Well it's a good start. He's a lawyer (so absolute professional) with seemingly no skeletons. I at least have hope right now. Tony Blair was in opposition for three years and just went up and up.Can he KEEP IT UP for another 4 years though?
Sadly that's normally a magnet for Tory voting.I am quite fascinated to discover what kind of cognitive leaps people are going to make in the next couple of years as the grim reality of Brexit blows up in their faces. It's already being predicted that the UK will have the worst recession of any developed country in the world after Coronavirus, and possibly the worst since records began.
Elections are every five years. So pretty four and a half years.Well it’s actually 3 years and 11 months. Not long now girls!
The next election has to take place by 2nd May 2024Elections are every five years. So pretty four and a half years.
Oh! Hoisted by their own petard!The next election has to take place by 2nd May 2024
Everyone has pledged to remove the Fixed Term Parliament act so it may have room for manoeuvre still.The next election has to take place by 2nd May 2024
I am quite fascinated to discover what kind of cognitive leaps people are going to make in the next couple of years as the grim reality of Brexit blows up in their faces. It's already being predicted that the UK will have the worst recession of any developed country in the world after Coronavirus, and possibly the worst since records began.
Rebecca Long-Bailey SACKED for sharing anti-semitic conspiracy theory article.
BYE CUNT!
What was the anti-semitic ELEMENT? The interview itself with lovely Maxine Peake seems to make no reference to Jews?
”Systemic racism is a global issue,” she adds. “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.”
It does mention that she was supposed to be in Palestine earlier in the article so maybe the topic was brought up and left out.
Peake campaigned for the Labour Party at the last general election, and was a vocal supporter of Jeremy Corbyn even as many people turned their back on him. “Those people who were normally Labour supporters who felt they couldn’t vote Labour? Well I’m sorry, they voted Tory as far as I’m concerned,” says Peake. “And it breaks my heart, because you know what? I didn’t like Tony Blair, but I still voted Labour because anything’s better than the Tories. There’s a lot of people who should hang their heads in shame. People going, ‘Oh, I can join the Labour Party again because Keir Starmer’s there,’ well shame on you.”
What does she think of the new Labour leader? “You know what, at the end of the day, all I want is the Tories out. I think people will get behind Starmer, won’t they? He’s a more acceptable face of the Labour Party for a lot of people who are not really left wing. But that’s fine. Whatever. As long as the Tories get out, I don’t care anymore. You can’t be sad, you’ve just got to get on and organise, without standing at the rooftops and going, ‘You reap what you sow!’ There were moments when I wanted to scream that,” she adds with a doleful laugh, “but no, we’ve got to keep moving forward.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...keir-starmer-black-lives-matter-a9583206.html
Is this not Labour treading super carefully after the right wing pretended to care about the Jewish community so they had a rod to beat Corbyn with? If he hadn’t sacked her, he’d get just as much stick, just from a different direction.
I have to say that was my initial reaction. It seems like the first shadow cabinet member accused of anything even looking like anti-semitism was going to be sacked, whoever it was, simply to make a point that Starmer is taking it seriously.Is this not Labour treading super carefully after the right wing pretended to care about the Jewish community so they had a rod to beat Corbyn with? If he hadn’t sacked her, he’d get just as much stick, just from a different direction.
Peake bringing up Israel out of nowhere was a bit odd/tone-deaf
It's not tone-deaf at all. Firstly, the article mentions that Peake had just returned from volunteering in Palestine after Corona broke, so obviously this would be in her mind. Secondly, the whole point BLM is trying to highlight after Floyd's death is the SYSTEMIC RACISM ingrained in the US police where the lives of a whole race are weighed differently to those of another race, which is EXACTLY THE SAME ISSUE faced by Palestinians with the Israeli police. It is WELL-DOCUMENTED and NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY that the IDF is training thousands of US policemen in various states, so it's not A STRETCH to suggest that there is a correlation in what they're "teaching".
And yeah, MAXINE PEAKE CANNOT PROVE that the IDF has taught US policemen how to choke prisoners to death (and at the lame-ass journo's "research" of the veracity of the claim - "we approached the IDF and they told us they don't do this, promise!" LOL!) but all the APOLOGISTS fixating on that point instead of admitting the systemic racism on both police bodies tells you all you need to know about how insidious the propaganda of the Israeli government is.
The article doesn't make the connection especially clear. Scroll up, I agreed with @jivafox that maybe something was omitted once I'd read it more closely.
I think she could have been more cautious with her words, considering she spent much of the interview talking about pragmatism. She must know by now that there's a hair-trigger attitude to anyone vaguely associated with the Labour left even mentioning the word Israel. The intentions are good but you're obviously not going to get a charitable public hearing on "the Israelis taught the police how to kill George Floyd".
I fail to understand why she needs to "choose her words" because of potential repercussions on the Labour Party. She's not a politician of the party and has zero to answer to the leadership, especially the current one!