Alexei Sayle: the censorship of the Left

Alexei Sayle speaks about the censorship and no platforming culture that is threatening the Left.

[toomuchadvice]

I'm nearly 70 years old and I've never known a time when we were not allowed an anti War movement.

[stevemitchell]

Working people in the UK have no political representation any more.

[ysgol]

The Tories are awful because they always are, Starmer's Labour is far far worse because it's taken away all hope of better times ahead.

[Lord.two.a.penny.]

Brilliant post. Hung on every word. Alexei Sayle telling it like it is. He should do more "no safety net" talks. His despair at the current political situation is very apparent.

[patcampton]

Excellent piece. It is about demoralising and makes people fearful.

[progpuss]

I've been saying it for years, and I'm surrounded by Tories who just laughed at me. It is obvious as starmer back stabber took over and moved the labour party to play to the Murdoch tune

[casteretpollux]

Sue Gray, appointed by Starmer to run the Labour Party has been widely discussed in the main stream media as having "a spooky background " and having been "the most powerful person in Westminster" exercising a veto over Tory cabinet appointments on behalf of the Security Services. It is not possible for Starmer to have been unaware of this in giving her the top job in Laboir. Starmer is indeed acting for the State Forces who have always been deeply hostile to trade unions and the left. He and Gray are systematically destroying Labour's political and organisational class base. Starmer openly said to the media he prefers unelected Davos to elected Westminster 'as its easier to get things done'. He now parades himself in a black shirt without irony. In effect Labour is now top down 100% a captured opposition run by some of the most ruthless and right-wing forces in the UK State.

[marcusmaher-triskellionfil]

Sayle represents the best of the old left, dignified and stoic.

[billbhein]

The film needs to be uploaded on to YouTube asap so everyone can see it..

[johnwright]

Alexei's analogy with Invasion of the Body Snatchers is spot on. You could not make this madness up.

[reddirtuk]

Get it out there, Showed in Uxbridge recently, full house standing room only 👍✊

[elizabethrobb]

Im getting on also and ive never thought we would live in a facist state ... and here we are. 😡

[HBFaash]

We refer to, 'Relative poverty', to describe the relationship of an individual to the distribution of wealth in a society. Now, this can be extended to the concept of, ' Relative democracy', where we watch the relative decline of our freedoms in relation to what we had, (and fought for).

[jasonmendelli]

When labour appointed a Sir as leader, it was clear what was coming. Keep the faith and keep speaking out 👌❤️👊

[blatherskite]

I think the most clever trick that's been played is to redefine what "the Left" even means. To me, being on the political Left means socialism, trades unions, the NHS, keeping private profit motives away from the provision of essential services, etc. It's about the interests of the many over the interests of the few.
But "the Left" has been redefined to what feels more like an American interpretation, where it's basically a dirty word that carries connotations of weirdy radicals and rabble-rousers trying to make life less profitable for those nice capitalist gentlemen who only want what's best for all of us.

America doesn't even have a "Left" of course; it only has a choice between Extreme RIght and Centre Right, and no actual option that's recognisably on the political Left.

And that's where the UK is headed with Starmer's so-called Labour Party.

[patcampton]

Basically many of us feel we can't speak out as we will be accused falsely of anti semitism..it's very worrying.

[patcampton]

Sayle is spot on that it is to still the voices on the lef, nothing to do with AS. . I have always seen my self as a bit centrist but im not anymore.

[MichaelGorniak]

Surely the censorship goes against the ECHR ? Freedom is speech is a right . There must be a process available to make a case .

[skintslots]

We have the US system now of two parties who represent big business and no parties who actually represent the people. This is a genuine reaction to a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party creating a genuine opposition with policies that benefit the people and not big business.

[johnrider]

Starmer and Labour have turned off the light at the end of the tunnel and ive never felt as pessimistic as i do today,