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George is just one amongst a great many who will feel relieved and personally vindicated if @DerbyChrisW is expelled from @UKLabour by the NEC tomorrow.
But that relief will soon give way to the horror that they have doomed us all. Not least themselves....
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But that relief will soon give way to the horror that they have doomed us all. Not least themselves....
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If Williamson is expelled, not for antisemitism, but for 'cultural insensitivty', and for refusing to treat a/s accusations with due seriousness, then I fear that the precedent set will be strong enough to destroy the Corbyn Leadership, and if nessecarry, @UKLabour itself.
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'But surely it's a good thing?' You'll say. After all, you'll finally be rid of all those CW 'fans', the 'cranks' who wouldn't just shut up and let you get on with patching things up?
Well, yes and no.
Of course this new lowered bar will catch anyone who supported CW...
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Well, yes and no.
Of course this new lowered bar will catch anyone who supported CW...
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But it will catch everyone in the woke or optics left too.
'Never' you cry. 'I've been an ally. I consistently called out percieved a/s wherever I saw it.'
Of course you did....except when you didn't, and that's what will sink you.
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'Never' you cry. 'I've been an ally. I consistently called out percieved a/s wherever I saw it.'
Of course you did....except when you didn't, and that's what will sink you.
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Remember that time the accusations landed on @OwenJones84 and @AaronBastani ?
'Oh that was different. They hadn't done anything.'
What about when it was @jeremycorbyn ? The mural, the wreath, the irony remark?
'Now you're just being silly.'
Really?
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'Oh that was different. They hadn't done anything.'
What about when it was @jeremycorbyn ? The mural, the wreath, the irony remark?
'Now you're just being silly.'
Really?
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In each of these cases, whether correctly reported or not, the argument followed that the feelings of certain sections of the Jewish Communities were hurt.
Apply the potentially precedential 'Williamson Test' and each of these could be seen as baiting.
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Apply the potentially precedential 'Williamson Test' and each of these could be seen as baiting.
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More importantly, anyone seen to have supported them, argued in their defence, or claimed that these were weaponised smears would have to be guilty too.
And that includes George, and Ally, and Tom etc.
All of you. All of us.
Game over.
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And that includes George, and Ally, and Tom etc.
All of you. All of us.
Game over.
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