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Thread #159827   Message #3802305
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Jul-16 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Labour List are not the Labour Party. It is an entirely independent organisation. They are no more the Labour Party than AIPAC are Israel. So you can bloody cut that out for a start, you charlatan. Jesus, you are so dishonest. Good job some of us check you out every now and then. You are a very easy man to catch out, and do you know why that is? Because you think we're all so bloody thick that we'll take all your "authoritative" pronouncements on board without demur. Well you can think again.

I started working in multi-ethnic schools in East London in 1973. I can fearlessly assure you that "piccaninny" was a word even then that you would absolutely never use. My wife started work in a junior school in Stepney a year later. I've just checked with her. She was horrified at the suggestion that the word was ever even remotely acceptable even that long ago. It was not. The fact that you think it was marks you out as a racist.

I'm going to ask you again. Name one Labour member who was explicitly found guilty of antisemitism. I want something solid and not some waffly statements you've cherrypicked that are capable of infinite interpretation. And don't give me that sour-grapes "they would say that anyway" crap. The Labour Party have been searingly open and honest in dealing with this in the face of hostile onslaughts from sanctimonious supporters of the Israeli regime in the Tory party, the Labour right and hypocritical bunches of media racists. Which is a damn sight more than can be said about the sleazy organisations that you support, which deal with uncomfortable revelations via a massive spin machine. Christ, they didn't half learn a lot from Blair.