Manufacturing in the UK!

Headline news! UK economy grows by 0.7%!

As much as that? So, I guess we're beginning to reap the benefits of all those closed libraries, all those cuts to social services, schools, closure of all those accessible sporting facilities, cuts for disabled people, cuts to benefits and food more generally for children, military-styled deportations of British citizens to wholly unfamiliar locations, full on austerity- >300,000 excess deaths attributable to Ed Ball's mate George Osborne- as imposed by both Tory and current Alt-Labour Governments alike! A vote for change! How to celebrate? Do we gather pots and pans and spend five minutes making a noise, 19:00 every Wednesday? Maybe we should chant our eternal thanks to former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Sir Keir Rodney Starmer and his current cabal? Although, really, it's far more like a scene from 'The Wicker Man! (1973)' after Edward Woodwood realises, too late, that he's fatally misjudged these people.

Whatever! It's most unlikely that the vast majority of citizens will notice, nor will they already have registered any significant boost to life in the UK. But, manufacturing is definitely up! The nation voted for change; this is what we got!

Early morning on the 2nd May a Freedom Flotilla vessel, the 'Conscience,' carrying vital-and-months-overdue-aid to the Gaza Strip, was drone attacked whilst sailing upon Maltese waters and under Maltese air space. The ship was holed below the water line, halting the aid delivery in its tracks. There were 16 people on board with 40 further humanitarians planning to board from Malta. A heroic move of epic proportions! Sailing into waters being heavily terrorised by the trigger-happy Israeli Offence Force. Tragically, the 'Conscience' never got that far!

Maltese air space! Being used by a third party, to attack a humanitarian vessel planning to deliver aid to starving children and to protest against Israel's ongoing Genocide upon the Palestinian population in the Strip. Horror upon horror! Imagine the outrage that such an attack would have provoked had the attack upon the vessel been proven to be of Russian provenance! Or Iranian? Or Chinese? Upon a vessel bound for somewhere other than Gaza?

This was serious, what would the West's response be? Well, acting in advance of the missile strike, Palau had already revoked its national flag from the vessel, then Malta (closest to hand!), Greece and Turkey threatened to confiscate the ship should it struggle to port in either country! Lammy and Starmer sat compliently upon their bloodied mits!

Solidarity! Or, rather, not! Shame, writ large, more like. Begs the question, 'quite what did these countries already know about this drone attack, an incident that, still, 2 weeks later, is being described as 'via an unknown actor.' Curious! Through omission alone, it tells us a great deal more than that; we know, for example, that the attack was definitely not undertaken by a Russian, Iranian or Chinese drone. The West wasn't interested in unearthing the culprit, although everybody already knew, far better to shut down the story and deflect. Last thing the majority of the UK's MSM wanted was for the actual culprit to be unearthed. UK's MSM into overdrive, ensuring the (not)journalism in which it is so well-practiced!

The Nord Stream II Pipeline, that was almost certainly severed via a US or US ally, was (pointedly) named as a Russian operation by a great many UK media outlets, almost whilst the attack was still being undertaken, to be followed up swiftly by the vast majority of the remainder of UK MSM falling neatly into line. There is significant satellite imagery of supporting evidence, giving weight to the contention that it was a US operation- at least two Scandinavian driven investigations into the 'attack' have been prematurely curtailed. Why? At whose behest? Why not more questions from the BBC?

Likely, getting too close to unveiling the perpetrator. Anyone who has followed the incident, beyond its cursory headline-only coverage, will have drawn the most obvious conclusion- including several pseudo-journalists who have ashamedly elected to remain silent about the whole sordid affair, as so often befits the invertebrate lobby journalists.

As with the 'Nord Stream II' attack, most who have given the 'Maltese-air-space' drone attack (an Act of War) much thought know, with 99% certainty' who was responsible. Wikipedia, better that most, cites the cause as 'some sources suggest Israeli involvement; not officially confirmed.' Of course, 'other actors' would still have us believe that Israel is not starving children inside Gaza as part of its ongoing Genocide. Through the Looking Glass- too much of the Western World now finds itself with its citizens knowing full well that Israel is a dangerous, Genocidal, Rogue Nation, whilst routinely being fed the line that Israel 'just might' be defending itself, which very few in possession of fully-functional minds can possibly believe. Only to be expected, given the licence that the West has given the Rogue State, that Israel would feel itself at liberty to invade international air space in order to attack any third party. Over many decades, they have the form! Cloaked in the cape of 'anti-Semitism-blood-libel-numerous-tropes-the-wrong-sort-of-imoji' Israel acts like a Genocidal Emperor in new clothes, whilst the West pretends not to see the body parts! Which nation, hand on heart, can say with conviction that its citizens are completely safe from Israeli missile strike?

Think Israel isn't founded upon terrorism, as and when, spend some time reading up upon its founding. Start with the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946; investigate quite how peacefully Israel set about putting up those first flags. Not so good for many of the British soldiers killed around that time, some of whose bodies were then used as booby traps. Worked a treat for Menachem Begin, Israel's first PM, though. That would be Menachem Begin, head of the militant Irgun Zionists. Have a bit of a read on the subject...

Manufacturing inside the UK's MSM is up considerably, more so than is the UK economy.

The mighty BBC is currently in the process of asking "audiences to have their say about the future of the organisation, by launching the biggest public engagement exercise the Corporation has ever undertaken." Bit late, maybe! For those who have followed its political slant on 'the anti-Semitism in the Labour Party smear,' 'the European refugee and asylum-seeker crisis'- no they are not 'illegal' asylum-seekers!- or, more recently 'the ongoing Genocide inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories,' the current lack of accountability may well have seriously undermined the public's will to bother. As more and more higher profile individuals, very much too late, have been 'saying,' or implying, why not, Mr or Ms BBC, merely, a 'far greater honesty from its political journalism?' Gary Lineker makes the point very well in his recent discussion with Amol Rajan. And, off he is cast! Coffin duly provide via the BBC's stitch-up, 'When it Hits the Fan' (Wednesday 23rd) Anyone noticing what's really been happening? Or shall we just carry on pretending the UK's not funding Ethnic Cleansing? Doctor Who may be travelling throughout the Universe, saving races that the Earth has yet to encounter- not going to be helping Palestine any time in the near future, is 'he'? Maybe 'he's' afraid of announcing 'his' intent via the wrong sort of imoji?

It was in 1948 that the State of Israel was 'created,' when one Occupying Force (United Kingdom) handed over the already fully inhabited State of Palestine to the next Occupying Force. 'A Land without People for a People without Land!' So the utilitarian lie would have us believe, and, shamefully, for many that lie perpetuated. Still those such as UK PM Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would have this lie substitute for the shameful truth! Not so for the Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians, nor their descendants, nor the Occupied Palestinians, nor, beyond the enclave, anyone remotely-adequately informed. None of those who have lived under the violent oppression of Occupying Israel, or whose ancestors were violently Ethnically Cleansed from their homelands in 1948, or have been murdered, tortured or stomped upon since and right up to the present date. Turns out Israel as some sort of democratic romantic idyll, a star above the Middle East, is anything but!

A few years after this 'handing over,' starting in the 1950s, the UK- colonial overlords looking to rewrite history to their advantage- set about Operation Legacy. Who wouldn't like the idea of leaving behind the warm glow of a fond memory for future generations? Except to note, if the Empire's past was such a rosy historical period, why the need to incinerate quite so many tens of thousands of documents with such up-to-the-minute evidence of that same regime? I have heard it claimed- more than one source- that, back in the 19th Century, slavery was an 'acceptable' practice. The sort of people, some of them family, I would fully imagine, who would very much prefer to adhere to a more rosy and romantic notion of British Empire. 'Land of Hope and Glory!' anyone? Belt it out, drown the screams!

Manufacturing was very much up then, as now.

Nor is it so curious that many of those who seem most deaf and blind to the ongoing Genocide in wider Palestine are former and current colonial powers. The US of A has conducted its Genocide upon native populations (Trail of Tears), as has Australia upon Aboriginal populations. Neither country shows much interest in paying proper reparations or even fully acknowledging the extent of those acts. Whilst Germany currently seems absolutely determined to work itself round to the wrong side of two major Genocides, both of which happened, just about, in living memory. As if turning a blind eye to the persecution and annihilation of Palestinians at the hands of Israelis somehow rectifies Germany's Genocide upon many of the ancestors of those now conducting the current Genocide. Not all, mind! Definitely not all! And, many of those 'not all' Jewish individuals now find themselves being persecuted for vociferously objecting to the current Genocide. What a tangled web we weave! When it's all written up, at some indeterminate time in the future, which side will each of us have been on? Or will everybody always have known that this is a Genocide? What thinks Sir Keir or his sidekick Lammy, as they're definitely both fully culpable?

I'm sure that there is some sort of scientific analogy to be painted here. But I am going with a 'sepsis' that urgently requires the most serious of interventions!' Because, just like that deadly infection would, Israeli violence has intensified to such a point that the 'nation, if one can park a second nation upon the one already there- surely, not with any legitimacy- has escalated its violent-infection to the point where even its historically-racist allies are becoming increasingly nervous! With undeniable good cause, although still, still, there are those who are prepared to speak as if worked or owned by the devil! Daily being platformed within the UK, presenters and the guests!

Manufacturing up significantly! More notably, in very specific quarters!

Tuesday, 13th May, the Right Honourable Angela Eagle, Minister for Border Security (no less!), future Dame Eagle (no doubt), with no apparent grasp of international events what-so-ever, hauled herself over to the British Museum in order to address 'celebrations' of Rogue Israeli State's 77th Anniversary. Most definitely Eagle did not deign to mention 77 years of violent oppression of the Palestinian people! That would be (Dame) Eagle, she of the 'Smashed Window Threat to Life!' 'fame,' that one. Jimmy Carr was there- there's footage of him scuttling off, afterwards, head down and at quite the pace- steadfastly refusing to speak to anyone with a better conscience. That would be almost everyone else in the neighbourhood. Wonder what the jokes were like? Wonder whether it'll affect the vast array of TV contracts he gets? No tropes, anti-Semitic hiccups, blood libels, nor offensive references at all! Clap now, everyone, on behalf of the Genocidal nation!

Meanwhile, Jewish protesters- some of them holocaust survivors- may be unceremonially bundled into the back of a police van, for daring to step on the wrong section of pavement, or in the wrong direction in the wrong neighbourhood, on the wrong day! Wonder if the Force required any extra muscle whilst dealing with the threat from any of these octogenarians? Police Force or Mercenaries for Hire, what thinks the concerned citizenship?

Eagle spoke passionately, tip-toeing righteously around the subject of Genocide, or Ethnic Cleansing, or starving children, vowing eternal support for Israel's right to commit whatever War Crime it wishes, without ever referencing the horrific reality, or honesty, or the Geneva Convention. Wow! Threading the needle, Angela! "Israel knows how to party," wrote journalist Jonny Gould in the caption of a photo he posted of himself at the event. I think the BBC may have unofficially saluted as and when, unofficially of course.

Manufacturing again! Seems a shame that the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, cannot milk this one! It was Rach and her Government that's been, in major part, responsible, after all! Praise where it's due, Ms Rachel.

I doubt we can fully appreciate quite the vast scale of the manufacturing involved! Imagine the dinner conversations that might be undertaken in this proud nation, where its institutions are to be heralded as example to other, less democratic and lesser nations! More so, after perhaps viewing the broadcast of BBC's Panorama, 'Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes.' One might be given to wonder where some of those very Special Forces are operating now. Will the the ICC, or the ICJ need to make notes?

Then, we can watch as the same channel shows a short recruitment clip of the jolly honourable work that the UK's Forces undertake whilst overseas- at the behest of who precisely? Not General Gwyn Jenkins, KCB, OBE, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, we can only hope! "Anyone watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' on Saturday?" And, we're there, safely through to the other side of that looking glass. Turn up the volume, drown the screams!

Not really such a huge surprise to discover that the UK's uninvited Army is currently being afforded licence to pick-and-mix through all those cumbersome international rules and obligations drawn up after WWII, in order to ensure that individuals fleeing persecution should never again be left without nations within which to plead refugee status and protection. Bold! And just! If only it were true.

One wonders whether, even at the very outset, there were nation representatives, or military upper-echelons thinking, 'but only for those with the right colour credentials, right?' 'Refugee status for our sorts, right?' On the other hand 'Jolly Strict Rules that we might administer to them?' A sort of invisible continuation of the white colonial hierarchy mentality.

When the Mighty Corporation itself dares to break the shackles (strictly selective subject matter, even so, don't you think Amol?) and demonstrate to the world what real solid journalism looks like, then reverts instantly back to type, we really must be looking to settle permanently on the wrong side of that looking glass! Seven years spent investigating Britain's Special Forces inside Iraq and Afghanistan! Bang, top quality journalism, right there! Proof, if it were needed- and it has been for some considerable time now- that the BBC is still capable. Now! Where's 'Part Two: Secret Flights over Gaza, from Akrotiri during the Genocide'?

We learn that there is yet another BBC report being suppressed, this one about Israeli treatment of medical staff inside Gaza. Wonder which trope, or anti-Semitic, or blood libel, or wrong imoji is being cited? Must be jolly serious if grounds have been found- more likely manufactured- to 'justify' suppression of this report.

Go on Rach, 'manufacturing's up! Sing out the good news!

Had we ever pondered why it was that so few Afghanistani nationals who'd worked for and with the SAS, during its time in Afghanistan, were being granted refugee status in the UK? Why so many of those people had been cut adrift to face torture and or death? Turns out General Gwyn Jenkins, KCB, OBE, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff- must be one of the good ones, right?- might be our man? He knows! Care of BBC Panorama, exposed one minute as an 'alleged War Criminal,' via seven years of investigative journalism, appointed Head of the Royal Navy the very next. Perhaps, we might go on to conclude, the exposed misconduct helped butter his route. Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would know the answers. But then, he's so well practiced at lying, or omitting truth, to the nation, likelihood is that he's incapable anymore of uttering the truth!

The premise ('BBC Panorama, 'Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes') is an easy one, so long as the Afghanistani personnel can be left to torture and murder, outside of the UK, they cannot be compelled to give evidence when the SAS and several of its top generals are investigated via a public inquiry. "Emails and evidence from within the MoD, obtained by Panorama, suggest that Gen. Jenkins appointed a senior officer to oversee civil servants working on the Afghan resettlement scheme, giving them instructions to reject Triples applications," Stop the War Coalition informs.

Promoted one day after 'Panorama' was aired! Why, it's almost as if Sir Keir Starmer, former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, son of a toolmaker, is demonstrating to everyone prepared to challenge, 'Think you can hold me accountable, then watch this!' Maybe a middle digit will feature! Keep that seat in the Lords warm! Perhaps carefully consider the fabric- something that can be readily wiped clean of blood!

Manufacturing's up! For those still wearing the obligatory blinkers! "In the heat of the battle..." and all that guff. "General Gwyn Jenkins, KCB, OBE, ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff served 'his' nation," certain tomes will duly record. 'History,' as written by the victors, most definitely not by the scholars!

Turns out not all manufacturing's to be boasted about!

As of yesterday, we are led to believe that the UK Government has relented and decided, enough is enough! 'No more Genocide!,' although being most careful not to use that specific term. Our proud Foreign Secretary spoke in the House, to sombre murmurings of approval. Briefly the man raised his buttocks, one further time, to spinelessly admonish Zara Sultans for having noticed that Lammy was lying, yet again, and again, even at this late juncture. Talks on economic ties (horribly anti-Semitically!) suspended- Israeli outrage afforded platform via our wonderful BBC- but, unspoken, children's-limb-severing and body-atomising munitions to continue to flow!

One can only assume that, highly reminiscent of Project Legacy, British Government is looking to cover its bloody backside! Whilst that bloody backside sloshes ever onward like the very worst Pit Bull Beast at play, edge of the lake! Said anolagical lake is not one of water! Manufacturing is going to have to do one hell of a lot of heavy lifting!

* Updated in light of David Lammy's (Foreign Secretary) statement on Israeli atrocities to the Commons.