Current Affairs The Labour Party

[tsubaki]

On Gaza, Sunak's Tories and Starmer's Labour have merged into a single pro-war party

The real gulf in British politics is not between Tory and Labour. It's between a hegemonic political class at Westminster, and a decent majority that supports an immediate ceasefire

www.middleeasteye.net

that theory - that parties as society understands them no longer exist - has been one that Oborne has been warning about since the early 00s, sadly not enough people have noticed

 

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Steve Coogan joining other shadow tories on Sunaks tory PR team at PMQs today.

 

[Moomin]

Steve Coogan joining other shadow tories on Sunaks tory PR team at PMQs today.

What's he done?

Will you compare him to someone like Tommeh Robinson as well now?

 

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[peteblue]

UK should stop its arm trade with the Israel but its not going to do that because of money UK loose and the jobs that would be lost. One the loudest to shout if this trade was to end would be the Unions who have sizable membership in British weapon manufacturing.

U.K. arms sales to Israel is peanuts and most of it is components within the USA supplied F35’s……

 

[Moomin]

Alan Partridge and Tommy Robinson. Not their real names, they both say things which make us a little bit uncomfortable when watching but we can't help but laugh at them.

They both love James Bond movies and think Roger Moore was the best Bond performer.

Both prefer Wings to the Beatles and think they are hard done by.

Bloody shadow Tories the pair of them.

 

[Xizor]

Alan Partridge and Tommy Robinson. Not their real names

Two sides of the same Stephen coin.

 

[Blue 1]

U.K. arms sales to Israel is peanuts and most of it is components within the USA supplied F35’s……

Israeli drone engines are manufactured in the UK.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Israeli drone engines are manufactured in the UK.

Good article.

British backing for Israel helps to sustain the unbearable status quo | Rafeef Ziadah

Diplomatic and military support – and a thriving arms trade – make the UK complicit, says Rafeef Ziadeh, lecturer at Soas University of London

www.theguardian.com

 

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[Rita_Poon]

'They' turned out to be plod Owen. And he was a bit rough. Not allowed to protest in this country anymore. It's illegal. I wonder if he got batoned around the head repeatedly for this outburst. Then two pigs attack a woman. Bless, it's a hard job isn't it.
A quality set up, done Raynor over there, two pronged attack, bloke upset about his murdered family, then some shrill feminist that segues into a protest about Gaza. And they had multiple fuzz at hand so were prepared for something.

Shame there isn't more access to sunak and truss and mogg. Being the government in power of the day and holding that majority herr boris delivered.

 

[Charro]

She would have fought for them not long ago.

Complete and utter sell out.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I still don't get it tbh (aside from finding it a bit odd in an era in which a couple of MPs have been murdered by loonies and pretty much all have received horrendous abuse online and in person, so storming an event and shouting the odds is perhaps not "the" best approach to take if you want to get listened to), but Labour are the opposition, so even if they nod and say yep, shrill lady, I agree it's terrible that women in Gaza are using tents for sanitary towels, what does it actually achieve in terms of changes for those women? It makes that lady perhaps feel better about herself but that won't help the people in Gaza any.

Just seems like a lot of protest these days is to make the protestors feel good about themselves rather than driving any meaningful change.

 

[Milkman]

What protest would drive meaningful change in this case @Bruce Wayne?

Also, gtf with the idea that disrupting a speaking event is comparable to being stabbed in the street.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What protest would drive meaningful change in this case @Bruce Wayne?

Also, gtf with the idea that disrupting a speaking event is comparable to being stabbed in the street.

It was a man rushing the stage, clearly upset (with probably just cause), but I don't find it odd that the police or security there would shuffle him off as they can't know what he was going to do. This is the world we're in at the moment.

As for what protest would drive meaningful change, I have no idea to be honest. That part of the world has been in some kind of conflict for decades with no meaningful progress, so I don't know what would actually change things. Protesting against politicians who aren't actually in government seems unlikely to do it though.