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The Tories might well look at Labour’s current travails over anti-Semitism and sigh with relief. “At least we’re not as bad as that.” They would be wise not to be so complacent.
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None should listen to/nor ever have listened to Gordon Brown
Maybe Russians will just smile at Meeksian hypocrisy. They have had plenty of it.
The eastern Ukraine and the Crimea are all ethnically majority Russian. They belong to Russia. The Crimea was transferred to the Ukraine in 1954 during de-Stalinisation, despite being overwhelmingly Russian.
The Ukraine, as presently conceived by the West, is like Yugoslavia.
The West could not put the house that Tito build back together. It won't be able to hold the Ukraine together.
I have Russian friends (not as you sourly put it, Putin's idiots) who are frightened to travel to the US because of the prevailing Russo-phobia that bigoted people have caused.
Once again, if the American electors mistakenly chose Trump, the blame lies with the American people.
If Remainers don't like it that we voted Leave, the blame lies with the Remain campaign (And what did you do for Remain, other than posture on pb.com?)
The blame doesn't lie with Russia or Russians.
The bigger consequential issue is that the seats which were ours will literally have people from other nations sitting in them after the reallocation of UK places. I'm not sure how that would be resolved!
I have experienced it with my family and friends but we keep getting told white- flight isn't happening.
Another white middle-class idiot without a clue.
Mr. kle4, a London Grand Prix is a ridiculous idea.
Why the fools think endlessly adding city circuits is smart is beyond me. The racing's far worse (ok, Azerbaijan is so badly designed it's comedically amusing) and they're now hiding coverage of fewer good races behind a pay wall. It's dumb.
FPT Amber Rudd, I agree that it is good manners to address people in the way the way they wish to be addressed, but it's also good manners to take a comment in the spirit in which it is meant. Rudd was offering support to Abbottt, not disrespecting her.
Facebook has just removed another such network
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/07/facebook-fake-account-network-spread-hate-speech
The U.K. is on a par with the Russian regime.
There’s an important strand of Brexitism which is has a pretty dark world view.
given some of the things youve called the UK and its inhabitants over the last two years, thats quite amusing
From a narrow PR perspective, it's hard to see why the Tories should be looking to learn from Labour. Labour's PR on the antisemitism issue has been a complete disaster. The Tories meanwhile have largely avoided bad headlines.
An independent investigation into the Tory party is going to find plenty of problems. It will be mistrusted from the start, and any penalties/actions seen through the prism of Remainer vs. Leaver.
https://t.co/4CK3MC0qkE
You are hunchman and I claim my 5 quid
Labour anti-Semitism has become institutionalised because those who run Labour are anti-Semitic. It has been a top down exercise, which has attracted anti-Semites to the party. The real lesson that Labour can teach is do not put racists in charge.
I don't think Mrs May is a racist. But she is undoubtedly a xenophobe. Johnson gives every impression of being a racist. Many other Tories seem to believe the way to get on is to pander to the worst instincts of their party's right-wing members.
It's all a bloody mess.
I do think there is a problem with accusations of racism sometimes being used to close down genuine debate but again that in no way undermines what is being said in this piece.
Remain had 45 years to build a popular consensus behind a great project, supported by every government and parliament since the 1970s and every significant political party at virtually all times (losing and hopeless Labour manifestos in the 1980s excepted). To this day it commands a majority in both houses of Parliament. Remainers seem to have no idea how monumental and cataclysmic its political failure to do so is. The Russians are a diversion from this central issue.
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/word_doc/0019/163018/EPE-election-timetable-standalone.doc
Of course, you'd need some lead time even up to the first dates on there, but it's probably doable - certainly if we got dispensation to poll a month later or something.
My guess is that the government won't have let any formal guidance go out to LAs. But if I was a clued-up returning officer, I might have picked up the phone to the Electoral Commission to chew the cud over what might happen in various scenarios.
Like, who is best placed to judge whether Russians feel uncomfortable travelling in the neo-McCarthyist US ?
Russians or ... err, Dura Ace
Of course the Labour fish is shrinking fast - soon there will only be a rotten head left.
I can't remember Sevenoaks or Tunbridge Wells ever voting Labour though I do think Labour have had local areas of strength in both areas and don't forget the Kent coalfields when they existed.
Second, and more serious point, the 2021 Census will be hugely enlightening - I think as areas of London improve there is a return of white British (especially young) to these areas. The ripples of Stratford's redevelopment have started to reach other parts of Newham and new developments such as Barking Riverside and Bow may encourage more younger aspiring individuals, couples and families to come back to the inner urban areas.
That doesn't mean the residents of the Crimea long for Putin (I never said that). I said that the territory is ethnically overwhelmingly Russian. It joined the Ukraine at the whim of a Soviet era politician.
You lose you 5 quid, because I am not hunchman. (In fact, my partner is also an Odessian).
Once again, my main point is that the responsibility for Trump lies with the AMERICANS. the responsibility for Brexit lies with the BRITISH.
It is racist scapegoating to blame the Russians.
Just 12 months ago a couple of ordinary Russians did a 2 day trip to Salisbury to see the Cathedral spire, and were completely unmolested. I believe there was some difficulty with snow, but not from the local people.
youtube.com/watch?v=_oW0Pa7laAU
The British GP will almost certainly happen at Silverstone. It's in everyone's interest for it to happen, and the sides will eventually come to an agreement. Silverstone is pretty much unique in the F1 calendar for running the event on a purely commercial basis with no government support.
The London GP will be a complete non-starter due to the disruption caused and the evironmental lobby.
Which is of course the last thing that Tory members are wanting to do.
Hence the MPs will do their best to force the choice themselves.
So there was no crash bang wallop slam dunk for the Remain campaign - you would have been pushed to find anyone who didn't acknowledge the EU's failings. But on the whole we did very well out of our membership.
Which leaves you with sovereignty article which, as
#FBPE Anna SoubryDavid Davis correctly identified, we always were.Under the backstop which you are so 100% adamant we must sign and that there is no alternative we lose even that shred of theoretical sovereignty. We won't be able to choose to leave anymore.
This way she avoids having to whip for or against and avoids some drama it also means she doesn’t have to vote.
It does make more sense , it still comes with risks but would seem the least worst option.
Although May has never looked like resigning herself one wonders whether she could stomach the humiliation of being forced to adopt different negotiations around a softer Brexit.
A long shot might be she says she’s going to resign , but a new leader needs time to reset the negotiations so before doing that she asks the EU for a longer extension . The ERG knowing they’ll get a hard Brexiter in charge might accept that .
I don't know why May is a xenophobe, I just regret we have a xenophobe as PM.
And on antisemitism, the campaign against Ed Miliband was pretty awful too
Russia is a multinational state, and the fact that another place might have a majority 'ethnically Russian' population does not mean that it belongs to the Russian state. The same logic could be used to say that Australia is British.
Anyway, am off to give a talk to a law firm for International Women’s Day, what with me being an international woman and all ......
Will check in later.
Her point 2) - establish, publicly, the scale of the problem is a sine qua non.
Someone posting on racism of others living in the whitish part of the country,experience of poor immigration nil.
You couldn't make it up.
So working back from a delayed EU election held at the end of June (Thursday 27th) in time for the elected MEPs to take their seats on 2nd July, publication of notice of election needs to be no later that Wed 22nd May (25 working days back, taking into account the bank holiday on Monday 27th May).
The notice of election cannot be given until the legislation authorising it has been passed, which is going to take 3-4 weeks to go through the various motions even for a rush-job. So we are at the beginning of May already.
I can't see the EU allowing any A50 extention where we move into the election period with any uncertainty about whether or not we will be EU members on 2nd July, it would be chaos for them with half the UK seats already allocated to other countries and the possibility of an incorrectly constituted EU Parliament unable to do anything when they reconvene.
It needs to be either clear that we will be members (a long extention) or a short extension on the basis of the Treaty already being formally ratified and extra time needed to pass resulting legislation. The ratification requires legislation in both the UK and EU Parliaments, the latter being dissolved on 23rd April.
So, if the Treaty isn't ratified by the EU Parliament before it is dissolved, we must definitely take part in the EU elections.
But what on earth does that second sentence mean?
The commonality being that those who are Muslim or Female are treated differently by the prison system, in ways that to a long-term prisoner would be seen as advantageous.
Radicalisation is certainly a potential issue in prisons though, and one that the authorities should monitor closely both before and after release.
Islam is a belief system, and radical Islam is a radical belief system. We draw a distinction between religion and other belief systems like socialism, nationalism, fascism, communism etc but it is a false dichotomy.
I see zero difference between someone converting to radical Islam and someone converting to radical fascism.
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We can unilaterally exit the EU. We can unilaterally exit NATO. We can unilaterally exit the WTO. We can even unilaterally exit the United Nations.
We can't unilaterally exit the backstop. That is not how the world works these days.
What politicians are saying about it and what it means, bear little relation to what’s actually written down in the law.
It's what happens when legislation is made by lobbying consensus-building and there's no official Opposition in the Parliament.
I dare say that if asked, Theresa May would say the Home Secretary is the one in possession of a much fuller data set on the risks we are exposed to by letting Johnny Foreigner live amongst us. She doesn't see much milk of human kindness, yet is expected to dispense it by those whose disposition is always to see the best in people.
Not like we'll see any actual reporting of Article 13 on the news...
Especially interestingly, the one who m I know slightly, who is my age, remarked that her daughter.... apparently in her 50's...... wanted to go back to how it was before..... everything was all right then. A time, of course, which she doesn't remember. My acquaintance is amazed, and somewhat distressed, that her daughter takes that view.
https://twitter.com/adamcooperF1/status/1103964673161023489