The Labour pro-Zionist politician, Ms Jess Phillips clung on to her seat in Birmingham Yardley by the tip of her finger tips in the July 2024 UK general election. Her tally was just 700 votes more than her rival, the Workers Party of Britain’s Jody McIntyre. This result was a far cry from her winning margin in the last general election in 2019 of more than 13,000 votes. Naturally in the immediate aftermath of her victory she turned on her adversaries supporters. In her palliate victory speech, Phillips implies that her detractors find it hard to deal to deal with a strong woman. Phillips seems to be hard pressed to understand that McIntryre and admittedly some of his passionate supporters were spurred to enter the election race after seeing the Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer glowingly and cruelly endorse the genocide in Gaza, Palestine in October 2023.
Live on camera, the now victorious British leader, Starmer had endorsed the Zionist army cutting off electricity and water. Furthermore, in the same month he denounced calls for a ceasefire as playing into the hands of HAMAS. More so, it is not lost on many people that Phillips had spent the Jeremy Corbyn years, that is, the years when Corbyn led the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020, undermining his leadership in cahoots with other establishment politicians and also the mainstream media. At one stage she boasted that she blasted one of Corbyn’s long time loyalists, the most racially maligned politician in the UK, Diane Abbott to “f*ck off”. As such, she further cemented her role as a leading darling of the Westminster elite when she claimed she would solemnly “knife” [Jeremy Corbyn] “in the front”.
The genocide in Gaza has now claimed the lives of tens of thousands lives and visited total destruction on the Gaza strip. As of July 2024, the Zionist-colonial entity has killed tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians and maimed probably more. Of the Palestinian killed at least 56% are women and children. It is only natural and right humane people in Birmingham and around the country would like to cast a vote against the Party leader who initially greased the blood soaked wheels of the genocide.
As a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party, Starmer had pledged himself to upholding Corbyn’s domestic policies of redistributive wealth and social programs but upon becoming leader he shamelessly cast aside and binned every pledge. On this basis alone, Phillips doesn’t seem to be able to comprehend the aversion that ordinary people clearly have for Sir Keir Starmer to the extent that even in his own constituency of Holburn and St. Pancreas he won the parliamentary seat last week with a much reduced, that is 17000 votes less, than in the 2019 election on a 54% voter turnout. 46% of his own constituents literally ‘boycotted’ his election. He won the general election with less of the popular vote than what Jeremy Corbyn achieved in 2019, let alone 2017. Ms Phillips is n intelligent woman and she must be aware that there is literally minimal enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer on a national or local level.
Instead of engaging with the disconcerting democratic deficit, Phillips attempts to claim the moral high ground by denouncing her opponents because of their passion to help end the genocide. After being re-elected Phillips’s took it upon herself to adopt the moral high ground and paint her rivals as immoral. Her moral high ground rests on three points: her opponents are sexists; they are violent and thirdly she has done more than them for Gaza by virtue of bringing a Palestinian child whose had his parents killed by the Zionist colonial entity for medical treatment to the UK. As she says, “What I did [unintelligible] this campaign bring the only orphan from Gaza to the UK for treatment. So I know which is better for Palestine.” It doesn’t occur to Phillips that if the West and her leader, Sir Keir Starmer had not endorsed the genocide this child’s parents may still be alive; that if Gaza’s health infrastructure had not been decimated by the Zionist-colonial killers he maybe still alive and therefore there wouldn’t have been a need to bring an orphan to the UK. If it hadn’t been for the policies Starmer and other Western leaders the child’s parents may still be alive.
Using a Palestinian orphan as a prop to prove one’s moral superiority to opponents who want to end the genocide is disturbing. It’s even more disturbing when the child’s fate was greased by the stance of her Labour Party leader. It’s tantamount to the old hypothetical situation whereby a person adopts and maintains a racist position(s) or view(s) then denies he is a racist because “some of my best friends are black”. Likewise, with Phillips her Party leader supported and endorsed the genocide in Palestine, but she tokenlike “brought the only orphan from Gaza to the UK for treatment.” In other words, she can’t possibly be immoral or oblivious to the Gaza genocide even though her leader Starmer clearly is.
Listening to Ms Phillips on her re-election one would be inclined to think that the real victims of unspeakable horrific violence is Ms Phillips and some of her electoral team. It is now clear that many, if not most, of her constituents think this is far from the case and it is why they heroically stood up to democratically campaign against the genocide in Gaza her leader fulsomely endorsed. For this reason, many anti-genocide activists were openly deflated that it wasn’t Mr McIntyre delivering the victory speech on election night.
Churchill's Colonial Karma 