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Thick as mince
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To be fair this book is nothing new really and o wouldn't say it's exclusively used by the right. Corbyn, for example, tried to deny and deflect a lot during the whole anti semitism thing and I'm sure there's plenty of other instances.She's using the same playbook as Trump and right wingers: deny, deflect, divide, delay etc
The most useless PM in our history and she has some pretty good company in recent years.
It still rumbles on in Labour with the likes of Owen Jones on the left chucking in his Labour membership over Starmer and Gaza. More the left of the party deflecting and dividing. Starmers a tory, can't be trusted etc, etc. Far left and right same coin different sides.To be fair this book is nothing new really and o wouldn't say it's exclusively used by the right. Corbyn, for example, tried to deny and deflect a lot during the whole anti semitism thing and I'm sure there's plenty of other instances.
What Trump did that was different was invent a completely different reality, separate from anything grounded in fact and passed it off as truth.
Owen Jones is an absolute bell end. Even when I sometimes agree with the general point he's making he does it in such a divisive way. He's like the left wing version of Douglas Murray, who is also a complete utter tool.It still rumbles on in Labour with the likes of Owen Jones on the left chucking in his Labour membership over Starmer and Gaza. More the left of the party deflecting and dividing. Starmers a tory, can't be trusted etc, etc. Far left and right same coin different sides.
Big difference is Corbyn wasn't PM.To be fair this book is nothing new really and o wouldn't say it's exclusively used by the right. Corbyn, for example, tried to deny and deflect a lot during the whole anti semitism thing and I'm sure there's plenty of other instances.
And Trump has to have an audience to play to and easily accept it as well.What Trump did that was different was invent a completely different reality, separate from anything grounded in fact and passed it off as truth.
Corbyn wasn't PM but the Labour Party driven by Momentum and the left were stupid enough to think he could be. One of the reason we've been stuck with a Conservative government for so long.Big difference is Corbyn wasn't PM.
And Trump has to have an audience to play to and easily accept it as well.
I think polling here is misleading. Yeah the polls show it's tight but when you look at every election since Trump first took office, Democrats have overperformed and Republicans underperformed every time. Most recently Democrats running on solidly left wing policies and openly in favour of choice when it comes to abortions have been winning and by some margin in places like Alabama. If deep red Alabama can swing to Democrat in a single cycle off the back of abortion, imagine what will happen elsewhere. Polling would indicate all these elections should have been 50/50 but they haven't, Republicans have been getting battered and the big red wave that was predicted by polling in 2022 completely failed to materialise. The tiny majority Republicans have has since been chipped down to just 1 now due to resignations and the fact they have lost every special election that has happened.Corbyn wasn't PM but the Labour Party driven by Momentum and the left were stupid enough to think he could be. One of the reason we've been stuck with a Conservative government for so long.
Trumps audience was 74,222,958. Which is scary enough. I don't buy they are all thick racists, but equally can't understand what he's selling that they've buying either. Yet he's still narrowly ahead in the polls i think.
Corbyn wasn't PM but the Labour Party driven by Momentum and the left were stupid enough to think he could be. One of the reason we've been stuck with a Conservative government for so long.
Trumps audience was 74,222,958. Which is scary enough. I don't buy they are all thick racists, but equally can't understand what he's selling that they've buying either. Yet he's still narrowly ahead in the polls i think.
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Initial story about ‘openly Jewish’ incident not full picture, says ex-senior Met officer
Gideon Falter, the antisemitism campaigner involved, says Dal Babu’s comments go ‘far beyond victim-blaming’www.theguardian.com
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Sky News footage reveals new details of exchange between police and antisemitism campaigner called 'openly Jewish'
The footage gives context to the lengthy and fraught exchanges, with Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley facing calls to resign following the incident.news.sky.com
Is this man being deliberately provocative? I think so.
Is this man being deliberately provocative? I think so.