‘No Justice’ Attacks Peter Bowyer, Starmerite Candidate for Stockport

I found this video on YouTube the other day of ‘No Justice’ aiming some very justified criticism at the Labour candidate for the newly created seat of Stockport. ‘No Justice’ appears to be a woman of the left. Looking through her videos they seem to be very definitely from a genuinely left-wing, old Labour viewpoint. She makes the point in this video, however, that she is not a member of the Labour party, especially not now under Keef Strangler. But despite her protests that it doesn’t really matter to her how the Labour party deals with its members, she’s clearly appalled by the hypocrisy by which Starmer used accusations of supporting other parties to purge the left. Left-Labourites were purged for just liking Tweets by members of competing parties, like the Greens. But Bowyer and other members of the Labour right were allowed to remain, even when, as Bowyer did, they actually called for people to vote against Labour and for the Lib Dems in 2019 to get Corbyn out.

And Bowyer comes across as a typical, modern career politicians. He has no experience of life outside academia and politics. He was born in Stockport, and joined the Labour party. He’s been a member for forty years. He graduated from Manchester university and then took a job as a researcher for a Labour politician. He then spent much of the next forty years in London, before heading back to Stockport with the opportunity of becoming its MP. But what really annoyed ‘No Justice’ was his response on Twitter to someone who dared to say what an appalling disaster the Iraq invasion was. His angry response was that the Iraq invasion was a success, and that Brexit was a disaster. Well, I agree that Brexit is a disaster. But it is not of the same magnitude of the carnage of the Iraq invasion. Let’s go through everything that makes the Iraq invasion a bloody fiasco.

• We sent our bravest young men and women to fight and die on the false pretext, fabricated by Blair, that Saddam Hussein had ‘weapons of mass distruction’.
• The war cost 200,000 Iraqis their lives and resulted in the further displacement of another 2 million. Many of the Channel migrants are Iraqis fleeing the devastation inflicted on their homeland.
• The war was fought, not give the Iraqis democracy, but for the oil companies to seize their oil and the multinationals to seize their state enterprises. It was also going to be an experiment for the Neocons trying out their idea of a low tariff, free trade economy. This resulted in the world dumping their products in Iraq. Their domestic industries could not compete, there was a wave of bankruptcies and unemployment rockets.
• The invasion worsened sectarian divisions. There were attacks and mass violence between Sunni and Shia that had not occurred before and peace walls had to be built to separate them in Baghdad.
• Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was Islam-based, but broadly secular. This has been largely destroyed. Women had been free to pursue careers outside the home. This is now denied them. But western politicos, like various members of Barack Obama’s foreign office, refused to accept this and got a rough reception when they spoke in Turkey to claim that the invasion had benefited Iraqi women.
• The private military companies supporting the allied troops behaved like a bunch of Nazi criminals. They shot ordinary Iraqis for sport and ran drug and prostitution rings. This profoundly shocked a US ambassador, who publicly spoke about this uncontrolled lawlessness when he returned to the US.
• The invasion created the conditions for the rise and further expansion of DAESH, who imposed their narrow and barbarous interpretation of Islam on the country’s luckless people. Ancient churches and mosques were vandalised and destroyed, homosexuals killed and Yezidi women kidnapped and sold as sex slaves. They also attempted to erase its pre-Islamic history by destroying ancient archaeological artifacts.

Since the invasion some kind of democratic order has appeared in Iraq, but I don’t think you can honestly call the invasion a success. Not after that chaos, and not after the victors had it written in to the country’s new constitution that they didn’t own their own oil.

Bowyer’s view that the invasion was a success is sheer, Blairite, New Labour nonsense. And it makes me wonder what other bloody and unjust wars he is also prepared to support, because his right-wing leader says he must.

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