Do Steve Coogan and His Luvvie Friends Know Who They Are Marching With?
Do Steve Coogan, Lenny Henry and their luvvie friends know whom they’re marching with this weekend? The Together Alliance includes all six of the groups behind the ‘pro-Palestinian’ hate marches since October 7th, says Toby in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
You’d be forgiven for thinking Dawn Butler was advertising a nice day out with the Woodcraft Folk. “Proud to be a leading member of @UKTogetherAll, an alliance of people and civil society orgs against the far Right,” she posted earlier this week. “We’re choosing hope over fear, with a family walk in London, March 28th.”
You’d be none the wiser if you looked at the celebrities lending their lustre to this cause – Sir Lenny Henry, Billy Bragg, Mark Rylance, Steve Coogan – or the names of the groups supporting it – The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, National Society for Education in Art and Design, Peace and Justice Project, Respect for Life Foundation, Rainbow Stores, Christians for a Welcoming Britain – and, indeed, the Woodcraft Folk.
But scratch beneath the wholesome surface and the Together Alliance begins to look more sinister. One of the groups on the list of supporters is the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), which was founded by a former Hamas military commander. And the person named by Companies House as having “significant control” of MAB now is Anas Altikriti, who described the terrorist attack on southern Israel as an “act of resistance” and dismissed allegations of rape and mass slaughter on October 7th as a “lie”.
Also on the list is Leicester-based pro-Palestinian lobbying organisation Friends of Al Aqsa, whose chairman Ismail Patel has allegedly met former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, declared “we are all Hamas”, and referred to a gunman from the terror group who killed an Israeli civilian as a “martyr”.
Yet another supporter is the Finsbury Park Mosque, whose chairman, Mohammed Kozbar, has publicly praised the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as “the master of the martyrs of the resistance”.
Then there’s the Palestine Solidarity Movement. A spokesperson for that organisation told a crowd at a protest in Bournemouth that Zionists “love killing” and “love genocide” and claimed that before the Holocaust they had killed 20 million Christians. In other words, the Jews had it coming.
Could it be that this Saturday’s ramble through Westminster is not an innocent “family walk” after all? Given some of the groups involved, including the Socialist Workers’ Party and its various sock puppets, we can expect placards mourning the late Ayatollah Khamenei, condemning the “Zionist entity” and supporting Palestine Action.
If you think I’m exaggerating, the list of supporters includes all six of the groups behind the hate marches that have blighted the UK’s city centres since the slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians in 2023.
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I’m probably about to post the most unpopular opinion ever. I have as much dislike for Israel, US and the UK as I do for religiously controlled states like Palestine and Iran. But it seems to me that those states – that we’re constantly told are a threat to our existence – are less of a threat than our own state and the states of our ‘friends’. Isn’t our own state in the midst of committing a silent genocide of its own people? What I’d like is to be left alone, to go back to the green sweet smelling grass of freshly cut lawns on a beautiful morning on an English Sunday afternoon. Without the division, without the hate, without the hideous creature that has grown so powerful it controls every aspect of our lives. Our real enemy isn’t who we think it is; it is the entire system of modern western civilisation that gives worth to everything, but absolutely nothing of real importance.
See recent Joe Rogan podcast interview with Bret Weinstein of Dark Horse fame. Much to be said for what you write ………….
Thanks. Will do. Always feel like I fit in nowhere. I mean, you’ve got to choose a side right?
Correct. Absolutely. It’s mainly snowflakes and/or Starmerites who dither and wail and demonstrate their indecisiveness. They’re about as much use as a fart in a thunderstorm – completely unable to manage their way out of a wet paper-bag; c.f. this entire shambolic corrupt government. Totally unfit for purpose when Leadership is required.
I don’t mind upticking your stance FL. Unless we clear out the shyte in our own country we are firked well and truly. This country comes first. If that reminds anyone of ‘Britain First ‘ it’s meant to.
I agree.
Our own state is more of a threat than our declared enemies.
I think Putin is a hideous criminal but in practical terms, he is less of a threat to Britain than our own woke elite.
I don’t know what you exactly mean by “disliking” USA, UK, Israel. The people? The government? A bit of both? I’m fairly pro-USA and Israel, in some ways. But I agree with a lot of what you have written and with the thrust of it. If I have to choose a side I would still choose “our” side, but I think we here should all remember how we have been and are being treated by “our side”.
I completely agree with the gist of your comment, FL.
Two down ticks – on here ! Dear me , this luvvie mindset is lurking amongst us 😵💫
Most people are here because they think beyond the single dimension of the state. Most people.
Tend to agree. Now and then, in the past, the West has been close to something ‘better’ than the likes of Palestine and Iran – particularly in the UK. But such moments haven’t lasted long, and may never existed at all. There will be a lot of outrage expressed at what you say, and I myself am doubting my words even as I write them – but I don’t think you’re ‘wrong’. Still, if one must vote – and I would say that one must – it’s got to be for the Right, in some form – right? Save for that consideration, I think you’ll find that most people are far less shocked by your “unpopular opinion” then you think…
The luvvies are not capable of coherent thought. They couldn’t find their own posterior without stage directions, and like nothing better than osculating sandy fundaments. Utterly contemptible people. Just an unbiased view.
Most luvvies are fine if they stick 100% to their day jobs. As soon as they stray off their path they lose it and show their complete ignorance of the world.
Just reading the names of Sir Lenny Henry, Billy Bragg, (Sir) Mark Rylance, and Steve Coogan was enough to stop me reading any further. If these are ‘celebrities’ then I am pleased to be anonymous. They inhabit a different world to me and it is a world I wish no part of. And how arrogant to think they represent UKTogetherAll (if it means what it says). But what has supporting Hamas, or the Palestine Solidarity Movement to do with UKTogether All? If words mean what they say is UKTogetherAll not England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland? I would certainly march in support of that.
People such as Henry and Rylance have accepted knighthoods from this country but seem to have a greater allegiance to causes outside this counrry, and to people who have done harm and continue to do harm to this country. A plague on all their houses.
None of the Muslim groups involved haven’t said anything that most Luvvies wouldn’t wholeheartedly agree with.
Well it was just one big socialist/commie/Marxist/Muslim/woketard/oikophobe ( fair amount of overlap there ) day out, wasn’t it? But what I’d really like to know is who on earth is the gimpy fetish-looking dude on stage here? I’m guessing it was Polanski’s idea. Maybe it’s his boyfriend…I would highly recommend NOT putting the sound on for this one;
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2037971283246268889
The concept of these deluded, ignorant freaks being within a thousand light years of government is simply terrifying. We’re doomed, Captain Mainwaring, I tell you; doomed.
Bloody Nora, it gets worse. This is the view from the front. Is this really a serious political party? My cringeometer has officially maxed out 😮
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2038019714845143414
I bet the muzzies were fully on board with this.
Probably doing target practice.
That’s the Green party equivalent of hiring a few strippers for an enhanced atmosphere. Unfortunately, they have to do with volunteers which kind-of impacts the quality of the presentation. But at least, he’s certainly going through the motions. Which makes him the physcial equivalent of Polanski’s refined intellectuality.
Those gyrating men surely can’t be gay. They can’t dance for toffee! They’re not living up to the stereotype.😆🕺 The entire spectacle looks like a Poundland version of The Hitman and Her.* Where’s Pete and Michaela ( plus the black dude in the blonde wig ) when you need them?😁
*You maybe won’t recall that show if you weren’t in the country in the early ’90s. But it’s when I started going out clubbing ( underage, but girls can get away with that more than boys ) and I’d come home in the wee hours and chill out watching that before going to bed. Nostalgia…😌
I was specifically referring to the dude you mentioned in your first comment. The other guys are just run-of-the-mill aliens from planet Green and these here even look fairly normal due to being Londoners. Similar happenings in smaller towns in Germany where basically all kindergarten employees of the town congregate in order to sing nursery rhymes whose text has been adapted to call for outlawing the AfD are much more cringeworthy.
How can I unsee that?
I know. There’s not been a lot of effort put in, has there? They’re not even coordinated!😄 It’s a 0/10 from me. Hannah Spencer looks like she’d be more at home on Balamory than in Parliament.
Pathetic load of tossers.
I think the point is that Western luvvies, as well as many lovely people not in the dramatic arts, couldn’t really give a toss about appearing not to endorse violence. The point is that lefties will see their nearest and dearest raped and eviscerated in the name of whatever delusion is currently driving them. And, needless to say, they’re even happier to see the same happening to their political enemies. People like Coogan are babies, but bloodthirsty babies. (Bit of alliteration in the morning can’t hurt.)
When Reparations-Henry takes part, it must be a bad cause.
w a bunch of protesters yesterday at London Bridge. Placards urging people to “be kind” with profanities on the back. Hmmmmm
Christians for a Welcoming Britain
OK, that has to be the stand out one. All the others I have no doubt will turn out to have the usual Far Left funders but this one is pretty odd as they are supporting welcoming scum into this courtry who will in time murder you – it is like turkeys having a Christmas club.