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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE 🔶
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““It was like being pincered, it felt like the leader’s office were blaming us for not having dealt with antisemitism but also completely hindering our ability to do so,” she said.

This is admirable and convincing.
Touching that they visited Berlin. theguardian.com/news/2019/jul/…
“One day I woke up and I couldn’t get out of bed. I have never, ever had that before. I only realised then how bad it had been. I knew I couldn’t put myself back in there.”

She still hopes for redemption for the Labour Party.

That it can be a force for the good.
How dare Labour Party HQ write this off as the imaginings of disaffected staff,

Of COURSE they are disaffected.
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE 🔶
@fascinatorfun
Something fishy is going on with the Tory leadership race online

At least 2 of the top 10 accounts either targeting #HastobeHunt or amplifying #BackBoris display Botlike characteristics.

One linked to Iranian/Russian disinformation during the 2016 EU ref wired.co.uk/article/tory-l…
2/
 First created in 2016, @EUVoteLeave23rd pushes a pro-hard Brexit, pro-no deal agenda. It has over 35,000 followers, the identity of its owner is unknown, and its profile image features a Brexit Party rosette overlaid with a Back Boris tag”

Other accounts have been suspended
3/. “It shows that the network it's involved with is quite extensive – it's got 36,000 followers.”

The ISD points out that, ..,the account, had 172 interactions (mostly retweets) with accounts known to be associated with Iranian or Russian state-backed disinformation operations”
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE 🔶
@fascinatorfun
When we are public servants we are (sometimes if fortunate, often if not) asked to implement decisions that we might think wise but defensible. EG. A manifesto pledge.

No. No deal Brexit was NOT a manifesto pledge.
2/.

But we might face political decisions that we know are presented as harmless but are looking at evidence that suggests that Government Ministers are lying or, at the minimum, are disguising evidence that suggests the citizens Civil Servants are supposed to serve.
It often is not easy to draw a line between regrettable but reasonable and really seriously misleading and damaging.

Esp so if someone is part of a professional organisation that spells out that to continue or support a course of conduct is a breach of professional standards
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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE 🔶
@fascinatorfun
“..this is not so much a prophecy as a warning. Nothing in politics is inevitable, even if once things happen they seem so. I am not sure, but I have a half-sense that what is underway at the moment is a growing split amongst even the hard Brexiters.”
⁦ chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-da…
2/ @chrisgreybrexit on top form here.

“It is notable - given he is not only pro-Brexit but also fiercely Atlanticist - that Liam Fox has recently become critical of no-deal Brexit, and has also this week been highly supportive of Darroch.”

Reminders of early flags here.
3/
“It is notable that Simon Fraser, former head of the Foreign Office, has recently argued against the conventional wisdom that no deal is getting more likely and that his view was endorsed by Charles Grant, the astute Director of the Centre for European Reform.”
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Marlon Solomon
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The sentiment is admirable but not sure Owen and other commentators in the pro-Corbyn world fully understand why there is a culture of #antisemitism denial. Few thoughts on this and what to think about moving forward. Long-ass thread 1/
Lots of articles, some useful podcasts from some of the pro-Corbyn commentariat on left antisemitism but three words noticeably absent from the debate. Jewish. Labour. Movement.

Also, the role new-left media has played in fostering an antisemitic culture has been overlooked 2/
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The full extent of the new establishment’s defence of antisemites – and other racists – is laid bare on the Guardian front page as Disputes Panel minutes are leaked

#EnoughisEnough #LabourAntisemitism

🗞READ NOW🗞
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Here follows a thread on why @J_VoiceUK are disingenuous and dangerous. They pretend to fight #antisemitism via a new form of victim-blaming. #DeniersOut #EnoughIsEnough #LabourAntisemitism
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#DeniersOut #EnoughIsEnough
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