The Dark Arts

The Dark Arts

  By Alan | July 2, 2013 | BBC bias

The Independent has run a story on the close links between the Left and Islamist extremists…but just how far up the political Left’s chain of command does the UAF/Islamist influence reach?  Just how entangled is the Labour Party with Unite Against Fascism?

And does the BBC show any interest in the close ties between the Labour Party leader and the UAF?

The BBC has no excuse not to be all over this…a Labour leader in hock to a union which is trying to rig elections and which has close ties to an extremist, violent ‘anti-Fascist’ group in league with extremist Islamists.

What’s not to like for any journalist worth his salt?

 Why is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?

The article is based upon a report which calls out the left for embracing fundamentalists……

Siding With The Oppressor….The Pro-Islamist Left

　

The BBC are not interested in such stories important thought they are, just how important you may only realise once you start looking a bit more deeply.

　

But what if it was the ‘Right’, the Tories, who were joining forces with some extremist ideologues? The BBC would make that front page news….Panorama, Newsnight and Today would be all over that story.

What if….

What if Cameron had become Tory leader only because of the financial and strategic backing of a powerful political lobby group?

What if that lobby group then tried to take over the Tory party by packing the constituency party groups with its own people in order to ensure the selection of candidates to become MPs who would do the bidding of the lobby group?

What if that lobby group’s political director was also chairman of the EDL and he had close ties to Cameron?

What if a Tory MP was also one of the ‘elected officers’ of the EDL?

What if the Tory Mayor of London was an ‘honorary president’ of the EDL?　

What if the EDL then joined forces with an extremist far right group that advocated killing Gays, Jews, beating wives and imposing a strict, oppressive, backward legal regime upon anyone under its influence?

What if the Mayor of London invites a leading ‘scholar’ from that extremist group to the UK and defended his views as ‘moderate’, as the view of a highly respected scholar who is a leading figure in his community?

　

　

You might think that is all a bit far fetched….but as with the best stories it is all based on fact…just the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Instead of Cameron how about ‘Ed Miliband’? The lobby group? The Unite union.

Unite’s, until recently, political director, Steve Hart, is chairman of the violent activist group Unite Against Fascism…the UAF.

Steve Hart has been replaced by Jennie Formby as political director at Unite but she is of the same mindset:

Jennie Formby ‏@JennieUnite 22 Jun Join us in telling the Home Secretary that #PeddlersOfHate Geller and Spencer are not welcome in the UK http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/refuse-them-a-visa …

　

Hart still works for Unite in their newly created think tank ‘CLASS’….which has as its media and policy expert one Owen Jones.

Steve Hart has been replaced as Political Director by Jenny Formby. Steve will deal with CLASS and our anti-fascist work.

Dan Hodges in the Telegraph tells us that Jones is Miliband’s blue eyed boy at the moment, untouchable for some reason:

I’ve just taken a call from a shadow cabinet adviser who asked me whether I’d seen the Daily Politics, with Owen Jones and Labour MP Simon Danczuk crossing swords over welfare. I said I had. (Owen got a proper shoeing from the Honourable Member for Rochdale, by the way.)

“Well, Simon’s going to find he’s in trouble for that. Ed’s office have told people we’re not allowed to criticise Owen Jones,” they said. So I checked with another shadow cabinet source, and it’s true. Apparently, Owen Jones is the Labour Party equivalent of a “Made Man”.

It’s been an open secret in Labour circles for some time that Miliband’s office have been courting the 29-year-old Independent journalist, with one insider saying Miliband’s senior adviser Stewart Wood has been acting as his “handler”.

So you can see how Hart, still chair of UAF, has contacts all the way to the top of the Labour party…and not just through Jones:

Steve Hart has been at the heart of London Labour politics for over a decade, having forged close relations with Ken Livingstone’s mayoral administration. When Livingstone’s former chief of staff, Simon Fletcher moved in to a senior position at the London Labour party before the last election, Hart’s influence increased.

When the continuity Kennites took control of key positions in the London Labour party after the general election, Steve Hart’s role in London Labour grew.

And when Simon Fletcher joined Ed Miliband’s office with responsibility for union liaison, earlier this year, Hart’s personal connections extended right to the top of the party.

CLASS is a Unite ‘front’ organisation:

The Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) is a new think tank established in 2012 to act as a centre for left debate and discussion. Originating in the labour movement, Class works with a broad coalition of supporters, academics and experts to develop and advance alternative policies for today.

It works from the same address as Unite: 

128 Theobalds Road,
London WC1X 8TN　

Unite, Unite House,
128 Theobald’s Road,
Holborn, London, WC1X 8TN

Labour MP Peter Hain is an elected officer of the UAF.

Ken Livingstone is honorary president of the UAF. 

The UAF has close ties to Islamist groups. One of its vice chairmen being Islamist Azad Ali.

Unite has been caught trying to rig elections in its favour by packing the membership of Labour constituencies with Unite members:

Revealed: The document that explains how Unite intends to take over the Labour party

It’s a major decision to accuse Labour’s biggest donor of packing a constituency with ringers and trying to subvert a parliamentary selection, but one that was inescapable given the facts.

Uncut understands that in the last three months of 2012, the membership of Falkirk West CLP increased by over half – from 200 members, it grew by 130 to 330.

These weren’t members attracted by the magic of Arnie Graf’s community organising, or an inspirational Ed Miliband speech.

They were shipped in, en masse, by Unite.

Why did Steve Hart leave his position as Unite’s political director?…….because he failed to keep the machiavellian scheme to take Labour over out of the Press:　

Steve Hart was national political director of a political operation that is seen to be misfiring. The fiasco over the selection of Labour’s European candidates is symptomatic of a wider problem.

The issue for Hart within the union is not the fixing – no one in the union disagrees with the goal of installing Unite placemen and women as Labour candidates.

The problem has been the scrutiny and headlines generated by the clumsy nature of the fixing.Motions criticising the selection process have rippled across London CLPs with the row making front page news in the national press.

Len McCluskey has had to publicly defend Unite’s conduct and the union has become embroiled in a running row that has made Unite activity in candidate selection an increasingly sensitive topic within the Labour party.

This is not how a political operation is meant to work. The dark arts require shadows, not the harsh spotlight of national newspaper stories.

　

Still, at least someone on the Left has woken up to some aspects of the ‘moderate face of Islam’ so beloved of the BBC:

Erdogan’s democracy bus ride

As a little footnote to my piece on the Turkish protests, a little nugget I have just discovered (h/t: Harry’s Place). In what seems now like quite a prescient interview earlier this year, King Abdullah of Jordan is quoted as saying the following:

”Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride,” Abdullah told the Atlantic. ”Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off.”

In the context of the reaction to the protests, and the frustrating comments of many that he is a “moderate”, I find these words particularly chilling

　

Whilst the BBC report the goings on in Falkirk West  where Unite tried to rig things in their favour they look no further, they turn over no stones even though the work has been done for them….more often than not by Left wing blogs.

The BBC has no excuse not to be all over this…a Labour leader in hock to a union which is trying to rig elections and which has close ties to an extremist, violent ‘anti-Fascist’ group in league with extremist Islamists.

What’s not to like for any journalist worth his salt?

　

　

UAF’s honorary presidents are Ken Livingstone and Doreen Lawrence.

Our elected officers for 2013 are:

Chair

– Steve Hart, political officer, Unite
Vice chair – Christine Blower, general secretary, NUT
Vice chair – Hugh Lanning, deputy general secretary, PCS
Vice chair – Azad Ali
Vice chair – Jennifer Moses, national official for equality and training, NASUWT
Treasurer – Jane Loftus, deputy general secretary, CWU
Joint secretary – Weyman Bennett
Joint secretary – Sabby Dhalu
Assistant secretary – Brian Richardson
Assistant secretary – Jude Woodward
Parliamentary Officer – Peter Hain MP
European officer – Claude Moraes MEP
European officer – Glyn Ford

　

　

Unite’s think tank CLASS and its officers:

Steve Hart, Chair – Political Director at Unite the Union (no longer)

Tim Roache, President – Regional Secretary at GMB

Geoff Shears, Vice President – President of Union Solidarity International

Christine Blower – NUT

Manuel Cortes – TSSA

Keith Ewing – Kings College London

Billy Hayes – CWU

John Hendy QC

Carolyn Jones – Director of the Institute of Employment Rights

James McGowan – Head of Policy and Communications at ASLEF

Steve Murphy – UCATT

Andrew Murray – Chief of Staff at Unite the Union

Doug Nicholls – GFTU

Dave Watson – Senior Policy Advisor at PCS

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