the disgraced Starmer — and will include Starmer’s Zionist ‘national security’ adviser, who will stay in post.

Nor is the ‘more of the same’ approach limited to Israel’s crimes in Palestine and its illegal wars on Lebanon and Iran. Burnham has refused to give the Scots an independence referendum their politics merits. He has said nothing about reversing Starmer’s dangerous, unconstitutional block on the Irish reunification referendum required by the Good Friday Agreement. He has shrugged off questions about renationalising energy and other strategic sectors. He has said he will follow Starmer’s counterproductive ‘fiscal rules‘ and carry out Starmer’s planned massive increases in weapons spending.

Backdoor mandatory ID

Burnham’s support for the under-16s social media ban shows he is just as committed to the backdoor introduction of mandatory ‘Digital ID’. In fact, Starmeroid horror Liz Kendall said she has spoken to Burnham and obtained his agreement for further such measures. Those ‘further measures’ appear to include a “massive crackdown” on VPNs – virtual private networks – that internet users can deploy to protect their security and hide their geolocation.

All of this is designed to repress and restrict the freedoms of UK citizens to oppose UK government crimes, especially its collaboration in Israel’s endless crimes. Anyone thinking Burnham will represent a more substantial change than ‘same old, same old with a more amiable face’ is indulging in forlorn hope and ignoring the evidence.

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