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AnatolyKasparov

HindleA wrote:http://labourlist.org/2016/05/labour-co ... itism-row/

Labour has confirmed the number of party members suspended in the row over anti-Semitism stands at 18.

Roughly 0.005% of the total membership, then.

AnatolyKasparov

She has come in for a fair amount of abuse for her stand, brave lady.

Of course, if (as we all hope) Zac does indeed crash and burn, there will be lots emerging from the woodwork to agree......

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Ah yes, "absolutely no recollection" - in other words, "you've got me bang to rights even if you can't actually prove it".

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Good morning. Much as I dislike Cruz, the world has just become a much scarier place now that Trump has no real opposition for the GOP nomination. The Tweets of Laura Kuensservativeberg have been monitored by people who go in for that sort of thing. For 5 days, every single one has been on the subj...

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Not that surprising that some have a rose tinted view of BoJo's mayoralty as it comes to a close. Also, there will be those saying they would support a hypothetical Boris 3rd term bid as a way of expressing disapproval of Goldsmith's campaign. After transfers, that surely suggests Khan and Johnson w...

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What the hell is that about PF? Former LibDem, now Labour Cllr thinks Jeremy Corbyn was "too slow off the mark" etc etc. I haven't actually seen the letter, though. But aren't they now ex Labour according to the bit you quoted? Aaaah - too too confusing. Welcome to politics in Portsmouth ...

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It may be a powerful article, but Finkelstein is - it is fair to say - a deeply controversial character.

Freedland is an awful hack writer (all the more so in recent years) Let's leave it at that.

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The bitterites know that conference could well strengthen Jez's position, that's why they are desperate to "do something" before then.

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Anyway, last night's "exclusive". Margaret Hodge, eh? Not only is she actually older than Corbyn, she has a fair amount of "baggage". If that is currently the best that the Bitterites can do...... This is as a stalking horse though - presumably if she did successfully trigger a ...

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Anyway, last night's "exclusive".

Margaret Hodge, eh? Not only is she actually older than Corbyn, she has a fair amount of "baggage".

If that is currently the best that the Bitterites can do......

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It would only be possible if the parliamentary party put him on the ballot. Does he have much support among MPs? I actually might welcome PM Gove. I think he'd be a complete disaster and thus easier to beat in a subsequent GE than Boris or May. I think you're right. Gove as leader is a fantasy. The...

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There are no council elections in ohso's part of the world, Willow - just the PCC. No council elections in Scotland (or Wales) until next year either.

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It now seems that Livingstone isn't the only political veteran to put their foot in it. Gerry Adams

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It (J McG's Hillsboro) is difficult to watch, but that is how it should be. Even if you don't agree with the "case" in every detail, it is an exceptional piece of drama.

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Actually, posting dodgy stuff about "the Jews" et al is far from unknown amongst CyberNats (and has been seen with a handful of Greens too)

Maybe that's why they are staying silent?

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Just switched on Radio 4 and the first thing I hear is an announcement of news interviews coming up 'we speak to a Labour donor who says the current crisis in Labour means he won't give them anymore funds. He says everytime his daughter goes out in public she gets 'Jew' shouted at her'. How is that...

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I actually think that piece by Goldsmith is *so* OTT it might harm rather than help him. Naively optimistic?

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To "foreign sex"?? I know its a typo but even so

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Worryingly, some who know about such things and have observed Livingstone's demeanour in the past few days fear he may have the early stages of Alzheimers. Now that is a sad thought indeed :( The thing with Altzheimer's is that you can't tell without examining the brain, so there's no point in diag...

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Worryingly, some who know about such things and have observed Livingstone's demeanour in the past few days fear he may have the early stages of Alzheimers. Now that is a sad thought indeed :( Yes that would be awful. Where on earth has that come from ...? Just some people with knowledge of such thi...

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Worryingly, some who know about such things and have observed Livingstone's demeanour in the past few days fear he may have the early stages of Alzheimers.

Now that is a sad thought indeed

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Well, I'm certainly not convinced about the Boris bit for starters......

Corbyn won't be there in 2020, I have always been pretty convinced of that.

His successor, I am almost equally convinced, will be somebody from the soft left who hasn't stood for the leadership before.

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Here's the humour bath for the day .... What Dominiczak did get right was that those looking to destabilise Corbyn are trying to frame the issue not merely as right versus left, or indeed as anything personal (although, of course, it is exactly that), but as “Labour needs strong leadership”. The me...

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Anyway, that "joke" by Ian Austin. What a total and absolute 24-carat bellend

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To be blunt about it, the Jewish population in GL isn't big enough to swing elections (save maybe in the most knife edge circumstances) No, as in 2012 this is an attempt to sow doubt in the minds of voters more generally. I doubt it will succeed in this instance, but am taking nothing for granted be...

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I don't think JC has ever stated that, has he? The issue with him is his past association with some rather dubious types on the Palestinian (etc) side who may well hold such views...... I think you may have misunderstood me, I agree with your comment about KL's behaviour and that JC agrees with us,...

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I don't think JC has ever stated that, has he? The issue with him is his past association with some rather dubious types on the Palestinian (etc) side who may well hold such views......

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Livingstone implied (even if he did not explicitly state) that "Hitler was a Zionist".

That is a gross misreading of history - to put it at its most charitable - and one frequently seen in far-right circles. And, absolutely obviously, deeply hurtful and offensive.

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Well, it seems the Torygraph's front page splash didn't even last a few hours......

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Livingstone has led a charmed life for a while tbf (remember the Lutfur Rahman business, for instance) and I think there is a good chance he will be expelled from the party after due process (whilst it is surely virtually certain Naz Shah - who some pundits are now comparing favourably with Ken - wi...

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Ha! Not only is there a Readers edition but a special Friday blog. Labour antisemitism crisis: party deals with fallout of Livingstone suspension http://gu.com/p/4tm4q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; That's the Viner era Graun all over, innit? A commendably sensible and rat...

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Yes, I think the Beeb certainly has a case to answer over the Doughty business.

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Yes, I think that has been pretty strongly denied by the broadcasters - though as already said the question is a bit moot with Mann anyway.

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Arguably that should have happened a *long* time ago.

But it was the Graun top brass who decided they favoured clicks at any price above their loyal long standing contributors.

They are now having to deal with the consequences......

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Mann has undoubtedly been a bit of an arse as well, and apparently is going to be spoken to by the whips.

Of course, both he and Ken have one big thing in common - an almost insatiable appetite for self publicity.

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Wow, wasn't expecting that from Jon Lansman - absolutely brutal about Ken.

And he has now been suspended from the party, which presumably means he can't stand in this year's NEC elections. Not that I was going to vote for him anyway......

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Maeght wrote:Thought yesterday BTL on Andrew Sparrow was bad. Today the whole thing has become hysterical nonsense. Can't look at it anymore.

I am glad that I am only an occasional visitor (and contributor) to their comment pages now.

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Ken has always been like that, but there was a time when his undoubted virtues made it a price worth paying.

These days, he is depressingly like those old bores you see spouting off in pubs. Time for him to - finally - retire.

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Yep, we can't upset Turkey and its increasingly megalomaniac strongman any more than we can upset Saudi and the other Gulf despots.

But look over there! Corbyn met somebody a bit dodgy once!!

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StephenDolan wrote: Shocking. What happened to Cameron's Syrian Moderates btw?

They're about as real as Michael Dugher's army of Labour "moderates" that will supposedly save us all from the Jezza Terror?

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DFH claims, with typical balanced objectivity, that Corbyn's election "has made anti-semitism acceptable" in the Labour party. If so, we can only conclude that the present Labour leader has powers hitherto unsuspected - including the ability to bend time. After all, most of the recent cont...

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The present chief constable of SYP has just been suspended, apparently.

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yahyah wrote:She's coming across well.

Something she doesn't always do, to put it mildly.

Nonetheless, this reminds us not to overlook her in the coming Tory leadership contest. She has a genuine chance IMO.

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Calling for Naz Shah to be suspended from Labour ? I can understand that, tbf. Shah has apologised and that is quite right, but IMO she needs to go further. Meeting some Jewish groups might well be a good idea. And making clear not only that she no longer holds these views herself, but driving home...

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StephenDolan wrote:Bravo Nandy. Slow handclap...

What's this about?

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Political Scrapbook ‏@PSbook 4m4 minutes ago After online backlash, shamed Times newspaper puts Hillsborough on front page http://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/04/after-online-backlash-shamed-times-newspaper-puts-hillsborough-on-front-page/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … S...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:
Lib Dem Press Office ‏@LibDemPress 8m8 minutes ago
Quick memo to @BBCr4today, ex-DPP chief Ken Macdonald is not a Labour peer, he's @LibDemLords.

He used to be Labour, though - hence the confusion I suspect.

AnatolyKasparov

And what's all this guff about "Corbyn's" EU stance?

As any fule kno, its the Blair/Mandelson/Progress tendency in the party that are the uncritical pro-Europeans.......

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Can the BBC kiss his ass anymore? This 'reporting' is ridiculous. For Osborne, bad economic news could be good news - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36141888" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Kamal Ahmed was fracking horrific in his days at the Observer 10-15 years ago, e...

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4m ago 13:29 Naz Shah resigns as John McDonnell's PPS The Labour MP Naz Shah has resigned as John McDonnell’s parliamentary private secretary (PPS) in the light of the controversy about her 2014 “relocate Israel” Facebook post. (Politics Live, Guardian) Though to her credit, she says she no longer ...

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