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[PaulPowersTash]

I'm far from being Andy Burnham's biggest fan but he does speak some sense here.
Particularly about social care. That could be a huge vote winner:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/13/keir-starmer-english-devolution-labour

 

[Deckard2049]

Labour suspends Unite leadership nominee over ‘Patel should be deported’ tweet

Howard Beckett, a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, later apologised and deleted the tweet

www.theguardian.com

Another own goal.

 

[dead_soft]

Labour suspends Unite leadership nominee over ‘Patel should be deported’ tweet

Howard Beckett, a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, later apologised and deleted the tweet

www.theguardian.com

Another own goal.

It was a stupid comment by Beckett and he should have known what he was saying. I find it hard to think he didn't say it with the implication she is of Asian heritage. They suspended him and he apologised but it seems everything Labour do is an own goal and if the Tories do something similar it's 'the public doesn't care'

 

[Tree13]

Labour suspends Unite leadership nominee over ‘Patel should be deported’ tweet

Howard Beckett, a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, later apologised and deleted the tweet

www.theguardian.com

Another own goal.

The open hatred of Priti Patel displayed by some Labour Party MPs / pro-Labour personalities / pro-Labour political commentators is bizarre, in as much as displaying it so nakedly and with such bile just leaves them wide open to accusations of racism.

 

[PaulPowersTash]

The open hatred of Priti Patel displayed by some Labour Party MPs / pro-Labour personalities / pro-Labour political commentators is bizarre, in as much as displaying it so nakedly and with such bile just leaves them wide open to accusations of racism.

That's because it is racism 100%.

 

[Charro]

The open hatred of Priti Patel displayed by some Labour Party MPs / pro-Labour personalities / pro-Labour political commentators is bizarre, in as much as displaying it so nakedly and with such bile just leaves them wide open to accusations of racism.

Why is it bizarre?

Look at her history. She’s a terrible, incompetent MP and plenty of people within the conservatives think so too.

 

[tsubaki]

The open hatred of Priti Patel displayed by some Labour Party MPs / pro-Labour personalities / pro-Labour political commentators is bizarre, in as much as displaying it so nakedly and with such bile just leaves them wide open to accusations of racism.

The woman is the closest thing we’ve come to in many years to having an actual traitor in government. Doing what she did in order to get fired by May should have permanently disqualified her from ever holding office ever again.

 

[dead_soft]

That's because it is racism 100%.

No it is not. She stands against everything progressive political parties stand for, the hatred is because of the way her actions impact people’s lives.

Interesting that I find many of the same who accuse the left of throwing racism around as a cover are the first to do it

 

[PaulPowersTash]

No it is not. She stands against everything progressive political parties stand for, the hatred is because of the way her actions impact people’s lives.

Interesting that I find many of the same who accuse the left of throwing racism around as a cover are the first to do it

Yes it is.
The more left you go in the Labour Party the more racist and anti-Semitic it becomes.

 

[Blue 1]

That's because it is racism 100%.

 

[Charro]

Yes it is.
The more left you go in the Labour Party the more racist and anti-Semitic it becomes.

Except, she receives criticism from across the board for her behaviour.

From senior civil servants, to right wing tories. Take it only the criticism from labour supporters is racist though?

 

[mill]

The open hatred of Priti Patel displayed by some Labour Party MPs / pro-Labour personalities / pro-Labour political commentators is bizarre, in as much as displaying it so nakedly and with such bile just leaves them wide open to accusations of racism.

She’s voted against equal gay rights, voted against laws that promote human rights, against measures to prevent climate change, has always voted for a reduction in corporation tax, for raising the tuition cap for uni students, ending financial support for education for 16-18 year olds, reducing CGT, for more restrictive regulation of trade union activity, increasing VAT, against a bankers bonus tax, against higher benefits for disability, for reducing housing benefit, welfare benefits, for mass surveillance and mass storage of information, for a stricter asylum system.

she basically hates poor people.

 

[Blue 1]

Patel was a tobacco lobbyist. She just hates people in general.

Imagine your job being to try and get more people to smoke, knowing it will probably cause them to suffer horrendous diseases and premature death.

 

[peteblue]

That's because it is racism 100%.

I don’t think it is. Diane Abbott gets similar dogs abuse and I don’t believe it is racist, it’s because she is an idiot. The left don’t like Patel because she is reasonably strong within the Home Office, and they don’t like that which is fair enough.....

 

[dead_soft]

Yes it is.
The more left you go in the Labour Party the more racist and anti-Semitic it becomes.

Nonsense and not the topic of discussion