WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY GREAT BRITAIN News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #177: Great Britain: the scum in power (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

A pair of abject and miserable politicians grace the political scene of
Britain and the world: Richi Sunak and Suella Braverman. In a phase of
relations between peoples, in which migrations imposed by war, climate
and economic reasons constitute the characteristic features of the era,
the two think everything to deny the most basic human rights and compete
for the leadership of the Conservative party, in view of the political
elections that will take place next year in Great Britain. Both come
from families belonging to that class of colonial servants produced by
the British Empire who, already belonging to the ruling classes of their
countries of origin, or to the mercantile bourgeoisie that grew up in
the shadow of the colonizers, placed themselves at the service of the
Empire to profit from their class position, create or increase their
wealth, contributing to enslaving the colonial populations and absorbing
the myth of the Empire, to the point of identifying with it.
With the end of the colonial Empire, their parents moved to England,
their chosen homeland, and their offspring forgot their migrant origins
to transfer their arrogance to the social and economic role they had
acquired, in the haughty belief of having implemented an irreversible
class leap that made them organic to the master race,
causing them to despise and oppose those who today live the conditions
of their ancestors. And in defense of the exclusive prerogatives they
have acquired, they are now attacking the most disadvantaged, the
weakest, who they consider an integral part of the scum of humanity that
tries to attack rich and opulent societies.
Of bourgeois origins, Prime Minister Sunak exhibits an economic and
class position built on the fortunes of a family who had already
emigrated from India to Kenya, who built their well-being through the
pursuit of liberal professions such as those of doctors and pharmacists
and who with careful investments of the proceeds thus obtained, she then
moved to the metropolitan territory of the British Isles to enjoy the
accumulated assets. The young Sunak scion was able to capitalize on the
family's economic availability to establish himself in politics,
militating among the Conservatives, and espousing the positions of the
warmongering establishment of that party which dragged England into the
failed adventure of Brexit and promoted the closure of the country to
relations with Europe and the world, sharing with the party leadership a
policy of opposition to immigration which, in the face of facts, has
proven to be a failure. Today Sunak stands as a standard bearer of the
glories of the British Empire and closes the borders to migrants due to
Brexit.
To deal with all this, Sunak found it convenient to fully embrace the
positions of his home minister, better known by the nickname "Cruella",
(remember Cruella Demon?) proposing first the ghettoisation and then the
deportation of migrants. Everyone knows the images of the hotel ship,
built with the significant appearance of a gigantic raft hosting a
prison housing unit, anchored in the port of Portland, in Dorset, on the
south English coast: a sort of "prison ship", intended by the Minister,
equipped as a detention center for "illegal" migrants and destined to
host, from now on, at least 500 asylum seekers awaiting an unlikely
transfer by airlift to Rwanda, while their requests for permit of
residence in England are examined.
Sunak's leadership of the Conservatives is being undermined, in view of
the next elections, precisely by Braverman, who also comes from an
immigrant family. Braverman, (surname acquired because she was born
Mootien-Pillay) also has parents of Indian origin, who migrated from
Kenya and the Mauritius islands. The daughter of second
generation immigrants, her mother was born in a neighborhood of London
to a Mauritian Tamil Hindu family, the granddaughter of the Mauritian
High Commissioner in London. Her father was a Guinean Catholic who
worked more modestly in a housing association. Coming therefore from a
London bourgeoisie family, the young scion
specialized in law, holding numerous and well-paid prestigious
positions, always taking sides in defense of employer and business
interests. Since 2015 she has held numerous political positions of
growing prestige: she was part of the Johnson Government as minister,
only to then ask for his resignation, and compete first with Liz Truss
and then with Sunak for the position of prime minister and be defeated
by him; now she is trying again, in a dispute that pits the Hindu Sunak
against her avowedly Buddhist, but both reactionaries and neo-fascists,
children of a bourgeoisie formed in the colonies.

The attack on the 1951 Geneva Convention on Asylum Seekers

A popular saying claims that "God makes them and then couples them" and
this is exactly what happens between Sumak and his minister, who has
made the fight against illegal immigration one of the priorities of her
policy. On September 26, in a speech to the American Enterprise
Institute on the refugee crisis in Europe, she argued that the right to
asylum has been significantly distorted since its establishment in the
aftermath of World War II and that the 1951 Geneva Convention is now
outdated. Suella Braverman estimated that the migration phenomenon will
only increase:
in the coming years an ever-increasing number of people will choose to
migrate. You therefore urge that Western countries, in their defense,
review the criteria for granting the right to asylum in order to contain
requests for reception.
First of all, the British Home Secretary specified that: "Wanting asylum
or wanting better living conditions is not the same thing. Seeking
refuge in the first safe country you reach or going shopping to choose
your favorite destination is not the same thing! Being a victim of
trafficking, having been transported against your will or sold
as a sexual slave, or paying traffickers to be taken to a developed
country, is not the same thing!" therefore the right to asylum "is no
longer suited to our times ", since "the growth of this right creates
very strong incentives for illegal immigration". "These provisions were
created after World War II to allow people to escape persecution and the
Holocaust, and they were an incredible step forward for their time!" But
now "we live in a completely different world."
For these reasons it is necessary to urgently change the legal
definition of refugee which today, according to him, is too flexible to
"fear of being persecuted due to race, religion, nationality, membership
of a certain social group or political opinions" it cannot be a
sufficient reason to obtain protection and
protection because "There has been[since 1951]a shift, as a result of
the interpretation provided by jurisprudence, from the notion of
persecution towards something that is more similar to discrimination. It
is a second shift, from the idea of
certain fear towards only probable or plausible fear", "So more and more
people can today have the right to refugee status".
The British Home Secretary, in exhibiting his racist frenzy, added:
"I'll be very clear, there are large parts of the world where it is
extremely difficult to be homosexual or to be a woman. And when people
are persecuted, it is right that we offer them refuge. But our asylum
system is not sustainable in the long term if, in fact, the simple fact
of being homosexual or being a woman and fearing discrimination in one's
country of origin is enough to qualify for protection. "

The entente cordiale between Italy and the United Kingdom

In light of the reconstruction just made, it is easy to understand why
Meloni found political support in Great Britain, even if the English and
Italian governments cannot boast any success in combating emigration.
Like the Italian one, Rishi Sunak's government has to deal with numbers
on legal immigration that are completely out of line with the
(unrealistic) promises made to voters: in fact, if on the eve of Brexit
there were 336 thousand arrivals in Great Britain; for 2022 the figure
should be around 700 thousand. Other than the 45 thousand landings on
the English coast, on which both public opinion and Braverman's
statements focus. Today only 9 percent of Britons believe that Brexit
was a positive choice. Even among those who voted to leave , only 20
percent judge leaving the EU as "generally a success", while for 37%
Brexit is "generally a failure". The problem is that 75% of those who
voted to leave the EU think that the result is the fault of the Tories
who were unable to give shape to a good idea and refuse to see the total
failure of this policy.
This situation means that meetings between the Italian and English
governments are now increasingly frequent, and that policies are
increasingly similar, due to their common membership of the
Conservatives, even if Great Britain is outside the European Union. A
blind Atlanticism characterizes the two governments that compete in
uncritically supporting Ukraine, while the Kiev government finds itself
in a situation of growing isolation. The expectation is that the
increasingly difficult political situation will lead the two reactionary
governments to failure. The elections in Great Britain, which will take
place in 2024, constitute a significant test.
Much will depend on the Labor opposition which will have to demonstrate
its ability to disengage the government from uncritical support for
Ukraine, but above all to be able to give a convincing response to the
economic crisis characterized by growing inflation, the abyss into which
the system has fallen healthcare and education, with low wages,
countered by an uninterrupted wave of strikes, all problems that largely
depend on a reset of economic and commercial, as well as political,
relations with Europe. An objective on which the Labor Party is
seriously behind, having failed to distance itself clearly and clearly
from Brexit and the political choices of the Conservatives.
The positions of the Bleerian Labor leader Keir Starmer who exalts
British values, the King, the unity of the country and is nostalgic for
the Commonwealth and dreams of reconquering the working-class areas by
focusing on the effects of the Tories' scandals do not help a change in
political line. rather than on diversity in the policies to be followed.

G.L.

https://www.ucadi.org/2023/10/21/gran-bretagna-la-feccia-al-potere/
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