Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th June 2020
Posted: Sat 06 Jun, 2020 7:45 am
Morning all.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/k ... emy-corbyn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Peter Oborne
@OborneTweets
David Hearst and I have just published a column on how lynch mob justice destroyed Jeremy Corbyn:
The killing of Jeremy Corbyn
Corbyn was the victim of a carefully planned and brutally executed political assassination
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Arrogance;five attributes of the Government that even those of us sympathetic to the Government’s plight find unattractive.
Relatively few, you think?AnatolyKasparov wrote:I think that Parris was one of the relatively few right wing hacks who always had Johnson's number tbf.
Yes but Johnson is someone who got matey with the vast majority of them nonetheless (remember that utterly cringey scene with the mugs of tea outside his house?)gilsey wrote:Relatively few, you think?AnatolyKasparov wrote:I think that Parris was one of the relatively few right wing hacks who always had Johnson's number tbf.
Johnson's been around in politics for a while now.
I'd say the vast majority knew who/what he was, they still told us to vote for him, and that it was Corbyn who was unelectable.
Great help, that was.AnatolyKasparov wrote:(pretty sure he voted LibDem at the last GE)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... te-1m-fineSerco wins Covid-19 test-and-trace contract despite £1m fine
Calls for government to cancel £45m deal with outsourcing company over track record of poor performance
Serco, one of the companies that has secured a lucrative government contract for the Covid contact-tracing programme, was fined more than £1m for failures on another government contract just months ago, the Observer has learned.
The revelation has led to campaigners against the privatisation of public services to call for the £45.8m test-and-trace contract to be cancelled.
The junior health minister, Edward Argar, is a former Serco lobbyist. (Observer)
Antisemitism claims have one goal: To stop Jeremy Corbyn winning power
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/a ... ning-power" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Its recent Panorama programme “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” presented 17 former Labour staffers attacking the Corbyn-led party. But the programme-makers failed to identify who these critics were. Many were in fact Israel lobbyists – one was even a former employee of the Israeli embassy in London.
While the show included one person replying to the complaints, it entirely excluded the many Jewish voices in Labour that defend Corbyn. Philo observed that both the BBC and Guardian, two media organisations often seen as offering a counterweight to the right-wing press, had repeatedly failed to address the evidence of whether Labour actually had an antisemitism problem.
“That is a key source of their power - they can impose silence and simply refuse to discuss their own role,” he concluded. Not surprisingly given the current climate, the Bad News book itself came under fire for being antisemitic in questioning the media’s antisemitism narrative. A book launch in Brighton had to be cancelled after a torrent of abuse from Corbyn opponents.
That led me to this.Some of the most prominent and respected names in British Jewry have raised alarm over the Israeli government’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, saying such a move would be an existential threat to Israel.
Among more than 40 signatories of an unprecedented letter to the Israeli ambassador to the UK are Sir Ben Helfgott, one of the best-known Holocaust survivors in Britain; the historians Sir Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore; the former Conservative foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind; the lawyer Anthony Julius; the philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield; the scientist Lord Robert Winston; the former MP Luciana Berger; the Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein; and the author Howard Jacobson.
Their letter to Mark Regev, conveying “concern and alarm” about the pledge by Israel’s new coalition government to extend its territory over swaths of the West Bank, is the latest indication of mounting disquiet among British Jews over the plan.
Board president Marie van der Zyl told an online meeting of Hampstead Synagogue members she believed her organisation “should be a safe and tolerant space where people can put forward their views even if we disagree”.
The Board’s position, she said, is that it is “a matter for the Israelis and the Palestinians'' to negotiate borders in any future settlement agreement.
She added: “We want to stand by Israel. But if you are talking in terms of Mr Netanyahu - we are a non-political organisation.”
“We don't take sides in Israeli politics and we don't take sides in British politics.”
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" cont !""Testing, personal protective equipment, contact tracing: one after another the vital pieces of the machine we need to suppress the Coronavirus are being contracted out to private companies which are then failing. The cost has been the deaths of thousands of people.
The suspicion has long been that the decision to run the COVID-19 response through private companies was part of the market-driven mantra of ‘never waste a crisis’, with corporations so unscrupulous that – even now – they are more focused on profit than lives.
Now a leaked email from the CEO of Serco appears to confirms these suspicions, revealing how he doubted that the ‘test and trace’ scheme the company was contracted to provide would evolve smoothly but he wanted it to “cement the position of the private sector” in the NHS supply chain.
Having been contacted with disturbing stories about the failures of the testing regime, I submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Department of Health and Social Care, seeking more information about the role of private companies in the Coronavirus testing programme.
I learned that testing contracts have gone to a string of corporations with little or no medical expertise: Deloitte, Boots, Serco, G4S, Mitie, Levy and Sodexco. Together, they have appointed more than 5,000 staff overseeing testing at 50 regional test centres. These sites are being managed by one person qualified only as a first-aider. No wonder so many tests are not returning reliable results. "
Including this.frog222 wrote: £1.7Bn and rising ?
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Not only a Serco- but even a PestFix-friendly government, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrelgilsey wrote:Including this.frog222 wrote: £1.7Bn and rising ?
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Would have been nice if she could have identified an obvious racist though.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Nandy says Labour will oppose Tory proposals to scrap Sunday trading laws.
Whilst not unexpected, this must make a pretty good chance that it will be voted down (again)
Nandy was asked if Trump is a racist -AnatolyKasparov wrote:Didn't see all the interview, what is that a reference to?
“I have no idea whether Donald Trymp is a racist or not a racist. What I do know is that in the run-up to the US elections, this is one of the ways that politicians try to activate their base.”
I haven't.PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
Does anyone here know if Alok Sharma has been seen or heard from since his negative test result (other than his "Twitter" appearances)?
For a bit of context, if this seems a bit OTT, people in Bristol have been trying to get it taken down unsuccessfully for years. It belongs in a museum.Black Lives Matters protest: Edward Colston statue pulled down
A rope was used to haul the bronze figure of the slave trader down
On 19 April, the secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, announced the scheme, claiming it would “take the pressure off” parents and schools, and support children without any access to online learning while schools were shut.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... cse-pupils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;When pressed on the question of numbers sent directly to headteachers this weekend, the Department for Education was unable to confirm whether any devices had been delivered.
BUT ...
It stated that, in May, laptops were being delivered “daily” to local authorities, who are responsible for distributing the devices to care leavers and pupils with a social worker, along with disadvantaged year 10 students at maintained secondary schools.
Google quick on the update.gilsey wrote:Then they dumped it in the harbour. Great stuff.
Thank you for more information; I've just been reading about it being taken down. I don't want anyone getting hurt. Is anyone going to get in trouble for doing this today? I'm concerned about that. Are other statues or other public ornaments going to come down? Again, I don't want anyone getting hurt. I hope protest participants are taking care of themselves and others preventing transmission of COVID-19.Willow904 wrote:https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bris ... rd-4201804
For a bit of context, if this seems a bit OTT, people in Bristol have been trying to get it taken down unsuccessfully for years. It belongs in a museum.Black Lives Matters protest: Edward Colston statue pulled down
A rope was used to haul the bronze figure of the slave trader down