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The YouGov favourability trackers are just about the only polling where we can compare leaders with their parties on the same basis. The same question is asked in exactly the same form to the same sample whether people have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of CON/LAB/TMay/Corbyn.
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Jonathan Goldstein, of the Jewish Leadership Council, said Mr Corbyn "engages in conversation until you ask him to do something".
Mr Goldstein told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "When you ask him to do something he has this habit of staring and just shrugging."
https://twitter.com/wallaceme/status/989072866128945153
Probably until the next time he starts promising the moon on a stick again, sadly.
https://twitter.com/GibsonPierceUK/status/988032974854807552
Jezzas limiting factor in government would be his organisational incompetence, he simply would not get that much done.
Using everything I learnt studying PPE, my informed insight is:
"WTF is going on?"
Whilst central government is proposing to spend billions on a new Oxford to Cambridge 'Expressway' road (as well as a new Ox/Cam railway line) our local roads are falling apart.
Our local roads will deteriorate even more once the construction traffic for HS2 and a series of other projects reach their peak. Buckinghamshire is worse than a third world country for local roads.
https://www.thejlc.org/members
But would be happy to see the detail of your analysis.
We never had potholes on our road and the verges were mown as necessary.
Then she moved away and things changed
Edit. Commas or brackets. Not both!!!!!!
My understanding is that he is an active extra-parlimentary campaigner, but sees this as a way of advocating democratic change.
I heard an elderly Jewish woman yesterday with an east European accent complain that the labour Party had just suspended a Jewish Israeli professor because he spoke out against Zionism.
Thanks to the likes of Guido and his disciples this is what we've been reducd to. It's either malevolence or ignorance and I'm not really sure which
Now as I remember it, you were quite happy to abuse the mother of a dead solider not that many years ago. That is your moral compass, so be it.
I also note that Left wing activists are genuinely suspicious of expulsions and suspensions as a way of maintaining internal party discipline, as they have often been used in the past to force a centrist agenda on the party. Activists are also often skilled barrack room lawyers and adept at spinning out procedures. It is important that the rules and procedures are followed to the letter, if expulsions are not to wind up with M'learned friends.
And Chris Williamson along to add his support to Wadsworth
That Corbyn is being discredited is entirely down to Corbyn.
If he had taken decisive action against anti-semitism in the Labour Party then he could have turned it to his advantage. He chose not to do so.
But comparing Falstaff to some anti-Semitic tossbag makes me feel queasy this close to St George’s day.
PS ‘Twas Henry IV
But where there is smoke there is fire and this issue won't go away because Corbyn hasn't dealt with it. He won't deal with it and it's pretty obvious why, because of the perception that Israel and its actions are intertwined with Judaism as a whole by the hard left. They are clearly anti Israel and anti the Zionism movement (especially the more harder interpretations and beliefs of it) and moderate Jews in this country are bearing the brunt of it even though a lot of them do not support or condone Israel and its actions.
https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/989084432891105281
But there’s an aspect to this which is more interested in damaging Corbyn than tackling anti-Semitism.
The nervous nancy in me worries about “anti-Semitic inflation”. That we risk devaluing real anti-Semitism in our haste to damn the Corbynistas for crimes both cardinal and petty.
One source says:
"Many people do still use “witch” to mean “someone who worships the Devil and/or evil and who engages in gratuitous malevolence.” Present-day Witches generally feel that such a definition of “witch” results merely from Christian politics and propaganda. Pagan Witches regard Satanist witches as Christian heretics and not Pagan at all."
Another source has definitions including both:
- an ugly or unpleasant woman.
- a girl or woman who is bewitchingly attractive
In which case I need to exit, pursued by a bear!
Like cleave.
It's the view that the unfairnesses of the capitalist system are down to the actions of rich individuals who oppress others (rather than any more systematic analysis of economies and how they operate and their interaction with power relations etc). This very easily elides into a very old form of anti-semitic discourse that it is those with money or those good with money who are the oppressive individuals and such people were and are often seen as Jews. This, in summary, is the view of the particular strand of the hard left in which Corbyn has spent all his political life. And it creates a very fertile context in which well-worn anti-semitic memes revive - see, for instance, the infamous mural.
Couple that with an anti-colonial stance and a view that Israel is a colonial implant of the West (ahistorical and totally ignorant of the need for self-determination and self-governance for a people, a cause usually embraced by the left when it applies to others) plus a view that because Jews are white and Western they are somehow not victims and you have all the factors necessary to allow and permit and support the sort of anti-semitic statements we have seen.
Oh - and add in a dollop of moral superiority coupled with the belief that anti-semitism is only a fault of the far right plus a refusal to understand why centuries of persecution and an event as traumatic and evil as the Holocaust would affect how Jews see the world - and it is very easy to see how someone like Corbyn, even if he personally is not anti-semitic, cannot see how his world view is giving succour to anti-semites, ex-Nazis, BNP types and all sorts of people who hate or dislike Jews for all sorts of reasons. He literally cannot or won't see it. And since he cannot - in his heart - really see this, he cannot really see the need for him to do anything effective about it beyond general words and his aides talking about processes.
It is I think a step too far for him to understand that it is his own world view which is part of the problem.
But it is something which some of his supporters do understand, one reason why some of them are so hysterically making it an issue about Jeremy - if you're for the Jews you're against Jeremy - because if this world view is wrong because it leads to anti-semitism, well, what else is it wrong about and, indeed, is it worth anything at all?
How about wicked witch?
And nobody is "hasting" to do anything, this has moved at a snail pace because of Corbyn's failure to act.
If you think that Jews should not occupy Israel that seems to make you anti Zionist.
And being anti Zionist seems to make you anti semitic.
Is this right?
Am I reading the graph right?
A senior DUP MP today warned Theresa May that his party is prepared to bring down the Government rather than see Northern Ireland fracture away from Britain.
Nigel Dodds, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party at Westminster, said his party would enforce its “red line” that Brexit must not lead to a rift between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
EU leaders are pushing for the province to effectively remain in the customs union and single market if the Government fails to come up with a solution to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Mr Dodds said: “If, as a result of the Brexit negotiations for instance, there was to be any suggestion that Northern Ireland would be treated differently in a way, for instance that we were part of a customs union and a single market and the rest of the UK wasn’t ... for us that would be a red line, which we would vote against the Government.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-latest-dup-leader-vows-to-bring-down-theresa-may-if-she-breaks-red-line-on-border-a3823321.html
But in his mind, there are Semites and Semites. There are Palestinians who are good, because he believes they re oppressed, anti-American and powerless, all the good things.. And there are Jewish people ... who are not.
So when push comes to shove, and even before, he'll have a preference. He may not be actively against Jewish people, but he may not be so bothered about them. They're the wrong sort of Semites really.
To which country would those born in Israel be returned?
His fallback mode is a generalised ‘I condemn it’, which seems to me either a cop out, or a failure of leadership.
With Corbyn lots of us have been banging on about Corbyn's anti-Semitism problem since summer 2015 - it was a major reason I and others despise him and think he's always been discredited - because he hung around with and attracts these really awful people whom he never rebuked and often offered encouragement. It, well to put it more broadly, his attachment to the conspiracist far left where this stuff has long festered, is the reason we find him unconscionable in a way that even other leaders on the left of the party wouldn't be. We warned stuff like this would happen in 2015 and of course it has, because people with these views feel endorsed by him and he has continued to do nothing concrete to dissuade them from believing that.
I would suggest it is all quite volatile and the best guidance for elections is that "events" will have a huge impact - neither is in control of their own narrative.
However, it is good to see that TSE has been on a LibDem graph-making course.
Anyway we can both stop winding each other up now