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Feb 10, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
221. Blair: "can you imagine when I was leader of the Labour Party having a conversation with me about whether there as anti-Semitism in the party?"

Luciana Berger MP, who was going out with Blair's own son in 2005:

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/14… Excerpt
221.2: Blair 2019, "we're supposed to be a progressive party... How can you say it's tolerable to have a certain level of racism in the party?"

Blair/Blunkett 2002:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi…
221.3 "[Blair] insists he has not seen the two posters [of two Jewish MPs faces on the bodies of pigs] - put up for a vote on the Labour party website - himself, but says they were "not intended to cause any offence to anyone in the Jewish community"."

theguardian.com/politics/2005/…
221.4 from this interview. Blair just gets away with rewriting history with zero challenge whatsoever.

222. 1946-8: UK intercepts thousands of Jewish refugees travelling from Displaced Persons camps to Palestine. Placed in internment camps in Cyprus, charges cost to Palestine. Then when British mandate in Palestine ends sends them on to Israel anyway.
api.parliament.uk/historic-hansa… Hansard screenshot - see linkHansard screenshot, see link.
222.1 You may remember colonial secretary Arthur Creech-Jones from this one, what an arsehole, really.
222.2 while this thread is about the Labour Party, this Tory MP asking why the Jewish refugees held in a British detention camp in 1947 weren't forced to clear up raw sewage with their bare hands...
api.parliament.uk/historic-hansa… Hansard excerpt, see link
223: Tony Benn tells everyone to go home quietly on the day of the poll tax riot.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Excerpt.
224: 1969 Labour govt sent troops, and Met police, to invade Anguilla after it declared secession from St. Kitts. Anguilla had been under jurisdiction of St Kitts as a British colony, and Harold Wilson just left it like that when granting independence.

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