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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. The most moral army has no idea what morality is!
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  4. Lammy is such an embarrassment. He has no morality or integrity.
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  5. "Don't worry about the working class, they've got nowhere to go" Oh yes they have!
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  6. 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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  7. Sorry to hear about your loss, Rob. He must have been very proud of the work you do.
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Problem is that you have a product which is presented in a positive light on a daily basis without allowing anyone to give a counter view it's going to be popular. That's why the monarchy is unassailable. It's also worth remembering that it gives them incredible wealth and privilege and they'll fight like hell to keep it. So as long as that's borne in mind, let's get to abolishing them!
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. These re-alignments happen periodically and they are related to changes in the economy. The Tories were originally the party of the landed gentry. The Whigs were the party of the emerging bourgeoisie and, as they became the Liberals, more so. If you look at legislation in the latter part of the 19th century, it was the Liberals who were most set on crushing the working class and the Tories who, in a patrician manner, were most likely to look out for their interests. We often forget that reforms like Public Libraries, swimming pools , municipal housing etc came under great Tory reformers like the the Chamberlains. The biggest turmoil came in the inter-war years when the Tories, under people like Baldwin effectively moved in on the territory of the Liberals and became the party of the bourgeoisie. As Lord Thorneycroft (remember him?) put it, the Tories were now the real Liberals and I think it's true to say that Thatcher was far more in the tradition of Gladstone than that of Disraeli. The Liberals, as we all know, were then squeezed by the emerging Labour Party on their left and very nearly ceased to exist. In my view, we've entered a similar period of upheaval now. The Tories have been captured by the swivel eyed loons of Tufton Street, the Labour Party have lurched so far to the right that many Tories feel quite at home there and we also have Farage as the Joker in the pack and a substantial number of people on the Left who are now politically homeless. I don't think Farage is serious about taking over the Tories - except maybe as a little ego trip. He's essentially an itinerant con-man on the look out for the next grift. Interesting times!
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  15. Proud to be subscibed. Love your accent. And yes, the bugger's a wrong un.
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  16. Nicola Sturgeon reported that she made a bee-line for her at an international event attended by heads of government, economists, journalists etc - to ask her how she got on the front cover of vogue! Total airhead!
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  17. 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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  18. Brilliant, Damien. Love your stuff. But it's pronounced CUNON and RUMNEE!
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  19. It's gross miscalculation in another way, Tim. Hand-held devices are far more common in Western countries and in Israel itself, than in the Middle East countries Israel is trying to provoke. This is like someone who lives in a greenhouse throwing stones at the windows of people who live in the semi-detached house next door. Or perhaps a better comparison would be an uphill cavalry charge over open ground against a machine gun. It is certainly morally outrageous. But it's also tactical madness.
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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. Enjoy your weekly rants. Please don't stop.
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  24. Labour "won" the last election with a reduced vote because it didn't fall as much in popularity as the Tories. Are we going to see the Tories get back into power in the same way? In other words, Badenoch (or whoever replaces her) takes the Tories to record levels of unpopularity over the next 5 years but Starmer bombs the Labour Party's popularity even more. Could this be good for democracy by allowing the Greens, or other progressive party to come through on the left with a mandate for PR?
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