I stopped watching at 4 
I think he means the plane flying overhead with a “White Lives Matter” banner.
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Geez… 
I hail from Burnley. It’s an unpleasant, broken place and this isn’t surprising. Plenty of thick fecks filled with hatred and resentment, usually focused on the Pakistani population they share their misery with. Local hooligan and his mates did a whip-round for a crack, cost them £600. He’s already known and his address and phone number circulated.
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Starmer sacks Long-Bailey for sharing article on Twitter including antisemitic conspiracy theory
Rebecca Long-Bailey has been sacked as shadow education secretary, the Labour party has announced. Sir Keir Starmer dismissed her following her Maxine Peake tweet (see 2.47pm). A spokesman for Starmer said:
This afternoon Keir Starmer asked Rebecca Long-Bailey to step down from the shadow cabinet. The article Rebecca shared earlier today contained an antisemitic conspiracy theory. As leader of the Labour Party, Keir has been clear that restoring trust with the Jewish community is a number one priority. Antisemitism takes many different forms and it is important that we all are vigilant against it.
Here is the passage in the Independent’s interview with Maxine Peake referred to in the Labour statement (see 3.11pm) referencing an “antisemitic conspiracy theory”.
Born in Bolton to a lorry driver father and care worker mother, Peake is strident and expressive; if religion wasn’t anathema to her, she’d be perfect in the pulpit. “Systemic racism is a global issue,” she adds. “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.” (A spokesperson for the Israeli police has denied this, stating that “there is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway”.
As my colleague Peter Walker has reported (see 2.47pm), Rebecca Long-Bailey subsequently posted a tweet saying her tweet sharing the interview was not intended to be an endorsement of everything in it. But the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was “pathetic” that she had not withdrawn the original tweet and apologised.
So the question is whether suggesting that US police got their tactics from the Israeli secret services is anti-Semitic or not. 
I think it probably depends on context.
I also think there’s an element of realpolitik to it. Starmer will probably be glad to be rid of a Corbynite far to the left of him on most issues.
How much flak is The Independent getting for running the interview, or Peake for saying it? Funny how the only consequences seem to fall on a Corbynite retweeting a link to it.
OK… This is good stuff, I’ll buy a Tango later on…
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