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They lie and the lie and they lie and they lie and they lie and the lie and they lie and they lie and they lie and the lie and they lie and they lie and they lie and the lie and they lie and they lie and they lie...
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Would it be antisemitic to suggest this guy is a Nazi?
Israeli journalist and Israel Today political correspondent Yehuda Schlesinger has publicly advocated for the complete annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza on his online accounts.
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I consider myself to be fairly cynical. But I didnt think that an ICJ finding that Israel is being investigated for genocide would lead to aid being cut to the victims of said genocide by our own Government. It's an utterly bleak time in history.
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Israel is completely out of control. And no Western power is seriously trying to stop them. I have never seen anything like this.
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I feel sorry for ethnic Russians in London being subject to these horrific hate marches. They must be banned.
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It's astonishing that Al Jazeera is the only channel giving detailed news from Gaza. Where are the fearless Western journos?
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These people should go fuck themselves. There is absolutely nothi g antisemitic in what Owen Jones said. He made a perfectly legitimate and correct point.
Owen Jones should never be permitted onto broadcast TV or in the Print Media. He should lose all access to social media as well.
Severe antisemitism like this should never go unpunished. If I had my way, I’d throw him in prison and leave him there to rot
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Gaza's children are literally being massacred and the entire city is being eviscerated. But the real victims are comfortable middle class people in a very safe country.
EXCL: Britain’s Chief Rabbi tells me that British Jews are more fearful now than at any time since World War II.
We joined him on a visit to a synagogue in Leeds where he sought to reassure a very anxious community, as antisemitism soars.
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She's right that British politics has got caustic, nasty, and dishonest. And she should know, because she was part of the caustic, nasty and dishonest PLP that shafted Corbyn.
"British politics has got caustic and nasty."
Labour's Jess Phillips fights back tears after she was booed by the audience in Birmingham Yardley.
Watch
#C4BritainDecides
NOW on
@channel4
until 9am.
#GeneralElection2024
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Why does the BBC always say that Hezbullah is supported by Iran but never says Israel is supported by the USA?
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My main takeaway from the last three days is that I now fully understand how the holocaust happened and how its perpetrators slept with a clear conscience in the full knowledge of what they were doing.
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Does anyone else remember when about 20 people used to jump out on Jeremy Corbyn every morning right outside his house? Some of them were even from Sky News.
"Eight people jumped out at me with masks on."
@emilythornberry
is worried about the intimidation female MPs faced in the election.
She tells
@BethRigby
and
@RuthDavidsonPC
about her own experiences of abuse.
Listen to more on Electoral Dysfunction 👇
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BBCR4 Today mentions that 150 Palestinian women and children will be released by Israel in exchange for Israeli hostages. But no explanation or context is given as to why thousands of Palestinian women and children are being held without charge. Just one of those things I guess.
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We can now be arrested for:
(a) calling a nonse a nonse.
(b) heckling an unelected head of state
(c) holding a sign
But cancel culture is a left wing thing...
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What ever happened to antisemitism? It used to get wall to wall coverage on the BBC yet is never mentioned nowadays. It's almost as if the whole thing was a gigantic scam.
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I'm still fucking totally pissed off with the way Corbyn was shafted. I'll never forgive the bastards that stiffed him as long as I live.
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Owen Jones telling the truth is really winding up the genociders. More please.
Imagine being as coked up as this and going on national TV.
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Owen Jones is right. Germany is behaving disgracefully. They are actively supporting Israeli genocide more than any other country. They are even intervening to defend Israel at the ICJ. It's sick.
I’m (luckily) blocked nowadays by Owen, someone I used to actually quite respect for having a view, values and sticking to them. Then for some godknown reason he decided to jump the shark in aid of magic grandpa. And this is where you end up. Disgusting.
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You fucking wrecked Newsnight, destroyed every notion of impartiality and paved the way for Johnson and the shit show that is now bulldozing the country. Take a really fucking deep bow.
It’s true.
@BBCNewsnight
is our Hotel California. All of us who checked out never really left. We lived through extraordinary times with the most incredible team spirit. And our thoughts are with the whole team tonight.
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Emily Maitlis complaining about (the lack of) BBC impartiality is like the CEO of Thames Water complaining about turds in the River Thames.
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My prediction. Truss wins. Opens QE floodgates to stop energy bills going up and completely outflanks Keith who is left floundering around as a Cameron revival act on the deficit. She bathes in glory and calls a snap election in October and wins. Centrists blame Jeremy Corbyn.
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Mick Lynch smashing it on BBC R4 PM. Clear, unflustered, no triangulation, no mealy mouthed procrastination. As a consequence Evan Davies has no Gotcha moments. Just a rational and clear explanation of what is going on.
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How many Centrists does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They'd rather sit in the dark and blame Corbyn.
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You smashed it Zarah. Keep telling the truth.
The sneering contempt of ‘journalists’ will never stop me from calling out racism and Islamophobic hate.
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Very powerful from Peter Hennessey on R4 Broadcasting House. He's basically saying that our system of Governance is competely failing and that everyone, including the media, is going along with it. Real anger in his voice.
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People queue up for 14 hours to gorp at a wooden box draped in a flag containing a dead body. But Corbynism is a cult. 🤔
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So after two weeks of absurd monarchist love in, the BBCs Justin Webb on BBC R4 Today now pushes the narrative that the NHS is broken beyond repair and should be abolished in favour of social insurance. Even when a professor refutes his false narrative he continues to push it.
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"Vast threats to Israel". As Israel commits a genocide. No grip on reality at all.
I was pleased to have a wide-ranging conversation with the Foreign Secretary
@DavidLammy
this afternoon.
We discussed the imminent and vast threats facing Israel across the Middle East, UK Government decisions relating to the conflict, the urgent importance of freeing the
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I was at an event last night under strict instructions from my wife to keep schtum on Israel-Palestine. We were sitting with two suspected Tory couples, two suspected Labour and one Irish. They all condemned Israel harshly. Our media and politicians are competely out of step.
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Translation: We own the gimp Starmer and that motherfucker knows what will happen if he steps out of line on Israel.
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You know all those centrists who were hyperventilating on Twitter for four years about Jeremy Corbyn's antisemitic shoelaces or something - they are remarkably quiet about Israeli terror, war crimes and civilian massacres in Gaza. Strange that.
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Just heard the state run BBC refer to Russia as a "Kremlin managed democracy". Whereas the truly democratic UK has a hereditary Head of State, a majority Govt elected with 43% vote, a HOL 85% appointed and 15% hereditary, and a media that supports everything the Govt does. LOL.
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These pictures from Israeli intelligence clearly show Corbyn digging tunnels for Hamas linked to Gaza. Israeli security sources allege that he is planning to offer them asylum in Islington to rebuild their weapons stocks. The British Government must act now to stop this madness.
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If, as leader, Corbyn were being criticised by German Jewish groups about his insensitive use of the holocaust memorial in Berlin, and CAA had joined in, it would be the first item on the BBC R4 Today News. Not a squeak now. Strange that.
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Having joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 in 1983, I can't tell you how much I hate today's Labour Party. Truly horrific people.
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"So we made up this bollocks about antisemitism and it seems to have worked..."
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They picked on the wrong person with Roger Waters. He is not going to back down. Finally someone is standing up to this fucking bogus antisemitism nonsense. I hope he starts sueing a few people. Starting with Starmer.
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I'd say this kind of thing pissed off Joe Public more than immigration.
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Can you imagine the reaction if Corbyn had applauded a former Waffen SS man who enthusiatically took part in the holocaust. It's now risible how transparent the antisemitism scam is.
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"Centrism is the philosophical belief that you are the smartest person in the room, whilst simultaneously being the mark for every right-wing political scam. And never learning."
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Massive respect to Mick Lynch. Someone finally gives the BBC Tories what for.
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I have today switched away from Octopus Energy and reported them to the EHRC.
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Starmer needs to apologise to all the victims of Jimmy Savile so that Labour can put the issue behind them and move on. His stubbornness is now becoming the issue. It is irrelevant whether he did anything wrong, and a full and sincere apology is now required.
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I can't decide if Starmer really believes that Israel can do no wrong, or whether he is just shit scared of the consequences of not believing Israel can do no wrong. Either way it is quite astonishing, in a supposed democracy, how criticism of Israel is now strictly off limits.
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What a revolting person Liz Kendall is. Horrific. Not an ounce of grace or honour or integrity.
"Jeremy only has his self to blame"
"You know perfectly well what I said"
Watch
@leicesterliz
and
@jeremycorbyn
clash over his suspension from the Labour whip.
#Peston
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Considering Corbyn was such an electoral liability, it's remarkable how many Tories are highlighting "defeating Corbyn" as one of Johnson's greatest achievements in their valedictory tweets.
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Imagine if Corbyn had done this to Lucianna Berger. The media would be pissing their pants about antisemitic Stalist authoritarianism.
I have been informed by the Chief Whip & the Labour Party leadership that the whip has been withdrawn from me for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which would lift 330,000 children out of poverty.
I will always stand up for the most vulnerable in our society.
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Can we send some Leopard tanks to the West Bank to help the Palestinians resist an illegal occupation? Or are some illegal occupations more equal than others?
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To my shame, before the antisemitism witchhunt I'd never paid much attention to Israel-Palestine. But the witchhunt led me to engage and I'm now viscerally opposed to the brutal Israeli occupation. The mendacity of Israel's apologists opened my eyes - not what they intended.
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Just watching BBC News at 10. Turns out the BBC has just discovered that war crimes exist. Horrific as these Russian crimes are, it's strange that the BBC never notice when Gaza is periodically carpet bombed.
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I'm completely losing interest in politics with every passing day. The way Corbyn was so shamelessly and dishonestly defenestrated makes me despair at any meaningful change ever happening. Our media is so utterly corrupt and putrid. It's desperate.
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If Burnham became leader, reinstated Corbyn, published the Forde Report, held treacherous staffers and MPs to account, conducted an honest appraisal of the Corbyn years, and adopted a popular left wing platform, I'd likely vote Labour again. Would you?
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Corbyn's hit job is like the Savile case. No one will mention the multiple offences committed in plain site and known by insiders, for fear of upsetting the powerful. But, like Savile, a tsunami of evidence is breaking the sea wall of silence. And the BBC is yet again culpable.
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Today I was notified that I am being formally investigated by the Labour Party following the emergence of my membership of the Tufty Club in 1976.
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Does anyone else remember when Britain's leading racist explainer and doyen of Centrism said antisemitism is like cancer but other racisms were like shingles?
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It appears that the only clear winner from Thursday's election was Mark Drakeford.
Strange that the only part of the UK where Labour has a Corbyn supporter as leader is also the part where so called long-Corbyn doesn't exist. 🤔
Riddle me that Laura K.
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The most racially abused person in Britain refuses racism training offered by a bunch of white people who have never experienced anything like the racism she has experienced shock.
Diane Abbott was offered the Labour whip back if she agreed to offer a more fulsome apology and undergo antisemitism training, but turned the offer down, I am told 👇👇
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I went out with a Labour Party member last night. Their child like credulity that Starmer will suddenly turn into Clement Atlee once he gets power made me quite melancholy. I actually felt sorry for him. He really doesn't get it. This is who they are. They are not pretending.
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The UK is collapsing in every respect. The economy is in disarray, public services (health, eduction, criminal justice, social care) are competely broken, real incomes are in steep decline, and water, energy and transport infrastructure is disintegrating. This is not normal.
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I don't know how Zarah stays in the Labour Party. She is one of the good ones.
Zarah Sultana: The UK's approach to Israel "has been truly tragic... we're aiding & abetting what is war crimes.."
#bbclaurak
#TrevorPhillips
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It's a source of never ending surprise to me that having brutally destroyed Corbyn the Labour right expected everything to "go back to normal" and the left would just suck it all up and vote Labour anyway. They have no idea how the anger still burns. No idea.
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Does it have to be spelled out that having black skin marks you out in a way that having white skin and being Jewish or GRT does not? It is much easier for bigots to target you. And boy do the bigots target Diane Abbot in a way that most of her detractors can't even imagine.
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Was he fuck. He was trying to protect Starmer. This is so fucking transparently bollocks. Do these pundits think we are all brain dead?
I can’t get very excited about last night’s undignified row over Speaker Hoyle. The man was trying to protect MPs from threats of violence. All the parties were using Gaza for their own self-interested. Election purposes, not least embattled SNP
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Galloway wins an election by a mile and Sunak says "this is terrible, we need to protect democracy." Presumably it needs to be protected from those pesky voters.
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People don't understand just how fucked we are. We have a low wage low productity economy, massive inequality, an enormous trade deficit, virtually no savings, an ageing population and collapsing public infrastructure. A tragic legacy of 40 years of neo-liberal economics.
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Clive Lewis needs to come out fighting here. No compromise with these genocide apologists. Fight every step of the way and counter accuse them of targeting an ethnic minority Labour MP. Take them to court if necessary. This vexatious bullshit has to stop.
The Labour Party has received an official complaint over a social media post by one of its MPs which campaigners argue blames Jews for the outbreak of riots across the UK
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You know what Starmer's cronies don't get? It's that six years ago (pre Corbyn) I would have supported the Labour Party unconditionally. But now I would rather choke on my own vomit than support the degenerate bastards who run Labour. I'm sure thousands of others feel the same.
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Finally we get to the endgame. The real reason for the entire Labour antisemitism horseshit fest of the last eight years is revealed. Jesus wept.
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Centrist Flags: A Guide.
I support resistance to illegal occupations. 🇺🇦
I also support illegal occupations. 🇮🇱
I am very grown up and sensible.🇬🇧
Good. Corbyn is a revolting antisemite. The idea he could be a Labour MP is unacceptable to me. He has actively worked against Labour for decades
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Does anyone else remember the olden days when the UKs most vile antisemites were NF thugs John Tyndall and Martin Webster, rather than the mild mannered Jewish children's author Michael Rosen. Yet no msm journalist appears to think this might be just a tiny bit odd.
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Even by Nick Robinson's low standards, that interview he just did about the anti-genocide marches on BBC R4 Today was the most disgraceful piece of smearing and slander of peaceful demonstrators I have ever heard. The BBC is an absolute fucking joke.
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Rachel Riley isn't right wing folks. She just preferred a hard right racist Government that deported Black Britons to die and that has broken the country economically, over a man who has campaigned against racism since the 1960s and wanted to redistribute wealth a little.
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You helped put them into power you malignant little cunt.
What a wretchedly stupid party the Conservative party has become.
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People think I'm joking when I say I don't read the Guardian anymore because it's too right wing. It has this image of radical leftism when it is no such thing and never has been.
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The Tory Party is basically an organised crime syndicate. The difference now is that Johnson doesn't give a shit who knows it.
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The more I stew on it, the more utterly pissed off I get about the bullshit antisemitism witchhunt. My anger will never subside. Think of it, right wing Labour MPs spending years smearing the most antiracist Labour MP for political gain. And now the devious b
#stards
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Maureen Lipman has resigned from the Women's Institute because they refused to condemn Corbyn's antisemitic jam.
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Utter horseshit. When has any other politician been subjected to this kind of absurd micro scrutiny by the media on the say so of a nasty little fraud like Baddiel. It's fucking disgraceful.
"[Baddiel] accepts that I’m not a racist, so why does he construct something that's allegedly at the back of my mind?"
@jeremycorbyn
responds to
@Baddiel
’s characterisation of his alleged anti-Semitism.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
.
@lewis_goodall
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Lammy tying himself in knots on BBCR4 Today. I think the penny has finally dropped that supporting a genocide is not a good look for so alleged progressives and he's desperately trying a partial reverse ferrit without upsetting the Israel lobby. He's such is disingenuous prick.
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I wonder if Justin Welby regrets smearing Corbyn as an antisemite now that his entire faith is being smeared as antisemitic by the same horrific charlatans.
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LOL. Good riddance. I stopped watching when it became junk journalism. Flush it down the bog like the rest of BBC News and Current Affairs.
The honour of presenting
@BBCNewsnight
falls to me tonight. I have worked on the programme for 32 years, around the world, risking my life many times for its journalism. You can well imagine my feelings at cuts to our staff and budget of more than 50%
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I'm so pleased the hacks and the sensibles stopped Corbyn. Otherwise the economy would now be in melt down.
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Just heard Lammy on BBC R4 Today. He is even worse than Starmer. I viscerally despise these people.
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If JK Rowling had been a Corbyn supporter (bear with me), at what point do you think there would have been widespread calls for the Harry Potter films to be banned for their antisemitic portrayal of grasping bankers? I reckon about August 2018.
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Watched Beckett on Newsnight.
1. McDonagh was desperate - undignified yelling "mansplaining"
2. Hodge and Watson looked like relics from another age.
3.Emma Barnett was characteristically anti-left.
4. Beckett's soft, calm Ulster accent is very forceful. He's excellent.
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EXCL: Starmer launches probe into Labour antimonarchism. "Keir believes that antimonarchism could become the new antisemitism" said a spokesperson. "And he is keen to ensure that the issue can be weaponised even more effectively than antisemitism against the left."
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Maybe you shouldn't have been such a cunt about Corbyn eh John. That's your key learning point.
My daughter will no longer be able to come back from America and live with her US husband in the UK
Thank you
@RishiSunak
The UK government: keeping families apart
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Strange how we must unequivably condemn Hamas with unstinting moral clarity. But Israel's genocidal massacre is finely nuanced and only a complete fool would have any moral clarity over the massacre of 4500 children or the suffocation of 30 premature babies by the IDF.
#Ballshit
Brilliant column by
@Freedland
on the huge complexities of the terrible Israel-Gaza conflict - any fool who tries to reduce it down to simple moral absolutes is... a complete fool...
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I've never told my children that because it isn't true. The truth is that most people will end up in jobs that pay below mean wages. It is the job of the Labour party to improve the wages and conditions in these jobs, not to fantasise about everyone being a tech entrepreneur.
We tell our children: “if you work hard, you can achieve anything.”
The question now is: do we still believe it?
That’s why smashing the class ceiling that holds working people back is my defining purpose.
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Every morning I wake up, I think about what could have been and how the right wing of Labour stole our future. I will never forgive them until my dying day.
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I'm so pleased it makes you angry. I will never vote for Starmer's Labour. And if that means Tory Government's until the end of time then so be it. The right wing goons in the PLP and their media chums should have thought about that before their five year onslaught on Corbyn.
The responses to my earlier tweet about voting Labour: I just cannot believe the number of people who are supposedly on the left, but who are prepared to let this corrupt, criminal, murderous Tory Party back into power simply because they don't like Starmer.
Makes me so angry.
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Blue Tick Media Centrist School 101.
People who are racists:
Jeremy Corbyn
Desmond Tutu
Michael Rosen
Ben and Jerry
People who are not racists:
Tommy Robinson
Boris Johnson
Nigel Farage
Victor Oban
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How quickly do you think this would be denounced as an antisemitic trope if JK Rowling expressed support for the Palestinians?
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Has anyone seen a Centrist admit that maybe putting the Tories in to stop Jam Man might have been the most utterly fucking disastrous judgement of their lives.
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