General British politics discussion thread

This is the kind of zionist nonsense the media continue to platform. Phillips is a hateful bigot but still she has a regular column in the media and this time Sky decides to invite her and allow her to spew her hatred. Would any of the media platform someone who is a halocaust denier? No and that person would rightfully be charged with hate speech and probably go to jail but Phillips is allowed to spew her hatred with impunity.

If Thursday’s elections for Holyrood and the Senedd see the SNP and Plaid Cymru be successful, SNP Stephen Flynn said that the UK Labour leader “is not going to be in office come the end of next week”. Speaking on SkyNews he insisted: “You’re telling me that Keir Starmer saying no [to an Indy referendum] means something – Keir Starmer is not going to be in office come the end of next week.”

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Its no different to the same poster claiming Corbyn had fake concern for the Palestinians and never backing up that statement. Its their go-to insult, it seems.

Listen to Whately's opening gambit there, "These are hate marches calling for the end of Israel".

That's an outright lie.

This is the full interview below. It's littered with absolute junk from her. Apparently antisemitism has become "normalised" at dinner parties. 🙄

Fair play to that interviewer, whoever he is, on challenging her gibberish.

The British establishment are all about protecting Zionism, not about protecting Jewish people. We're hearing hardcore Zionist narratives from the political class and the media. They're trying to 'do a Corbyn' on Polanski and portray him as the biggest anti-Semite / racist in Britain.

What a vile individual she is. I haven't watched the full show, but in these interactions she has added a total of nothing to the debate. That said, her performance demonstrates how strongly Zionism has penetrated British politics, in case it hadn't been already clear to everyone since Stormer and his backers hounded Corbyn out of the Labour leadership and then out of the Labour party.

In this respect, I find the Times cartoon where a crooked-nosed individual kicks a policeman in the head to be a bit of a conundrum.

It has been suggested that the individual represents Polanski, while in reality it was a policeman who kicked the guy being arrested in the head. While the references seem clear, and I'm certainly not up to speed on events in the UK - I can't work out just what spin the cartoon is trying to put on events.

he failed miserably in two elections

Not so. in 2017, Labour under Corbyn increased its vote from 30.4% to 40%, and an increase of 30 seats.

They certainly didn't do well in 2019, but it must be remembered that in the interval Corbyn had the Labour machine (McSweeny and Mandelson etc) working hard to undermine him, on top of which he had the misfortune to be outmanoeuvered by Johnson on the issue of Brexit given Labour's electorate was split on that issue. This meant that whichever side of Brexit Corbyn/Labour came down on they were going to lose votes.

While Starmer's Labour won a huge parliamentary majority, the vagaries of the first past the post system allowed them to do so on half-a-million votes fewer than Labour under Corbyn received in 2019.

I'm really interested to see the results of the local elections on Thursday, to find out whether Stormer has turned the Labour party into a complete dead duck now.

New London showing Lab still 8% ahead of the Greens - I think the last one had them 4% ahead. It's a disastrous drop for them, of course, but still under FPTP they might retain more seats than expected. The poll was taken before the 'Polanski tweet' controversy.

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