Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Reginald Barrington wrote:Will the cretin Corbyn give the same response to Syria's latest chemical attack as he did the Skripals poisoning, or does that not fit his political agenda?
When even our servile state media are saying that 'it has not been possible to verify independently what actually happened' then you can be sure the meat is high.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43694588
JC surely exhibiting the strong and stable approach required of a leader.
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Captain Haddock wrote:It would appear that Jezza is not the only one with 'conviction'! Written by Ronan Bennett I note! Who he?
In 1974, when he was 18, Bennett was convicted of murdering Inspector William Elliott, a 49-year-old police officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, during an Official IRA robbery at the Ulster Bank in The Diamond shopping area in Rathcoole, close to his home in Merville Garden Village, on 6 September 1974. His conviction was declared unsafe in 1975 and he was released from Long Kesh prison.
Bennett moved to London, where in 1978 he was arrested for conspiracy to cause explosions and spent 16 months in prison on remand. Bennett conducted his own defence, and he and his co-defendants were acquitted in 1979. He studied history at King's College London, receiving a first class honours degree, and later completed his PhD at the college in 1987. That same year he was hired as a researcher by Jeremy Corbyn MP, later Leader of the Labour Party, in a move that provoked controversy and security concerns.
Nice man ........
Desperation setting in when Jezza is accused of employing someone with no criminal convictions.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Besides, 'cretin', along with, e.g., 'idiot' and 'imbecile', is part of asylum and poor house classification, not really of DSM sophistication. Surely it's unbecoming of someone who's worked 'in the field' to employ such Victorianisms.
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Desperation setting in when Jezza is accused of employing someone with no criminal convictions.
I prefer 'who has not been found guilty in a court of law'. Perhaps there is some use for the system the Jockanese use north of the border with 'Not Proven' being an option?
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Indeed it would WGS in a professional context. Though I believe idiot-savant was still being used up to DSM v.
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Captain Haddock wrote:I prefer 'who has not been found guilty in a court of law'. Perhaps there is some use for the system the Jockanese use north of the border with 'Not Proven' being an option?
I too have not been found guilty in a court of law. #JusticeForTheEcclesiasticalOne
Who here among us can claim the same? I haven't even ever been sanctioned by my employer or political party. Who here among us can claim the same?
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
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The Bishop wrote:I too have not been found guilty in a court of law. #JusticeForTheEcclesiasticalOne
Who here among us can claim the same? I haven't even ever been sanctioned by my employer or political party. Who here among us can claim the same?
I have not been guilty of any of the above, only been in a court of law once as a witness. I never even received detention at school although once I did have to do lines.
When I was about 9 I was wrongfully accused of writing the word "lavatory" on the back of the blackboard, we still used blackboards on easels back then .
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# 742 Your righteous indignation does you proud. Use of the term "cretin" is a personal insult to Corbyn and, regardless of how you judge his competence as leader of HM's opposition, only detracts from your point. In playground terms, the word "spastic" was once similarly used. The old adage - "if you can't take it, don't give it out" - springs readily to mind.
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#750 I was unaware he had an insult responder on the Dover forum, we learn something new on a daily basis.
Incidentally his response to the Syria chemical attack was as pathetic as his skripal poisoning response.
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A bad couple of days for Jezza. His 'debate' on Syria exposed his intellectual deficiency - heading off on tangents of 'whataboutery' to bring in favourite subjects like Arms Sales and the war in The Yemen.
In yesterday's debate on Anti-Semitism his position was absolutely shameful. The leader of Her Majesties Opposition saying not a word.
A comment I read elsewhere just about sums it up:-
First met Corbyn early 70s on a CND March. We marched to stop the arms race. He wanted a revolution, overthrow the Queen and the state, saw the country as imperialist, everyone thought he was a ****. I still do. He still is.
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Bloody Hell. Anyone else see PMQs? Theresa May gave Jeremy an absolute thrashing and like Max Mosley he just kept coming back for more.
I haven't winced so much since I saw those VHS tapes of Operation Spanner.
I really hope that he has given her a 'safety word or phrase' for his own sake!
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A comment I read elsewhere just about sums it up:-
First met Corbyn early 70s on a CND March. We marched to stop the arms race. He wanted a revolution, overthrow the Queen and the state, saw the country as imperialist, everyone thought he was a ****. I still do. He still is."
Was that Max Hastings?
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Well, the anti-anti-semitism row seems to have died down a little. I wonder whether that has something to do with the fact that all the Labour complainants and the virtue-signalling Tories are feeling not a little shamefaced that they voted in a piece a racist legislation. Whoops!
(For info, the 18 (count them) who voted against the 2014 Immigration Act were:
Labour: Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Mark Lazarowicz, Fiona Mactaggart, John McDonnell, Dennis Skinner.
SNP: Angus MacNeil, Angus Robertson, Mike Weir, Eilidh Whiteford, Pete Wishart.
Plaid Cymru: Jonathan Edwards, Elfyn Llwyd, Hywel Williams.
Liberal Democrat: John Leech, Sarah Teather, David Ward.
Green: Caroline Lucas.)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The rift between the Labour party and Jews looks to be getting wider despite Jezza promising to clamp down on anti-Semitism from some of his supporters.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/corbyn-meeting-board-jlc-1.463017howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Labour not really confronting the problem, I notice Wes Streeting being lambasted but his marginal constituency is noted for the number of Jewish black cab drivers living there so he would be expected to stand against anti Semitism.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/26/len-mccluskey-risks-part-problem-tackling-anti-semitism-says/Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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The anti-semitist issue with both Wes Streeting and Mike Gapes (the adjacent Ilford South) is a red herring. Yes they are right to speak up about protecting people's rights and having a strong representative voice for their community, a large contingent of which are Jewish. The issue with these MPs is that they are using these accusations as a smoke screen to publicly attack their own democratically elected leader and leadership team.
There is an argument that says let their Constituency Labour Party members decide whether they want them or not - that's democracy isn't it?
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Ilford South has a different demographic make up from Ilford North Your Grace with mostly people of Asian ethnicity many of whom vote Labour because Mike Gapes helps them with immigration problems such as gaining permission for family members in the sub continent to come here.
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Courtesy of the Sunday Times.
The first evidence of Russian attempts to influence the result of the general election by promoting the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has emerged in a ground-breaking investigation into social media by this newspaper. Our research, in conjunction with Swansea University, discovered that 6,500 Russian Twitter accounts rallied behind Labour in the weeks before last year’s election, helping supportive messages to reach millions of voters and denigrating its Conservative rivals. Many of the Russian accounts can clearly be identified as internet robots — known as bots — that masqueraded under female English names but were in fact mass-produced to bombard the public with orchestrated political messages.
Academics say the fake accounts identified by this newspaper are just the tip of the iceberg and called on Twitter to investigate fully the true scale of Russian meddling in British politics. Our investigation found overwhelming support for Corbyn and Labour from the Russian social media accounts with nine out of 10 messages about the party promoting its campaign. Conversely, nine out of 10 tweets about the Conservatives were hostile. We found that 80% of the automated accounts had been created in the weeks before the vote on June 8 and swung into action at key points during the campaign. There was evidence that Russian social media accounts:
• Piled in with retweets praising Labour and deriding the Conservatives in equal measure on May 18 — the day Theresa May launched her party’s manifesto
• Retweeted publicity and support for Corbyn’s rallies around the country which became a phenomenon of the campaign, drawing unusually large crowds
• Helped Corbyn turn the Manchester Arena bombing into a campaigning point by amplifying tweets criticising May for cutting police numbers while she had been home secretary.
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