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As usual, you seem incapable of any real engagement in the issues raised. Are you actually a member of the Labour party, or Momentum, because you seem to have the thinnest grasp of Labour party politics and how to defend them. Your posting style is that of a bot working in a second language. So what should happen to the Blairite traitors voting against the Tories, Corbyn and McDonnell? And as a loyal cultist, surely you condemn the Blair scums' actions in voting against tax cuts for the rich. Where do you actually stand on the criminal investigation into Corbynist Jew haters? Do you approve of the party's decision not even to inform Luciana Berger of the violent Jew-hating threat made against her? And how's that investigation going into Corbyn's laying a wreath at a memorial plaque to the man who plotted the murders of the Israeli athletes in Munich? Surely Corbyn's not such a cretinous liar that he's made the appalling Daily Mail look to be on the right side of the argument. Right?

A double-hit of bad news for the cult... Firstly, these Blairite sickos voted against Corbyn and McDonnell's party line and opposed tax cuts for the wealthy: Karen Buck, Yvette Cooper, Neil Coyle, Stella Creasy, Mike Gapes Roger Godsiff, Kate Green, Maraget Hodge, Helen Jones, Liz Kendall, David Lammy, Pat McFadden, Ali McGovern, Ian Murray, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Lucy Powell, Emma Reynolds, Gareth Snell, Martin Whitfield. How dare these Red Tories vote against the (...checks notes...) Tories. And a select band of very special Corbynistas are now under police investigation for hate crimes - namely (of course) Jew hating. Under Corbyn, the institutionally racist party is claiming it has rigorous procedures for letting anti-Semites off, so doesn't understand what the police are fussing about.

I see that Arron Banks has been quick to defend himself by indulging in a bit of Jew-hating whataboutery. For context, this is a good snapshot of where we are a conspiracy theory that's retailed by the far-right (Breitbart) to the the far left (the Canary): https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006187984/george-soros-conspiracies-gop.html

Your virtue is duly signalled. The largest single group of counter-protesters that day were ordinary residents of Charlottesville, who were sickened by the Ku Klux Klan rally that preceded the Unite the Right march and wanted to show their disgust. Then there were a thousand or so local religious group members, plus Black Lives Matter, civil rights activists, students and staff from the University of Virginia, local business figures, etc., etc. Why single out in such a sectarian way one of the smallest groups there? It's very odd.

He didn't 'hate' Trump. We know all too well what happens to people he 'hates'. He shoots them at point-blank range with military-grade weaponry. The murderer also seems to subscribe to the QAnon conspiracy theory, an utterly bonkers meme that has Trump at the centre of a battle to rescue children from the paedophile clutches of Democrats/Jews, etc. QAnon is ending the same way the equally repellant, and Trump-endorsed, Pizzagate conspiracy theory did: with shots fired. Only this time, people actually died. But talking of the Jew-killer's attitude towards Trump is also to miss the point. He may have disagreements with him. But Trump and the Jew-killer express their political opinions in exactly the same way: they divide the world between 'globalists' (usually a euphemism for Jews) and 'nationalists'. This is a binary propagated by Steve Bannon while he was Trump's campaign manager. And whatever the opinions of the neo-Nazis about Trump, they find friendly space under the Trump regime. For example, the administration has cut funding to zero for deradicalisation work on neo-Nazis. I doubt that this is entirely unrelated to Trump's finding 'very fine' people among the violent white-supremacists in Charlottesville. People Trump doesn't find 'very fine' now include the political donor Tom Steyer, who switched from Republican to Democrat, and who was the recipient of one of the MAGAbomber's little packages. Steyer, as of yesterday's Trump twitter rant, is a 'stumbling lunatic'. This is on top of his routine calls for his political opponents to be imprisoned - something that his adorting 'base' swoon over. Trump has so thoroughly normalised violent language that we barely notice it any more. And that is extremely dangerous - literally.

How did you forget Utuya in 2011? There's even a movie about it on release right now! Sixty-seven mostly young Norwegian Labour party members shot dead at point-blank range, and a total of 209 injured on the attack at Utuya and the explosion at the government offices of the Stoltenberg, the ruling Labour PM. And, as GM says, Jo Cox, shot and stabbed to death for not being a vile racist, in the midst of the Brexit referendum campaign.

Well done, Mr Army. As a well-known Corbyn supporter on this forum, who never ever points out his rank anti-Semitism, you got me.

Talking of whom... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6323781/Active-shooter-Pittsburgh-synagogue.html No doubt one of Trump's 'good people' - a Bible quoting, guns-blazing, far-right, pure white Jew hater.

When you wake up in the morning and have tried some sort of cure, would you mind having another go at this? It's complete word salad - the sort of thing I'd expect to see plastered on the side of a van. Thanks!

How would this be different to white men targeting brown women in Thailand?

Perhaps Brexit Jihadists can find a way of combining cars and alcohol. I do hope so.

Yep, and a bunch of 'false-flag' fu ckwits have been quick, and desperate, to go one further and pin the blame on the intended victims of the bombs.

Is now a good time for all those German car makers to demand a Brexit deal on Britain's terms? Better be soon, otherwise we'll have to call on thousands of little ships to make grocery runs to supermarkets in Dunkirk.

How odd. I could have sworn when I hoovered this place that I got all the scumbags. But no - missed one.

Good to see that arch Brexiteer James Dyson is putting his money where his mouth is. And is mouth is apparently in the Far East. He's just announced he's building his electric car in Singapore.

This is a very odd post. It's almost as if you didn't read the article. So just to bring you up to speed, the article is largely an interview with Nazir Afzal, the (Pakistani-origin) CPS prosecutor who has led in many of these cases. His job has been very precisely to look after the interests of the victims - so I fail to see how they could have been 'forgotten' by him. And if you read the article he also deals with the largely evidence-free claim that the reason these attacks continued over time was because of political correctness. As much as you want that to be the case, I'm afraid your saying that you're still 'concerned' only reinforces your own prejudices. There are two quite distinct points to be made here. One is to do with the crude numbers, and all the evidence is that these kinds of attacks are overwhelmingly committed by white men. The other one, though is why these Asian men in particular have committed these offences in a number of towns up and down the country. They are referred to often as predominantly Pakistani, but that's being economical with the truth. Seventy-five per cent of ALL Pakistani immigrants to the UK were from one small set of villages in Kashmir, grouped around what was to become the Mangla Dam. That small community was rural and deeply conservative culturally. In a subculture loaded with prohibitions comes sometimes distinctly warped ideas on issues like the place and role of women. From the assumption that women could be seen as second-class citizens comes the view that abusing them matters less. So there's likely to have been cultural factors among the causes of these crimes. I point all this out with the sinking feeling that the common reaction to these stories is to do as you've done, which is to jump on the anti-Muslim bandwagon while claiming that that's absolutely not what you're doing at all. You are, though.

Yet another one for the #YouDontBelongHere collection. The wonders of Brexit... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6302501/Sainsburys-shopper-removed-store-racist-rant.html

Retiring again Lord T? Probably for the best. That video you posted should be on repeat everywhere - a perfect embodiment of both the idiocy of Brexit Jihadists and what they actually, for the most part, look like - embittered, ranting, white middle-class pensioners determined to ruin the futures of succeeding generations. Still, you're not the stupidest Brexiter on the block. That prize, collectively, goes to the freakishly weird Lexiteers - the few Corbynistas so slobberingly devoted to St Jez that they've adopted his anti-EU stance. A well written take-down of this nonsense is this piece, from within an otherwise notoriously Corbynist blog at the LSE... http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/10/16/lexit-undermines-the-left-it-will-be-no-prize-for-labour/

So tempting...

Reading you doing politics is like watching someone doing brain surgery with a banana. What can anyone deduce from this ludicrously sweeping statement about what the Democrats have been campaigning on, for the mid-terms which are now just three weeks away? Especially given their quite commanding lead in the polls for the House elections, and the surprisingly tight races in Senate Republican strongholds. What policy mistakes do you have in mind?

You know as well as I do who the 'source' close to Allen was. Funny that Alpine still believes a single shred of it was ever true.

A leading Brexit Jihadist, David Bannerman MEP, has just praised the Ulster Volunteer Force. Here is a list of the thousands of dead and maimed at the hands of the UVF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Ulster_Volunteer_Force_actions

Imperial measures. Why am I not surprised?

Can't wait for Andrea Leadsom to condemn this speaker as a remoaning traitor... https://twitter.com/MarieAnnUK/status/1051162703430078465

Some depressing facts. It's now 44 years since Labour won an overall majority with a leader who wasn't Tony Blair. That leader, in 1974, was the classic Red Tory Harold Wilson, who'd sent the British army into Northern Ireland, ignored pressure to extend nationalisation, and presided over an alarming slide in industrial relations. Discount him and you have to go back to 1945, and Clement Attlee - also a Red Tory, under whose leadership the NHS was set up with a huge concession to doctors who wanted to keep their private practice within public hospitals, who engineered the establishment of NATO as an alliance against the progressive forces of Joe Stalin, and who fought foreign wars like Malaya. Discount him and - well, that's it. There was no Labour majority government before that. Still, with St Jezza only neck and neck in the polls with the most disastrous, anti-business, incompetent Tory government in modern history, it's sure to change...