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It's surely time for Johnson to resign and spend more time with his families.

That expensive education, and he still can't spell "prostituting" correctly.

I think it's the Haredi grouping, which is around 15% of the total, but they are not the only non-Zionists in the Jewish community.

It was Max Hastings, from the torygraph I believe. Hastings recently had this to say about him.

The claim that Corbyn is antisemitic is laughable, and is frequently debunked by reference to his actions over decades. On the point about whether there is a specific problem of antisemitism in the Labour Party, the evidence is that there is less of an issue there, than in other parties and in society more broadly. See for example this:

What is happening is rather that criticism of Israel is being conflated with antisemitism, in an attempt to silence critics of Israel's actions. It's a planned strategy which has been implemented over the last few years.

He shot his load some time ago, defending mass murder and war crimes. As usual, it's about Corbyn's defence of Palestinians, and the way the supporters of the Israeli regime seek to demonise him.

I'd like to think this is a parody, but sadly I suspect isn't. Parts are straight out of the Daily Mail c1975, preserved for posterity for no sound reason. Parts are just wrong, eg attributing the 1974 3 day week to the 1975 government. Doh! This would have failed an O level even in 1976. Do better. If you can.

Listen to yourself, mate.

Sachs is a diehard tory. He is a vehicle for the smear campaign, a tool of the Israeli embassy, a man with no honest position on this issue. And references to "Labour antisemitism" are a clear signal of propaganda, not reasoned discussion, to anyone who has paid more than the most cursory attention to this.

The comments in the thread are more interesting than the ravings of the rabbi. Poor old sod. And not unprecedented. See countless comments by Jonathan Sachs, including on suppoosedly nonpolitical Thought For The Day.

The tactic in the media, this article apart, appears to be to avoid the story, possibly in order not to have to correct previous stories, possibly to comply with "requests" from the spooks. Quite astonishing. Free press my arse.

Yes, it is simply not possible that someone doing this editing did not realise that they were dramatically changing the impression the footage would give of Johnson and how he was received, and that this is a deeply political act, especially during an election campaign. What is astonishing is that even in the "apology" they choose to brazen it out.

Steve roaming the touchline, chewing his face. Just like old times. Ah, the memories...

Steve says he wants to come back and beat us. It's a choux-in.

Not forgetting "Assadist", and "tin foil hat". It's like a conditioned reflex.

It's the talk of an oven-ready deal that's swayed them.

By the government, obviously. Like healthcare, education, roads, police, wars...

NI is not a ringfenced pot, it does not take money in and pay it out according to how much has been paid in. Pensions, health, benefits are paid out of government spending, like everything else. Whether someone has been lucky enough to be employed in a role well enough paid for their NI contributions to "cover" the cost of their pension is irrelevant; it's a social expenditure, not a personal pot. Are you speaking of an employer's pension?

To call it having something you thought you'd be given delayed is rather to understate the issue. People have been given to understand that they would get the pension at 60. Now they won't. 3.8m women are affected. How much they lose depends on things like when they were born, but some lose up to £50k. For some, there may be an option of continuing in employment. For many, there won't. The outcome for many will be hardship and poverty, for a situation not of their making. The justification is that differential pension ages is discriminatory. The decision to deal with that by penalising millions of people who did not create the discrimination is morally unacceptable. People rely on this pension. It's not like a prospective bonus which they now won't get, it's the core income on which most of them will depend. On top of that, they have been told for many years that we pay into the system via NI, and we get back the advertised benefits. The fact that the internal workings of government finances don't quite work that way isn't the point - there is an expectation that has been created, and the breach of this expectation is a breach of a type of contract between rulers and ruled. It is a betrayal of the worst kind.