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Alex Nunns

@alexnunns

Jul 28

https://twitter.com/RobZandsMP/status/1949730902428340479

I don’t usually do this kind of tweet, but since I’ve been asked: James Schneider is sound. It’s depressing to see posts about him—some of them from people I like—insinuating he’s in league with Starmer/Israel/the CIA (no joke, it has been suggested). So I'd just like to say...

https://twitter.com/RobZandsMP/status/1949730902428340479

Last summer he ran Jeremy’s campaign that trounced Labour in Islington North. He’s devoted huge energy to founding a party to displace Labour. He’s regularly on TV attacking Starmer. Does that sound like someone compromised, as some accuse him of being, by the job of his wife?

Meanwhile, David Miller says James should be "arrested" as a "genocidal anti-Palestinian racist and Jewish supremacist." If that's what he is, he's going about it in a peculiar way, organising the Hague Group conference this month where 30 countries pledged action against Israel.

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Alex Nunns

@alexnunns

Oct 2, 2024

Israel has confirmed several airforce bases were hit by Iran while civilian damage was "only minor" & caused by shrapnel from interception missiles.

But Keir Starmer said: "The Iranian regime has launched over 200 ballistic missiles at civilian targets in Israel."

A grave lie.

From Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Meanwhile, Iran described its action as solely aimed at Israeli military facilities, targeting the Nevatim air base, the Netzarim military facility and the Tel Nof intelligence unit.

There is no basis for the claim Iran launched over 200 ballistic missiles at civilian targets.

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Alex Nunns

@alexnunns

Mar 14, 2024

Ruth Smeeth says she spent 5 years as an MP “begging” Labour to ensure “politicians” weren’t involved in its disciplinary process.

She did this by marching to a disciplinary hearing with 30 politicians, & by calling on Corbyn to “name and shame” abusive members with no process.

Ruth Smeeth says “the thing everyone needs to remember” about messages sent by Labour staff about Diane Abbott, which the Forde Report branded racist, is it was under Corbyn’s leadership.

Smeeth knows the messages were sent by her factional allies working against the leadership.

Challenged on Labour’s failure to act on abusive messages about Diane Abbott sent by Labour staff, Ruth Smeeth cites the Forde Report, before flatly denying there is a “hierarchy of racism”.

But Forde himself disagrees, and has spoken out about this precise kind of denialism.

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Alex Nunns

@alexnunns

Sep 21, 2023

Labour says it's just ensuring the “highest standards of behaviour" from MPs in its treatment of Diane Abbott and others, not purging the left.

But if it's about standards, how come the following non-left MPs who have been accused of racism do meet the party's "high standards"?>

Steve Reed sits in Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet despite having had to apologise for calling a Jewish businessman a “puppet master” in 2020.

Despite Starmer’s purported “zero tolerance” of antisemitism, Reed faced no sanction and remained in Keir’s team.
thejc.com/news/uk/labour…

Mike Amesbury was recently promoted to the shadow frontbench by Starmer. He previously shared what was described as an “antisemitic caricature” on social media, for which he apologised in 2019.
thejc.com/news/uk-news/l…

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Alex Nunns

@alexnunns

May 28, 2023

It's become a fact that Roger Waters had a pig emblazoned with the Star of David at his gig in Berlin.

It has been used by MPs to call for his shows to be pulled, featured in headlines in the Daily Mail, repeated by the BBC etc.

Except, he didn't. Here is the pig in Berlin:

The inflatable pig is a reference to the album cover of Pink Floyd's Animals, which showed a pig flying above Battersea Power Station. That, in turn, was a reference to George Orwell's Animal Farm, which depicted pigs as tyrannical rulers.

The inflatable pig has been a feature of Roger Waters' shows for years. Each iteration has different symbols on it. In 2013, the pig featured the Jewish Star of David, the Muslim crescent and star, and the Christian crucifix, presumably in a statement against organised religion.

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Alex Nunns

@alexnunns

Apr 14, 2023

"This is Keir Starmer you’re talking here" someone replied to me incredulously after I said he lived it up on expenses as DPP.

So let's look instead at the hospitality he's been enjoying lately: more than £22,000 worth in the last year alone—averaging £1,800 a month in freebies.

Starmer was gifted £1,600 of tickets and hospitality for Spurs vs Arsenal in January by Getir, the rapid delivery company that has just got rid of around 300 UK workers with no notice, leaving the laid off employees "crying and angry." chargedretail.co.uk/2023/03/23/get…

He got Google to buy him dinner—at £190 a head—when he felt peckish while cavorting with the elite in Davos (a place he prefers to Westminster because its full of people he "can see working with in future"). Google, of course, a company with no agenda.