Purity has always colluded with the left. Because the left has always set itself the ambition of changing man and creating the best of all worlds, by ignoring reality, by denying human nature, by not imagining that a man can be different from another, that a woman can be motivated by other ambitions, other desires than her next-door neighbor, while refusing, at the same time, that all people are obsessed with primary needs such as feeding, reproducing, living in security. The left wants to rewrite humanity and has only produced mass graves. Naturally, the purge came with the ambition of purity. The Stalinist purge existed before Stalin, it was born at the same time as Marxism, more precisely during the Second International (1889-1914), where there was a severe purge between the Marxist and internationalist left wing and the opportunist wing (otherwise said those who were for class collaboration, this horror that is reformism).
Today, while the schizophrenic President Macron adds irrational “at the same time” to the hysterical panic that he himself provoked, reassuring the French in a letter on Monday (“Do not be afraid!”) and panicking them on Tuesday (“civil war”, repeated seven times, is upon us if you vote wrongly), the media like politicians, citizens like schoolchildren are on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and purges between friends or colleagues are daily under the pretext of not enough or too much positioning, of unproven complacency, of too much expressed doubt. Healthy debate becomes suspicious, in the name of the sacrosanct fight against the extremes we silence the contradictory, we fear the citizen who would have the bad idea of taking advantage of it to demand more reflection, fewer “do this, not that” platforms. Stalin and Stalinette have taken up residence in France. But there are good purges and bad purges.
So, while it is likely that the pages of future history textbooks will tell the story of the stupidest left in the world – the French left – the British Labor Party has opted for the right purge under the leadership of Keir Starmer, ex-prosecutor, son of a worker and a nurse (yes, I specify to avoid the purge, purity obliges, hence you are talking comrade!). His mantra is simple: “British voters want security above all. We need to know how to read the country’s mood.”
So Keir Starmer began by ordering an internal inquiry into the anti-Semitism that was eating away at his party under Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-Semite in chief, which concluded that, yes, anti-Semitism was eating away at the Labour Party – even though Jean-Luc Mélenchon is convinced that his comrade Corbyn fell because of a plot hatched by Likud and the chief rabbi of Jerusalem. Keir Starmer thus expelled all those who refused to condemn anti-Semitism, even those who did so half-heartedly. The purge was harsh, but fair.
Then he attacked the left wing, the one that has lots of proposals for the happiness of the people but no means to finance any happiness for anyone and which adds resentment to the despair of the working classes. He went so far as to exclude Sam Tarry, the railway secretary from the “shadow cabinet”, because he had participated in a picket line.
And he proposed a program. A real program with real figures and real possibilities: no increase in VAT, no increase in taxes (not even for the awful rich), budgetary discipline, all while betting on growth. In short: we invest in public services, okay, but without increasing the public debt. We promise blood and tears, okay, but no disappointment that jumps down your throat at the next electoral turn. We accept reality and we deal with it. We don’t lie, we don’t take voters for fools.
Keir Starmer doesn’t stop there: he embraces patriotism, he talks security without apologizing, and wants to strengthen customs staffing and properly control net immigration levels. We no longer joke with the true reality of the British. Meanwhile, in France, we are purging reality.
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