Monday 26th February 2024
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Monday 26th February 2024
Morning all.
- RogerOThornhill
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Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Good morning.
Badenoch being economical with the truth? I'm shocked...
Badenoch being economical with the truth? I'm shocked...
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
AK -- good luck with the tooth !
( UA refugees in UK " Getting hold of a dentist here is like seeking a meeting with the King" . No wonder one visited back home for treatment in Kyiv !)
Pitiful stuff all round in the HoC last week --
( UA refugees in UK " Getting hold of a dentist here is like seeking a meeting with the King" . No wonder one visited back home for treatment in Kyiv !)
Pitiful stuff all round in the HoC last week --
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
" It's all a game really, but WTH I've got a nice job ! "
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
" The full force of the Law should be invoked against UK Jews who are anti-Zionist and criticise the actions of the state of Israel ! " (OK I made that up ...)
Equal stupidity over here, dunno what happened to this --
Senators have proposed a law punishing "Insults against the Sate of Israel "
France-projet de loi: de la prison et une forte d'amende pour toute injure contre Israël!
https://www.espacemanager.com/france-pr ... srael.html
Equal stupidity over here, dunno what happened to this --
Senators have proposed a law punishing "Insults against the Sate of Israel "
France-projet de loi: de la prison et une forte d'amende pour toute injure contre Israël!
https://www.espacemanager.com/france-pr ... srael.html
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Only the best MPs for us
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Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Thanks, have got an appointment this evening.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Luckier than some , it appears !!!
- Sky'sGoneOut
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Re: Monday 26th February 2024
A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work - Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... aza-labour
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... aza-labour
Indeed.Whatever motion Labour ended up ramming through, it came too late. The party’s first position on Gaza, refusing to condemn breaches of international law (or even call them that), and refusing to call for a ceasefire, has made too strong an impression for it to be erased by any new modifications. It was a position that fed into something bigger: into pre-existing reservations and dwindling faith in the party.
For those the party was trying to bring round, the manner in which it prevailed will only act to reinforce its most suspect qualities – calculating, pedantic, authoritarian. Ready to drag parliament into the mire so it could pursue its manic drive to keep control of a party narrative that now exists only in the leadership’s heads.
What they think people saw was a party seeing off its adversaries and passing a motion on a ceasefire that would placate voters. What others saw was an ugly process that frittered away any goodwill that could have come from whatever meaningful change there has been in the party’s position on Gaza. Emails from MPs to angry constituents read flatly – robotic lists of the virtues of Labour’s new position that sound like a legal exercise in argument pre-emption rather than a genuinely humbled and considered change of approach.
The party is not capable of reflection or sensitivity to the public on a matter that doesn’t sit squarely in its matrix of “electability”. Which is why it will never be out of the woods as long as the war continues.
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but I've heard it's very good - if very sad
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
So...Parliament is doing fine, why do you ask?
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
I was waiting to see how much Haley had got , because i reckoned that anything over 30% was good , but the early bbc was gushing over Trump's 'huge lead' ...
In fact she got 39.5, showing in a GOP stronghold how many are pissed off with the Orange One !
In fact she got 39.5, showing in a GOP stronghold how many are pissed off with the Orange One !
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Re: Monday 26th February 2024
The deed is done - I am feeling a bit sore (obviously) but hopefully nothing more than that.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Should be OK ... !AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Mon 26 Feb, 2024 8:22 pm The deed is done - I am feeling a bit sore (obviously) but hopefully nothing more than that.
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
I saw a figure of 6% for the most Far Right Putin -supporting Polish party .
But can't remember if it was for seats or votes !
As with the truck drivers' blockades there is much underhand Russki stuff at work ...
But can't remember if it was for seats or votes !
As with the truck drivers' blockades there is much underhand Russki stuff at work ...
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Mon 26 Feb, 2024 5:05 pm A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work - Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... aza-labour
From later in the piece
This is more or less what I've been thinking. The Starmer project will struggle with 'events, dear boy, events'.It’s bad luck though, for both the people and the party, that Gaza is happening at this precise moment in Labour’s history. Because the party has decided that its route to power is through demonstrating, as often and loudly as possible, that it is driven by bloodless pragmatism. Channelling and representing positions that may not have immediate practical impact, but which make people feel as though they exist in a moral universe under a righteous steward, is treated like heresy, like something that will break the spell of Labour’s rise to government............
But even if the party manages to weather the entire Gaza storm, there will be others that it is congenitally unsuited to deal with.
One world, like it or not - John Martyn