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The news is as appalling, infuriating, sick-making, inexcusable, and earth-shaking, but one thing it isn’t is surprising. The revelation that one of the chief financiers of the principal forces arrayed against Britain and the West in general is the British government is all too much in keeping with the suicidal leftism we have seen from that government (whether the Tories or Labour are in power) for years now. So of course they’re funding ISIS. What else would they do? And the rot is even deeper than that.
The Daily Mail reported Monday that the British government “gave more than £28 billion in taxpayer cash to its enemies over six years, a leaked government dossier revealed last night.” And not just any enemies, either. If the British government had really given 28 billion pounds to its enemies, it would have forked over the dough to Tommy Robinson. But instead, the learned solons in London gave the money to their friends. You know, like ISIS.
The Mail states that “terrorists such as the Islamic State in Syria group, hostile states including Russia and criminal gangs received the vast sum from foreign aid, Covid relief loans and the benefits system, which an expert said was an ‘ATM for terrorists.’” And as these things always do, it gets worse. The report “revealed that Britain helped companies linked to the Chinese military pursue their own research between 2015 and 2021.” The Islamic State, Russia, China, and criminal gangs: all on the British taxpayer dole.
How could this have happened? Pondering that question called to mind a phrase I have not heard in decades, since the days when I was a young Marxist enjoying the benefits of an expensive university education: “Inglan is a b***h.” (“Inglan” is, of course, Jamaican patois for “England.”) This pungent phrase is actually the title of a catchy little song, the handiwork of a Jamaican “dub poet” named Linton Kwesi Johnson, who has lived in the land for which he has such contempt since 1963 (he is now 73 years old).
Linton Kwesi Johnson penned this classic tune about the miseries of living in his adopted homeland in 1980, and one of my fellow employees at Revolution Books, the Revolutionary Communist Party’s bookstore, introduced me to it not long after that. It never occurred either to her or to me that it was ironic in the extreme for Johnson to be complaining about Britain from Britain; after all, if he hated it there so much, why didn’t he just move back to Jamaica?
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J Allan says
You REALLY should concern yourself with YOUR country, MISTER Spencer!
Let US concern ourselves with OURS!
mgoldberg says
i imagine you never speak about other nations, such as Israel ever…. or other nations when detailing negatives, positives. It’s interesting because if you would drill down into what Robert Spencer is detailing in his posts about England is the deterioration of the thousands years of development of very powerful understandings of what freedom might mean, what liberty might mean, how to engage those politically, how to remember them historically. You seem to take umbrage at any mention but that too is what is often pointed out… that forgetting the actual history leads to the deterioration and destruction of said freedoms, So, he remembers.
WPM says
J (Ali Allah) Allan could you try to write something new or interesting or add anything of value to the conversation .You always say the same tag line like graffiti in a public bathroom it adds nothing of value to anything .
James Lincoln says
J Allan,
Is there anything that you would care to add to your boilerplate statement?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
J Allan (allah?)
Is there a particular reason you emphasized MISTER before Spencer’s name?
Normally, if Britain was just giving money to its enemies, such as, say, Russia, I’m sure we’d be happy to ignore it (so long as we weren’t being dragged into that theater). But since you’re underwriting jihadist entities like ISIS, we do have a right to bring that up
Edward Brennan says
Why ?
Are you so afraid of the truth ?
Alkflaeda says
As a Briton, I read about the US because ideas have a way of crossing the Pond. Why should Americans not comment on us on the same basis?
Bob Biermann says
If he is not happy, he can easily find his way to Kingston, Jamacia. I’m sure the quality of life there is vastly superior than “Inglan.” He is nothing but an elitist racial grifter.
KK says
2 Timothy 1-7 answers the question as to why the 73 year old stays in shattered Britain.
David Lakatos says
These traitors let the barbarians in the gate to have more power and control over you.
England Invaded says
This is what happens when you allow them to do more than pick cotton.