Britain Needs a New Backbone
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.
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It’s very simple.
Britain needs to get back to Christianity, the cornerstone of England for a 1000 years.
From school through to the highest government.
I was brought up in the Christian tradition, but I’m no longer a believer. Nonetheless, I continue to value the Christian moral framework.
How about valuing the Creator rather than what he created?
Actually Christianity in England dates back to the Roman occupation, given that it was spread via the Romans throughout their empire, once embraced by its emperor.
It is however worth noting that much of what is claimed as Christian values and morality, predated Christianity going way back through the Angles & Saxons and into Celtic history, much of it the foundation for Common Law, and was simply adopted by the early Celtic-Catholic Church to make the transition of people from Paganism to Christianity, a short step.
Christianity certainly was an important vehicle to pass along our culture from one generation to the next, but that can also be achieved by secular means such as civics lessons, teaching good manners (manners are now “old fashioned”) and teaching our culture.
We failed to do this. Rejection of Christianity was more to do with rejection of our morals, values, manners, standards by a new anything-goes, do-as-we-like, 1960s hippy class, than rejection of religion per se.
Culture is not inherited, it must be taught.
This isn’t true, cf Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Some or all of the Britons which occupied the British Isles in Roman times may have become Christians. But England was conquered by pagan Germanic tribes who established their own kingdoms, as evident in the place names Essex, Wessex, Sussex and Middlesex, for kingdom of the east, west, south and middle Saxons. They became Christians when the Roman Catohlic Church again expanded into these areas at a later time.
Not to be drawn into the myths around Joseph of Arimathea, it does seem that Linus and Claudia (whom Paul names in his second letter to Timothy) were of British descent and had been taken to Rome around the middle of the first century.
For that, the church leaders, inc. the new Archbishop need to make a clarion call to people to come back to God and His son Jesus Christ. National renewal starts at the personal level.
Excellent article; the ‘Ten Commandments’ are particularly apt. Chances of Spineless Starmer’s appalling government adopting any of them? Less than zero.
Whether consciously or unconsciously Labour subvert the ideas behind the Ten Commandments for a serious government because they do not support the Socialist march towards a glorious Utopia.
Islam is a poison
And the dose makes the poison – and the UK has an over-dose.
What about Zionism? A pity Britain is caught up in these foreign religions.
If Israel, the Jewish State, stopped killing tens of thousands of innocent women, children and civilians in Palestine then Jews would feel a lot safer in the UK.
Glad to see that 18 to 24 year olds in Britain have a moral compass.
It’s a war provoked by the Hamas death cult. Did the UK worry about the citizens of Dresden? Wars cause death.
Hamas was formed in 1987.
Jews have been killing Arabs in Palestine since Israel was formed in 1948.
You seem to have got yourself in a tangle, so I’ll sort it for you.
Arabs have been killing Jews in Palestine since before Israel was formed in 1948.
Palestinians have been killing Arabs (eg Jordan, Lebanon) and Europeans/Americans in bomb attacks, shooting, hijacks, kidnapping for the last six decades.
That’s better.
As have Palestinians been killing Jews ans Israelis
A reminder of why none of the neighbouring Arab countries want the troublesome buggers. The idiots in charge in Europe will take them in, though; ”Black September: the war in Jordan that killed thousands of Palestinians, expelled the PLO, and reshaped the Middle East – but is rarely talked about today. In the late 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled after 1948 had settled in Jordan. By 1970, the PLO operated almost as a “state within a state” – running militias, taxing locals, and even attempting to assassinate King Hussein. The Jordanian monarchy saw this as a direct threat. In September 1970, the army launched a full-scale campaign against the PLO. The fighting was brutal: between 3,000 and 10,000 Palestinians were killed in battles across Jordan’s cities and refugee camps. The conflict, known as Black September, ended in 1971 with the PLO expelled from Jordan and forced to relocate to Lebanon. Seventeen years later, in 1988, Jordan went further by revoking citizenship from many West Bank Palestinians, cutting their formal ties to the kingdom. This was one of the most decisive turning points in modern Palestinian history. Yet outside the region, it is rarely discussed – overshadowed by… Read more »
Yes, by invitation of the Jordanian monarchy, a genocide was carried under the leadership of General Zia, who went on to overthrow the elected regime and seize power in his native Pakistan.
Well we don’t tend to hear so much about Muslims genociding other Muslims, do we? Or Muslims genociding Christians and other religious minorities. I think this whole ‘genocide’ lark has become very Jewcentric. The myopic focus on Israel whilst willfully ignoring conflicts and humanitarian crises in other countries has become very tedious and predictable now. Manipulation of reality and facts is all part of the agenda, of course.
Seconded 👍
Actually, it says way more Palestinians were killed: 25,000 – 30,000, in this article, so I’m not sure what the true number is.
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/25000-killed-how-pakistan-army-led-jordan/?amp
Ah yes, those ”innocent women and children” again;
“We must kill the Jews with our bare hands.
To kill them with our teeth.
With our teeth we will eat the Jews,”
– A Palestinian mother.
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1974894147753718099
If successive UK Governments had stopped mass Islamic immigration and they, along with their legacy media fellow-travellers, were to consider the Jew-hatred clearly spewed forth in Islamic religious texts, then perhaps Jews might feel somewhat safer in the UK.
If Hamas were to stop stealing aid, using their own people as human shields, hiding themselves in tunnels beneath homes, schools and hospitals and hadn’t carried out the attack two years ago, then perhaps there would be no talk of genocide in Gaza.
If Iran were to stop funding terrorist organisations, killing and incarcerating their citizens there may be hope of lasting peace in the region.
If the British Government and Commonwealth leaders were to speak up on behalf of thousands being killed, kidnapped and displaced in the Nigerian genocide…
There is no greater failure when we have UK governments unable and unwilling to protect genuinely British supporting sections of our population, in this case Jewish people.
The political class are treasonous failures and of the current crop probably 630 should be in prison.
The moral compass that is based on a complete misunderstanding of what the Nazis did to the Jews. Modern education has avoided that era and the two world conflicts. Many teachers can also be found on marches holding Palestian banners, so don’t rely on a balanced narrative from them.
Thanks for proving my point. No well-informed or open minded person could conflate the genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany with Israel’s counter attack on Gaza. They could reasonably however conflate Hamas’ Founding Charter with Nazi Germany. A Charter that calls for the eradication of all Jews and the State of Israel.
Many well informed and open minded people see the hypocritical similarity between the genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany with Israel’s totally disproportionate attack on Gaza.
The 1988 Hamas Charter has been superseded by their later one of 2017.
However, Hamas wants the 1988 Charter to remain as a historical document of its time.
The 2017 Charter states ……
“Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, antisemitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage.”
A quick internet search would debunk your attempt to dismiss the obvious similarities between Hamas’ Islamism and Nazism. Here is a summary because facts matter: The 1988 Charter remains ideologically operative. While Hamas claims the 1988 Charter is “historical,” it has never formally rescinded it. Leaders have repeatedly described it as part of their “doctrinal heritage,” not a repudiated text. The 1988 document explicitly: Cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (a known antisemitic forgery); Frames Jews as enemies of Islam across history; Calls for jihad as a religious obligation to destroy Israel. That text remains posted and circulated on Hamas-linked sites and in educational materials in Gaza. So it functions as a living document, not a museum relic. The 2017 “Charter” is not a charter at all. The 2017 document — officially titled the Document of General Principles and Policies — was never ratified by the Hamas Shura Council as a constitutional charter. It’s a political manifesto aimed at Western and Arab audiences to soften the group’s image after the Syrian civil war and regional isolation. Even in that text: Hamas still refuses to recognize Israel or any peace agreement. It reiterates that “no part of the land… Read more »
Nice deflection.
I haven’t “attempted to dismiss the obvious similarities between Hamas’ Islamism and Nazism” as you suggest.
What I’ve done is agree with the assertion by many that there are obvious similarities between Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Nazism.
This makes no sense because the Third Reich and the state of Israel didn’t coexist. Hence, a Nazi policy on Israel also never existed.
True, the Third Reich and the modern state of Israel didn’t coexist — because the Nazis made sure six million Jews didn’t either.
But Nazi policy toward Jews most certainly existed, and it was clear enough: annihilation.
Israel’s very existence is the direct consequence of that policy.
So yes, Hitler never drafted a “policy on Israel” — he was too busy trying to ensure there’d never be one.
You should perhaps try to make up your mind if you want to talk about the present conflict in Gaza and its protagonists or about historical events from the first half of the last century. These are two very distinct topics and that every contemporary ‘democrat’, including the ‘democratic’ government of Israel, always refers to his political opponents as Nazis despite the world hasn’t seen any (minus practically irrelevant fringe groups) for ⅘ of a century would be a third one.
So why were over a thousand Jews killed on 07 October, and thousands more over the years before they started “killing tens of thousands of innocent, blah, blah, blah “?
And why were attacks on Jews increasing significantly in the UK prior to 07 October?
And why did the Palestinian sub-Humans make a point of burning their victims, some still alive, on 07 October if not to draw a direct connection with the Holocaust and remind Jews it was unfinished business.
It would be nice to read posts that are the result of critical independent thinking rather that from those whose opinon is entitely informed by the malevolent BBC
On the other hand if they had exterminated the Palestian terrorists who pretend to be innocent civilians much faster then the World would be a better place.
All very laudable, but it ain’t going to happen, is it?
It’s an unwelcome fact that a proportion of Brits are antisemitic and barely hide their predudice. Even 50 years ago I came across a Liberal Councillor referring to Jew Boys and the need to keep them out of his Lodge. The university students I met in Manchester despised our kind Jewish landlady and stole Jewish doctors nameplates. Young Scouse hitchhikers made antisemitic remarks until they decided that I was Jewish [I’m not] and apologised for not noticing my nose. As most police are now recruited with low grade degrees, it is probable that many are also antisemitic. Many officers are drawn from a Moslem background and they too are unlikely to be enthusiastic about protecting the Jewish neighbourhoods.
“The Judeo-Christian conviction that the person outranks the crowd.”
That went out the window when Marxist-Socialist Labour were voted in with their Statist, collectivism, State-ownership of the economy, and redistribution of wealth via the tax system.
Individualism, merit became selfish, greedy and caused inequality. You toil for the collective good.. or else. The so-called Conservatives accepted that from the start with only brief respite during the Thatcher era until she was ousted so collectivism and statism could return.
“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.” yet Starmer denies there is 2-tier policing! At least DLT & JDV understand what’s happening.
1. Equality, not equity.
Jolly good, we’re all equal.
5. Protect Jewish life as a first‑order duty.
What’s that you say… but some are more equal than others. Why’s that then?
Of course the State should deal with sectarian violence between competing minority religious groups living here, but surely a higher priority is for the State to stop actively persecuting the notionally majority Christian population, by not arresting them for silently praying in the street, for example.
I also don’t see why we are supposed to takes sides in an intractable conflict 2,000 miles away that has been going on for over half a century. Let’s get our house in order first before worrying about others far away.