LEE ANDERSON

Speaking on television, in reference to an article written by the former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, the Tory MP Lee Anderson disagreed that the country had been taken over by Islamists, but did think that the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, was controlled by Islamists and had ‘given our capital city away to his mates’. After refusing to apologise for these remarks, Lee Anderson had his membership of the parliamentary Tory party suspended and he became an independent MP.

Both Suella Braverman’s and Lee Anderson’s comments followed a number of weeks in which pro-Gazan protestors took to the streets, particularly in London, and following a claim by the speaker of the House of Commons that he had altered parliamentary rules in response to threats of violence to MPs.

In The Hegemony of Political Correctness: and the rise of the woke-Right, I give examples of how the various concepts and aspects of political correctness interact. Such an interaction applies to the suspension of Lee Anderson.

The trigger for the current row was the 7 October Hamas atrocities against Israel. Hamas are akin to ISIS in their savagery. Their aim is to destroy Israel. They are barbarists (they seek to barbarise civilisation). It is a strategy of the politically correct to make common cause with fellow barbarists. Therefore, when Hamas supporters in the UK took to the streets to protest against Israel the weekend following the atrocities (well before Israel commenced its invasion of Gaza) the cultural Marxists were out in support. Thus the atrocities committed in Israel became the trigger for civil strife in the UK.

Front and centre of political correctness (the mechanism for the imposition of cultural Marxism) is race war politics, which provided the swamp of hatred that enabled the pro-Gazan protestors to rapidly gain traction. Immediately, despite being the aggressors, the Gazans were portrayed as victims with both Israel and the West attacked as being the oppressors.

The true purpose of multiculturalism was revealed. The consequences of the rejection of both an Anglo-conformity immigration policy and the requirement for immigrants to assimilate became apparent. The power of culture asserted itself. Jewish people in the UK complained of a rise in anti-Semitism. In fact it was a rise in Islam, which is intrinsically anti-Semitic, stemming from the UK’s open borders immigration policy and the millions of Muslims pouring into the country. Posters showing those taken hostage by Hamas were likely to be torn down – on occasion by the police.

The long march through the institutions proved its worth. The police were as sympathetic to the pro-Gazan protestors as they had been to other such street protestors (eg various environmentalist groups). As the Israel offensive progressed other institutions likewise promoted the Gazans as victims.

When threats to MPs were cited as a reason for the jiggery-pokery in the House of Commons, both Robert Jenrick, the former Tory immigration minister, and Suella Braverman, the former Home Secretary, spoke out. Then Lee Anderson made his contribution, with some clumsy comments. At this, the Inquisition pounced. Demands were made, even from within the Tory Party, that he should expelled. The TV media joined in, and even went so far as to target Jenrick, Braverman, and also Liz Truss who had attended a CPAC event in the USA. Lee Anderson refused to apologise and so was suspended.

Wayne Mapp, who was New Zealand’s ‘Political Correctness Eradicator’ for a time, described political correctness as ‘a set of attitudes and beliefs that are divorced from mainstream values’; also: ‘the politically correct person has a prescriptive view on how people should think and what they are permitted to discuss’. He further complained that public institutions had been captured by the politically correct, had ceased to represent the interests of the majority and instead had ‘become focused on the cares and concerns of minority sector groups’. Wayne Mapp complained: ‘The minority, therefore, has come to dominate the majority, which is an inherent feature of political correctness … the intent is to ensure that minority world views take precedence over the reasonably held views of the majority.’

The UK’s reaction to the 7 October atrocities demonstrates the accuracy of Wayne Mapp’s analysis. The majority in this country do not support Hamas or the Gazans. The demonstrators dominating the streets across the UK with their protests (described by Suella Braverman as ‘hate marches’) are a minority expressing a minority viewpoint. Their attempts to intimidate the public and politicians to accede to the protestors’ demands are acts outside of mainstream opinion, and are undemocratic.

Lee Anderson’s comments need to be put into context. London, the capital city of England, under Khan, has had memorials and statues defaced if not removed; streets renamed in pursuit of cultural Marxist objectives; has experienced widespread protests; mobs of praying Muslims in public places; mosques being allowed to publicly broadcast the Muslim call to prayer; and English flight of those who are alienated by Khan’s anti-English policies. Euro News stated that Khan even backed a housing project in London that was for Muslims only. London is now a minority English city.

Khan’s self-appointed victimhood sits ill with his ongoing demonisation of those he alleges to be ‘far-Right’. For example, in September 2019, Khan wrote:

‘Vulnerable, often minority, communities are being demonised and scapegoated for all society’s ills. And, in appalling new parallels with the horrors of the past, migrants, refugees, people of colour, LGBTQ+ and Jewish communities are bearing the brunt. This comes as a new wave of extremist far-right movements and political parties are winning power and influence at alarming speed – fuelled by Donald Trump, the global poster-boy for White nationalism.’

Was there an outcry over this hysterical, lying article? Or any demands that Khan should resign? No, there was not. Khan is now demonising those he accuses of being far-Right, or Islamophobic, as a matter of routine – and is being given very favourable media coverage for so doing.

Political correctness is a false morality. It acts like a political version of AIDS, in that the ruling class is not longer capable of governing properly as they are too busy trying to be politically-correct themselves. So-called Conservatives strive to be woke-Right and demonstrate that they too are true believers. Lee Anderson, and a few others, are deemed heretics. Consequently, the Inquisition has come down upon them, both to instil fear and to alter the narrative away from the rising tide of Islamism in the UK.