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2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:
Well, one eventually had the whip removed, was suspended and was not put on the selection list to be an MP, so is standing as an independent. The other has been parachuted in to a safe seat.
Sure. But not because of liking the mural, but for refusing to withdraw what he said after the report into AS.
Same as you, they (Labour) can do their infighting and purges and whatever, and it’s no skin off my nose, I’m not a Labour member. It’s grubby and has been going on forever. The double standards are (for me) as I said, kind of factored in to my views for each of the parties. I only posted that first post mentioning the AS, because to that point it seemed to have not been included as part of the reason she was potted and I thought it perhaps should have been.
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1 minute ago, chrisp65 said:
rules can be somewhat flexible, sometimes for liking a mural, and sometimes for declaring yourself a Zionist shitlord.
Neither of those two were binned off for it so they appear to have both got away with it. Both were (rightly) criticised for it by a lot of people, though.
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1 minute ago, chrisp65 said:
Ah, ok, we have differing definitions of extremely anti semitic.
Have the Labour Party used that terminology and cited it as the reason?
Maybe we do. If you say that everyone who holds a different view to you or me or Jon Stewart and voices it, is a lobbyist organised and paid for and (as per the video) manipulating the media into not putting stuff out, that’s kind of not OK.
As for what the Labour Party have done, I heard that it formed part of the collective evidence that binned her off.
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5 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:
Which one was this?
If it was extremely anti semitic, why would they even bother with her liking her friend’s tweet ten years ago?
She liked a tweet that had that video in it that was on here - Jon Stewart and all the Israel shouters and added that those (IRL) people were professionally organised - so basically going with the kind of Rothschild/ Jews “controlling and manipulating” libel type of thing. I’m not on twitter since about 2 years ago so dunno how to find it to embed here.
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1 minute ago, DaoDeMings said:
That's the problem with Westminster politics really is that the 'political rules' often allow and excuse things that most find personally and morally indefensible. There shouldn't be such a gulf. Oh well, what can you do...
Possibly, I’m not sure morally indefensible is quite how I’d phrase it, more morally dubious, or morally cruel. The nature of party politics is by definition kind of tribal. From whipped votes, to collective cabinet responsibility, to individual MPs or candidates promoting or defending stuff they don’t personally agree with, but which the party mechanisms and apparatus has decided is their policy…
Apart from loathing the Tories, I’m not at all party political, in part at least because ultimately they’re all at it, they’re all ruthless and manipulative and have warring factions who hate each other more than their opponents in other parties.
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1 minute ago, DaoDeMings said:
The problem is more that Luke Akehurst, Neil Coyle and others have said or done just as many if not more problematic things than Faiza Shaheen, but they have not been deselected because they politically align with or are loyal to the leadership. The same standards are not being applied equally
There’s clearly a kind of shuffling of the furniture going on for Labour (and similar deckchairs on the Titanic moving for the blue scourge). It happens every election for all the parties. It’s a dirty business. Political leaders are basically bastards like that.
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9 minutes ago, DaoDeMings said:
The Labour Party used this as part of an arguement to deselect which is not legitimate imo.
She also liked an extremely anti semitic tweet.
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Posts removed. Please don't use this thread to discuss which players were injured for which teams. Ta.
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2 hours ago, chrisp65 said:
When they have a politics programme specific to Wales during an election campaign and it excludes Plaid and Greens, but includes Farage, I’d suggest they are acting against their stated mission.
A bit like when they have the serving Labour Health Minister on complaining about the state of the NHS but they don’t have a journalist of sufficient calibre to point out Labour have been in charge of the NHS in Wales for 25 years. Hardly educates or informs the electorate to just nod in gratitude for being granted an interview.
I agree. I was just making a joke about the "Bell end community" who like him.
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2 hours ago, chrisp65 said:
The stated mission of the BBC is:
The BBC Charter has 5 requirements, I’ll list 2 of them:
to provide impartial news
to reflect, represent, and serve the diverse communities of all the UK nations and regions...
The constant promotion of Farage is against their own charter and mission statement.
No it isn’t. They are serving the bell end community when they have him on
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29 minutes ago, magnkarl said:
Ah, my understanding is that they’ll help identify aircraft and incoming missiles for the SAMs to shoot down, no? Or am I mistaken? A flying radar is better for early warning than a stationery ground based one?
The point being that the missiles launched from the ground are only fired if and when the missile launcher and associated tracking system (Radar, optical, IR, whatever) have a lock on the target. The SAMs chances of hitting the target are completely independent of the AEW aircraft. The AEW might detect incoming enemy sooner, or whatever, thus giving defences more warning to ready themselves, but it won’t make the SAMs “even more deadly”.
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12 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:
You are coming from a considered and reasonable point of view looking at the greater truth. You are standing back and considering all the context and all the basic truth.
I’m so dreadfully sorry! I hadn’t quite understood the importance of the situation.
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2 minutes ago, bickster said:
Why are the BBC yet again giving airtime to the owner of a Political Ltd Company who isn't standing in the election during a general election
This, thisity this. Drives me nuts, it’s not just the beeb, either. They can’t stop themselves and they **** should.
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9 minutes ago, bickster said:
Given who he is, where he's been in life etc Is this really a sensible tweet
Yes.
Here’s why. 1 it’s true. 2. He was already succeeding in life when he met his wife. 3. Politicians shouldn’t stop saying stuff that’s true, just because a tweeterer is likely to snark back.
He’s in the situation where anything he says will get smart arse replies. Much of that situation entirely self created. This isn’t a sympathy post, but I find it hard to dig him out for that tweet
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1 hour ago, magnkarl said:
Sweden showing some massive cahones and donating two Saab AEW&C surveillance planes. It'll do the world of good for Ukrainian NATO assets and link into the already powrful radars of Patriot\SAMP-T\NASAMS ++.
When these arrive Ukraine will have capability they've never had.
450km of scanned array in a light aircraft, tasty. SAM batteries in Ukraine will be even more deadly.
They will need trained aircrew. Currently they won’t have any.
The aircraft systems will need to be made fully interoperable with Ukraine’s network. Currently, there’s no indication that it is. Maybe Ukraine has been given datalinks and so on which are compliant with Mil-Stds used by NATO (and Sweden), but this hasn’t been put into the public domain. To an extent the same hurdles apply to F-16s when they arrive, though we know pilots have been undergoing training. For the AEW&C aircraft there are also siggies to train. Then there’s ground crew training…
It’s not going to affect the deadliness of SAM batteries.
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18 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:
People are voting the Tories out, he's almost immaterial, he should be working a very quiet campaign - just let the nutters on the other side keep talking garbage to a nation that already hates them.
This. This has always been the way he needed to go, with the one caveat that he does need to do a little more than "don't scare the horses" as the thing moves on - he does (IMO) now need to have maybe 3 or 4 headline "appeal" items that he can talk about - things that will stop people who think "Labour will win anyway, I'll not bother voting" from staying at home, but get them into the voting stations.
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3 hours ago, Sam-AVFC said:
Now we know this isn't true
How do we know?
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40 minutes ago, mjmooney said:
If only it were true.
The dangerous bit is not something to wish for, and isn't true, but the left wing thing, probably is. I mean what's the field? Sunak, Truss, Bunter, Hammy, May, Brown, Blair, Major, Evil witch.
So other than Gordon Brown, arguably, he will be.
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On 06/05/2024 at 14:32, Stevo985 said:
Why am I in the office?
"I don't know. Why are you in the office?"
"Because it means a lot"
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Yes.