Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "KernowDamo" channel.

  1. I love this lady. Such arrogance and entitlement from this faux Labour candidate: "We're allowed to go out on the streets and talk to people; you're not." Stick it to him, lady!
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  2. Never mind Starmer welcoming Elphicke. The real story is that an extreme-right Tory is quite happy to endorse Starmer. If she thinks he's OK, that's all you need to know!
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  3. Decapitation has been a feature of colonial wars against liberation movements since the Netherlands fought for its independence from Spain. The British did it in India, the Dutch did it in Indonesia, the French in Algeria, the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola, and so on. It doesn't work. It's never worked for Israel. Both Sinwar and Nasrallah were replacements for predecessors who were assassinated. Their successors will probably meet a similar fate one day. It's never made the slightest difference and it never will.
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  4. Of course they are brazen. They know that they have the support of Genocide Joe and his retinue of EU and UK fellow genocidists. Hopefully, someone will take them to court for their part in these war crimes. I can't feel anything but contempt for them.
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  5. The mendacity is astounding - even for Israel and the US.
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  6. Frightening. Really frightening. If George Orwell was alive now, he would no longer support his beloved Labour Party.
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  7. The most moral army has no idea what morality is!
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  8. My son lived in Jordan for the placement part of his Arabic degree. He noted a tension between loyalty to the monarchy and opposition to Israel. It is one of the most conservative of all the Arab countries but there is a limit to how much the population will put up with Israeli outrages. The monarch has to walk a fine line between serving his US backers and not pushing his population into getting rid of him.
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  9. With thousands of hours of personal body camera footage, they have not been able to provide evidence of one single rape. In the case of the lady who was photographed with her clothes arranged as if she'd been gang raped, the victim's family confirmed that they'd been speaking to her 4 minutes before she was found dying (and not raped) by a family friend who was also at the festival. The gruesome gang rape and murder described by an eyewitness for the New York Times had also been described in a Ha'aretz article but the details were different; what's more, such a crime would have left copious quantities of grisly forensic evidence yet none has been presented. The beheadings, the murder and mutilation of children, torture etc are all similarly unevidenced and the testimony of freed hostages tells us that they were treated with humanity and respect. No reasonable, thinking person can conclude that the Israeli narrative of 7 October is anything but a pack of lies. It beggars belief that an actual lawyer would have the gall to stand in front of a court of law and present such a narrative of hearsay and fabrication as testimony.
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  10. It seems to me that most Israeli propaganda is very amateurish indeed. But it's all they need. It's there to reassure their supporters rather than actually change anyone's mind. The people they are aiming at simply believe what they want. More to the point, they have no worries about networks like the BBC or the US, EU or Australian networks scrutinising their claims with vigilance or competence. Well done for calling it out, Damian.
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  11. Trump has no idea what he's taking on and even less idea about what he's taking it on with. The US has lost nearly every conflict it has entered since 1945. It was fought to a standstill by North Korea, turfed out of Indochina, humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, and worn down by Iraq. In 1983 it invaded Grenada with a massive army, including what it laughably calls "special forces" (which would be called infantry in any other army). It outnumbered the defenders by a factor of 5:1 and the extent to which it outgunned them was many times that. But the defenders, led by about 600 Cuban construction workers (I kid you not), held these "elite" troops off for 8 straight days. The Al Qassam Brigades would wipe the floor with them! What's more, every crooked pro-US dictator in the region would be forced to side with the Palestinians for fear of being overthrown by their own populations. Trump would have achieved what no one had ever believed possible - uniting the whole Arab and Mulsim world against a common enemy - Him!
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  12. Reminds me of reading about Himmler's visit to a death camp prior to the introduction of gas chambers. He witnessed a mass killing by firing squad and was distressed because he was hit by flying organic matter and was concerned about the effect this sort of experience would have on the mental health of the SS troops involved in the slaughter. Ben Gvir should be aware of the company he is historically keeping in his concern for the well-being of these IDF murderers. With that, the pig got up and slowly walked away.
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  13. Lammy is such an embarrassment. He has no morality or integrity.
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  14. I wish I could say "unbelievable". But it's become all too believable.
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  15. Reminds me of the early 1970s when Portuguese troops in Angola and Mozambique made postcards of themselves posing with the severed heads of "terrorists" or forcing terrified children to clear minefields for them. Within less than a year, we saw them expelled from Africa and their cruel Fascist government overthrown at home. Take note Netanhayu. This doesn't work.
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  16. Waters should be consulting lawyers on this. It's undeniably slander and I think he would rapidly get a retraction.
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  17. "Don't worry about the working class, they've got nowhere to go" Oh yes they have!
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  18. Balancing the books is economic illiteracy. We need a competent economist who understands how economies work not a bloody book-keeper - and a mediocre one at that.
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  19. The fact that he can't walk down the street without an army of bodyguards tells you everything you need to know about him. Not "The People's Party" anymore, is it?
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  20. I remember, many years ago, a Vietcong fighter being interviewed. He said that his unit would first listen to Radio Hanoi and then to Radio Saigon which each told the opposite of the other. Then they would listen to the BBC to find out what was really happening. We're a long way from that now, aren't we?
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  21. The idea of a Speaker Of The House being under the thumb of a Prime Minister is appalling in any circumstances: When that PM is an aider and abetter of appalling war crimes, doubly so.
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  22. It would be wonderful to see Streeting defenestrated. He is an obnoxious and very nasty mediocrity who has climbed the greasy pole by kissing the arses of those above him while kicking down at those below. He has no particular qualities; no achievements beyond self-advancement. Removing him would send a powerful message to Sir Keith: "Mess with the NHS and you will lose the working class." If you do that, it doesn't matter how much of the so-called "middle ground" you capture, Labour can't even survive as a party, let alone win.
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  23. They've got "the balls" to go after single mothers and pensioners but tremble in fear in front of the rich. They're beneath contempt!
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  24. Labour has always had interest groups within it. They range from Labour Friends of Israel, through Christian, Hindu, Muslim groups, Labour Friends of Palestine to the Institute of Workers Control and Blue Labour. All of them are legitimate lobby groups because they are composed of people who are, in the first place, supporters of the Labour Party and promote their specific aims as an adjunct to that support. But the Jewish Labour Movement, of which Akehurst is a member, is a very different creature indeed. It is financed by the Jewish National Fund (the organisation that funds the illegal settlements) and has no interest whatsoever in supporting Labour Party aims in general. It exists purely for the purpose of suborning Social Democratic parties to Israeli interests. It is just as entryist as Militant Tendency with the subtle difference that it has been successful. If you are right, Damien (and you usually are), this is a very sinister development indeed. It signals that the Labour Party is now a party which is fully under external control. When it's not serving the interests of its rich new donors or doing Genocide Joe's bidding, it's taking its orders directly from the JLM. Sad days!
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  25. Excellent video, Damian. You've called out hypocrisy and wilful myopia as it should be called out - with passionate anger!
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  26. "Why can't I speak?" He says after speaking solidly for a good 2 minutes without stopping - unsuccessfully trying to goad people into attacking him and shouting "coward" into the face of an elderly lady who didn't even come up to his chin. Irony has become normality!
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  27. He's a top lawyer. He can't possibly not know what he's suggesting. But he's the MI6 placeman in Westminster and he'll be quite happy to endanger peace in Ireland if that's what he's told to do.
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  28. The thousands of innocents being killed in Gaza mean nothing to these people but anything which affects profits gives them apoplexy. It makes my stomach turn.
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  29. The audacity of the man! And the coldness! No shame, no regret, no emotion of any sort. Ms Arendt, your case is made. Evil is banal. This man's inability to tell the difference between good and evil is as scary as it is possible to be.
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  30. Evil personified. He's down there with the worst. No morality, no decency. The world just became a little bit better and Hell a wee bit worse.
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  31. I remember that, when confronted by a detractor, Corbyn would always reply to them and discuss the matter at hand in a civilised manner. This man has neither the courage nor good manners of his predecessor. He has almost as much contempt for ordinary people as most of us have for him.
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  32. Is it me, or is there a contradiction between the number of Labour representatives jumping ship and the super majority predicted for Labour by the opinion polls?
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  33. I'm appalled that it only halved his support amongst Muslims. What are the other half thinking? What is everyone else thinking? It's often said that those who stand by and allow evil to be done are as complicit as the perpetrators. This man is the personification of that. How can anyone support him?
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  34. And we have a Prime Minister who gives his unequivocal backing to this wickedness. We all need to be very, very ashamed. Blogs like this are all we have to redeem us. It's really important that the mainstream narrative - or rather, lack of one - is constantly challenged.
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  35. Well done, Damien. Because of the courage of honest bloggers like yourself, mainstream media is actually beginning to question Israel's behaviour.
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  36. If anyone in the shadow cabinet is worse than Starmer himself, it's Wes. He is the most venal of politicians: no moral compass, no empathy, no humanity.
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  37. By voting out Labour, Tories and Lib Dems. Seemples!
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  38. I'm not a Muslim. But I feel like that too. Peace and respect to you.
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  39. "We've changed. You can trust us now" was obviously aimed at the likes of her. "There's the door" was meant for the rest of us. I wonder which group has the most votes....
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  40. Success for the Tories would be disastrous for the UK working class. Success for Starmer's Labour would be in even more disastrous because it would make permanent Starmer's efforts to neuter the Labour movement as a defender of working-class interests.
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  41. Don't forget those "bandits" were guided and directed to the aid convoys by the IDF. Then, as they robbed the convoys, the IDF stood guard and prevented the civil police from interrupting them.
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  42. I'm sure that Montague believes that she is in the top tier of journos: one who has so much gravitas that she can just pick off the likes of Loach like ripe fruit. So amusing to see the tables turned on her by someone whose intellect and, more importantly, integrity leaves her in the most dismal shade.
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  43. This is Starmer panicking about losing votes. Labour's private polling must be showing something they're not sharing. Alternatively, Starmer's actually found a conscience. Sorry! What was I thinking? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  44. The so-called "definition" ties them up in knots. On the one hand, it tries to (quite wrongly) conflate criticism of Israel with Antisemitism while also saying (quite rightly) that Jews should not be collectively held responsible for the actions of Israel. But then, if you're trying to defend an ethno-state in a democracy, consistency is simply impossible.
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  45. Lovely Freudian slip there, Damien. "...and who will be owning [wind turbines] in our privatised energy market which you won't renationalise? That will be the devil [pause] er the devil in the detail". You were right the first time!
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  46. Rewind back to the 1930s when those trying to raise the alarm about the intentions of another genocidal movement were treated with contempt and disdain by the US, the UK, France and all their allies. Genocide Joe and all his stooges (including our cowardly and contemptible Prime Minister) should note that history will be no kinder to them than it is to the appeasers of that period. Respect to the likes of Albanese for having the courage to speak truth to power.
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  47. He's not deluded. He's just lying. He knows full well that there's no meaningful imrovements in the relationship with the EU that don't involve rejoining the single market (which means freedom of movement) or customs union.
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  48. It beggars belief that a Labour leader could actually oppose workers' rights.
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  49. What really turns my stomach is his professing deeply held religious beliefs while he sells his soul for these thugs and dictators. Does he think he can bully the almighty with his patronising "Look! [insert pathetic excuse here]". Or perhaps "deeply held religious beliefs" are just another way of opening the right doors. Unfortunately, he's always got away with this hypocrisy - and that's the only thing Starmer is going to be interested in. They're both from the same stable.
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  50. Unfortunately, Damian, private healthcare doesn't fail. It's aim is to make money and it's very successful at doing that. Even worse, they're giving a generous portion of that money to Labour politicians like Starmer and Streeting who are also very successful at what they aim to do - look after themselves.
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  51. Agree in principle. Problem is that the Parliamentary Party is too far gone. They're part of the problem now, not the solution.
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  52. It's reminiscent of Kinnock. His electoral strategy was also to target the so-called "middle ground". To achieve this he made the destruction of the Left within Labour his main mission. He made a point of being dismissive of Trade Unions, supportive of Israel and downright subservient to the US. If that doesn't sound familiar enough, just think about whom he made his main political adviser: The Dark Prince himself. Peter Mandelson. Most important thing to remember? Kinnock was a dead cert to win the election!
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  53. ".. why are these people trying to destroy these great British artists ." Isn't that obvious? Both Waters and Loach are listened to.
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  54. I would love to have been in the room when Netanyahu heard this news. A bit like realising that the point of light in the distance wasn't the end of the tunnel after all....
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  55. These are pogroms, not protests. But lets remember, when the British Union of Fascists did the same in the 1930s, they also got sympathetic press - especially from the Daily Mail. Andrew Pierce is just carrying on the paper's pro-Fascist tradition.
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  56. This has to be forced into the faces of Biden, Blinken, Macron, Sunak, Scholtz etc and the world must be reminded of the horror in which they are enthusiastic accessories. Evil monsters, all. But for me, the most contemptible is the leader of a party I once belonged to because I believed it stood against such injustice.
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  57. Yup. I shall certainly be voting against her.
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  58. Don't worry. She has the courage to go after the sick and disabled. Non-doms and bankers are a completely different matter, of course. She doesn't want to upset them!
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  59.  @Joanna-il2ur  I've heard some pretty stupid theories about the demise of the working class in my time, but I have to say that you've slipped into pole position with that one. The fact that you don't blame Thatcher for the demise of mining speaks volumes, though. I would love to see your demographic evidence for the humble origins of Tory voters. It certainly doesn't fit the overlays I've seen of constituency maps. Though, if you mean actual politicians then you might have something. The Parliamentary Labour Party certainly has its share of middle class tossers with total contempt for the working class. I still think there are more public schools represented on the Tory side though.
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  60. I find this painful to listen to, Damien. I'm disgusted by the behaviour of IDF "soldiers" but ultimately, you have to pity them. Their sick ideology has sucked the humanity out of them. To deliberately seek to inflict pain and suffering on children and find glee in doing so means that they have a life of awful nightmares in front of them. They are empty shells of human beings. On the other hand, you have to salute the Palestinians for retaining their courage and humanity in the face of this onslaught of evil.
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  61. She had choices about how to plug this gap. She could have raised the taxes of the rich or she could make the poor pay. She DECIDED to make the poor pay. Shame on her and Starmer. And shame on the Labour MPs who support them. I hope you took a good look at the faces of the Tories who never expected to lose their seats. That's what you're going to look like in 5 years time.
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  62. Starmer promised Blairism on steroids. He didn't tell us that the steroids were going to be used to bring Blairite zombies back to life!
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  63. Mandelson was THE originator of New Labour. He wheedled his way in under Windbag Kinnock and by the time Blair got to Number 10, he was the Richelieu character, the power behind the throne. He had probably convinced Starmer that he could blag his way through his dodgy past associations. Starmer, having no morality of his own, would be happy with that. He wouldn't be remotely concerned about Mandelson's behaviour provided it wouldn't taint the brand. It'll be interesting to see how he rides this out. Bet he drops him like a hot spud. If Mandelson is banking on personal loyalty, he's bet on the wrong horse.
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  64. I find it impossible to listen to Pierce spouting his poison. About 2 sentences and that's me. The telly goes off or I leave the room. He's a younger version of Bernard Ingham. Though I have to say that I could remain seated and sneer back at him. Are the vile getting viler or am I just getting too old to put up with them?
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  65.  @politicas3361  So. Exactly what "hateful" things has he said about the "Jewish people"? Please provide a quotation to back up your claim. Nope. He'd win hands down.
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  66. Why does anyone support Labour anymore?
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  67. That's Antisemitism. Many proud Jews oppose what Israel is doing and we should admire and support them. No. He's there as a Zionist. That's an entirely different thing,
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  68.  @trys3780  "We get most of our water from....guess who?.....Israel! " But isn't that because the Israelis illegally occupy the West Bank of a river which should be flowing through Jordan?
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  69.  @Joanna-il2ur  Yes. Now that would be an example of someone resorting to personal abuse because they are unable to address the argument.
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  70. Leaving the shocking inhumanity of such a statement to one side, the point is its stupidity. Poverty is not only miserable for those suffering it, it is also extremely expensive for society. The peanuts that are saved by this grotesque policy are lost many times over in the extra costs caused by ill health and malnutrition which include poor educational outcomes, increased crime and the wasted social and economic potential that each failed child represents. When the Beveridge Report came out, just over 80 years ago now, this was pretty much understood by all. Your comment is a testament to the dumbing down of society which has resulted from more than half the period since then being dominated by the numbskull zero sum economics of Thatcherism.
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  71. Sunak and Starmer seem to be in a fight to the death over which one can piss off his own party's supporters more. This is a very unfashionable view but I think Keith is winning.
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  72. This is so awful I've only been able to watch it in short bursts - pacing my flat and punching walls and doors to vent my anger in between views. How can she possibly justify this? We can only conclude that it is because she has sympathy for these abhorrent views.
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  73.  @sojrnrr8368  Yes. Usually. That's so it can stay under the radar and keep happening. However, in this case, it's the latter.
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  74. "When Peter Hain tried to warn Blair of [the possibility of losing working class support], the reply was: "Peter Mandelson said to me 'your preoccupation with the working class is wrong. They've got nowhere else to go'."" They have now. Go Greens!
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  75. Well, IT certainly thinks so!
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  76. Yes. I'm no longer a Labour supporter but I'm still a trade unionist and I am painfully ashamed of this stain on the whole British Labour movement.
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  77. ​ @trys3780  Which is illegal: "Watercourse States shall, in utilizing an international watercourse in their territories, take all appropriate measures to prevent the causing of significant harm to other watercourse States." (from the "The No Harm Rule/1" of the relevant 1997 UN convention.) Basically, the reason Jordan has to buy water from Israel is because Israel stole it from them.
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  78. Corbyn's principle offence was engaging working class people - whether as members or as voters. The Labour right has never wanted that and that's why he had to go. Miliband is almost as bad. He enfranchised ordinary trades union members to have a say in running what is supposed to be our party and his coat is on a shoogly peg in my view. Starmer's touting for corporate sponsorship is clearly the next logical step in such a policy and it needs to be exposed for what it is. Well done for doing so, Damian.
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  79.  @jaynekittycat9252  Immigrants are an asset, not a cost, fool! They pay more tax than they get in benefits by a huge margin.
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  80.  @Joanna-il2ur  If I called YOU stupid, that would be abusive behaviour. It would be an ad hominem attack. Pointing out that your argument is utterly silly, (which the suggestion that the working class dissappeared when mining ended demonstrably is) is NOT an ad hominem attack and therefore not in any way abusive. Atlee, Benn and Blair? Three stalwarts of the modern Labour Party there! But their non-contemporary status aside, are you seriously suggesting that most of the people they faced across the aisle were of "humble origins"? Really?
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  81. I remember Robert Fisk saying that the SNA was neither national nor an army and, considering the number of foreign Jihadists and "advisors" it contained, couldn't even be accurately called Syrian. I suspect that the various factions will now fall out with each other and we'll soon be looking at Libyan-style mayhem that will suit at least some of the nations with their dirty hands in the mix.
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  82. If Starmer becomes PM, he'll have the Speaker in his pocket. That's outrageous and completely untenable. Hoyle has to go and Starmer should also be disciplined for his behaviour.
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  83. So. Where's the forensic tent in Evans's garden?
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  84. It's the US's wee colony in an otherwise unfriendly region. Surely, it would cost the US less to make it a friendly region?
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  85. While Blair was insufficiently critical of Thatcher before and during his premiership, he didn't reveal the true extent of his admiration for her nor reveal his aim to build on her "legacy" until long after he needed public support. Starmer is so arrogant he thinks he can get away with saying this BEFORE getting elected. I actually think he had already blown a dirty great hole in Labour's core support before this incredible own goal. But this could be the last nail needed for the coffin. May he rest in pieces.
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  86. Or perhaps they're not in the least bit interested in combating antisemitism....
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  87. The sinister bit is "renew our politics". I think we've already had a taste of what that means. I hope that wee project is nipped in the bud. A Happy New Year to you and yours, Damien. I look forward to you fighting this insufferable hypocrite for another 12 months and beyond.
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  88.  @politicas3361  nope. Ignorance and dishonesty are your reasons.
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  89. Yes. Most post-imperial powers (UK, France, Germany, US, Spain, Russia etc) are very good at it.
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  90. Boris saying "Let's just fight" actually meant "You just fight": This is the US fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian. That seems to be coming horribly true. This morning I saw a video of a guy called Voha being bullied and taunted by his "comrades" in a Ukrainian trench. He was clearly mentally handicapped and not capable of fighting anyone but here he was, in a trench, drafted to fight in this senseless war. There was no gun available for him, apparently. He was told he should "gain" one in battle! In my view, Putin's invasion was actually the culmination of a successful US plan - a plan similar to the one which resulted in the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan decades earlier. What's more, a plan designed to bring NATO right up to Russia's border. I'm not making excuses for Putin. Military invasion is a war crime and Putin should appear at The Hague for it. Just as Dubyah and Blair should be brought to account for invading Iraq. But there should be no doubt that this affair did not start in February 2022. It didn't even start with the 2014 coup d'etat. US expansionism in Eastern Europe has been going on since 1945 when Ukrainian Fascists (the political forebears of those now in charge) were recruited to undermine the Soviet Union. So of course the US are intent on continuing the conflict. They're getting everything they want from it. As one disgusting US politician put it, "It's bleeding Russia and not costing a single US life". Ukrainian and Russian lives obviously mean nothing at all to them.
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  91. Yes. I could feel my crap detector twitching but I thought it was just me. Now you've furnished extra details I feel vindicated. Some investigation would be pertinent. Who was this guy? What happened to him afterwards? How did he get in? Was he bundled out of the building and roughed up a bit on the way out? How did those t shirts get made so quickly and where can I get one of those "roll a turd in glitter" slogans on a t shirt or mug?
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  92. Scottish Branch manager Anas Sarwar started this last May. Edinburgh had always been Labour or SNP or a coalition of the two. Then we woke up to find that he was working with the Tories all over Scotland to keep SNP and Greens out of local government. I'm betting that Keith will work with the Tories at Westminster if the alternative is co-operating with SNP.
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  93. A tough choice would be telling donors they have to pay more tax or telling the US that we're going to pursue a foreign policy that benefits us rather than them. There's nothing remotely tough about bullying those who are unable to defend themselves.
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  94.  @politicas3361  And thanks for confirming that you have no evidence to back up your slanderous accusations.
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  95. He appears to be claiming that his market friendly policies will automatically result in growth. Liz Truss Lite. Good luck with that one. Supply side doesn't work, Keith. Surely, everyone knows that by now? Well, everyone except you and Liz...
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  96. Well, they're aggressively being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's "bang to rights" as far as Israel is concerned.
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  97. I wasn't born till he was gone but Atlee was credible. I do remember MacMillan, though. He was a Tory but , if you take the time to consider his word and policies he was closer to Corbyn than to Sunak. In fact, he was probably further left than Blair and Starmer. He was certainly a more decent human being than most politicians then or now.
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  98. 8 out of 10 on the pronunciation, lovely boy! Dinefwr was one step too far. Otherwise, not bad at all.
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  99. It would be wise not to invoke the "events" of October last year, Mr Starmer, before those events have been properly investigated by a properly constituted and internationally recognised investigating body. Oh! What's that? Israel won't allow such an investigation? That tells you everything you need to know about such "events"!
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  100. It certainly gives the lie to his promises of devolution. If he's going to crush dissent from his own councillors, he's certainly not going to give whole councils the freedom to make their own decisions.
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  101. I totally relate to your sentiments BUT the damage she would do in passing would make the Weimar Republic look like halcyon days.
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  102. It's what you'd have expected from Farage or worse. Absolutely shocking!
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  103. "Supply-side reforms"? I recall Dennis Healey (considered to be on the Right of the Labour Party) referring to supply-side as "voodoo economics". And indeed, that is exactly what it is. It is unbelievable that Labour has moved so far to the Right that it can consider this drivel to be grown-up economics
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  104. The Labour Right has always betrayed the working class - even though it depends on their votes to survive. Time for the working class to say "This far and no further". Vote Green, vote SNP, vote Plaid, vote for local independent labour candidates. Let them win the votes of the "middle ground" and realise how pointless that is if they lose the support of the working class.
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  105. A majority of just over 9,000. The drop in Tory and Lib Dem votes? Just under 9,000. What a coincidence! You're quite right, Damian. This can't be extrapolated to England. Scotland is unique in that there is pro British Nationalist tactical voting. This would still have been a Labour win but with a small majority in what was always a marginal seat anyway.
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  106. Turkey wouldn't need to invade Israel. They would only need to side with Lebanon IN Lebanon. This would mean it would be attacking Israeli forces outside its own borders from bases within a NATO country. Israel would be faced with a choice between attacking those bases and therefore attacking a NATO member ( leaving NATO countries obliged to respond) or withdrawing to within its own borders.
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  107. Nope Li John Warey, you need to stop accusing people of things you have no evidence to back up.
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  108.  @nicklang3018  very likely.
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  109.  @politicas3361  If the documentary offered evidence you would be able to refer to it. It doesn't so you can't. A little English lesson for you: accusation is Not evidence.
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  110. The audacity of the man! And the coldness! No shame, no regret, no emotion of any sort. Ms Arendt, your case is made. Evil is banal. This man's inability to tell the difference between good and evil is as scary as it is possible to be.
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  111. The PSC should boycott the conference and then picket it. Zionism is a racist ideology based on the oppression of and dominating of the original inhabitants of Palestine and is diametrically opposed to the aims and values of the Labour Movement. The fact that the Leader of the Labour Party is able to openly say "I am a Zionist" brings shame on the party.
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  112. The day he said "I am a Zionist", Hardie rolled over in his grave. He recognised that it was a colonialist (they didn't use the term "racist" then) movement which went against every value the Labour movement stood for. He was passionately anti-Zionist. Starmer shames the whole movement.
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  113.  @happinesstan  Why not ask them? I'd have thought that they'd go for community ownership.
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  114. See Norman Finkelstein on the truth about Israelis and their attitudes to the Palestinians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyvOlllV_NI The vast majority of them are heartless and pitiless monsters. Everything that they're accusing the Palestinians of, in fact.
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  115. Starmer's always ready to make the "tough" decisions. In practice that means kissing upwards and kicking downwards. He'll happily sell out the disabled and otherwise disadvantaged but is totally incapable of standing up to bullies like Trump.
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  116.  @robmckenzie2538  Absolutely. I think it's actually a professional who will by now have moved on to troll another site. This guy certainly won't be a fan of Diamian. There'll be an algorithm which picks up mention of certain words and that'll prompt them to go in, lay down a standard line of crap then move on.
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  117. The Olso Accords would have given the Palestinians something akin to Transkei or Ciskei (look it up if you're too young to remember): Pretend statehood with no control of water, borders, energy distribution, defence, airspace or anything else an independent state would take for granted. The fact that Israel is now ruled by people who think that this was too much means that it has no future. It is no longer connected to reality. It is the attitude of people like Hotovely which means that the two-state solution cannot work. It needs to be ONE state - from the river to the sea - which exists for ALL its people, whether they are Jews, Christians or Muslims and whether they are of Arab, European, African or South Asian descent. We have to stop this nonsense about Israel's right to exist. No state has the "right" to exist. It exists with the consent of its people and in the modern world, that should mean ALL its people and its borders should be set by agreement with its neighbours. That is the only way forward.
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  118. More like a cartoon villain. Dick Dastardly, perhaps? Having said that, Elon Musk doesn't have Muttley's panache...
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  119.  @sirgaymeerkat1994  Yes. You're quite right. Political analysts are like the military experts they always wheel out to predict what's going to happen in the latest war. They base their predictions on what happened last time and they're always wrong.
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  120.  @politicas3361  I get the feeling you are reading from a script. The fascinating thing about your ad hominem questions is that they so clearly apply to yourself. You have been repeatedly asked for evidence to back up your accusations but you have failed to produce one EXAMPLE of Waters's so called antisemitism, let alone evidence to back it up. Instead you make snide suggestions as to other people's motives in challenging you. Resort to ad hominem is effectively an admission that you have no argument. I think most here would agree that your trolling of this thread has been an abject failure. You have confirmed that the CAA has provided no evidence that you are able to use as argument. As such, your contrubution has actually been useful. Thank you.
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  121.  user-bv5lc1nf5d  Your link is to a Daily Mail story which has nothing to do with this government whatsoever. All these cases would have been in the pipeline for months, if not years. " Full Brexit, slashing of costs and debts and the UK becoming at least semi-normal again under Reform." How exactly would full Brexit mean "slashing of costs and debts and the UK becoming at least semi-normal again"? Partial Brexit has led to at least a 5.7 drop in the growth we would have had without it. Full Brexit would mean a complete collapse in the UK economy and almost certainly the end of the UK because even the most stupid Unionists in Scotland and Northern Ireland want to keep being able to feed their kids.
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  122. Ministry of Love, Mininstry of Peace, Ministry of Plenty, Ministry of Truth - all available at a CLP near you!
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  123. The important thing to note is that a large number of former Labour voters took the trouble to come out and vote for the Anti-Labour candidate. They could have shrugged off a large number of Labour voters staying at home but actually voting for a candidate who explicitly presented himself as Anti-Starmer is a different matter entirely. The Muslim vote will have been significant but the numbers mean that there is more to it than just that. This bodes very badly indeed for Starmer and co in the coming general election.
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  124. Powell was certainly racist and xenophobic but he was also erudite and scholarly. Farage is just a cheap wide-boy who preys on the stupid and gullible.
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  125. Reminds me of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (also passed by a Labour government) which was used to crack down on trades unionists and others on the left.
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  126. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
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  127.  @MK_ULTRA420  Until the contempt of all the wee guys like me hits them in the ballot box. Vote Green, SNP or Plaid Cymru!
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  128.  @MK_ULTRA420  We'll see.
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  129. The Labour Party has become the home of the most disgusting racism. Keir Hardie was vehemently opposed to Zionism. This grubby hack would have called him "pro-Hamas".
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  130.  @happinesstan  Really? Perhaps you should take more water with it...
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  131. The court is clearly Hamas!
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  132. This move comes hot on the heels of the abandonment of the case against Ken Livingstone and Pam Bromley by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and, I think, for the same reason. Their accusations of Antisemitism are based on the so-called "definition". It's so full of holes that it would not survive any serious legal testing. Losing such cases would sink their fleet's flagship and the "definition" would consequently be quietly abandoned by all the institutions, both governmental and academic, which have used it to silence critics of Israel. It would also severely embarass people like Starmer who have weaponised it to such great effect. That would really be a disaster for them. This is a chess move: Abandoning a few pawns to protect their VERY vulnerable queen.
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  133. Since the end of World War II, there has been a disturbing undercurrent amongst Germany's liberals which sees uncritical support for Israel as being Germany's penance for the Holocaust. They accept the crimes their country committed and they want to atone for it but it seems to me (and I have personally confronted a number of them for this) that they assuage their guilt by supporting Zionists in committing their own crimes against humanity. It's bizarre and very very sad.
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  134. I would never downplay Antisemitism. It is a vile throwback to (mostly) Christian animosity towards Jews as the murderers of Christ (it was actually the Romans) and as moneylenders and usurers (at times when they were actually forbidden to do anything else). Essentially, they have often been the fall guys for ruling classes who needed a scapegoat to escape blame for their own misdoings. We should defend Jews against antisemitic attacks both because it is morally right to do so and because it is in our own interests to look after a community which has historically contributed positively to society. But what has been happening over the last decade or so in the UK is quite simply a witch hunt. Time and time again we got commentators (including Peston) pointing out the number of people complaining about the alleged antisemitism of the left in general and Corbyn and his supporters in particular and exclaiming that there must therefore be a case to to answer. That, of course, is EXACTLY how a medieval witch hunt worked: The number of accusers was evidence in itself. Peston is no fool and must have realised that at the time. But he persisted anyway. He went along with it because it served his career well. I suspect that he is now changing his tune because he has seen the writing on the wall. The great corporate lie machine is failing to sanitise and justify the genocide occurring in the Levant and the tide of public opinion is turning. He simply wants to be on the side of prevailing opinion. Well, Hell mend him. You're quite right to call him out for his hypocrisy, Damien.
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  135. Proud to be subscibed. Love your accent. And yes, the bugger's a wrong un.
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  136. I thought the appointment of (allegedly) incorruptible Richard Hermer was supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
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  137.  @hkfoo3333  Indeed. All indications are that Hamas out-soldiered the IDF. They were better trained and better disciplined than the supposedly professional "soldiers" of the Golani Brigade. Yet we are supposed to believe that they were an unruly mob who were unable to control their animal-like behaviour. It desn't add up.
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  138. I can't imagine MPs like Barbara Castle, Tony Benn, Robin Cook standing behind a leader who supports genocide. The fact that Starmer has not been forced to resign is an indication that this is not even the same party. Shame on this collection of gutless creeps.
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  139. The comparison between Herod and Netanyahu is probably a bit unfair on Herod. Netanyahu has murdered far more children.
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  140. No. It's to show solidarity with them.
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  141. I suggest they say "...according to the Hamas-run health service which has never been shown to be inaccurate". That would shut them up!
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  142. A Labour government is openly advocating a racist asylum policy! I read recently that many Ukrainian asylum seekers are complaining because they are being placed in multiracial areas. I bet Keir is sympathetic!
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  143. Do you know? I think we might be living in interesting times (again).
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  144. This is getting serious. There Will be wholesale abandonment of Labour by working class people and this will open up the chance of a Tory/Reform proto Fascist party getting power by default. It's time for the left to heal its differences and make a serious progressive challenge.
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  145. He's actually a councillor. So much for that! "There's an old saying...Those who can do, those who can't be arsed criticise. You do a lot of criticising." There's no such "old" saying. You just made it up. And there's nothing negative about being an honest commentator.
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  146. Don't be surprised. This is the party which sold arms to Pinochet when he was having trades unionists, amongst others, thrown out of helicopters to their deaths; the party which provided Pol Pot with land mines and SAS soldiers to train his thugs how to use them; the party which gave diplomatic cover to Saddam Hussein when he dropped chlorine gas on the Kurds at Halabja. These people have no shame. None at all!
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  147. What Biden really fears is a Ukraine victory. The plan is exactly the same as the one that worked so well in Afghanistan: Goad the Russians into invasion then give the Ukrainians enough help to prevent them from being overwhelmed but not enough to win. That way, the Russians slowly bled and weakened. Starmer is obviously too dim to understand this and thinks he'll get brownie points in Washington by bringing about a Ukrainian triumph.
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  148. You're being too fair to Blair. He didn't purge the left because he couldn't. There were too many of them and they were too popular. What he and Brown did do was set up the party machinery so that right wing stooges were in positions of power. This meant that they were ready to exploit the antisemitism scam and start removing anyone who would resist them. Starmer is simply continuing the process that Blair started. He has shown here that the plan is to remove them completely. Hopefully, those "disciplined" here will have the courage not to accept the whip when it is given back to them and join the other independents as a bloc. The recent election shows that the electorate will support Labour MPs who stand up for Labour principles.
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  149. You think Farage wants to "give something back"? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He's a grifter. His entire agenda is to enrich himself. That's it.
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  150. Gaza is Israel's Sudetenland. If they're not stopped here it will be the West Bank, where ethnic cleansing has already started. Google "Eretz Israel" and you'll find that the nuttier Zionists claim the western shore of the Red Sea almost as far as the Sudanese border, a big chunk of Saudi Arabia, ALL of Jordan and Lebanon, about half of Iraq and most of Syria. It may well sound far-fetched - but I think there was a fair bit of scoffing at the warnings in 1938 when Hitler declared that he had no more territorial demands...
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  151. It's just incredible that mainstream media believes this nonsense. There's a simple timeline. Israel tells the hospital that it has to (impossibly) evacuate in 2 hours. 2 Hours later there's a massive explosion consistent with an air strike. Duh!! For two hours Israel mounts the defence that it had given fair warning. When it realises the extent of the international outrage it changes the story to "not us guv, some bigger boys dunnit and ran away". Soon we saw the almost immediately debunked footage of the missile trail coming from the wrong direction with a time stamp that didn't match and then we get the clumsily faked intercept. Don't think for a minute that Biden, Sunak, et al swallowed this. They know damned well what happened and they were quite happy to support the faked "evidence" by claiming their experts approved it. Hell mend them. History won't!
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  152. I'm in Scotland so perhaps I get a false picture but I don't see any reflection of the supposed unstoppable poll lead that Starmer is supposed to have. Everyone I speak to considers him to be little better than a Tory. I can't help being reminded of 1992 when the Major government was considered to be so hopeless that a Labour victory was inevitable. The key similarity is that Labour made massive gains in the previous council elections but without actually increasing its vote. You have to remember that Tory voters are notorious for hanging back in council elections and by elections then turning out in force on the big day. On the other hand, Labour voters tend to need to have something to vote for. That's what did for Kinnock. His whole campaign was about not spooking the horses and re-assuring the City that they'd have nothing to worry about. It turns out they didn't.
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  153. It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler himself being nominated. She personifies evil at its worst.
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  154. I think we need that video about Starmer and the Trilateral Commission, Damian. He is, IMHO, a bad'un. He is an evil man who has taken it upon himself to destroy not only the Labour Party but also the entire Labour movement. Distancing himself from the Commision is clearly purely tactical. He can get away with his links to Israel and to dodgy US health corporations because, frankly, most people's eyes simply glaze over with the detail but being associated with an institution which explicitly identifies democracy as the problem might be one step too far. Don't let him get away with it. Time to throw some mud, I think - and you're the best man to do it!
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  155. Brilliant, Damien. Love your stuff. But it's pronounced CUNON and RUMNEE!
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  156. Milburn took the NHS much further towards privatisation than even Thatcher dared. Streeting seems to be determined to outdo him. I can't help thinking of those 528 votes that could have unseated this vile rat. Maybe next time.
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  157. ​ @michaelsrowland  Now you really are talking about disaster! Farage isn't even pretending that it's a political party,FFS! Reform Ltd is so obviously another con, I'm amazed that anyone is stupid enough to be taken in by it. Didn't you learn anything from Brexit? Stupid question, I suppose. Clearly not!
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  158. Labour Friends of Israel needs to be renamed as Labour Friends of Genocide. This government is a stain on the Labour Movement.
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  159. Spot on, Damian. It's a very complex churn here. While Labour are certainly gaining from the Tories as the unionist party of choice, they are probably losing to the Greens as they lurch rightwards. In the meantime, of course, the SNP are getting a negative effect from all the police investigations (which have so far turned up precisely nothing) and are also getting knocked by Alba. But one thing Scottish polls have in common with English polls is that they fail to pick up the apathy effect of potential Labour voters thinking: "They're not promising anything worth having so I'm not bothering". It will be interesting to see how that plays out in Rutherglen. Because, if they can't win that with a significant majority in a by-election they're not going get much, if anything, in the general election.
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  160. I bet he's getting a fine fat fee for his services. Evil man!
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  161. I've spent most of my life believing that the Labour Party could provide the solutions to the problems of working people. Late in life I've coming to realise that they are actually part of those problems.
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  162. "We've changed. You can trust us now". That's as long as you're not black, disabled, a trade unionist, Muslim, poor, young or a refugee - and especially not if you oppose a clear and obvious genocide taking place under our noses. In fact, it only means the rich, Zionists and companies seeking to vulturise the NHS
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  163. Israel has always employed the most obnoxious weasels as PR fronts. Mark Regev and Eylon Levi spring to mind straight away. But Mencer has to be the worst of the worst. To suggest that Jews are getting attacked in the streets of London because UK mainstream media outlets are reporting on genocide and torture facilities is utterly disgraceful. There is no evidence of mass attacks on Jews by anyone protesting about Palestine. The boot is on the other foot. Muslims are being routinely attacked on the streets due to false information being put out by friends of Israel like Farage and Yaxley-Lennon.
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  164. Baddiel is an example of the hierarchy of racism which Starmer's Labour Party appears to have embraced is openly and unashamedly practiced in the wider press and media. Imagine if someone echoed his disgusting portrayal of Jason Lee and portrayed David Beckham (for example) as a hook nosed Shylock figure. There is no way that that person would ever have appeared on television again - quite rightly so, I might add. But when the victim of his racism was someone of African descent no-one turned a hair. It didn't even result in an apology until years later when his hypocrisy was made clear to all. Antisemitism should not be tolerated under any circumstances but the same should apply to all forms of racism without any exceptions. And all racists should be equally condemned and banished from our screens for life!
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  165.  @skyblazeeterno  Indeed
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  166. This approach was already predictable at the time of the raid. The UN offered to send investigators to properly collect and document evidence. The offer was turned down as if it was an insult. Why do you need evidence of the events when we have told you what happened? You are calling us liars. We are Jews. Therefore you are calling Jews liars. Therefore you are antisemites! That's been pretty much the narrative since 1948 but the world has not challenged it - until now.
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  167.  @KernowDamo  Yes. Perhaps he's still got a wee bit of fear of them. Banning them one step too far.
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  168. This is all stomach-churning stuff. It shows that Zionism is morphing into full-blown, shameless Fascism. It needs to be challenged and defeated. Anyone who refuses to confront it should be considered a Fascist sympathiser. I'm talking about Keir Starmer and most of the Shadow Cabinet, by the way.
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  169. Considering the documented deliberate targeting of civilians (including small children), the destruction of infrastructure, the torture and rape of detainees (actually, they are hostages), the obstruction of food and medicine deliveries and many, many more war crimes being committed by this criminal enterprise masquerading as a state, it beggars belief that there is actually an organisation called Labour Friends of Israel. When the Labour Party came into existence as the fusion of a collection of progressive organisations at the beginning of the 20th century it was explicitly understood that solidarity with oppressed people throughout the globe was intrinsic to it. It has become the polar opposite of that. It now stands in solidarity with the oppressors. It has a leader who explicitly declared his unconditional loyalty to the racist colonial and genocidal ideology which is now perpetrating these crimes. Why does the Labour Party even still exist? It has become a monstrous and contemptible parody of what it was meant to be.
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  170. Spot on, Damian. But if I have to talk about McTernan I have to reach for the Listerine original straight afterwards. An interesting tangent to this is that Michael Shanks, the Starmerite parachuted into Rutherglen and Hamilton has suddenly come over all maverick and swears that he'll oppose Starmer on the bedroom tax and two child policy. I'm getting that Listerine craving...
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  171. "A war for everything"? That's an incredibly sinister allusion. It sounds to me like a tentative justification for total war.
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  172. If this grifter/Fascist thinks that the UK is Islamist, he has a special relationship with arithmetic.
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  173. The difference between Ukraine and Palestine is straightforward: Ukrainians are white.
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  174. Zionist history IS tangled up with the Nazis. They sought a deal with the Nazis to allow the young and strong to emigrate to Israel in exchange for turning a blind eye to everyone else being murdered. They even invited Adolf Eichman to visit their colonial project. This is an evil ideology. This "children's" song is all you need to know. When they tell you what they are, believe them.
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  175. The mainstream pundits are going on about percentages and swings. If you only look at those, the prospects for a Labour landslide look really good. We're getting told about record swings in the Blackpool by-election as well as in the council and mayoral elections. What's not being mentioned is the fact that those swings are entirely due to the fall in Tory support being even greater than the fall in Labour support. That's why Starmer is suddenly trying to look progressive and radical: denying his previous support for Israeli genocidal actions, promising to nationalise the railways etc. Labour's private polling and analysis will be giving him very serious cause for concern. These local elections are very similar to what occurred in 1991 just before Kinnock's shock defeat at the hands of John Major in 1992. As now, the very impressive swings against the Tories in council elections hid the fact that the Labour vote had not improved at all. The difference, of course, is Reform UK. In 1992, Tory abstainers dutifully returned to the fold in the general election. That may not occur on this occasion. If so, that will save Starmer's bacon. Nonetheless, he won't be getting the landslide everyone is predicting.
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  176. Starmer is an example of the "middle ground" trap. Most times when Labour chases the middle of the road floating voter they fail anyway (Gaitskell, Callaghan, Kinnock, Brown, Miliband) but success is still failure because you end up with someone like Blair or Starmer who betray everything the Labour movement is supposed to stand for - effectively Tories in disguise.
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  177.  @jackwaycombe  Yes
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  178. The Antisemitism in these comments is cause for concern. Don't you realise that the accusation of Antisemitism is the main weapon in Netanyahu's armoury? You are batting for him if you argue this ridiculous "Jews together" narrative. Zelensky isn't even in charge in Ukraine, for goodness sake! He's a puppet of people who aren't even Jewish!
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  179. In accordance with the values upon which it was founded, it is impossible for Labour to be anything but pro-Palestinian. The fact that it has a leader who said "I am a Zionist" means that it no longer is the Labour Party. It is time for a new party of the working class.
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  180. I've met Jews with similar views on anti-war demonstrations. The UK's equivalent seem to be mostly centred around Stamford Hill in East London. They're shy, kind, polite and unassuming but deeply opposed to political Zionism. They consider it to be the heresy of heresies. To them, Israel is an idea, not a place. The notion that Jews should kill in order to realise this false religious goal motivates them to oppose political Zionism in every way they can.
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  181. If this doesn't get appealed, it effectively sinks the so-called "definition". Institutions can adopt it to their hearts' content but it is now unenforceable and therefore completely meaningless. Good riddance!
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  182. Thanks for that clarification of Neu's speech, Damian. I was utterly gob smacked when I read the quote. I should have known that Starmer wouldn't have quoted him honestly.
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  183. Let's remember that the Nazis' big plan was to remove inferior races from Eastern Europe so that Germans could have "lebensraum". The only difference here is scale. Never again. We cannot allow this to happen again.
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  184.  @KernowDamo  It comes from "The Defenestrations of Prague" which were incidents in which town councillors were thrown out of windows to their deaths. In order to be kind, I would ensure that Wes had a pile of manure or something similar to land in. Wouldn't want to make a martyr out of him!
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  185. Streeting is a mediocrity even when you compare him with Blair's coterie of born again neoliberal ex Marxists. John Reid, Alistair Darling and Alan Milburn look like political giants next to him - and believe me, they weren't anything of the kind. Personally, I don't think we need to worry about Wes getting the top job. By the time his turn comes around, the party which he is using as the vehicle for nothing but achieving his own ambitions will have fully imploded by then.
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  186.  @Trebor1172  Quite right. But that is the point. The groups I listed are, at least in theory, interest groups. There is an argument to be made against them but they have existed for decades. The Jewish Labour Movement on the other hand, is indeed a lobby group and membership is incompatible with elected office.
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  187. Abbot should resign from the Labour Party and run as an independent on her record of 35 years service to Hackney North and Stoke Newington where she got 70% of the vote in 2019. She could sit alongside fellow independent Jeremy Corbyn and be a thorn in the side of Starmer and his corrupt carpet bagging cabal.
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  188. Straight from Labour Friends of Israel to being directly employed by this genocidal regime. How did the party which was founded by Keir Hardie, a committed Anti-Zionist, come to this?
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  189. "Hannibal" is a reminder of the wartime Zionists' attempts to do a deal with the Nazis to allow them to take the old and sick to the gas chambers in exchange for permitting the young and strong to emigrate to Israel. Zionism is as intrinsically callous as the other well-known racist ideology of the time. It is an utter disgrace that our governments support this evil creed while claiming to uphold the principles of democracy and human rights.
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  190. We need an answer from Keir "I am a Zionist" Starmer on this. Or is it Wes Streeting who has authorised it?
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  191. Just like the Kapos in the Warsaw Ghetto, once their usefulness is over, they'll get the same treatment as those they've betrayed.
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  192.  @derekhitchings  The Labour vote in the local council elections actually fell. Labour gains were entirely due to the collapse of the Tory vote.
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  193. It's as simple as this: Starmer is a self-declared Zionist. He is an ideologue who supports the racist aims of the Israeli government to ethnically cleanse Palestine in order to create an apartheid state. He is not fit to be a public servant in a democracy at all, let alone the leader of a party which has internationalism and anti-racism in its founding values. I used to be a proud member of the Labour Party. I despair that it has shrunk to one which is able to accept such a stain on its very identity
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  194. You cannae get turd polish anywhere these days....
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  195.  @richardhead3062  Were that the case, the death toll on 7 October would have been many times what it was. In fact, most of the deaths were caused by Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships. The guerillas concentrated on taking hostages to trade against the hostages held by the Israelis and most of those returned reported that they were well treated. Why did you go to "the strip"?
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  196. It is indeed repulsive. I remember when this sort of outrageous callousness was only found on the outermost fringes of the Tory Right. It's awful to hear a Labour frontbencher speaking like this. But it's also stupid. Health and social care is not a zero-sum cost to society. It's an investment. Keeping people healthy not only means that they are able to work, creating wealth, paying tax and adding value to society in other ways but that their dependents and loved ones are too. And just living in a decent society which doesn't abandon those unable to fend for themselves is a form of wealth in its own right. You're not only bad and sad, Liz. You're an idiot too.
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  197. What about offering to relocate all Israelis who are not willing to accept a single-state solution with democratic rights for all guaranteed to sparsely populated US states like Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota? That would at least be legally within Trump's gift. What about the current occupants? Well, the Zionists could just harass and oppress them until they go away....
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  198.  @mjg8134  Ya nailed it there. The point is to give their backers something to take back to their supporters as an alibi for defending genocide.
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  199. Here's the thing, Binyahim, you cannae claim that the UN has failed to condemn the atrocities of Hamas when you have refused to co-operate with independent investigators on the alleged atrocities, proclaiming that there is nothing to investigate: If Israel says there are atrocities, there are atrocities and demanding evidence is therefore an antisemitic act in its own right. In fact, all the claims, so willingly reported by western press and media have been totally discredited. There were no rapes (nor any other kind of sexual assault), no mass murder of children or mutilation of any babies and the high death count appears to be the result of Israeli forces putting the Hannibal Directive into action. Or, to put it another way, gotcha, you liar!
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  200. Listen to Ernest Hemmingway. You need a functioning "crap detector". The alleged events of 7 October never made sense. From the beginning, it was clear that the injuries sustained by most of those killed were caused by weaponry the Hamas fighters didn't have. They came with small arms and RPGs but the mutilations and crushed bodies showed that they had largely been killed by tank artillery. Very early on, Israel had to revise the body count down when they had separated the Hamas fighters from Israelis. Only one way they could have got mangled together: That's if they were killed in the same way in the same place and by the same weapons used by the same people! But the most telling indicator that the atrocities were invented was the fact that Hamas successfully carried out a successful military operation which defeated one of Israel's full-time army units and they did so with a startling level of military professionalism and competence. Had they paused to commit the rapes and alleged torture and mutilation they were accused of, they would have been wiped out by the settlers' own militias, let alone helicopter gunships and tanks. None of them would have returned to Gaza. More to the point, they always lie. If a Zionist is making a claim, demand that evidence be presented to an independent investigator. If they refuse, you'll know why.
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  201. From the beginning, it was clear that Israel had its lies about the attack prepared in advance. The genocidal onslaught which followed also seemed to play out according to a pre-prepared plan. But it's always been my practice never to attribute to conspiracy or malice that which can be explained by incompetence and stupidity (Two prevalent characteristics of the IDF) so I initially dismissed the suggestions that Israel knew in advance. But this is a game changer. The possibility that Netanyahu deliberately allowed the attack to proceed in order to provide a pretext for genocide has to be considered. If so, the charge for war crimes is unanswerable - including against those Western leaders who have aided and abetted this onslaught. Don't tell Owen Jones, by the way. He seems to think that the suggestion is Antisemitic. Goodness knows why.
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  202. What a clown show! They're just decapitating their own party! This is satire without satirists. Not even Rory Bremner or Spitting Image could have come up with this!
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  203. This makes him a war criminal too. He can stand alongside Starmer, Sunak and Macron in the Hague.
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  204. Interesting that being less right-wing counts as being more moderate now in Starmer's Labour Party.
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  205. Ah! So we've got Keir's word for it? Cannae dae better than that. The Palestinians will be falling on their knees in thanks!
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  206. I think that Al-Jolani/Al Sharaa's shelf life is very limited. He was put in place to serve Israel's and the US's purpose and that purpose being achieved, they now have no use for him. We've seen this happen so many times before. I remember when the UK media extolled the good offices of a Libyan Colonel called Muammar Qadaffi, then there was one Idi Amin who was going to bring Uganda back to its senses, there was Saddam Hussein who saved Iraq from Communism, strongman Manuel Noriega was going to look after US interests in Panama and, of course, and we all remember the people that Ronald Reagan called "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan - including one Osama Bin Laden. In the end, none of that mattered. Once they had served their purpose, they were got rid of. This time around, I think that there may have been a massive miscalculation, though. The crowds that welcomed the so-called "rebels" into Damascus just over a week ago are a wee bit more sophisticated than they're given credit for. They've had secular government, with full freedom of religion (or from religion) for more than half a century now. While no one in their right mind would defend the Assads with their oppression and corruption, I doubt if these hand choppers and beheaders will be welcome for very long either - especially as a pretty big proportion of them aren't even Arabs, let alone Syrian. There is a lot to play out here and I'd hesitate to make any firm predictions but the game is far from over.
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  207. There have been times when the US has acted as an intermediary, albeit one strongly biased towards Israel. This is no longer the case. It is now a straightforward advocate for Israel and quite willing to collude with Israel's war crimes. Its demands are laughable. Israel is having its backside handed to it by Hezbollah right now. It has failed to intimidate Iran and, as if inspired by the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Hamas are continuing to wrongfoot massively better-armed troops in Gaza. Even timid little Jordan is talking back at Netanyahu and the vile Mohamed Bin Salman is beginning to worry about his population chopping HIM up and putting his body in a suitcase. Israel is in no position to make demands of any sort. Its army is equipped and trained to hunt down and murder women and children, not fight committed, well armed and well trained soldiers who are ready and willing to die, if necessary. That doesn't fit the Tik Tok army's profile at all. now the vaunted Iron Dome and similar high-tech "defence" systems are creaking and proving to be less than invincible, at best, a total waste of an awfie lot of money at worst. Demands? Hah!
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  208.  @RobinHarris-nf4yv  There have always been working-class Tories but if you're saying working-class people generally are Tories then you'd have to come up with an explanation for the huge majorities Labour get in the mining communities of South Wales, the North East, Liverpool, East End of London etc. The in-roads Tories have made into the so-called Red Wall in recent years has been caused by workers (and especially younger workers) abstaining, not from them becoming Tory.
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  209.  @lemsip207  " ...the younger you are the less likely you are to vote". That is a statistic posing as a fact; a variable wrongly considered to be a constant. But there is no reason that it can't be changed. People who vote for an unjust system which favours them are more likely to vote again if they get an unjust system that favours them. People who vote to get social justice and don't get it are more likely to give up voting. That's why young people and poorer pensioners are less likely to vote.
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  210.  @lemsip207  Couldn't agree more
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  211.  @KernowDamo  I've not read that anywhere else - How strange!🤨
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  212. Apparently, the IDF has placed its artillery next to UNIFIL. They're effectively using them as human shields!
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  213.  @georgebodley8068  I think you'll find it's either the same person or a colleague in the same trolling organisation.
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  214. Well said for calling out the hypocrisy inherent in MSM language. This is a hostage exchange. If you listen to the BBC you'd think there are hostages on one side and legitimate prisoners on the other.
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  215. One of the fake Antisemitism whines is that Israel is treated differently from every other nation. It is. It gets preferential treatment to everyone else.
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  216. Turkey has been one of Israel's main allies in the region. What's more, it's a member of NATO. If it begins giving support to Hamas and/or Hizbollah, will Israel carry out one of its "surgical" strikes? If so, what will NATO do about it? Israel has no formal alliances with the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy etc. Turkey does. Could be interesting!
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  217. Where and when did he say that?
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  218.  @elasimon9683  To begin with, he's never said any such thing. But secondly, as a Zionist, he's more useful to them in Washington.
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  219. I agree that it was an evil move but it was hardly a departure. I'm 68 and I have seen such things happen throughout my life. Have you not read Spycatcher? Were you not around during the miners' strike? Do you not recall the "suicide" of Willie McCrae? David Kelly? There've been plenty of dirty government dealings that I can remember.
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  220. I remember when the awful Christine Hamilton (wife of corrupt ex Tory MP, Neil) quoted her equally awful one time boss, the unlamented Gerald Nabarro in saying that BBC stands for "Buggers Broadcasting Communism". This at a time when all BBC staff were vetted by MI5 - even secretaries and receptionists at Bush House! The wee bubble of delusion the Right wrap themselves in is really fascinating!
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  221. Time for Jordan and Egypt to join BRICS, I think. They certainly won't prosper as vassals of the US.
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  222.  @politicas3361  there is no such evidence. If there was, you would be able to tell us what it is. You cannot. You are are a lying troll and, by equatingbeing Jewish with being Zionist YOU are the antisemite
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  223.  @politicas3361  I wouldn't waste my time for the same reason that I wouldn't waste my time reading Mein Kampf. I saw the panorama programme that John Ware fronted on the Labour Party so I know that this documentary will also be a pack of disgusting lies. If, as you claim, the libel against Waters contained evidence then you would be able to relay it to us. By failing to do so you are effectively admitting that there is none Again. Thank you for confirming that you only have ad hominem arguments.
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  224. Very interesting. It always struck me as suspicious that Israel's reaction seemed to be ready to go as soon as the dust cleared on the 7 October attack and that the false claims about mangled babies and systematic rapes seemed to be pre-prepared . Inexplicably, people who raised their heads above the parapet and pointed this out were labelled "Antisemitic" - though I can't see anything remotely antisemitic about the observation.
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  225. "Almost certainly the most sustained attack on an urban area in Europe since the Second World War". Ah! You missed the point there, Damien. If the victims were "in Europe" then they were white. It doesn't count as genocide if they're Arabs, you see, because then it will have been their own fault. Their culpability is, of course, exacerbated by the fact that there is no record of any of these people ever making donations to the Labour Party.
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  226. Spreading false information is the keystone of Israeli defence strategy. Without it, it would not be politically possible for governments of countries like the US, UK and France to supply the bombs and high tech necessary for the systematic genocide now taking place. Not only has our press and media been infiltrated to this end as you point out, but they have also placed their people in political parties like Labour and the Tories. The Jewish Labour Movement, for example, is a lobbying group indirectly funded by the Israeli government. But it's starting to fail now. There are still some who believe the lies it has told about the so-called atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October but the stories are becoming increasingly threadbare. UK and US politicians who invested their political capital in them are becoming increasingly exposed. The people like those you have mentioned here are incredibly professional about the way they go about their foul business but the stench rising from Israel's atrocities and increasingly desperate excuses is overcoming their ability to deodorise it.
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  227. ​ @bwilliams572  Brilliant logic: If it hurts when you hit yourself gently on the head with a small ball pein, it'll be fine when you get someone to hit you much harder with a sledge hammer. And you people wonder why you get called "gammon"!
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  228.  @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx  Well, yes. I remember "In Place of Strife". I was too young to take part in the demonstrations against it but I remember that they were massive. But that was small potatoes compared to what we're fighting now. That was about containing trade unions (wrongly, in my view) but Starmer is siding with those who want to crush them.
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  229. Two types of Jews who take part in the marches? Right sort of Jew or wrong sort of Jew? Isn't that Antisemitic?
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  230. You can bet that for Reeves and Starmer, like Blair and Mandelson before them, getting political power is just a rung on the ladder to the real payload: The lucrative speech circuits; the directorships; the consultancies. Getting into number 10 and 11 Downing street just gives them good salaries for a while. While most of us could not even begin to dream of getting such a pay-packet ( with the handsome, inflation-proofed pension that follows it), for them it is chicken feed. Blair, Mandelson, Brown and co have trousered literally millions since they got ousted. That's what Starmer, Reeves, Streeting, Lammy et al are really looking forward to.
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  231.  @beachcomber1able  Yeah. That's the most likely. They're still a bit neoliberal but not as bad as the rest. Greens are better but only in council elections which have STV and as second vote at Holyrood which is D'hondt. You need a slide rule to work out how to vote here!
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  232.  @ManwithNoName-t1o Islamic fundamentalism is not very nice. But compared to Zionism, a genocidal colonial ideology, it's positively benign.
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  233. If true, the ensuing replacement process will be a mirror image of the Tories' farcical leadership contest. Like Johnson, Starmer has got rid of talent and ability in favour of loyalty to him and the party line. It will be a lineup of mediocrities and yes-men. The competition will be an anti-circus with the public, especially the young, being even more turned off by the whole idea of politics. The real loser is the democratic process. The winner is likely to be the far-right, with GBNews and Talk TV ready to talk up the likes of Farage as the easy answer to all our woes.
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  234. I haven't seen a single mainstream news programme even mention the "collateral" casualties of this terrorist attack. Imagine if Hezbollah targeted IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv with a massive bomb or missile in order to take out a specific war criminal. Does anyone think that Western news media would ignore the fact that hundreds of civilians would be vaporised along with them? If Hezbollah said that placing the HQ in a residential and commercial district was using civilians as human shields, would BBC or Sky let that go unchallenged as they allow Israeli human shield claims to be? I think not!
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  235. The incredible selfless heroism of Palestinian medical staff is one the most incredible phenomena characterising this genocide. Not a word about it on the BBC, CNN, Sky News, MSNBC. But when a trio of Israeli soldiers were killed some weeks ago, in the process of this ethnic cleansing, we were treated to a full five minute piece on Sky News in which childhoods and career ambitions were detailed and weeping parents, siblings etc were interviewed. Now we're seeing the word "evacuation" used in place of the word "eviction" in what is (again) a war crime being reported as if it's a rescue operation!
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  236. What you've described is a "result" for the US and Israel, Damien. Weak neighbours are good neighbours as far as Netanyahu is concerned. But that hasn't always worked out for them. For example, they encouraged Hezbollah in Lebanon as a foil to the PLO who were then based there. Yes. That Hezbollah. the one that has been ripping them a new rear orifice for the last few months. I suspect that their new ISIS/Al Qaeda friends may well take exception to their forays into Southern Syria. They've displaced Assad and now they're going to want to take over his weaponry. They're not going to take kindly to Israel trying to blow it to Kingdom Come....
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  237. This sort of agreement is the sort of thing Orwell talked about in 1984. It's asserting an inalienable right to say that black is white, that peace is war, that love is hate. The UK has become the kind of state that Orwell was talking about.
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  238. The landslide in seats at the last election obscured the fact that Labour actually had less votes than they did when the Tories scored a landslide against them. That should have given Starmer pause for thought. It didn't. He's pressing on with policies for which he has little or no mandate. If we end up with Farage, Badenoch or a combination of both in 5 years time, it will be entirely due to him and his "we've changed, you can trust us now" posse of yes men and women.
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  239.  @KernowDamo  Don't worry. I'm sure I would balls up Cornish pronunciation. Siwmau!
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  240. It's a bit of a gamble. If it doesn't work, it will find itself facing world leaders it has criminalised. Where would it go from there?
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  241. The Labour Party has become little more than an Israel advocacy organisation - when it's not shilling for the private health industry or putting bankers' "fingerprints" all over its economic policy. How can anyone on the left vote for these people?
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  242. As I watched this, it was announced that a hospital in Gaza has just been bombed killing hundreds. All those like Starmer who have cheered this carnage on share responsibility for this. They shame the whole Labour movement both inside and outside the party. They need to be disavowed and removed.
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  243. Everyone who is being purged this way should fight back. What Starmer is trying to do is destroy the Labour Party as a progressive force and remove the left option from British politics altogether. There are two possible ways forward at this short notice. Either stand as an independent or support another left party such as the Greens. Whatever the outcome, progressive forces need to come together after 5 July and look at all the options for being ready to fight the next election as a unified force.
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  244. It was always the case that the UK supported and supplied Al Qaeda. Racists and Islamophobes like to refer to "Londonistan" to allude to the allegedly growing Muslim population. In fact, that was the name Osama Bin Laden gratefully gave it when Margaret Thatcher provided his organisation with office space, computers, and everything else they needed to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Be sure that MI6 are deeply involved in supplying these terrorists with everything they can help them with - including, of course, positive and sympathetic coverage by the BBC.
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  245. He'll have had new instructions from Biden. He's also probably finally realised that Netanyahu is a dead man walking so no further point in expending political capital on him. He's the same as Blair: For him, sincerity is no more than a technique for manipulating people. Hopefully, British Muslims and all those who have progressive instincts will see through him and not give any more support to Labour until he and all those who support him are gone.
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  246. Of course, they're building a dossier on you, Damien. You should be proud of that. You're a breath of fresh air in a polluted world.
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  247. It's quite astounding that Labour apologists are still referring to Hamas as a genocidal cult while Zionists are not only literally carrying out a genocide but also being investigated by the ICJ for doing so. Nonetheless, Lammy and co will continue to deny that a genocide is taking place. Perhaps their strategy is to stall until its successful implementation has a become a "fact on the ground"?
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  248. I never lose my wonder at the number of born again right wingers who were once on the outer fringes of the left. There must be a gene which draws people to extremes.
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  249.  @keithparker1346  couldn't agree more!
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  250. Smotrich and Ben Gvir are every bit as evil as any other blood and soil nationalists. We're not allowed to name them because YouTube seems to use the so-called IHRA "definition" in its moderation. But we all know with whom they should be compared.
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  251. ​ @Roberta-gl2by  The fact that she is Jewish does mean nothing The fact that she is a Zionist does not.
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  252. There should be an ICJ arrest warrant out for Blinken. He has knowingly and deliberately colluded with what he knows to be a genocide.
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  253. 😡😡😡😡😡
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  254. All strength to these brave people. Even if they only make significant dents in the majorities of the Tory Tribute Act Party, they will have made a worthwhile point. Even if they split the vote to let in the Tory or Lib Dem, they will have done no harm. There is precious little difference between Starmer's party and the Tories, anyway. Of course, the ultimate prize would be unseating one or two of these frauds. I was one of those sad election night nerds who was "up for Portillo". It was a wonderful moment. But seeing Streeting's spiteful, pudgy little face ready to burst into tears would top that by a factor of ten!
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  255. Lammy is an utterly morality-free zone. The fact that he is complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of people, including children, doesn't seem to bother him in the least. He calmly and coldly stands before us all and reels off percentages as if they exonerate him and his boss by proportionality. They don't. You are a war criminal, Lammy. It's a faint hope but it is possible that one day you and your boss may be stood in the dock trying to justify your wickedness before a jury of your peers. Oh. That is something to hope for!
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  256. It's incredible that even the BBC treat Israeli claims as honest. Their statements are invariably shameless lies and their accusations projections of their own crimes.
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  257. Galloway's utterly undemocratic attitude to Scottish self-determination puts him outside the pale for me. But anyone who thinks they can wrong-foot him with such tactics simply hasn't done their homework. He beat the Daily Telegraph when they attempted to libel him with false documents "found" in Iraq and the monstering he gave to US Senate's select committee following the incident made incredibly entertaining viewing. These two second-rate stooges didn't stand a chance.
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  258.  @briancattle8437  What a silly question! Of course it is! We have better public services by far. All we need to do now is detach from the sinking ship next to us before it pulls us down with it.
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  259.  @briancattle8437  Good grief, yes. Galloway is a grand-stander. He'll make his point then move on to something else. But there are plenty of good people in the Greens and even in what's left of the Labour Party. Galloway's a top class sprinter and I'm glad he's there. But it's the people (like Damien) who commit themselves to the long run who really change the world for the better.
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  260. I don't think it's just Muslims, Damien. Black people are starting to note that the likes of Phillips are only interested in racism when the victims are white. Trades unionists are becoming aware of the fact that Labour's lukewarm support for workers' rights is morphing into complete indifference if not outright hostility. The stench of Labour's support for genocide in the Middle East is making it impossible for progressives to "hold their nose" and vote for the least worst option - because it's not the least worst anymore. At the very least, placeholders like Phillips will get their majorities cut this time. Hopefully, we'll see some of them ousted - as they deserve.
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  261. The notion that there is large-scale fraud in benefits claims is total nonsense dreamed up by spiteful right-wing "newspapers". I don't doubt that there are one or two people working the system. In my 68 years, out of the hundreds of benefits claimants I have known, I must have come across maybe two or three people doing this to varying extents. Catch them and deal harshly with them by all means. But to act as if solving this extremely peripheral and relatively trivial problem will have any impact on the economy is downright dishonest. And to traumatise and demonise genuine claimants in pursuit of it is cruel in the extreme.
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  262.  @JayGriffinblaze  Who's Daniel Jackson? If he's not Tory-lite he won't last long in Starmer's Labour. And what's a Goa'uld. My goodness. This is like trying to read my grandchildren's text messages!
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  263. These people don't even trust or tolerate each other and the foreign fighters are the most swivel-eyed of swivel-eyed fanatics. It's only a matter of time before they start fighting each other and everyone else.
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  264. How ironic! It looks like the US plan to destroy Russia by drawing it into a war to defend its border in Europe is going to force it into an alliance which is going to close down its proxy colony in the Middle East. What goes around, comes around as my old Mam used to say.
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  265. I'm 68 years old. In my life I have become aware of the dreadful things done to Jews (and others) by the Nazis. I've also learned about the terrible crimes committed against Jews by the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the English monarchy in the 12th century and in Europe during their wars to claim the French throne. The various pogroms by Russian Tsars are well documented as are the massacres by the "Whites" during the Russian Civil War. There is undoubtedly a long history of persecution of Jews which none of us should forget - especially those who profess the Christian faith. And we should all do everything we possibly can to prevent such persecution from occurring again. But we make a massive mistake in thinking that supporting the palpably evil Zionist state is any part of achieving that aim. It was created by dispossessing and displacing the people who lived there. It was born in the horrific orgy of bloodletting and rape which Palestinians know as the Nakba. It has continued to perpetrate horrific atrocities against the native population and is now stepping up those atrocities with a "final solution" in mind. The perpetrators play mind games with us, evoking the memory of all those tortured and killed historically by Christians so that, in our collective guilt, we look the other way while they visit similar atrocities on others. We have to resist this. The crimes against humanity they are committing have nothing whatsoever to do with the similar crimes historically committed against European Jews. Far from it. Zionists are continuing the very same process: That of the powerful oppressing and displacing the weak. They are dishonouring the victims of the Holocaust and Christian persecution. Thank goodness the UN is beginning to call time on this evil racist colonial project - through the ICJ, the ICC and this calling out of the IDF. But we need to press this home. It's not enough to simply make the Israeli state obey some international laws here and there. It is time for Zionism to end and for a full multicultural democracy to be created in its place.
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  266. Powell was awful. But he was intelligent and interesting. I couldn't possibly admire him because his prejudices took him along an evil path but I respected his intellect and was fascinated by his pragmatism - twisted though it was . By contrast, Anderson is just an arse: Stupid, ignorant and nasty.
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  267. It's the tradition of German troops tossing Belgian babies on their bayonets in the first world war. Today, a woman who had been reported as raped and murdered along with her two daughters turned up alive and well with one of them having left the other being cared for in a hamas hospital. Andrew neal has form as propagandist himself. Remember Gibraltar?
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  268. ​ @Blinky-li4nz  Oh! So that's alright! Destroying hospitals and ambushing aid convoys is justified by that then? Apologists for these monsters are just as monstrous as the murderers themselves.
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  269. The Labour Party has become the premier neoliberal party. It is time for the working class to cut it adrift. It is no longer our party,
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  270. BDS was flagging for a long time. The myth of the only safe place for Jews had a powerful hold on people. But the Gaza genocide has turned the tide on that. The true nature of this racist colonialism has been exposed. The sight of small children being targetted by snipers, hospitals and schools being deliberately destroyed and aid convoys being looted by settlers under the eyes of the IDF has melted all but the hardest hearts. It's now becoming clear to even the most cynical politicians that support for this wickedness is not a good look. Even Keir Starmer feels the need to pretend that he cares! Boycott Israeli produce and any company or institution which supports the Zionist project, folks. Victory really is in sight!
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  271. This is potentially a very stupid move by Israel and the US. Who do they think has the most vulnerability to interference with personal electronic devices?
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  272. Israel has been caught lying over and over again in this saga. No systematic rape policy, no beheaded babies, no Hamas presence in hospitals - and no evidence that UNRWA staff took part in what was, as far as the evidence increasingly shows, a purely military and therefore legal attack on 7 October. It is simply not credible that Western governments believe this nonsense. They are willingly and actively taking part in what they know full well is a deliberate systematic genocide. History will not judge them kindly. Nor should it.
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  273. Germany's limitless support for Israel as penance for the Holocaust doesn't make sense. Enabling the Zionists (not Jews at large, by the way), to do their own genocide cannot in any way give them absolution from what they did in the 1940s. Far from it. By being complicit in yet another genocide, they are ADDING to their shame, not decreasing it.
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  274. Listen to Lammy bemoaning the fact that we don't cosset our politicians like the US does! Your comparison is valid, Damien. The fact that Starmer appears to be as corrupt as Johnson fits snugly with the fact that he's already proved to be as shameless a liar as the scruffy Old Etonian himself.
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  275. Why shouldn't he be impressed by Starmer? After all, he likes Trump, Mussolini, Viktor Orban, Yaxley-Lennon, Gianfranco Fini and a whole shedload of similar crooks and would-be dictators. And he tried to form an alliance made up of a rejuvenated European Far Right in recent years. He even bought a converted monastery in Italy to hold meetings and training sessions. No doubt, Starmer's support for genocide in Palestine would stand him in good stead as a prospective member....
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  276.  @stevenpaulgoulding  Indeed. Instead of a meaningful ceasefire which also called Israel's war crimes and which would have prevented not only the current, but also future British governments from colluding in the Zionist genocide. In other words, it was a manoeuvre to aid his war criminal friends. He is a disgusting racist and a stain on a party which once opposed colonialism. It's also worth pausing to think about the way he obtained it. A Speaker in the pocket of a Prime Minister is a terrifying prospect.
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  277.  @CFX992  So that damns all Jews as supporters of Israel? I'm proud to be an anti-zionist but I won't tolerate hearing the likes of Albert Einstein, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders or Norman Finkelstein being lumped in with scum like Blinken or Netanyahu because they happen to belong to the same religious tradition. And I'm proud to be called "you people" by an Antisemite.
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  278. Like others here, I've no time for Biden or for most Democrats for that matter. My distaste for them was reinforced tonight as I watched them give a standing ovation to a corrupt and genocidal war criminal in Congress. They are utterly contemptible. But there is a difference. If Trump wins, even the very flawed democracy in place in the US would disappear. The most powerful nation on Earth, complete with nuclear weapons and loyal stooges in every country (including so-called democracies in Europe), would become a Fascist dictatorship. That's not hyperbole, Trump has as good as said that this is his intention. If that happens, nowhere and no one is safe. So while I have consider Genocide Joe to be a deeply evil man and I consider Harris to have been complicit in his wickedness, I hope against hope that she is successful in November. The alternative is terrifying.
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  279. Amesbury is a thug who assaulted someone in a drunken rage. He has no place in Parliament. To think that Starmer wants to keep this creep in place after he prevented decent people like Corbyn from standing and withdrew the whip from principled MPs like John McDonald and Rebecca Long Bailey. Labour stalwarts should be dreading the next election - as should we all. It will be a bloodbath for the Labour Party, a renewal for the Tory Right and a bonanza for the proto-Fascists of Reform UK. When that happens, we should not hesitate to put blame where it belongs - on the Labour Right.
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  280.  @ernestolynch1926  I've got no idea. Why are you asking me?
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  281. Labour used to be the party of the oppressed and marginalised. Now it's the party FOR oppressing and marginalising. No doubt, the definition of Antisemitism will shortly be amended to include being a member of the travelling community.
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  282. The main lie is that Iran intended dreadful harm but was foiled by the IDF, RAF etc. In fact, Iran calibrated its attack to a level it knew Iron Dome etc could deal with and it made its intentions known well in advance to ensure that Minimal damage was done. Only the missiles that did get through were intended to. Successfully targeting the F16 base was the principle part of the message. Iran was making a very powerful statement here. The West needs to restrain or, better still, remove Netanyahu now. If allowed to, he will continue to escalate this very dangerous conflict in order to save himself from political oblivion and possibly jail.
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  283.  @mikekerasi  Yes. But fortunately, while Starmer and his cronies are just as evil as Big Brother, they are nowhere near as competent. They can be beaten.
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  284. Ukraine is the same playbook as Afghanistan: Push USSR/Russia until its only option is to fight back, then provide its enemy with just enough support to keep the war going but not to win. The idea is to create a slow-bleeding wound which would debilitate but not completely destroy. The ultimate aim is to make Putin weak enough to be overthrown by his own allies in Moscow. It worked in bringing down the SU. That was a bit of a problem at first because it resulted in a drunken clown taking over but ultimately he was replaced by the sort of guy the West wanted: er...Putin. He was corrupt, nasty and utterly ruthless. That's how the US likes its pet dictators. They liked him at first. There are plenty of pictures of him glad-handing and back-slapping the US's western surrogates like Sarkozy, Berlusconi and Blair. But then he started going his own way. It ended up with the formation of the BRICS alliance which is a long term threat to US interests. That's why they're destroying him now. But who do they think is going to replace him? If the Russians decide they don't want him because he isn't "strong" enough, surely the most likely successor is going to be "stronger". That is to say, they'll bring more repression and be more willing to risk everything to defeat this surrogate NATO incursion. It could be time to whitewash the windows (see When the Wind Blows) folks.
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  285.  @KernowDamo  Absolutely! But this is New New_Labour's best hope! I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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  286. Every now and again, you get these people who start off on the left but then migrate to being the Left's would-be nemesis: Ramsay MacDonald, George Brown, Reg Prentice and Lord Chalfont are just a few but you could probably fill this page with a list of them with very little effort. Paul Mason seems to be a supercharged version of that, though. He started off being a reasoned and measured progressive commentator but has progressed to being a crazed red-baiter to rival the John Birch Society. It'd be great if Starmer sets him against Corbyn: Like Barcelona playing Hamilton Academicals.
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  287. It would be funny were it not for the smug look on his face as he watched the parliament of a country which lost so many young men fighting against the evil for which he stood stand up and applaud him. But though we should fight the urge to laugh we should not neglect to point out that this is an indication of the woeful naiivite of those who give no thought whatsoever to the history of the struggle in Ukraine. We should remind them that the flag of the "resistance" they were so mawkishly lauding consisted of a hammer and an axe. Why? Because those were the implements used in the brutal pogroms this "resistance" mounted against Poles, Russians, Jews and Romanies - people who were dragged out into the streets of cities like Kiev, Lwow Kharkov and beaten and hacked to death in well planned and executed dawn raids. They should also be reminded that this brave "resistance" took a willing and eager part in the job of rounding up of Jews for Hitler's final solution and made repeated (but rebuffed) offers to fight with the Third Reich on the Eastern Front. Most importantly, we should remember that many on the Ukrainian side today, revere that "resistance" and we should be wary of what will happen when, as now seems inevitable, they "liberate" Crimea and the Donbass.
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  288. Germans need to reflect on the guilt their nation has for the Holocaust. They also need to reflect on the fact that they are now aiding and abetting a similar wickedness. This exacerbates any guilt. It certainly doesn't mitigate it.
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  289. Oh! The irony! "From the River to the Sea" was originally a Zionist slogan and has now become so enmeshed in the Anti-Zionist cause that they're calling it "Antisemitic". I wonder how long it will be before "Never forgive and never forget" becomes Antisemitic?
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  290. The world should know by now. If it's an official statement made by Israel, it's a lie.
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  291. Starmer and Sunak know that their "ally" is deliberately targeting anyone who is doing anything to help Palestinians survive. It can be the UN. It can be international charities. It can be journalists exposing their crimes. They don't care. Hopefully, at some time in the future, we will have a government composed of people of integrity who will make them properly accountable for the crimes they have knowingly and deliberately facilitated. Yes. I know it is a faint hope. But I have to hold on to it in order to contain my own anger.
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  292. It's quite simple. Israel is the west's outpost in the Middle East. It makes the world a much, much worse place.
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  293. If Egypt is turning against Israel it is doing so with US permission. The subsidies being paid by the US to Egypt since 1978 are really bribes to keep this dictatorship on side with Israel - effectively, a hidden part of the overall subsidy being paid to support Israel. That's why the US was so determined to restore the dictatorship after the Arab Spring. If the US is allowing it to take up a hostile position to Israel then that is a massive change in US policy. Maybe Jordan will be next?
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  294.  @MrSmegfish  Correction noted but it will be MI6 soon because it will be a different country...
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  295. This evil soldier is clearly American. He has swallowed the completely disproven lies about 7 October, but more importantly he is repeating the racist lies about Palestinians who, he claims, are opting for something "bad" (self-determination) in place of something "good" (Israeli colonialism). This wickedness will continue until the Zionist state is completely dismantled.
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  296.  @maskedavenger2578  Yes. It's all relative, I suppose. If you're a Nazi who watches GBNews or TalkTV, even the extreme right of the Tory Party must appear to be left-wing. But the vast majority of the population would call her extreme right.
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  297. "I found Donald Trump very gracious". Did they edit out the bit where he said "I'm not bothered about him being a fraudster, adjudged rapist and admirer of Adolf Hitler"?
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  298.  @alihenderson5910  No. Not at all. Peterson is a pseudo intellectual. He pontificates about stuff he knows very little about and uses long, rambling and ultimately meaningless word salad sentences blended with impenetrable jargon to make himself look clever and obscure the fact that he doesn't know what he is talking about. It's a clever trick. The audience he addresses is too stupid to see the flaws in his convoluted arguments and too lazy to check what he presents as fact. His "take down" of Cathy Newman was pure ad hominem. Loach, by contrast, uses simple and direct language, carefully researches his subject and attacked Montague's claims and arguments, not her as a person. Do you see the difference? Probably not.
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  299. Sadness and hope. I was fed the Labour Movement from birth. My parents could never have imagined not voting Labour. Miss them , though I do, I am glad that they did not live to see what their beloved party became. It's been taken over by people who advocate for the very things it was set up to fight. The establishment think that they've defeated us by taking over what was our party. But you can't kill an idea by replacing it with a human cipher like Starmer. All is not lost. We have the Greens, we have Plaid Cymru, we have (with some reservations) the SNP. And if they infiltrate those, we'll create others. The fight goes on until we win.
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  300.  @richardhead3062  "Very few deaths were caused by friendly fire". Only if you believe the IDF's version. The Electronic Intifada created a timeline which shows that the Israeli version is laced with lies. At one point, they had to revise down the civilian death count because there were several hundred guerillas mixed in with the bodies. That could only be because they were killed at the same time and in the same way. We know from one eyewitness account that tanks were firing into buildings knowing that both civilians and guerillas were inside. The helicopter gunships (yes. They were there) were ordered to fire on all vehicles heading towards the border fence - knowing that many of the people in those cars would be hostages. And let's not forget the nonsense about mangled babies and systematic rapes - all debunked. There may well have been atrocities committed in the 7 October action but the claims made in the aftermath were mostly concocted with the clear intention of encouraging Israeli "soldiers" to commit atrocities in the ensuing invasion of Gaza. "The Islamic Fascist Fundamentalist H4M45 " A contradiction in terms. Fascism and Islamic Fundamentalism are two mutually exclusive ideologies. Neither of them are very nice but chaining them together in that way renders the sentence into nothing but mindless name-calling. "The issue is that their genocidal ideology does not want peace and they don't care how many of their "Own" people are killed. " Incredible projection. Zionism is a racist colonial ideology and is genocidal by definition. That's why the country that follows that ideology is currently being investigated for plausible genocide and has already been judged to be an apartheid state. And a country which is refusing to negotiate the return of hostages and which put the Hannibal Directive into operation just over 12 months ago is in no position to accuse others of not caring about the lives of their people.
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  301. Our welfare state destroyed to protect the most corrupt and oppressive government in Europe.
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  302. By "permanent" he means when all Palestinians are either dead or in Jordan or Egypt. Evil man!
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  303. Yes. But better to get rid of the Security Council and the vetos of the big powers.
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  304. Israelis, especially the skilled and educated ones, are leaving the country at an accelerating rate and the Israeli economy is in shreds as a result. In the US and Europe, young Jews are increasingly turning away from Zionism. Young Israelis in the meantime, are refusing to turn up for military duty even as Israel has opened up a fourth front (after Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis) in Syria. I admit that this could be wishful thinking, but it seems to me that the Zionist project is stretched out about as thinly as it's possible to stretch. And yes, Damien, this video has cheered me up no end. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and I'll look forward to having my thinking prodded once again in the new year. Nadolig Llawen!
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  305.  @glennholzinger4217  Exeter?
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  306.  @frenzalrhomb6919  😆😆😆😆😆
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  307. There's nothing new about Zionists and Anti-semites working together. Google Electronic Intifada's excellent video on the subject. It's a long 'un but well worth burning the candle. It shows that people like Chaim Weissman and Ze'ev Jabotinsky openly courted the support of Antisemites. And it's perfectly logical: Without Antisemitism, there would be no need for a Jewish state so they were quite happy to go along with the narrative of being "unwelcome guests who had outstayed their welcome". That's been a constant. Zionists were quite happy to have the support of the hate preacher Billy Graham who preached that Jews had been condemned to wander because of their (falsely framed) part in the murder of Christ, or Polish politician, Michal Kaminski who said that Poland should not apologise for allowing the Holocaust until Jews apologise for Communism. The Chief Rabbi of Warsaw described him as a good friend of Israel. So Yaxley-Lennon is just keeping a long tradition of co-habitation between Zionists and Antisemites going.
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  308.  @mozjez2218  Um no. Israel is not unfriendly to the US. It is the countries upon which it is attempting to impose its will that are unfriendly to it. What makes you think I am unaware of Israel's history?
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  309. For at least seventy years, Israel has been committing the most heinous atrocities and war crimes and telling lies about doing so. It has attempted to sink a US Navy ship, routinely massacred civilians, used rape as a weapon (as it is now accusing Hamas), indiscriminately bombed civilians, routinely deprived civilians of food, water and medical supplies and many more such crimes. More to the point it has been repeatedly caught fabricating evidence in order to frame those who resist its oppression for committing atrocities that never happened. NONE of its claims should ever be accepted at face value. If its claims of rape, beheadings and other such crimes on 7 October had any credibility whatsoever, they would have been referred to UN war crimes investigators, not turned into a heavily edited 47-minute video or leaked to the press in increments. The fact that these "atrocities have not been so referred tells us one thing: They are a pack of lies concocted to justify the genocide they are now engaged in.
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  310. The Labour vote went up in Scotland because Tories and Lib Dems voted tactically to give the SNP a kicking. If not for that, the Labour vote would have been even lower. They got a landslide because of the absurd arithmetic of FPTP. With their popularity dive bombing as it is, the Tories will only need a very modest recovery in order to completely swamp them at the next election.
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  311. The population of Gaza is Israel's hostage. This is the most awful of war crimes. We need to ensure that those weasels (like Starmer and Emily Thornberry) who shill for this know that they WILL be held responsible for their complicity in this dreadful crime.
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  312. John Maynard Keynes: "Anything we can actually do, we can afford." I'm not a Keynesian by any means but he did at least understand the relationship between money and economics. The economic ministers of Atlee's (and Truman's, De Gaulle's, Adenauer's, etc, etc ) government followed his advice and gave us the most prosperous 3 decades in human history. The cheese-paring zero-sum nonsense that has prevailed since Thatcher (including under Blair and Brown) is pure economic illiteracy; nothing more than glorified book-keeping. Far from being an extravagance, the £28 billion was short by a factor of about 10. A green investment programme could create hundreds of thousands of skilled and well paying jobs - with a knock-on benefit of a skilled workforce available for other businesses and thus both a decrease in unemployment and an increase of spending into the economy. JMK would approve. Improved housing stock and decreased pollution and poverty would also have a knock on effect on health and education. It would be a wise investment, not an extravagant indulgence. The only people losing out would be those who make a killing from poverty, ignorance and poor health - or donors, as Keir Starmer would call them.
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  313. Spot on, Damian. And if they get away with it here, the next phase will be to push West Bank Palestinians into Jordan. What disgusts me most is that the leader of the UK Labour Party is an apologist for and supporter of this settler colonianalist movement.
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  314. Just goes to show that Sunak is taking the route of throwing red meat to the racists, mysogynists and poor haters. In the last week we've seen the poor and mentally ill targetted as scroungers and parasites. Now we're getting the "vote for us if you want to stick it to refugees" ticket. The sad thing is that it could work....
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  315. The man is without shame. NOt a trace of decency in him. He is a stain on the Labour movement.
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  316.  @lat1419  That's one of the paradoxes of Neoliberalism. These people actually believe, as a matter of faith, that selfishness is good for society. So by screwing us, she's being a good citizen. I'm not kidding here. This is Liz Truss but in a different party. All of these people are nutters. Period.
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  317. I think you've put your finger on it here. These Fascists are fully aware of the fact that they can crush any US senator who goes against them; that Germany has declared that anyone seeking citizenship must embrace Zionism; that the UK government has members who demand that anyone demonstrating against Israel's genocidal blitzkrieg should be treated as Hamas supporters ( a crime in the UK); that the UK Labour Party has expelled members for speaking up for Palestinians. Effectively, this woman is saying: "I can say that black is white and vice versa and your governments and legal and academic institutions will back me up and say that the person who contradicts me is the liar". And she's right!
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  318. Zionism is based on a tissue of lies: Lies about the origins of European Jews; lies about the history of "Arab" Palestinians; lies about the awful war crimes that were committed during the Naqba and in the decades before it by the cowardly thugs of Lehi, Haganah and Irgun and so on. The biggest lie is the claim that they are fulfilling some sort of religious destiny. The Haredis are one of the most outspoken of those calling out false references to scripture used to justify the atrocities of the Zionist colonial project. They are truly desperate if they think that they can get these extremely pious and sincere young men to fight for their cause. It's a bit like forcing vegans to work in a slaughterhouse. I suspect that most Israeli generals would rather have no soldiers at all.
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  319. Yet another fake Labour politician rattling the sabre to impress the Daily Mail readership. They've all done it. Atlee with Malaya, Wilson with Aden and Cyprus, Foot with the Falklands, Tony Blair with too many examples to mention( with Gordon Brown writing the cheques). And now this blundering fool decides to jump on the gung-ho bandwagon. It'll all end in tears, you mark my words.
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  320.  @coveredinbees3909  He's clearly one of those people who think that anyone to the left of Liz Truss (not even sure of that with Starmer) is a Communist and therefore all on the same side.
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  321.  @ScarySox  Not really used to this debating game, are you?
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  322. Don't give racism is a rationale. It's true that Judaism and Islam are not races. But neither are white or black. If the racist considers you to be a race, it's racism.
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  323.  @Uncanny_Mountain  "Wholly Romanian"? Vlad the Impaler, perhaps?
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  324.  @Uncanny_Mountain  You left out aliens and JFK Junior
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  325.  @Zodroo_Tint  "Something else" is absolutely what it should be called!
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  326. The Labour Right live in an echo chamber where the only people they hear are their donors and press and media stooges. The idea that the great unwashed should have a voice of their own is filed under "controversial" or worse, "Corbynite". Nah! Just listen to the bosses cos' they're the ones the "centre ground" trust. In the next election, they will be pitted against a Tory Party that is the most ideologically repugnant and the most politically incompetent ever. But are working-class people going to turn out on a wet Autumn (October) Thursday to vote in a party which has based its policies on what the bosses want? Because it doesn't matter how much of the mythical "centre ground" they gain, if they don't get the working class, they don't win!
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  327. The irony is that the Labour Party has become an institutionally racist party under Starmer. Racism which affects Muslims is fine by him - a fact made clear by his ignoring the findings of the Forde Report at the time of the EHRC report - that's the one which exonerated the Labour Party under Corbyn from the charge of institutional Antisemitism made by the Jewish Labour Movement, in case you missed it. Hotovely's racism is clear and unmitigated. She openly calls for genocide and openly states that Palestinians have no right to statehood. There is no way that association with her can be reconciled with Labour Party values. If he refuses to cut ties and call for her expulsion from the UK then he should be made to resign as leader and himself be expelled from the party.
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  328. For at least 50 years, Israel has been in a position where it could have negotiated a peace settlement with both the Palestinians and its neighbours from a position of strength. It's always been clear that the Palestinians have been willing to negotiate and all Israel had to do was accept the same sort of co-existence that all sovereign nations have between each other. But that wasn't good enough. It's become clear that they not only want Gaza and the West Bank, they want to keep a sizable chunk of Syria, of Lebanon and possibly Jordan and even Iraq. Plenty of the maps of "Eretz Israel" circulated amongst Zionist fanatics (some of which are in Netanyahus's coalition) are available on the internet. But now it has crossed a line. It's behaviour even before the current onslaught on Gaza has led to it being investigated for plausible genocide by the international courts. It is losing support in both Europe and the US where loyalty to it was once unassailable. The weak and corrupt dictatorships that it so easily vanquished in 1966 are now strong regional players which have both military might, economic strength and diplomatic clout to be reckoned with. Its allies in the region like Sisi and the vile Mohamed Bin Salman are begging the US to reign it in as their own populations' anger about their complicity in Israel's crimes approaches boiling point. Israel's ship has sailed. The one-state solution - a democracy with the safety and integrity of all guaranteed by all states with a stake in the region - is now inevitable.
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  329. Probably too late for this election. But it would be the beginning of the fight back after a Starmer victory
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  330. "The Greens have their own problems with Antisemitism" translates as "The Israel lobby routinely makes unfounded and unevidenced accusations of Antisemitism against the Greens and we, the press and media make no attempt to challenge them for it."
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  331.  @lemsip207  "The core Labour and Lib Dem votes are each lower than the Conservative vote". I'm not sure where you got that one from. If you mean Tories are more likely to vote than prospective Labour voters, yes, that's true. That's because the Tories always promise a more unjust society which favours the better off, and keeps that promise so the better off keep voting for them. Labour voters tend to be disenchanted because Labour promises social justice but has always delivered the opposite - especially under Blair and Brown. I don't call that apathy. That's blaming the voters for not accepting the poor alternative that Labour offers.
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  332. "For 11 months, a fighting spirit filled their souls". You have to gasp at the level of delusion. When "fighting" means guarding settlers while they destroy aid convoys, torturing prisoners or sniping at small children, it doesn't have any problem finding their souls. Now, they are facing well trained, properly equipped and highly motivated soldiers, the soul seems to have clammed up a bit!
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  333.  @JH-lf4ql  Wow! You really have to ask??? The statement "breeding families that can't afford their breeding" indicates that the commentor is talking about people as if they are animals rather than fellow humans and doesn't care about their fate or welfare. This is clearly someone totally devoid of humanity. But, as I said, it is the stupidity and ignorance of basic economics that is inherent in such a view that is important here, not the commentor's lack of basic decency.
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  334.  @JH-lf4ql  Yes. I assumed that. But, I repeat, the fact that you are devoid of empathy and human decency is not my point. It is your inability to understand basic economics that I am alluding to. Ultimately, throwing people on the scrap heap of poverty is MORE expensive and the taxes which you have to pay will be higher and the society you live in will be more unpleasant for everyone, including yourself. This is one of the reasons why countries with more progressive social policies are so much more prosperous than those based on the parsimonious zero sum false economics which the UK is currently locked into. By the way, no-one is fooled by your referring to your original comment in the third person. We know that you are the same person.
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