BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 07:29 AM

Keep it TO yourself!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 07:30 AM

Once the baseless accusations have been exposed and shown to be what they are you next resort to thread drift and deflection which finally lapses into inane waffle .......

Well done Shaw, proved my point beautifully.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 07:37 AM

I know NOthing. I come from Barcelona...

🎶Dum di dum di dum di dum, dum di dum di dum dum...🎶🎶

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 07:39 AM

After all the inane waffle in this thread, I get accused of inane waffle when I mention my beautiful cheese and guacamole. Hey, proper irony! Wibble!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 08:10 AM

"You are behaving as though you have some ownership rights"
And you, with your ill mannered hit-'n-run interbventions which bring nothing but inn brought up insults, are behaving like the troll that you are
You offer nothing else
Why are ignorant people like yourself invariably stupid?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 08:13 AM

The Shami Chakrabarti Legacy

Mr Watson [Deputy Leader of the Labour Party] said: "I find it incomprehensible that our elected lay members on the disciplinary panel found Ken Livingstone guilty of such serious charges, and then concluded that he can remain a member of the Labour Party.

"When I read the words of Chief Rabbi Mirvis, who says that 'the Labour Party has failed the Jewish community, it has failed its members and it has failed all those who believe in zero tolerance of anti-Semitism', I can't disagree with him. I wish I could, but I can't.

"I am ashamed that we have allowed Mr Livingstone to cause such distress. It isn't just Jewish people who feel disgusted and offended by what Mr Livingstone said and by the way he has conducted himself over this matter, and it isn't just Jewish Labour members who feel ashamed of any indulgence of his views anywhere in the Labour Party. This shames us all, and I'm deeply saddened by it.

The problem that Shaw, Gnome, Carroll said did not exist - Quite naturally the more rational, logical and reasonable among us will accept that the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party knows more about what is happening in the Party that he is Deputy Leader of than Shaw, Gnome and Carroll.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 08:43 AM

The problem that Shaw, Gnome, Carroll said did not exist

I have never said it does not exist and suggest, as your mate does, that if you want to make these accusations you back them up with evidence.

Over to you...

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:10 AM

"Mr Watson"
Crooked politician forced to resign as cabinet minister for expenses fiddles who is a chairman of Friends of Israel" (do you mean?
Chief Rabbi Mirvis
"As Chief Rabbi of Ireland and before the opening of an Israeli Embassy in Ireland, he represented Israel's interests at government level and in the media. In 1999, he led a group of British rabbis on a solidarity trip to Israel. Since 1997, he has hosted the annual Bnei Akiva Yom Ha'atzmaut service at Finchley synagogue. Regarding the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, while deploring the loss of life in Gaza, Mirvis defended Israel's right to protect itself from Hamas rocket attacks, adding that the conflict was used as a cover to voice anti-Semitic sentiment."
The Israel - BDS connection that Terribus, Keith and Bobad said did not exist
The problesm still does not exist until someone disentangles these accusations from the Israeli BDS campaign and actually show us exactly what these charges consist of.
You crowd can drag in every quote in the world but until you put a face to these accusations they remain only accusations directly traceable back to the Israeli regime
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:21 AM

Incidentally
I know very little of the Haavara Agreement that Livingston bases his opinions of, but there is oceans of evidence that the wartime Zionists did co-operate with the Nazis
Instaed of wildly throwing unqualified accusations about, why not debate what he actually said?
My respect and regard for the Jewish people does not include their political organisations any more than my respect for Christians does
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:39 AM

Who said it didn't exist? Not me! Yah boo sucks, baseless accusation!

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--that's the Sunday morning omnibus version if you're still in bed...

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Iains
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:39 AM

The pack must be losing it again. They are resorting to the usual insults. Funny how anyone who has a different take on events is invariably called stupid. Obviously there is no substance to their accusations. They are rather sad really.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:43 AM

"Coooeeee! Bono!"

(That's Bono's mum trying to get him to come in for tea)

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:44 AM

Livingstone would have us believe that these complaints are really a devious attempt to silence criticism of Israel. In reality, none of the comments outlined here have anything to do with normal political criticism of Israeli policies. Instead, they are part of an obsessive hatred of Israel, detached from reality and ever more inventive in its slanders, that both reflects and fuels contemporary anti-Semitism.

The British left is not anti-Semitic per se, but it is increasingly becoming a place where a certain type of anti-Semite feels more comfortable than an average British Jew.

None of this is new. CST and others have warned for years that anti-Semitic attitudes are allowed to pass unchecked and unchallenged in anti-Israel circles, and have become normalized and widespread as a result. This is the source of the Labour Party's anti-Semitism problem, which the party is failing to tackle effectively. It will continue to be a problem in the anti-Israel movement for as long as leaders and activists are willing to share platforms, hold conferences and organize petitions for people who express such appalling views.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.781684

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:45 AM

"Coo! Eeee, Bono!"

(Yorkshire lass admiring Bono's pecs)

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:49 AM

Well, Ken wasn't expressing an appalling view. He was stating a fact! Got any more unbiased sources that you want to post then say absolutely nothing about? 😂

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Iains
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:50 AM

Been overdosing on the supermarket vino again shaw?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:52 AM

"Coo! e-Bono!"

(Expression of surprise upon finding Bono in cyberspace)

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 09:56 AM

Bad form online to accuse anyone of being alcoholic. Or mentally ill. Baseless accusations. Bill'll explain that to you.


Hey, whaddam I like! I just invented a word with quadruple 'l' in it!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 10:08 AM

They are resorting to the usual insults. Funny how anyone who has a different take on events is invariably called stupid. Obviously there is no substance to their accusations.

What insults are those Iains? Which accusations in particular have no substance? The one where I was accused of denying that there was any antisemitism in the Labour party maybe? Maybe the combined insult and accusation that I am immoral? We need to know these things!

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 10:47 AM

Shaw: Well, Ken wasn't expressing an appalling view. He was stating a fact!

Here are the "facts" Livingstone was stating in the linked piece. I don't know anyone who would deny that they are anti-Semitic (well, not anyone I would want to associate with anyway)

It wasn't enough that Livingstone, a year ago, had claimed that Hitler "was supporting Zionism" in the 1930s. He dug this hole deeper than anyone thought possible by claiming, on the threshold of his own disciplinary hearing, that in the 1930s "The SS set up training camps" to prepare German Jews for life in Palestine and Nazi Germany sold weapons "to the underground Jewish army" as part of "real collaboration" that continued up to the start of World War Two.

Needless to say, neither of these particular claims are true, and his other examples of supposed collaboration between the Nazi authorities and the Zionist movement are either completely baseless or such distortions of history as to be fundamentally misleading. But that's not the point.

Livingstone's claims go well beyond the lazy moral equations of Israel with Nazi Germany that have become ubiquitous in anti-Israel circles. They even exceed the claims of ideological kinship between Zionism and Nazism that Trotskyists like Lenni Brenner (who Livingstone cites as a key influence) have worked up for decades.

Livingstone's latest claims have more in common with Holocaust denial than with Holocaust equivalency, because to believe that on the eve of the Holocaust, the SS – the most anti-Semitic organization in modern history, dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and to the extermination of the Jewish people – provided weapons and training to the Zionist movement requires a complete suspension of reality. It is false history for a political purpose.

By this way of thinking, either the SS was not as anti-Semitic as we think; or the Jewish national movement was so morally depraved and wicked that it would connive in the destruction of its own people. Given that Livingstone has called the Holocaust "the greatest racist crime of the 20th century," it is presumably the latter conclusion that he wants people to draw.

That Livingstone can repeatedly say these things and remain in the Labour Party makes it impossible to still see it as a party that consistently opposes anti-Semitism in all its forms, as Jeremy Corbyn insists. The two are not compatible.

There is not a single serious historian of the Holocaust or of Nazi Germany who agrees with Livingstone's interpretation of history, but his comments have been applauded by Nick Griffin, former leader of the British National Party, and by Gilad Atzmon, who calls himself a "proud self-hating Jew" and is generally shunned by many pro-Palestinian activists because of his record of anti-Semitic statements. It may not be a coincidence that both Griffin and Atzmon have indulged in Holocaust denial in their own past.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 11:11 AM

"I don't know anyone who would deny that they are anti-Semitic "
Yours and Israel's overuse of the term has made it completely meaningless
Livingstone was quoting something that is stated by whole sections of Jews, including orthodox ones like 'The True Torah
' which has been virtually censcored out of existence by Wiki
I haven' read '51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis.', but I know the author not to be an antisemite and afre seeing to and people like yo perform, I will make a point of doing so - argument by name-calling always makes me supicios that people have something to hide
"Been overdosing on the supermarket vino again shaw?"
As does trolls emerging from under their bridge, then sprinting away
You are an arrogant and cowardly twat - write it down and remember it
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 11:36 AM

Yours and Israel's overuse of the term has made it completely meaningless

Never overused - always used in compliance with the commonly accepted definition.

If it's overused to you maybe you should reconsider your anti-Semitic comments.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 11:44 AM

"Commonly-accepted?" Weeeeee-zel words! Not anyone you'd want to associate with? Well stop associating with me then!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 12:40 PM

Not anyone you'd want to associate with? Well stop associating with me then!

I take it that means you don't consider his comments to be anti-Semitic. If so you are in good company with the likes of Nick Griffin and Gilad Atzmon.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 12:45 PM

From what I understand Keith does not consider it antisemitic to state facts either. Bit of a poser that one init poos?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 12:59 PM

"Never overused"
Yeas it is Bobad, especially by you
You call me a "Jew hater" yet you have never been able to produce on attack I have made on the Jewish people, despite the offer of a money donation to a charity of choice - not once.
Your friend Keith claims that Jews in Parliament refuse to describe Labour's antisemitism because of their love of the party - an antisemitic 'Jewish pact of silence' - you refuse even to comment, which makes you a hypocrite.
Israeli public figures, including the justice minister, have stated publicly that to criticise Israel is antisemitic - they associate Israeli war crimes with being Jewish - that is antisemitic by definition and, in my opinion, is the only possible explanation of the rise in antisemitism in the world today - if Israel ban describe its actions in Gaza as "Jewish" why can't anybody.
You don't respond to my comments on Livingstone and I doubt if you will, which makes me suspect that 'Fifty One Documents' has something substantial to say
You are a liar, and a coward Bobad - you don't have the balls to stand beside what you say
Your use of sites like 'White Supremist' and 'Muslim Watch' and your disparagging both Muslims and Irish (you called them antisemitic and refused to provide proof and refuse) makes me believe your views are not unlike those that sent six million Jews to their deaths
All in all, you are a ******* disgrace
Jim Carroll
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Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 01:07 PM

"Commonly-accepted"......Exactly!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 01:50 PM

You really are going to maintain your spinelessness by not responding to my offer or refusing to criticise Keith's antisemitism - a hypocrite a coward and a liar
Sounds like something out of The Wizard of Oz
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 02:03 PM

In the eyes of your government and its police force this post of yours is anti-Semitic. It marks you as an anti-Semite. You don't get to invent your own definitions and laws - that's not the way things work in society. Make your donation now and I expect to see a copy of the receipt.


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[PM] Jim Carroll         BS: Palestine (657* d)         RE: BS: Palestine         23 Oct 11

I have claimed that there are comparisons ("echoes" is the word I used) to be drawn between the behaviour of the Nazis towards the Jews, and that of the Israelis towards the Palestinians

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 02:09 PM

Well I'm in good company with Churchill too in that he wanted to defeat the Nazis but I still hated the bastard.

"Commonly-accepted." Have you done a survey then? Got numbers for us? Or are we only counting those decent democracies of Keith's? Like the UK for example, that decent democracy that sells arms to and trains the Saudi forces so that they can cause thousands of children to starve in Yemen? Got a list of the decent democracies who have adopted your "definition" who do deals with a country that publicly beheads 300 people a year? These things get a bit blurry when you dig, don't they? So who's "commonly accepted" it then?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 02:29 PM

Dave, you did not deny that Labour anti-Semitism exists, but you claimed it was no worse a problem than for other parties.
It clearly is.

Jim,
The Israel - BDS connection that Terribus, Keith and Bobad said did not exist

It does not, which is why you have no evidence for your ludicrous claim.

Dave again,

From what I understand Keith does not consider it antisemitic to state facts either. Bit of a poser that one init poos?

There is nothing wrong with stating facts, but KL tried to use those facts as a defence for Naz Shah's anti-Semitic comments. That is the issue.

Jim again,

Crooked politician forced to resign as cabinet minister for expenses fiddles who is a chairman of Friends of Israel" (do you mean?

Yes, the one elected to his post by the membership.
One of many (most?) politicians who fiddled expenses at that time.
What is your problem with Labour Friends of Israel?

Steve,

Well, Ken wasn't expressing an appalling view. He was stating a fact!
That would be OK but he tried to use those facts to defend Naz Shah's anti-Semitic statements.

Jim,
Yours and Israel's overuse of the term has made it completely meaningless

Not true. It is now defined in law.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 02:58 PM

Facts and figures for it being worse in the Labour party than anywhere else please Keith.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 03:13 PM

"Yes, the one elected to his post by the membership.
One of many (most?) politicians who fiddled expenses at that time.
What is your problem with Labour Friends of Israel?"
Doesn't alter the fact that he is a crook and he works for Israel
What's your point?
"It does not, which is why you have no evidence for your ludicrous claim."
These people operate in secret but is chairman of Friends of Israel, has announced his opposition to BDS and each time accusations of antisemitism have been he Watson coincided with him returning from Israel in that capacity
You have been given the dates.
Too much of a coincidence for all but those it doesn't suit
"It does not, which is why you have no evidence for your ludicrous claim."
Yes it does - prove the coincidences are coincidences

Tom Watson sings 'Am Yisrael Chai'
Watson begins singing to his audience while delivering a speech to Labour Friends of Israel in which he repudiates anti-Semitism, attacks moral bankruptcy of BDS Movement.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 03:23 PM

DOESN@T COME CLEARER THAN THIS
"Not true. It is now defined in law."
And Israel and Bobad choose to ignore that Law by describing criticism of Isreal Antisemitic - so have you
You can't have a valid law if the signatories choose to ignore it
"n the eyes of your government and its police force this post of yours is anti-Semitic. "
I am no longer living in Brtain and am not subject to their laws while I live elsewhere
As I said
"You can't have a valid law if the signatories choose to ignore it"
Ad I repeat "I have never at any time in my life attacked the Jewish People
Your filty and cowardly lie says I have - yo are a cowarddly and dishonest scumbag
And still you accept Keith's antisemitsm - my ideal Jewish hero is Dov Landau, who is yours - Adolpf Eichmann
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 04:35 PM

There is no such thing as Labour antisemitism. There are no brands of antisemitism. There is antisemitism, which means hating Jews because they are Jews. I'm glad you accept that Ken was dealing in facts. Here's another fact for you. Naz Shah didn't say anything antisemitic. What a shame she saw the need to save her skin by admitting to something she didn't do. Isn't it amazing that you cling on to one statement from a woman you revile as if she's somehow saintly just for saying that one thing. Forget the NEC. Forget the Labour hierarchy. I'm a Labour Party member and I'm the first to admit that the NEC and hierarchy are dysfunctional. Just think for yourself and examine what she actually said. You never do that, Keith, and you're not going to do it now. You're going to tell me that you're right because of what someone else thinks, never what Keith thinks. You're hopeless.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 05:15 PM

There is antisemitism, which means hating Jews because they are Jews.


As adopted by 31 of the world's countries including the Government of the UK, the UK police forces and the UK Labour Party:

Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

- Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.

- Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.

- Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.

- Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).

- Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.

- Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

- Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

- Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

- Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing
Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

- Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

- Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 05:48 PM

So "commonly accepted" means accepted by 31 countries out of nearly 200. Can you improve on that number? 😂 Thing is, you keep on chuntering out this "definition." It's getting a bit boring and it's very forced. Whats wrong with saying that antisemitism is hating Jews because they're Jews? Clear, simple, unarguable, nothing to do with states or regimes. Can you argue with that? Give it a whirl!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 07:47 PM

"Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel."
That's what I said Bobad - every time to screech "Jew hater" or "antisemite" whenever somebody criticises Israel, that's what you are.
As Israel has now made this a permanent response to their war crimes - they are an antisemitic state
I don't for one minute believe you will respond to this, but that's what you do and it's what defines what you are.
Think on't
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 08:00 PM

Christ, Jim. You are asking a man to think who has never shown the slightest evidence that he is equipped to do such a thing!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 10:37 PM

Better than asking a liar Shaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 03:32 AM

"Better than asking a liar Shaw."
Why don't you start behaving like an adult Teribus?
Your strutting used to at least provide some entertainment - now you have joined the happy band of trolls who just insult
Is being asked to justify your arguments really that difficult?
How the mindless have fallen
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 03:50 AM

Dave,
Facts and figures for it being worse in the Labour party than anywhere else please Keith.

Ha ha ha ha!
You don't follow the news much Dave.
No other party has been riven by complaints from within about intolerance of women, gays and Jews.
The Indy has not run headlines about members of other parties tearing up their membership cards.
No other party has had to suspend dozens for alleged anti-Semitism.
Those dozens and everything else are your "facts and figures" Dave.

Steve,
Naz Shah didn't say anything antisemitic.

According to your view of anti-Semitism maybe.
You have proved yourself incapable of recognising the real thing.
The Labour NEC recognised it for what it was, and Shah herself admitted it was anti-Semitic and that it stemmed from her ignorance of history.
Perhaps ignorance is your problem too.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 03:54 AM

Steve,
So "commonly accepted" means accepted by 31 countries out of nearly 200.

Yes, it is just the decent and tolerant democracies.
The rest of the 200 are the nastiest regimes on Earth. Your friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 04:03 AM

Huff Post article yesterday by Yvette Cooper , Labour MP for Normanton, Castleford and Pontefract, and chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee
Headline,
"Saying Anti-Semitism Has No Place In Labour Is Not Enough - We Have To Stand Up And Make It True"

Opening para.,
"Last night's decision by Labour's NCC disciplinary panel was utterly wrong. It isn't enough for the Labour Party to say the words "zero tolerance of anti-Semitism" we have to put them into practice. Yesterday the party's institutions failed to do so. For a party with such a long, proud history of fighting against racism, for equality and for what is right - this is a dark moment. But it is a moment we must not let just pass."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/yvette-cooper/ken-livingstone_b_15827362.html

"Facts and figures" Dave!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 04:35 AM

Yvette Cooper
"She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions."
After Labour left government in May 2010, Cooper and her husband Ed Balls were both mentioned in the press as a potential leadership candidates when Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party.
Before Balls announced his candidacy, he offered to stand aside if Cooper wanted to stand, but Cooper declined for the sake of their children, stating that it would not be the right time for her
In 2015, she was nominated as one of four candidates for Labour leader following the party's defeat in the 2015 general election and the resignation of Ed Miliband
Cooper came in third place,"
There you have it Keith - a wannabe but faieled Labour leader and opponent to Corbyn.
Very much a part of the Old Guard and an opponent of change
Unproven and undefined antisemitism is as good a ladder to the top of the heap as anything else
Let's see if she breaks the silence and actually discusses the antisemitism instead of using it as a way to the stars
More shite about decent democracies that sell arms to despots I see
Mindless crap Keith
If they didn't things that Israel weren't true they would be outraged at such an appalling accusation throughout the world and stand up for them - or are they too "decent" to stand up for a nation that is being vilified unfairly?
Your stonewalling is showing again
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 04:49 AM

Those dozens and everything else are your "facts and figures" Dave.

So, no facts and figures at all then, Keith, just newspaper articles showing that Labour are still the "party with such a long, proud history of fighting against racism, for equality and for what is right". I linked a survey about antisemitism once that showed the highest figures were amongst UKIP members but you dismissed that even though it was based on actual figures rather than assumptions. Can you link me with anything to show the percentage of antisemites by political party? No? Thought not. Until you can prove that Labour suffers from antisemitism more than anyone else and is in fact the only party that has the guts to do anything about it you will excuse me if I totally ignore you.

Now, off to walk up to the towers with my youngest grandson shortly. The sun is shining but there is a bit of morning chill in the air. Perfect day for it. I shall report back later.

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 05:20 AM

Yvette Cooper, as well as being one of the right-wing Labour cabal who managed to hand power to Cameron twice and which is dedicated to undermining Jeremy Corbyn at every opportunity, is a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel. I note that neither she nor the Labour Party have dared to utter the words "Ken Livingstone is an antisemite." Nor dare they say that "Hitler supported Zionism" is an antisemitic remark. Why won't they say these things? Because Ken is as un-antisemitic as it's possible to be, that's why. He visited Israel and forged links with left-wing groups there. As mayor of London he regularly met with the city's Jewish groups and he introduced public Hanukkah celebrations in Trafalgar Square in 2005. He gave unstinting support to minority ethnic groups and campaigned for racial equality and equal rights for LGBT Londoners. He did this in the teeth of often racist or homophobic derision from the Tories and the media, branded "loony left," remember? He did as much as anyone to change attitudes to minorities. You don't do all that if you're antisemitic. On two or three occasions he's made undiplomatic remarks that have got him into trouble, but then he has had a hawkish right-wing media on his back for decades. Not a single antisemitism accusation against him has stuck. You are a hypocrite for singling out a man who has done a damn sight more to help ethnic minorities in this country, including Jews, than anyone in the shoddy party that that you support. I include Blairites in that as well. Why not. They're just as bad.

Now use your brain for once and tell me which part of "Hitler supported Zionism" is antisemitic, i.e., attacking Jews because they are Jews. Let's see if you can manage, for once, to answer without telling me what someone else thinks. I'm not exactly holding my breath.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 05:26 AM

Don't ask Keith for facts and figures, Dave. After all, he's proved to us what a bunch of slave-driving bastards travellers are in general by highlighting almost three court cases against them in about four years! 😂

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 05:35 AM

Steve: "So 'commonly accepted' means accepted by 31 countries out of nearly 200."

Keith: "Yes, it is just the decent and tolerant democracies.
The rest of the 200 are the nastiest regimes on Earth. Your friends."

So in order to become a decent democracy all you have to do is sign up to Keith's antisemitism definition. Don't worry about fixing corruption, rigging elections or repressing your own minorities. Sign on this line and you'll become decent! Do you realise how idiotic your comment looks, Keith?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: akenaton
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 06:06 AM

"Labour are still the "party with such a long, proud history of fighting against racism, for equality and for what is right".

What a ridiculous statement!......Where have you been for the last forty years? Voting for Blair and lapping up the kudos of victory in three elections no doubt.

All that Labour ever stood for is long gone, look at the rump of the Parliamentary Party, most of them pro EU with their snouts just itching for the money trough. The most corrupt and undemocratic shower we will ever see, "liberals" to a man (and woman), they disgust me.

Corbyn doesn't yet have a party to lead, he is leader in name only of a gang of self serving dissidents ready to knife him at the first opportunity......Mr Corbyn has a very weak movement of socialists which will never gain electoral power in the near future...I don't think Mr Corby will live to see a real socialist government, but it will come by necessity some day....It wont be pretty or much fun, but by that time it will be a matter of survival.