and join the Independent Group.
Sh*t gettin' real :-O
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and join the Independent Group.
Sh*t gettin' real :-O
In fact, it could be argued that what's more interesting are the names that aren't there. These three are all entryist non-Tories. People who (whatever their many faults) actually have some history in the Tory party like Grieve, Boles and Duncan are notable by their absence.
It will make me unhappy as the current focus seems to be almost solely on what an appalling, racist cretin the leader of the opposition is. Hearing this repeated endlessly fills me with joy.
If this were to happen the focus would move towards the polarisation of modern politics etc etc - which would be highly disappointing.
But the mental thing is, no-one is saying Corbyn himself is anti-semitic, merely that he's presiding over a culture of anti-semitism.
Which is rather annoying given that no-one in the history of the world has endorsed, defended, advocated and stood alongside anti-semites more than Jeremy Corbyn,
:nod: It is effectively an admission that no transgression, no past disloyalty or behaviour will exclude you from the Labour Party just so long as you profess undying loyalty to the leadership. That is literally the only thing that counts. :shakehead:
Oddly enough, the most savage hatchet job on him today is actually in The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...low-for-labour
These 11 fearless souls have concluded that if you can't change an organisation from within you have no choice but to leave it.
You can't fault their logic.
George Soros must be throwing suitcases full of wonga at everybody again.
As far as I can tell the three Tories who left are Remainers with a strop on. The 8 who have left Labour have done so because the leader and much of the party leadership are racist bullies who couldn't be trusted to run the country.
Sadly, methinks those two messages are going to get mixed up.
You don't think that the Labour party currently has an issue with anti-semitism? You don't think that Jeremy Corbyn regularly consorts with visious anti-semites and refuses to address the issue in his party? You think that jewish Labour MPs are lying when they talk of the anti-semitic attacks they face from within the party?
Say what we like, (and we do) about Grandpa Semtex, he does engender the most extreme blinkered loyalty amongst his admirers. It's quite remarkable, really. I mean, Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot had some charisma about them. Steptoe just looks like a bewildered homeless person.
Not my own, sadly.
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George Soros is Jewish and has been the subject of a certain amount of anti-semitic abuse.
George Soros - via his foundation - very openly funds globalist projects aimed at promoting open borders, undermining national sovereignty and is on record as having funded anti-Brexit initiatives.
Both of these statements are true, but neither one is relevant to the other. Highlighting the second fact does not make one anti-semitic.
Besides, it is interesting to note that TIG has not declared itself a party and one has to wonder whether that is because political parties are required by law to declare where their funding comes from and loose affiliations of MPs are not.
I must admit that when I was in Budapest a couple of years ago, I saw the anti-Soros posters where he was a puppetmaster and was impressed by the innocent joie de vivre with which they'd decided to employ such a rampantly anti-semitic trope. None of this ambiguity nonsense.