This should be a national scandal, but it isn't.

And that should tell you a lot about how this country works, about how power works,

and about how ours is a democracy with very heavy caveats. This is about how

our political and media establishment closed ranks, about growing naked

unapologetic authoritarianism, and how those who are complicit in one of the great crimes of our age are

Naryswells Maselter of Gaza is transparently indefensible except to the completely morally depraved

are trying to defend themselves from having that complicity challenged.

Now there's a few things going on here so we need to just make sure we get the facts straight.

What we know has happened and is happening.

Now firstly, yesterday was one of the few opposition days

given to the Scottish National Party.

So that's a day when they can set the legislative agenda. Now they get three of those, each

parliamentary session, just three. Labour gets 17. So Labour have no shortage of opportunities to put their arguments forward. Now this is a point made

very eloquently by the SMP MP John Nicholson.

Now listen to something Orwellian today from David Lamy, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, that Sir Kiir and he have

always been in favor of a ceasefire, well we know that's not the case because we heard

what they had to say. Labor has had multiple opportunities to debate this issue on their own opposition days

over the last four months. If they were so passionate about the arguments they're putting

forward today, why did they not propose them in one of their days?

The problem is Labour has spent most of the last few months backing Israel's mass slaughter of

Gaza up to and including Kirstarma supporting Israel's right to cut off water

and energy to a civilian population.

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