alanjjohnstone
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What the Left is thinking. Old fashion entryism with new fancy words
Perhaps worth a read
A useful read
https://libcom.org/blog/brexit-or-not-workers-have-their-own-battles-fight-25032019
“…the whole issue is diverting attention from the dire situation experienced by the working class…”
The private healthcare corps mobilise against Medicare for All – the platform of the more radical nominees
“I live on a very busy roundabout in Birmingham opposite a pub”
A flippant response is that it might be a recipe for your window to be stoved in at closing time.
But as a child of the 70s I recall we all had posters on our walls. Something that is missing now.
Others of earlier generations will note that the Party advertised pictures of Marx and Engels for sale.
One comrade has done his best to produce such things as calendars
But another did this, James
The outgoing French ambassador to the US opinion
“And when the British come for a free-trade agreement, there will be blood on the walls and it will be British blood…”
Media Lens Part 2
Glenn Greenwald:
‘The only 2 times I can remember establishment liberals like @HillaryClinton… uniting with and cheering Trump Admin is when (a) he bombed Syria and (b) they indicted Assange… That says a lot about their values.’In 2015 the Israeli Defense Forces branded itself a “vegan-friendly” army
North America-based animal rights organizations like Mercy for Animals and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have also exalted Israel for its supposed “vegan revolution.” Never mind that Israel’s per capita rate of meat consumption is not only actually one of the highest in the world, according to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data, but is also almost four times that of the Palestinians. Many Palestinians are deprived the privilege of choosing whether to be vegetarian or not, since meat is largely an inaccessible luxury in Palestinian territories economically suffocated by occupation, and where 31.5 percent of households are food-insecure.
PETA recently reprimanded Hamas for reportedly using falcons to carry flammable materials into Israel, stating that “animals claim allegiance to no nation, don’t choose sides, and can only rely on human beings to show them mercy, and it is unacceptable to use them as weapons of war.” The fact that Israeli forces also routinely use animals like attack dogs as “weapons of war” when conducting home raids against Palestinian civilians — a practice opposed by organizations like the Palestinian Animal League — went completely unremarked upon.
I’d let the lawyers fight that one out, ALB.
My feed back was much straight forward from the Leave/Little Englander camp – Screw You, EU.
I know some analysis have shown that it was not outright anti-foreigner xenophobia, but it was there and it was deep.
But when the most economic distressed regions voted Leave it was also a referendum on austerity, and I think I posted once before the Remainers failed to make the link with EU financial assistance and various projects in every city, town and village.
“…But that begs the question by assuming that there is only one interpretation of the leave vote and would be buying into to the extreme Brexshiteers interpretation…”
Isn’t that the only one that really counts in political circles outside of Parliament right now?
The perception from the Right and THEIR reasons for voting Leave, is as we see, is going to be betrayal…And we already know that feeling leads to disillusionment with the democratic process and the invention of scapegoats (eg 1919 Versailles Treaty)
But I already get a sense of a growing apathy from those on the middle ground. How many are turning the TV off when the topic appears despite the headlines the chattering classes make it
If Brexit is going to be economically painful as all the scenarios suggest, it will be the concessions and compromises which will stoke the discontent of the Leavers. May is already being viewed as a traitor by them and an appeaser.
But to link to the latter bit of my comment, it is going to be a little more harder to discern attitudes when Facebook/Twitter is suppressing extremist content. It may well result in what is happening now – the trend by the further right to join UKIP as an outlet of their politics
It was Darren O and VM, lost now in the thousands of replies but if I recall Darren said it was GG’s Enoch Powell moment
Of course GG is only following in the footsteps of Benn and Crowe
But perhaps he does have a point that by ignoring the leave vote, it does open the door to questioning the legitimacy of so-called UK democracy and inviting extremism.
I’m not so sure Facebook’s ban on the right can be justified either…driving it more underground and making them feel the victims, reinforcing their supposed grievance against the globalist liberals and that white genocide will be the next step.
George Galloway in 2014: “I’ll be campaigning to remain in the EU as anyone with any brain cells will be doing”
Fast forward to 2019 – Galloway backs Farage
“Given the nature of Labour’s Euro-fanatic candidates list and the crucial juncture we have reached in the fight for the full implementation of the #Brexit referendum result and for one-time only I will be supporting @Nigel_Farage in next months elections. @TheBrexitPartly”
“A vote for the 5th Column Euro-fanatics in the The EPLP and the PLP would empower the enemy within. The betrayal of #Brexit can be halted in its tracks by a sweeping victory for @TheBrexitPartly I believe that will happen. It may also precipitate the break-up of the Conservatives”
“The greatest recruiting sergeant for actual fascism in Britain would be to allow the Blair-led FBPE crowd to cheat the 17.4 million out of the #Brexit victory as parliament is trying to do in plain sight. Amazing how many people can’t see that.”
“This is a tactical judgement. I’m serious about #Brexit I’m even more serious about democracy. The Conservatives and the Blairite 5th Column have rendered both parties redundant in the European Parliament elections, as my critics will shortly see”
Given the nature of Labour’s Euro-fanatic candidates list and the crucial juncture we have reached in the fight for the full implementation of the #Brexit referendum result and for one-time only I will be supporting @Nigel_Farage in next months elections. @TheBrexitPartly
— George Galloway MP (@georgegalloway) April 17, 2019
I notice a couple of familiar names in the twitter thread
“An individual has a right to buy or not buy what they please. However, if there is an organized movement to economically strangle the state of Israel, that is anti-Semitic… We are going to focus relentlessly on eradicating this false distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.” – Elan Carr, the Trump administration’s newly appointed Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating “Anti-Semitism”
