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Your analysis is spot on. It's sickening to see people who, quite reasonably criticise Israel's illegal land grabs and apartheid approach to Palestinians labelled as anti-Semitic.

Corbyn isn't anti-Semitic and he is correct that the impression given by the press that the LP is riddled with large numbers of antisemites is a politically motivated smear. However, there is a small, hardcore, vocal anti-Semitic minority on the furthest left end of the party who have made life miserable for some Jewish members. Corbyn dithered about dealing with that minority, probably because they were his supporters, and stood back while his senior appointees meddled and fudged investigations into legitimate complaints.
It was perfectly obvious to anyone with half a brain that the LP needed to respond to the recent damning report by saying 'mea culpa' and making a clean break from that period. By quibbling and seeking to minimise his previous (in)actions Jeremy Corbyn has compromised the necessary clean break message and put his own interests ahead of those of the party.

 

Good grief. That’s a terrible appointment.

Labour are shooting themselves in the foot again.

 

As a party Labour are Dave, they're a busted flush. If they don't know what they stand for how the hell does their potential electorate? I said before, and was questioned, that Labour jointly responsible for any mees their supporters percieve us to be in. And I was right. They and they alone have allowed the Tories free reign to do as they wish because their constant infighting and backbiting has led the British public to have no faith in them being in power. And let's face it, if you look at that opposition bench in the house you'd be mad to vote for them, it's worse than City's bench pre January.

 

McDonnell is as filthy and obnoxious as Corbyn and his ilk...

 

Really? A Goverment with no opposition, wholly unaccountable for their actions? Sounds dangerous to me.

 

And that is the problem when you have a weak opposition, no one is calling the government out with a United voice. Even if you support the governing party you should still want an opposition that is capable of doing their job rather than arguing between themself

 

It is about time the Labour Party had a female leader.

So it will be a comfortable win for Sir Keir Starmer then.

 

Wrong Daily has the brown shirt behind her. Anyone who speak ill of Corbyn and Corbyn without a beard will be vilified on social media and hounded round the country by this lot.

Anyone notice how there are no kids sleeping on hospital floors now we are not in the run up to an election?

 

I don't agree at all, I think he's good at holding the Prime Minister to account in the House of Commons, asks poignant questions, and while his brand of politics (as well as his own personal brand, for that matter) took a hammering in the General Election, Corbyn's policies are generally well-meaning if excessively left-leaning for the average Joe.

But really, Corbyn's image is in the toilet due to an ongoing, highly effective smear campaign. A lot of people have told me they 'can't stand' Corbyn (or worse), and the reasons are just Daily Mail headlines or some tosh about the IRA.

Corbyn lost, primarily, due to dithering around Brexit and because his own party was in disarray - but equally, because his campaign against Johnson wasn't anywhere near as fierce as the endless nonsense directed at Corbyn through the tabloids and then through the dimwits on social media that read those tabloids and mindlessly share nonsensical/factually challenged memes.

Again, I do not believe for one second that even a quarter of the people that 'hate' Corbyn actually have a valid reason for doing so. The fact people spoke through gritted teeth and frothed at the mouth at the mention of the word 'socialism' but don't know what it means tells you all you need to know. A soundbyte electorate ready to dislike something the second they're told to. Meanwhile, here we are today, and Corbyn hasn't said a thing wrong about coronavirus or the response to it, at least to my knowledge, and more and more businesses are desperate for a slice of socialism now that they're no longer wrapped head to toe in their bubble wrap of financial decadence and security.

Idiots.

 

Think JB has been got at RT, looks like we could be losing him........

 

That gift that keeps on giving? Never stops. Starmer has his work cut out ridding the party of its past. One day they'll work out how this stuff works.

 

Len McCluskey appears to be standing behind Corbyn , Unite ( the union i'm in) are talking about withdrawing funding from Starmer and the Labour party , this could be the start of the break up , Labour need to cut the shackles with Corbyn - his ideals and supporters + of course Momentum to have any chance of forming a government .

 

They're really struggling to gain traction with their messaging and they're falling into the path of being Utopian idealists again which is always their downfall.

Over the last couple of months they've pushed for

• Longer and higher furlough
• More business support
• Increased wages for NHS staff
• The increase in universal credit to be made permanent

All of them are fine and noble but they don't resonate with people that aren't already dyed in the wool Labour supporters, especially when they bring nothing to the table which offsets these. It doesn't strike people in the centre as being logical.

Even to the point where they were pushing back against an increase in corporation tax - a policy that has actually been at the heart of a lot of their policies for years! Until they can actually bring arguments to the table above and beyond "we want more for everybody!!" then they're just going to flounder regardless of what the Tories do.

 

And don't forget Starmers rant at PM'Q's re the poor people of Yemen 'cos apparently we have cut their aid from us by half...!!
So what, it's a shame but we are not responsible for the welfare of the whole planet, hardly anyone in the UK would give this a second thought...

 

Did anyone see the Labour MP Nadia Whittomes interview on TV today? Wouldn't condem the violence against the police today, do Labour choose these MPs to make them completely unelectable to the general public?

 

Either way it doesn't matter, none of them will have any influence whatsoever on British politics over the next 20 years...