£31M PACKAGE TO PROTECT OUR MPS

ONCE again this disgraceful shambles of a government reveals its true colours.

We find out that the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has advanced a £31m package aimed at protecting the democratic process from perceived disruption.

For over two years they have denied junior doctors a decent pay rise after years of cuts, but can miraculously find these millions to protect those from both main parties who are spouting rubbish.

This £31m will pay for, amongst other things, personal bodyguards and increased police patrols across the parliamentary estate and future protests. This is nothing but a political ploy designed to appease the rabid right wing of the Tory party and their left-wing counterparts in Labour, further inflaming the manufactured culture wars that they both see as legitimate strategies to win a general election.

I guarantee you the list of who will get this extra protection will read like a who’s who of both right and left-wing twitterati.

It will be interesting to see how many Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and SNP members who have been threatened as a direct result of the tweets get personal bodyguards and will it do anything but legitimise these social media idiots and further justify their pseudo-racism.

Let’s take Liz Truss for instance, the PM that took this country back 50 years, is paid an annual salary of £86,000 plus a stipend of £115,000 for being an ex-PM, not to represent her parliamentary constituency, as you would expect, but to tour America and advance her theories of right-wing politics.

Truss made a nonsensical speech at CPAC, where Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson and worryingly Tommy Robinson are hailed as heroes.

The whole premise that the protests against the Israel-Palestine war is a threat to democratic process in the UK is a nonsense and being used as a ready-made excuse for these vile people on both sides of the political divide to air their warped thinking, 99% of protests/ protesters are peaceful and a legitimate action in any true democracy.

Hamas perpetrated a horrific terrorist act against innocent civilians in October and should be made to pay, but it is not Hamas paying the price of Israeli anger, it’s the Palestinian women and children in their thousands.

The whole world wants this slaughter in Palestine to stop. The truth is that this Parliamentary rabble under the leadership of a very weak Prime Minister in Sunak and an even weaker opposition leader in Starmer choose to appease Netanyahu’s agenda for fear of being labelled antisemites or Islamophobes when they should be seeking solutions, not using the protests against the deaths of innocent civilians as a tool in a bid to win a UK election.

Vote them both out.

Mike Walsh