In the secret weekly competition between the ANC and the UK Labour Party, in which each tries to outdo the other, there was something of a photo-finish at 10pm last Friday.
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In Johannesburg, the ANC’s deputy chair of Local Government Intervention, Dr Dickson Masemola, pleaded with voters to “give the party another chance”. Presumably, after having given the matter some thought, Masemola and his colleagues on the subcommittee decided that the city should be restored to its former glory, and the ANC is the party to do that.
In London at around 6pm on Friday, an urgent warning was sent out to every phone in the country, arriving with the sound of an air raid siren. What prompted this? Had the Russians trained their Satan 11 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on the English coast? The crown jewels been pinched? No. “Disposable barbecues,” it said. “Don’t buy them.” Some people reported the alert, ostensibly warning the public about wildfires, repeating the message until late in the night.
The official responsible for the alert was Louise Haigh, First Secretary of State. In 2014 she pleaded guilty to “adjusting” an insurance claim, and is thus a convicted criminal. However, the Fabian establishment doesn’t like it when she is introduced like this: “And this person here is the convicted fraudster, Louise Haigh.”
There is no reason for Louise to be daft. I think it’s entirely voluntary. In Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (part 3, Return of the King), the heroine Arwen wishes to give up her gift of eternal life so that she can be a nice wife for the hero Aragorn. Louise Haigh may have made similar arrangements. She may have wished not to have a brain anymore, and the wish was granted.
The Labour Party loves the ANC. The ANC likes the Labour Party, but reserves some scepticism. This is because one of the ANC’s heroes, Robert Mugabe, really didn’t like New Labour. Awful people, he was known to remark: sneering, preening, degenerate homosexuals. He got away with this language probably because he was a black Marxist, and it influenced the ANC a bit. For the longest time the ANC pondered why Tony Blair refused to compensate Mugabe. Mugabe told them it was because he was gay.
There are only two external forces in the modern era that can claim influence over Labour. The first was the campaign that got Bill Clinton elected back in 1993. The second was the ANC. Together, these charted the party’s new future. There was a time when Labour was all shop stewards and coal miners; in the new culture it fashioned, the party was the ‘self’, international law, trust-the-experts and, of course, luxury beliefs.
Labour imported nearly every dimension of the ANC’s race policies into its own political economy. They have been so successful that not even the law has been able to stop them. Today, corporations and institutions recruit on race terms and citizens mostly swallow it; on the rare occasion a race-based issue is litigated, the judge will mealy-mouth his or her way through legalities, and almost always show relief with a ‘well-it’s-not-legal-to-discriminate-against-white-people-BUT’. That BUT belongs to the ANC.
While something may be illegal, the ANC’s routines have offered pause for consideration. What’s illegal is not always necessarily ‘wrong’.
Inescapable
Giving the ANC ‘another chance’ therefore, is also to extend the management style and logic of Labour. Outright electoral loss for the ANC will have consequences. Its contemporary foundations may not collapse, but they will shake at such rejection. Invariably there will be those who counter-scoff that while Labour may once have been influenced, it has subsequently built its own position. I am not remotely convinced. However obscure the existential accordance, it remains inescapable.
What will be concerning to Labour is the fact that the ANC’s ideas are dying on their own, without the presence of a popular challenger. When the ANC loses, and it will, who fills the void of ideological inspiration or companionship?
Labour’s options are limited, but one would be to go the full Mohamed, expel its few remaining Jews and model itself around Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic fundamentalist movement banned in Great Britain only as recently as 2024. Many argue this is already happening with the dreadful, depraved and censorious Greens. A great many others want it to happen. But even the Europeans may take exception to the idea of replacing race-based with faith-based.
There is also the threat of contagion. For its part, Westminster Labour has influenced contemporary Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Labour, as well as the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. When Labour loses, and it will, hard- to centre-left parties will have to find new ways to explain things to electorates, like the importance of getting poorer.
Impenetrable flank
To some extent this is already happening in Latin America, once considered the impenetrable flank of left-wing ideology. When Argentina finally overcame the grip of Peronism, its neighbours took notice. Continental moves to the once highly unlikely shapes of centre-right governance have happened in (relatively) rapid succession.
The nerve that asks exhausted electorates for more chances is the same nerve that emboldens a scowling, crooked girl-boss to fiddle with phones on a Friday night. There were elderly people driving on highways when that alert sounded. One man said his dyslexic wife came screaming out of the kitchen, having mistaken ‘wild fires’ for ‘wild flies’. The real emergency in every country administered by pandering, incompetent, arrogant drama queens is one of legitimacy.
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