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Jeremy Corbyn and Balance

Not adopting all the IHRA examples (but with accompanying text to clarify meaning drafted in consultation with Jewish groups where possible) was a big political mistake. It created concerns in the Jewish community that the media was right to reflect. The idea that the non-partisan media’s reporting of this is just a smear campaign is nonsense.

@PaulfromYorkshire

Not reposted from social media, apparently. According to this, a Press TV journalist was at the meeting. How this came about is not clear, though. And I read elsewhere people generally were asked not to film.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HarryYorke1/ ... 5218387968

Perhaps if Labour didn't provide these spectacles, people wouldn't try to video and post them. If we are to have mandatory re-selections, could they be organised centrally with proper rules and a little dignity as proper policy please and if we aren't to have mandatory re-selections can we maybe leave MP behaviour and discipline issues to the ruling body? Or is that too much to ask?

Ugly scenes, bad feeling and to what end? Joan Ryan is still a Labour MP as far as I can tell so what exactly has been achieved?

Conservative GAIN Inverkeithing & Dalgety Bay (Fife) from Labour.

The thing is I'm not a natural Corbyn supporter, but as time goes on and I see the constant attacks and misrepresentation I become more and more loyal to him.

Under the current arrangements, money lent to students for tuition fees and living costs does not show up as a negative in the public finances.

As the scale of student borrowing has grown, it has become an increasingly awkward omission - with hard-hitting cross-party reports from MPs and peers saying it was stopping proper scrutiny of student finance.

Outstanding student loan debts are £118bn and rising - but when it comes to the public finances and the deficit, the cost of student loans is invisible.

In terms of the government's reporting of its finances, the cost is kicked down the road and won't appear until debts begin to be written off after 30 years.

Though virtually unchanged share of first prefs for the Tories.

Barnier explains that currently customs controls are our (the whole EU) way of maintaining regulatory controls.

In the absence of an alternative means of regulation, the EU can't let go of responsibility for customs.

Boris Johnson and Marina Wheeler announce divorce

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ce-divorce

Luke Harding likes writing books about things that he wasn’t really involved in and doesn’t really understand. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, that covers pretty much everything. His book about Snowden, for example, was beautifully taken down by Julian Assange – a person who was actually there.

Isn't it startling what does and doesn't make it onto headlines or other broadcasts? That's why I've posted the link. I'm startled by what does and doesn't get attention. I knew Johnson had been married; I'd didn't know if he was currently because I didn't care enough to find out. Apparently, they've been married 25 years.

I found this to be an amusing read:

https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/06/skripal-case-luke-hardings-latest-work-of-fiction/

HindleA it wasn't intentional but the Muslim fostering thing could hardly make your point more strongly.

Essentially, complete fabrication from the Times.

May urged to ignore 'Three Stooges' in Brexit negotiations

Don’t be misled by Johnson, Rees-Mogg and Farage, warns Irish EU commissioner

An EU commissioner [Phil Hogan] has likened Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage to the “Three Stooges” and issued a stern warning to Theresa May that there would be no Brexit deal next March if she insisted on sticking to her Chequers proposal.

He said Brussels would not allow the bloc to be damaged just to save the UK “from its own silliness” and reiterated the EU position that the four freedoms forming the bedrock of the union were not negotiable. He said the only room for a special deal on deviating from the four freedoms would be in relation to Northern Ireland.

Hogan urged May not to let the Brexiters and others wreck the offer for Northern Ireland. “For an agreement to take place, the issue [of the Irish border] needs to be, as Michel Barnier said, de-dramatised. The invisible border is essential for peace – don’t listen to the Three Stooges, they don’t know the first thing about it. (Guardian)

Decades ago the BBC did a.programme about the RAF station my dad worked at presented by Raymond Baxter,it was strewn with basic errors,alerted at an early age to check for yourself.

As ever be your own media.It's our choice what to delve into or ignore.

Look for what is not said as much as is.