General British politics discussion thread

he's wasting his time meeting with the met commissioner, he's not going to get any sense out of that chap.
20 times the failure of the last one and she should never have got the job really.

What were they alleged to have posted?

someone who straps home made explosives to their chest and detonates them on a tube train could probably be argued to have a mental illness, but that is irrelevant.
the police declared it a terrorist incident as it gives them more power to search premises linked to the individual so that they can easily ascertain if this is a lone wolf attack, or if there is someone coordinating it and there is likely to be further attacks.
once that has been done, then it is pretty irrelevant as the charge for attempted murder is the same if it is a terror attack or someone with mental illness running down the street stabbing random people.

Could probably say the same about Badenoch and Starmer.

The fact that terrorism seems to have been the correct call in no way excuses the irresponsible behaviour of politicians jumping the gun and releasing statements like that before the police.

We have seen those same politicians and their supporters chastise this exact behaviour when it suits them.

That doesn't make the entire party a "party of poison" though, does it.

The Daily Mail did.

Then what's your bloody point?

Podge replied to a post pointing out a Daily Mail headline stating that the Greens are a "Party of Poison", stating that "Two Green candidates have been arrested for antisemitism. Another had a fake Anne Frank account where she engaged in antisemitism. Yes another has just surfaced who used the phrase "Jewish cockroaches". The latter two are still candidates."

That looks like tacit support for what the Mail is trying to paint the Greens as.

If Podge himself wants to qualify his post, I'm all ears.

I'm saying that three people being accused of posting antisemitic content doesn't mean that the entire party is a "Party of poison".

Do you agree with the Daily Mail's portrayal of the Green Party?

Well, the poster in question has been asked directly.

the only bit of racism I can detect is from someone who will jump through all sorts of mental hoops to try and deny what was quite clearly another in an ongoing series of hate crimes against the Jewish community.
For a third time, why are you so keen to downplay this?

no you wouldn’t. You have bent over backwards to deny anti semitism. Now you are claiming that this was effectively a random attack and it was a pure fluke that it was two people dressed in a way that easily identified them as Jewish that were stabbed.

Is it acceptable to conflate the actions of the Israeli regime with Jews?