ANALYSIS NEOCON COUP HAS CAPTURED THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
April 7, 2024If you are British or have any dealings with the British govnerment, you are going to want to watch this anaylitical piece by Peter Osborne for @DoubleDownNews on the Neocon coup that has captured the British government & how British politician, Michael Gove, is at the heart of it.
Oborne, who is a columnist for Middle East Eye and has just released a new book “Fate of Abraham” explains the critical role Gove, who is serving as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations (the title gives it away – fingers in every pie), is playing in ensuring the interests of the elite, particularly his master, Rupert Murdoch, are executed by the British government.
This all connects back to Israel through the ferouciously pro-Israel Micahel Gove and his dedication to the philosophies of the Zionists who are attempting to dominate the world and destroy human rights, equality, freedom and integrity.
This is definitely worth watching to the end. The more we learn and know, the smarter we will be at confronting these master manipulators and liars.
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English Script:
Peter Oborne: A neo-conservative coup has captured British government and Michael Gove has been at the heart of that. I don’t think many people understand how Britain is actually governed at the moment. The power of the super rich, the power of the big press magnates, the central role of think tank, which are rarely a mediator between government and the super rich. This is the world in which Gove flourishes and exists because he’s always with the rich and powerful. He’s always wrong about the great issues of the day. He’s not really a conservative politician at all. He’s a neo-conservative politician. There’s one central idea which defines neo-conservatism, which is “the end justifies the means”. They believe that the West is involved in some sort of existential conflict with the rest of the world, whether it’s China or whether it’s Russia or Islam. And in order to win this kind of perpetual war against existential enemies, you, America and therefore Britain are enabled or licensed to break any law you want to ignore, legality, to cheat, to smear, to lie. The key thing, though, to understanding Michael Gove’s career is he’s Rupert Murdoch’s man at Westminster. And that creates an interesting situation because the Murdoch empire controls great swathes of the British media and the fact that Michael Gove has the support of the Murdoch press and actually Telegraph group and the Mail group as well, means he can’t do anything wrong. The Murdoch empire is offshore, it’s itself extremist. Murdoch’s own position on Muslims, for instance, Murdoch was a fanatical supporter of the Iraq war, very pro Netanyahu, and Michael Gove, above all other things, is a creature of Rupert Murdoch, and so he works beautifully with the media to construct Islamophobic narratives. Michael Gove is ferociously pro-Israeli.
Michael Gove: “The IDF embody the Jewish spirit. We stand with Israel now and forever.”
Peter Oborne: Michael Gove rejected the Oslo Accords, a framework for a two state solution, which is still the policy of the British government. Just as he rejected the Good Friday Agreement, which again is central to British government policy. So even judged in the context of British politics, Michael Gove is an extremist. He rejects the core foundations of many of the key agreements entered into by the British state. Why is Michael Gove so hostile to the institutions of the British state? He’s hostile to the rule of law. He is, in a way, a revolutionary figure. He has more in common with Lenin. Michael Gove had a bust of Lenin in his office. This explains one other paradox about Michael Gove that he had, as a minister, a picture of Malcolm X. Now Malcolm X had this one phrase ‘by any means necessary”. Michael Gove liked that and respected that phrase, but because he too felt that there were no rules which applied to you.
There is this paradox that the man who admired Malcolm X and Lenin is the man who is accusing others of extremism. Michael Gove frequently quotes the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Michael Gove likes a quote, a phrase attributed to Gramsci, which is “the long march through the institutions”. Gramsci believed that the Left might obtain political power, but that the institutions of the bourgeois state were so strong, that actually they had to do more than that. They had to capture the institutions. And Gove’s interesting in this way. He sort of turned the Gramsci analysis on its head.
So he thinks and his followers and allies in the Cabinet are quite convinced that the British state and civil society had been captured by the Left. It’s not true, by the way, but this is a major part of understanding their psychology and that it wasn’t enough for the conservative Party to win elections, it actually had to capture the organs of the state. This attitude has shaped government in the 14 years of conservative rule. They’ve got to put their own people in place. There was an idea at the heart of British public life that you would appoint the best man or woman to the job on merit and that the person who took the job would be nonpartisan. They wouldn’t have any skin in the game. That has completely changed. We’ve now had a series of appointments. Shawcross has made terrible remarks about Islam. Gets given the job of reviewing the Prevent Strategy, then have the issue of Robin Simcox who comes from a series of structurally Islamophobic organizations, in my view, being given the job of Commissioner for Counter Extremism. More recently, Ian Austin, a credible appointment this, was given the job of investigating the riots in Leicester. Another case is Lord Walney, who’s advisor on political violence. Lord Walney had no credentials but over the last few months he’s seen fit to make a series of critical remarks about a Palestinian solidarity campaign in the marches. Well, if he is going to do that and I can’t personally see there is any need for a political violence adviser to criticize the PSC, he has got a problem because he’s been accepting hospitality, as Declassified exposed a few weeks ago, from the Israeli lobby.
One of the definitions of what Britain is about is free speech and you are seeing again and again at the moment that individuals or organizations are being targeted. They are trying to change the nature of Britain and they are creating a new kind of thought police, which tells us who we are and what we can say and what we can’t. In fact, all these marches, which are being announced as mobs, they are absolutely mainstream events. If you look back through British history at the ban the bomb, the Stop the war, the Jarrow march, people who care deeply about a political cause. And to try and smear the pro-Palestinian marchers as extremists or mobs or haters or whatever is going on, is an attack on Freedom of Association and Freedom of Speech. Fundamental British values, and actually fall within the definition of what it means to be British. It is impossible not to notice that the people who’ve made a career accusing the left of promoting some kind of Cancel Culture have been all but silence about the attempts to drive Muslims and others out of the public domain, particularly over the Palestinian marches.
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