CLIVE PINDER
Keir Starmer and the Labour party have blood on their hands from years of appeasing Islamists and antisemites. On Yom Kippur, Jews in Manchester left synagogue and walked into a knife attack. Two were killed, others wounded. The assailant, steeped in Islamist propaganda, struck on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. This was not a random crime. It was a statement.
A tragedy that comes on the back of a YouGov poll that shows 45% of British people agree with the claim that “Israel treats Palestinians the way the Nazis treated the Jews”. Among young adults aged 18 to 24, that number surged to 60%.
The question now is which side of Britain addresses this catastrophe and how?
We used to live by two foundations. The Enlightenment’s discipline of reason, evidence, universal rights. The Judeo-Christian conviction that the person outranks the crowd. This gave us equal justice, freedom of conscience and scepticism of mob rule. Together they produced equality under law, conscience beyond coercion and a civic sphere where truth mattered more than tribe. Today, those ideas lie in hospice care under Starmer’s Labour, a party still harbouring the antisemitism that festered under Corbyn and was brought to life under Blair’s postmodern globalist agenda.
Orwell warned that “the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world”. Starmer’s Government seems to have persuaded itself that it’s dead already, replaced with DEI, transgender apologists, consent algorithms, identity quotas, and virtue signalling.
The numbers scream what ministers obfuscate with euphemism. In 2023, the Community Security Trust recorded over 4,100 antisemitic incidents, the highest ever. In 2024, 3,528 incidents. In the first half of 2025, already 1,521, especially in London and Greater Manchester. This is not perception. This is threat made statistical.
Yet, urged on by Mayor Sadiq Khan, London streets still host Hamas and Free Palestine apologia. These groups are proscribed under UK law, which means that “inviting support for” them is a crime. Yet many police and prosecutors treat these marches as mere nuisances, negotiating ‘community tensions’ instead of enforcing the law. The police will come to your house if you write ‘F*ck Hamas’, yet stand idly by as pro Hamas insignia are waved in their faces. That is not ambiguity. It is abdication.
The Government can pretend nothing’s changing, but the facts say otherwise. Muslims make up 6.5% of the population of England and Wales, about 3.9 million. They are far younger than average (84.5% under 50). This is demographic momentum you could see from space. In big cities the needle’s already deep into the red. Tower Hamlets is 39.9% Muslim, Blackburn with Darwen 35.0%, Newham 34.8%, Birmingham 29.9%. There are even four MPs elected explicitly on an anti-Israel ticket.
If you want a cheeky proxy for cultural drift, the ONS now has ‘Muhammad’ as the top boys’ name, leading four of nine English regions. This isn’t hysteria; it’s warning lights flashing on the dashboard. Either you drive accordingly or, like Starmer and Labour, keep grinning at the colourful alerts.
Yes, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood talks ‘flag, faith and family’. But she also led protests urging supermarkets to drop Israeli goods and backs Palestinian statehood even as Hamas, the proscribed group running Gaza, still clings to a charter dedicated to the eradication of Jews and Israel. Her police forces still treat your phone like a crime scene, logging ‘non-crime hate incidents’ for lawful tweets even after a 2023 statutory code told forces to stop recording the trivial, malicious or irrational.
So it’s little surprise that at Labour’s recent conference in Liverpool, the rot went public. Delegates passed a motion accusing Israel of genocide. Fringe events amplified it. Outside, finally, 66 people were arrested for supporting Palestine Action, the now‑banned group. Peaceful protest or not, the arrests reflect a state more comfortable slapping wristbands than slapping cuffs on terror sympathisers.
In a desperate bid to reclaim the flag, Starmer used the same conference stage to rebuke Nigel Farage. He said the Reform leader “doesn’t like Britain, doesn’t believe in Britain” and warned voters of “division and decline”. The nerve. The project of national renewal, he suggests, belongs only to Labour. But when your own delegates vote to brand Israel genocidal and defend a terrorist‑linked network, your patriotism rings hollow.
A fish rots from the head. Starmer calls Farage unpatriotic while tolerating violence, intimidation and hate in the streets he claims to lead. A man who can find his way to a lectern, but not to a backbone
This is not a plea to Labour. It is an indictment of its failure. And a manifesto for whoever replaces it. Carve these 10 principles into your platform or don’t call yourself serious about the threat that comes not just from the mob outside, but from the cowardice within: the moral dry rot of a political class too timid to name evil when it sees it.
Ten Commandments for a Serious Government:
- Equality, not equity.
Same rules for all. No outcome quotas, no identity grading. Pass the test, not the checklist. - An impartial state.
If public tax-funded bodies act as activists, they breach their contract. Want to wave a flag at work? Try semaphore at the job centre. - Facts before feelings.
No policy without data, transparency and measurable goals. When the data say ‘no’, feelings don’t get a vote. - One law, evenly enforced, including terror offences.
Peaceful protest protected; intimidation punished. Proscribed support punished. March if you must. Menace and you get a chauffeur with blue lights and a room at His Majesty’s pleasure. - Protect Jewish life as a first‑order duty.
If Jews can’t walk to synagogue safely, no one is safe. If kids need bodyguards for Hebrew class, government failed civics. - Free speech within the law and no compelled belief.
No ideological oaths. No safe spaces. Record crimes, not opinions. Protect people, not feelings. Tackle menace, not memes. - Integration as a civic contract.
Citizenship tied to our English language, cultural respect and civic loyalty. If you want the passport, learn the code and the password. - Teach knowledge, not creeds.
Education must prioritise literacy, numeracy, science, open minds, history and British civics. Less catechism, more curriculum. - Target ideology, not demographics.
It is Islamist extremism, not background, that triggers intervention. Hunt the wolf by its teeth, not by its fur. - Sunlight on money & networks.
Trace foreign funding and influence. Defund miscreants. No sunlight, no subsidies.
Let’s stop pretending the rot is accidental. Starmer’s Labour, flanked by its pious cousins in the Greens and Liberal Democrats, has been appeasing Islamists and indulging the metroliberal clergy of ‘progressive’ orthodoxy for years. It has traded courage for calibration, principle for posture and truth for tolerance of the intolerant.
The result is moral chaos. Synagogues behind barricades, protesters praising Hamas on British streets, and a government more offended by tweets than by terror.
This is not politics as usual; it’s a moral collapse disguised as moderation. Labour has mistaken cowardice for civility. The Greens confuse compassion with naïvety. The Lib Dems think fence-sitting is a virtue. Between them they have hollowed out the centre of our civilisation.
Britain needs a new covenant, not with party but with principle. Reason, law and a culture that defends its own inheritance. Whoever rises from this wreckage must have the honesty to name evil, the courage to punish it, and the moral confidence to defend what built this country. No more appeasement. No more hashtags in place of laws. It’s time for a Britain that once again knows who it is and is finally unafraid to say so.
Clive Pinder is a recovering global executive, accidental columnist and mildly repentant political provocateur. He writes about hypocrisy, hubris and humanity on Substack.
This article (Britain Needs a New Backbone) was created and published by The Daily Sceptic and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Clive Pinder
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