Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Yes Ross but the enduring narrative of the Israeli establishment for over 70 years has been that anti-Israeli=anti-Semitic. (A silly term because Arabs are also a Semitic race).
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Keith Sansum1
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This one appears to be throwing Labour into the mix.
The wonder is how they will deal with it.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Push back or get pushed over. Labour gave in to the BoD and cancelled dissenters. Now, having found that publicly 'taking the knee' wasn't enough, Starmer does 'unconscious bias training'. As the party continues to tick every identity in the box marked 'rainbow', its own identity fades.
https://news.sky.com/story/black-lives-matter-sir-keir-starmer-vows-to-take-unconscious-bias-training-after-calling-protests-a-moment-12022235
And while a government of egregious mediocrities presents empty nets, the 'forensically incisive' Starmer can't find a ball to kick.
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Brian Dixon
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bo jo's got two to kick around.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Yes Brian and much of the country would love to kick them.
Button
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:And while a government of egregious mediocrities presents empty nets, the 'forensically incisive' Starmer can't find a ball to kick.
I thought the theory was that all he has to do is spectate whilst the Tories pull the roof down on their own heads?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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What must be worrying labour is those up North still appear to support boris as bad as he is.
People still don't have confidence in change
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Button, that’s what Corbyn relied on and look where it got him.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:I thought the theory was that all he has to do is spectate whilst the Tories pull the roof down on their own heads?
It's not true that he's spectating, though; he's busy decking his great wooden edifice with colourful ribbons.
As for 'those up North' in KS's post #87. Indeed. The Tories in December didn't really need to do much to convince them; Labour's share of the vote up there was dropping long before Corbyn came along. They'll be shafted by the Tories, of course; just as they were ignored by Labour.
By the time Labour realises that woke purity is a blind alley the entrance will have been sealed up and it'll have no way out.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Yrs
Iv said before labour wont get in to number 10 for at least 25 years
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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The Tories will self destruct, they always do. It's coming. Be positive KS
Jan Higgins
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It is a vicious circle, both major parties have a habit of self destructing when they reach the top.
Long term damage all depends on how fast they fall, with Labour it started with Brown in charge then into freefall under Corbyn. I suspect Boris might have started the Tories off who follows him will either kill or cure.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Until Labour learns it lost the North because it disdains a largely conservative working-class, it's done for. Labour voters, and not just in the North, voted Conservative because they believed that Party legitimised their conservatism. If the government's behaviour in the last few months has not undeceived them, they'll stick with the Tories. If it has, they'll abstain. The more Labour obsesses with cancellations, pronouns, re-education, knee-taking and other gestures the more it moves further away from its base support.
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It could also be said Labour seem not to realise that quite a few 'more free thinking southerners' have moved to the north since business has been encouraged to move to the area.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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it cant be all bad, labour now only 4 points behind the coservatives down from 20 to start with, all in a 100 days.
Reginald Barrington
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Brian Dixon wrote:it cant be all bad, labour now only 4 points behind the coservatives down from 20 to start with, all in a 100 days.
They should be 20 ahead!
And the EHRC report into antisemitism is (well the draft is) in. I wonder when it will be leaked.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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rb, give it a few weeks and it will, all the time boris the buffoon flifs things up,a election is looming 12/18 months.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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Why would he call an election?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon wrote:it cant be all bad, labour now only 4 points behind the coservatives down from 20 to start with, all in a 100 days.
It does not matter who is ahead or behind at the moment it only really matters when an election is looming.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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