Vexatious Legalisms

Given that Team Starmer got where it is today by smearing anti-racists as racist, and that it clearly hopes to stay where it is today by letting the Farage Falange set the agenda for the next four years, few will be surprised that it has felt obliged to issue an apology to the strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange and his non-grown-up wannabes in the Conservative Party. Team Starmer's figuratively gutless attorney general went through the rite of appeasement in response to squeals of indignation at his having implied that a vulgar rabble of law-breaking nationalist race-baiters might somehow be legitimately comparable to a race-baiting rabble of vulgar nationalist law-breakers. In accordance with the patriotic reading of international law, whereby the legality of an action depends not on the action itself but on who performs it (see the case of the fiend Putin's illegal aggression versus the Righteous State's sacred self-defence), it follows that race-baiting, law-breaking, nationalism and even vulgarity are all very different matters when practised by the master race as opposed to a bunch of beastly Euro-wogs.