RISHI and MEEHAWL – BIRDS OF A FEATHER? – by Donal Kennedy

Rishi’s family originated in the India’s Punjab Province where the Tipperary-born Sir Michael O’Dwyer was Lieutenant Governor   when Gurkha mercenary riflemen, commanded by Acting Brigadier Robert Dyer, murdered at least 379 and wounded  over 1,000 unarmed men, women and children, trapped in a square in Amritsar (13 April 1919). The British were responsible for further crimes such as the enforced famine in Bengal in 1942/43 where millions perished, up to their precipitate withdrawal from the sub-continent in 1947.

Rishi’s father was born in Kenya, officially* under British Rule, where torture, concentration camps, mass murder and rape  were employed on the natives, whose lands had been expropriated by British “settlers”. That repression was part of the career of General Kitson, the grisly eminence invested with an Order of Chivalry by Queen Elizbeth long before the earth had settled on the graves of unarmed and peaceful demonstrators murdered by her Paratroopers in Derry in 1972.

Apparently Rishi Sunak harbours no resentment of the crimes of the British under the Raj, and feels no compassion for the Kenyan victims of British barbarity.

Today he howls for the show trial of President Putin by Russia’s enemies, as David Lloyd George called for the hanging of the Kaiser*

Micheal Martin, the Taoiseach, God Help Us! wears a Poppy to  honour all who wore British uniform (or shed them to rape Kenyans), to murder men, women and children, machine-gun or drop poison gas in Iraq, behead Malayans, bomb and burn the seats of local democracy and learning – Cork’s City Hall and Carnegie Library in 1920.. Meehawl calls his crawling “Maturity.” He is a worthy disciple of Jack Lynch, the hurler who ditched his colleagues and would have despatched Captain James Kelly to Devil’s Island if he could have bought a Dublin Jury. 

I’m no Zola, nor a big cheese. But I ACCUSE  Meehawl  and those who traduced the honest Captain Kelly of being latter-day anti-Dreyfusards and worthy of our contempt.

I suggest that Rishi and Meehawl are birds of a feather

*The British Foreign Office has continued, and still continues to determine who rules Kenya.

** Lloyd George later met Hitler and shook hands with him. The former died on March 26 1945,

 the latter on 30th April 1945. I imagine they shook hands again.