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Oct 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A thread…
1/7 Since the rise of antisemitism in Corbyn’s Labour began to be highlighted, those voices of denial have been loud and persistent. They ignore the McPherson principle which states when a minority perceives racism the initial assumption is that they are correct…
2/7 But worse, they have consistently tried to shift the focus away from the embedded cultural problem of left antisemitism and made it about stats and process. Thus, they will pluck a figure out of the air… ‘only 0.06% of members have been disciplined for being antisemitic’…
Aug 18, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/9 Thread..
Today I saw the best of Merseyside and the worst of it.
Sarah-Jane Morton, a @UKLabour councillor for Liverpool Clubmoor (an area I know well), called her party leader @Keir_Starmer a ‘Brylcreemed sh**house’... liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…2/9 She talked about a ‘class war’ and warned Starmer and his deputy @AngelaRayner for their jobs’.
As adolescent brain farts go it was right up there with the best of them...
