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32 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Blair is absolutely choking to get us all microchipped. He must be on commission.

In the same way that John Reid (remember him ?) pushed ID Cards when he was Home Secretary.  I seem to remember he had some sort of connection to the De La Rue Group which had an interest in the scheme.

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Starmer will not be happy until there’s no socialists left in the Labour Party.  Unfortunately for him he’ll be gone before that happens.

I wonder what lucrative gig(s) he’ll end up with.

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From the Guardian:

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Lawyers for an 82-year-old Jewish woman who was investigated three times in three years by Labour for antisemitism have written to the party demanding that it carry out an independent investigation into what it alleges was a campaign of discrimination against her. They suggest her anti-Zionism was a protected characteristic under the Equality Act.

Labour dropped the latest investigation into Diana Neslen, who regularly attends her local synagogue and keeps a kosher home, after she threatened to sue the party for unlawfully discriminating against her based on her belief in anti-Zionism.

The party was investigating her for tweets she posted about Israel and Zionism. Her lawyers, Bindmans, had said the investigation was unjustified and disproportionate, with the only admissible tweet being one from 2017, in which Neslen said “the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavour and I am an antiracist Jew”.

A new letter sent to Labour by Bindmans says the party’s governance and legal unit (GLU) has “failed/refused to properly investigate and/or address our client’s complaints under the party’s own policies on bullying and harassment”. It continues:

Anti-Zionist (or indeed Zionist) beliefs that are strong enough to justify protection under the EA (Equality Act) 2010 are most likely to be held by those of Jewish or Palestinian ethnicities, given it is those ethnicities that are likely to be primarily affected by such beliefs. Accordingly, harassment based on anti-Zionist beliefs equates to harassment based on ethnicity, and it is therefore submitted that the party has subjected our client to harassment on the basis of ethnicity.

In 2018, Labour, under pressure to act on allegations of antisemitism. adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA’s) definition of the term. The IHRA definition of antisemitism includes as an example: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, eg by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavour.”

Jewish Voice for Labour, of which Neslen is a member, says it knows of 52 Jewish Labour members, two of whom have since died, who have faced or are facing disciplinary charges relating to allegations of antisemitism.

 

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2 hours ago, Thane of Cawdor said:

Jarrow trying to recover some of its radical past by inviting Corbyn to a commemorative event. Maybe Sir Keir was washing his hair on that day.

https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/people/former-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-among-speakers-as-jarrows-rebel-town-festival-returns-for-2022-3686914

 

Sounds like a laugh, Arthur Scargill was the headliner last time. I'd think about going but I'm booked for Stewart Lee in Aberdeen.

^^^bourgeois sell out

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11 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Sounds like a laugh, Arthur Scargill was the headliner last time. I'd think about going but I'm booked for Stewart Lee in Aberdeen.

^^^bourgeois sell out

I'm going to that. It's not the same date. Stewart Lee's on 23rd June.

He called me a c**t last time I saw him.

 

Edit. 22nd and 23rd.

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16 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:

I'm going to that. It's not the same date. Stewart Lee's on 23rd June.

He called me a c**t last time I saw him.

 

Edit. 22nd and 23rd.

Correct, but I can't afford 2 events the same long weekend. Booked for the 23rd so I'll call everyone a c**t just in case it's you.

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Getting our good British boys off the hook for criminal acts, in order to placate poppy fascists? Check!

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Labour says it will vote against Northern Ireland Troubles bill because it equates soldiers with terrorists

In the Commons MPs are debating the second reading of the Northern Ireland Troubles (legacy and reconciliation) bill. The legislation is intended to address the longstanding problem of how to deal with unsolved killings that occurred during the Troubles. Boris Johnson has been under particular pressure from Tory MPs angry about army veterans being investigated in relation to incidents that occurred decades ago.

Peter Kyle, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, said Labour would be voting against the bill because it equated those who served in the armed forces with terrorists. He explained:

My party will be voting against this bill today because of the equivalence that it gives to people who served in the armed forces to those who committed acts of terror.

For the incredibly low threshold, and remembering that 722 service people lost their lives by acts of terror and the people who committed [that] against our armed forces could get immunity from prosecution with the very lowest of possible thresholds, that is what we will be voting against today.

 

 

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46 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:

Clearly Fraz Av

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Been 'gentrified' now supposedly but I've not seen it. 

Was Whinneyhill then Church Street then The Maltings when I got my first place of my own. Don't miss it.

 

ETA: to get it back on topic, all my time living in divit, my SNP vote was wasted because Labour got in. Gordon Brown's constituency.  It was only after I left that it turned. Strangely the only time I've been on the 'winning side' is since I moved to Cults which should be strong Tory.

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