Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I not another tory has resigned from the tories. talking about throwing toys out of the pram.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Courtesy of Facebook.
The Dover and Deal Constituency Labour Party have noticed that the tweet in question was posted and have now deleted it. We are investigating how this came about to ensure that our Twitter account is secure. The CLP endorses and supports all measures taken by the Labour Party to make sure that racism and antisemitism is not seen in our Party, which has always opposed discrimination in all forms.
We wonder if the Tory Party seriously believes it has a good record on this matter. What is their complaints procedure which allowed Bob Frost, a local councillor, to remain in the Tory Party after a number of disgusting racist tweets? Mr Frost may now sit as an independent but this is because he decided to leave.
What about Mr Elphicke, who walked proudly behind the 30 racists who came to march in Dover in 2016, which undoubtedly gave moral support to those of his constituents who have racist sympathies? One has only to look at the comments below this post to see the attitudes of many of his followers. After that he dares to find this tweet “chilling”!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
"What about Mr Elphicke, who walked proudly behind the 30 racists who came to march in Dover in 2016, which undoubtedly gave moral support to those of his constituents who have racist sympathies?"
Not a good idea to bring Charlie into the argument when Labour's Diane Abbott was busy shouting her mouth off in the Market Square during those same awful marches.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
I smell 'whataboutery'!
1. Their account is secure.
2. I wonder which one of the idiots posted it?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
Which is why 1/3 of immigrants are thinking of leaving the UK? Whoops. My mistake. That's Jews thinking of leaving due to anti-Semitism.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4281039/jews-leaving-uk-poll-hate-crime/
And Britain is actually one of the LEAST racist countries in Europe.
https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/17459809.britain-one-of-least-racist-countries-in-europe/ "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Some interesting stats in that CAA report, though they weren't the ones highlighted by that organ of fair reporting, The Sun (that article, by the way, is 18 months old). Though the Labour Party scored highest of all political parties perceived by British Jews to be 'harbouring antisemites', the number of respondents believing the Conservative Party to be 'too tolerant of antisemitism' increased by almost 60% in a year. The perception of UKIP was high at 41%, but the Greens are next on 40% followed by the Liberal Democrats on 36% and the SNP on 32%. The YouGov results actually show that, while the Labour Party is perceived as being inept in dealing with antisemitism, 'Labour Party supporters are less likely to be antisemitic than other voters'.
Full report here:
https://antisemitism.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Antisemitism-Barometer-2017.pdf'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
You can blame the Labour Party for many things (the Iraq War, financial deregulation, Jack Straw) but hardly for desecrating a Jewish memorial in Strasbourg.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
I wasn't I was pointing out that anti-Semitism is much wider than just the UK and is much worse across continental Europe than here
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
In previous centuries many Jews sought refuge in the UK as our country was regarded as a safe haven from persecution in mainland Europe. Just saying.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 3,062
Post #32. That's very true, RM, but you'll have noticed that the Labour Party has become, by frequent and repeated association, the convenient whipping boy for all our anti-Semitic sins. It would be fairer to have a separate thread for anti-Semitism, or even more broadly for racism, as this would enable us to bring all reports of racist actions, and uses of derogatory racial epithets, slurs and phrases (such as, for example, 'jungle bunnies'), together for consideration. Just saying, of course.
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Guest 1713- Registered: 14 Mar 2016
- Posts: 110
Yaaaaaaawwwwn
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Al1967 wrote:Yaaaaaaawwwwn
Thanks for your input Al, we shall need time to digest it before responding.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,053
Al1967 wrote:Yaaaaaaawwwwn
Surely spelt Yahweh?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Al1967 wrote:Yaaaaaaawwwwn
Al, I warned you before: stay off the benzos.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
and the Viagra.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
I did have an ironic chuckle over Labour's suspension of Trevor Phillips. There he was a few months back publicly refusing to vote Labour as its definition of antisemitism wasn't wide enough; now he's complaining that its definition of 'Islamophobia' is too wide.
And he's wrong, too, that Labour is in danger of collapsing into a 'brutish, authoritarian cult'. It already is one, and he helped to make it so.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51797316'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus