the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

this is different from Williamson's idiocy, but I guess you could file them both under the heading of 'Labour MPs being incautious on twitter' (unless Shah is somehow unaware of the context here?)

RIP Winnie Mandela :( pic.twitter.com/fo5cj1qGXi

— Naz Shah MP (@NazShahBfd) April 2, 2018

I'd guess Naz doesn't understand the Necklacing context or can't remember poor Stompie, otherwise she might have erred towards caution there!

how could you post that quote without being curious about the context, i don't buy it. i don't really care either, but if you actually want to be an MP and play along in celebrity parliament this is a poor move.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZxxfDGW0AAuunB.jpg

Good hustle if you can get into it.

xp yeah, I don't mean to suggest that it's actively harmful like Williamson's apologetics for anti-semitism are, but what is the upside to posting that

looks like the tweet has now been deleted and replaced by one that doesn't include the 'matches and necklaces' quote anyway

i think it's a testament to MPs' characters that voting to kill the poor drives them to drink

"you know abstaining from Welfare Bill votes is really hungry work for a left-winger like me..."

The 'London now has more murders than New York' story doing the rounds really is laughable pro-Tory propaganda ahead of the elections. But perhaps it will 'work'.

Corbyn nearly won the election by hammering the point home about police cuts by T. May costing the public dearly.

‘vote for us, the law-and-order party who slashed police budgets, presided over a rising murder rate, and bungled security so badly that suspects on our watch list attacked major english cities repeatedly’

or what suzy said

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/02/stop-jeremy-corbyns-trial-by-media-over-antisemitism?CMP=share_btn_tw

"It is not “whataboutery” to suggest that the debate on antisemitism has been framed in such a way as to mystify the real sources of anti-Jewish bigotry and instead to weaponise it against a single political figure just ahead of important elections."

40 senior academics condemn media bias against Corbyn and its coverage of antisemitism.

I know anything involving Lilico is fish-in-a-barrel stuff, but this is amazing, he might as well have included the expanding brain meme picture himself to save time

https://i.imgur.com/0SkeOGC.png

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cbef69e2017c3661bb9f970b-pi

Not familiar with Andrew Lilico - Is this nonsense part of the old "we mostly like people like us, and if the arabs and orientals are sending their kids to the right schools then we'll grudgingly accept them" thing or is he a fucking idiot, or both?

andrew lolico, call him by his name </mark s>

balance

https://hatfulofhistory.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/phil-woolas-election-leaf-006.jpg

but yeah even by his standards that is a bracingly hot take

maybe somebody got him a Jordan Peterson book for Easter

ooh look Unite have done some of the groundwork for him, maybe have a flick through: https://www.unitetheunion.org/uploaded/documents/(JN7434)%20A4%20Tory%20Racism%20Brochure%20SIN11-26629.pdf

In August 2011, Tory Dover councillor Bob Frost described people involved in the riots as
“jungle bunnies”.
He lost his job as a Maths teacher, but the Conservative Party only suspended him for two months,
readmitting him in November 2011.
13
In 2014, he referred to the prospective Middle Eastern buyers of Dover port as “sons of camel
drivers”
14
. No disciplinary action was taken and Tory MP Charlie Elphicke defended him, saying
“I think the Labour Party is trying to victimise Cllr Frost.”
In May 2015, Cllr Frost was in trouble again for tweeting that a Big Issue seller should "f**k off
back to Romania".
He was suspended pending investigation.

A Labour MP has apologised for making "deeply offensive" racist and homophobic remarks at a Burns Night celebration.

Hugh Gaffney said he would attend equality and diversity training following the revelation he joked about Scottish poet Robert Burns being "bent".

Giving the traditional 'Immortal Memory' at a Scottish Labour students event on Saturday, Mr Gaffney claimed Burns told "lads and lassies he was not bent".

He also laughed about being at home and eating a "chinky".

hefty dossier there!

god i could go on all night this is some next level white sunglasses shit

tbh the pov that Lolico expresses there is implicit in a lot of the right-wing takes on anti-semitism in Labour, so I guess kudos to him for actually coming out and saying it explicitly therefore showing how ridiculous it is?

saying the quiet part loud is like lilico's superpower

"In April 2016, Tory peer Baroness Warsi wrote, in relation to the London mayoral campaign of
Zac Goldsmith, “the right needs to weed out its Islamophobes ... Dog-whistle nasty politics is
damaging the UK"

Warsi never managed to get ahead, she didn't learn to be a quiet 2nd gen Asian Tory when racist dog-whistle was used. I mean she is probably a quite right wing and small c Con, but that's not nasty enough for this lot.

new bear grylls show is something

How so? Please divulge to save me watching the muscular God-botherer.

going to sprout some good thinkpieces this no doubt

One group of high-earning professionals. One group living off less than the average wage. But #TheIsland will treat them both the same. Starts tonight, 9pm, @Channel4. pic.twitter.com/EAzHyg3fpN

— The Island 🌴 (@TheIsland) April 2, 2018

The BBC will be spewing that Ch4 are out-propagandising them!

My ideal Bear Grylls series would be one where the cunt is exiled to live on a big council estate with multiple crime gangs, and rapidly the word is put out that he is both a police informer and a paedo.

Just reading an article on The Charnel House and this part stood out
https://thecharnelhouse.org/2018/03/26/antisemitism-as-a-blindspot-for-the-left/

"Let me lay my cards on the table: I don’t think that Corbyn is a hardened antisemite or anything like that. Efforts to portray him as such are in my opinion transparently opportunistic. Yet again, this is a manufactured scandal resuscitated several years after the fact for political gain. Worst of all, this is leading people to dislike Corbyn for the wrong reasons. Jez sucks not because he’s “the absolute goy,” as some have pithily put it, but because he’s a milquetoast reformist leading a bourgeois political party, who wants to put more cops on the street and complains that foreigners are stealing British jobs."

"no he's not an antisemite he's just another imperialist capitalist pig"

that second part is not a quote btw, just the basic interpretation of what i read, lol

Why anyone would want to support Jeremy Corbyn or join the Labour Party is beyond me. I don’t live in Great Britain

Got this far.

Unless he is going to come up with an impossibly mesmerising argument for the electorate rallying around Vince Cable, he is pretty fucked after an opening like that!

xp yeah author struck me as deaf to some cultural differences, like the sneer about the cops upthread. Corbyn wanting more police is in acknowledgement of the facts that Tory police cuts have been hugely damaging to the country, and that the poor always suffer most from crime. It’s a world away from a country where the police are increasingly militarised and heavily funded.

Also a country with a population of 320m + but with a bigger (disproportionately black) prison population than China has completely different "police issues" than the UK, although not to trivialise some of the racist stop and search stuff in the UK and other bad things, but it's a whole different game over there.

it's a bit grandstandy - ok it's a lot grandstandy - but fair enough, even the best of the Labour party are just useful stepping stones on the way to somewhere better

they are all wankers really!

OK, we’re through the looking glass when liberals are sharing Guido Fawkes links about Corbyn going to the Jewdas Seder. How nice of GF to take time out from shitting on Muslims, fixing up hard Brexit, and wanking over donkey porn to splash on this! If ever there was an example of one’s enemy’s enemy is NOT a friend!

Guido Fawkes aka when your Wikipedia photo is twelve years old because there isn't actually a better photo of you than this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Paul_Staines.jpg/220px-Paul_Staines.jpg

au contraire

https://hips.hearstapps.com/esquireuk.cdnds.net/15/37/2048x2730/2048x2730-guido-fawkes-paul-staines-interview-43-new-jpg-59934a68.jpg?resize=768:*

The comments on GF are unabashed white supremacy and the worst of the internet, since they're making that argument.

I saw a lot of people sharing the Jewdas post last week: https://jewdas.org/enough-is-enough/ - don't know anything about them as an organisation.

I've met a few of them IRL. They were very nice. Case closed imho.

fallen down the guido gis rabbit hole and god just look at these cunts

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/political-blogger-and-founder-of-the-guido-fawkes-blog-paul-staines-picture-id472964190?s=594x594

they can't be real, they aren't posing with cups of tea like normal fascists do!

little guy at the back got lost on the swagger thread and ended up here!

Dan Burn Forti