Developed nations’ attitudes and policies towards undeveloped nations have largely become far more progressive since then, with the egregious exception of one, so this is a false equivalence.
This is it, and is the reason why Labour wouldn’t push for a NC vote yet.
Corbyn’s been failing as leader of the opposition during Brexit. Everybody knows he’s a Brexiter but he’s leading a party that mostly isn’t. No surprise he’s not fighting back adequately.
It’s also to do with the skewed distribution of Brexit attitudes among voters in constituencies across the country, with Labour’s bedrock Northern seats being far more Leave than its seats elsewhere.
Lot of projecting a machiavellian competence on Boris that we have never seen evidence of itt. More likely he’s just the bullying little shit he always was and it’s worked for him so far that’s how he proceeds by default.
Cummings pulls the strings, Boris twerks for the mob.
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In general I’d agree to not invent conspiracies and that Johnson’s a horrible little bully, it’s just I don’t think this move would be very Machiavellian.
It’s seemed as if he’s wanted an election all along, if he asks for one he needs Labour support for the 2/3 majority and the day before this they essentially announced they wouldn’t give it until no deal was made impossible, so that means he needs a no confidence vote. Prorogation is also something they’ve clearly explored and thought about the consequences of beforehand, it is a desperate and bullying move trying to force the opposition to do what they don’t want to.
W/r/t Corbyn, idk what you guys expect him to be able to do with a minority party who’s electorate is bitterly divided on the issue.Standing back and making the Tories own this fiasco is probably both the right play and the only reasonable one in his spot.
And jesus this antisemitism thing is a bullshit attack from a tory press that doesn’t even believe it themselves,. It only has legs where the hundred previous bullshit attacks didn’t because he doesn’t have the political savvy to call them out on it. Don’t get taken in by it you fish. This is a country where people still read tabloids and they’re all f’ing Fox news on steroids.
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Yes, that does seem quite possible. No idea how it goes then, but leaving things till later is the number 1 choice of politicians in the face of Brexit related shenanigans.
Woah.
The antisemitism thing in Labour has been overplayed for the usual political reasons by the hysterical press, who’ve also tried to sweep under the rug the Islamophobia that’s rampant in all levels of the Tory party up to and including their horrendous new leader, sure, but no smoke without fire - just ask the Jewish Labour MPs and members who’ve left the party because of abuse from its own members.
Pretending that some section of Corbyn’s grass roots Momentum support isn’t deeply antisemitic is inaccurate and pretty awful, and is/will backfire horribly on the left.
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Any good / reliable articles on the Momentum antisemitism stuff?
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Friendliest cite or ban ever? 
I don’t really want to add to the media feeding frenzy on this but here’s one from the nag’s gob…
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Because giving it credence has worked out so well so far? What does 'some part of momentum: mean?
I’m American, the concept if an antisemitic left seems dubious on its face. Antisemitism in Europe has been a tool of the right for hundreds of years. How much of this is just a lack of sufficient deference to Israel being called antisemitism like it has been since at least the 80s? In the States we have had antisemire zionists in Congress for decades, all of them far right.
So in Britain now, uniquely in world history, the left is the side with a problem antisemitic faction? Somebody’s going to have to show their work before I buy it.
See above.
It shouldn’t be hard to google an explanation.
Wait, so the problem is when the grassroots organization grew from 10000 to 40000 members like 50 conspiracy theorists joined, and now they’re getting kicked out? This is the huge antisemitism problem that has you clutching your pearls? Jfc people.
Interesting article. Thanks. I’d half followed the story and was wondering if it was a case of those opposing Israeli government policy wrt the Palestinians simply being accused of anti-semitism. Like others have said, it kind of seemed strange that the Labour Party would have an anti-semitism problem. Obv the fact that the founder of Momentum suggests it’s an issue gives it credence, even if it is ‘only’ a few hundred people out of a membership of 500,000. Hope they have taken steps to kick those people out.
I’d also bet that there are far more members of the Tory party who are anti-Semitic than are in the Labour party.
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If there is a General Election and the Tories/Brexit Party put up a single candidate in constituencies, any chance Lab/LibDems/Greens/SNP/PC etc do the same? If so, any chance the latter win an overall majority?
Concern over an MP feeling compelled to resign because of antisemitic attacks and lack of support from the party leadership does not constitute clutching at pearls. jfc indeed.
Its disappointing sometimes the extent to which a decent person’s instinct is to both sides everything.
There’s real racists doing real racism in plain view that is hurting all of us, and this whole digression is instigated by them, taking advantage of your good nature, to pull focus from their perfidy so they can do even more while we’re not looking. Wise up man.
Yeah the Tory party has always had a problem with anitsemitism as long as I can remember…well with all forms of racism in fact. In the 1980s when speculation about Mrs Thatcher’s eventual successor was all the rage some respected political commentators wrote that Leon Brittan’s prospects of becoming Tory leader were zero because the (then) modern day Tory party wouldn’t accept a Jewish leader (how times have changed since Disraeli).