Greg Wallace thinks his opinion counts on professional MasterChef when in reality Marcus and Monica make the decisions. To be Greg Wallace against sir keithly's mg is therefore to be deluded as to your importance in the organisation.
this sort of delusion is typical from those infected with Omicron
On a grand scale; there's about 4 names in Starmer's list that have been around long enough to have Iraqi blood on their hands; next gen, my arse.
Ministry of Silly Walks
An easy comparison to make, but again if we were to prioritise strategy (rather than what feels right) we wouldn't just go for that comparison and then bypass further thought about it. We would examine what worked about the South Africa boycotts, what didn't work, what the differences are between the position of South Africa and the position of Israel, economically and politically, the differences between the balance of forces within the two countries, the cultural/media reactions to external actions within those countries and so on.
I completely agree. And whilst we're on the subject let's shut up about China, Russia, Myanmar, North Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines, Belarus, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, Brazil. There's fuck all we can do about it. Oh yes, and global warming, nuclear weapons, the NHS. Just shut up, will you.
I barely hear about them in the left wing chattersphere (with the possible exception of Syria), and certainly an order of magnitude less than about Israel, so I think the shutting up is already happening
perhaps you're not listeningI barely hear about them in the left wing chattersphere (with the possible exception of Syria), and certainly an order of magnitude less than about Israel, so I think the shutting up is already happening
I've never been accused of having a stance before, so thanks for that. People on the left, and people in general, can get obsessive about particular issues. That becomes more likely if the issue in question is a massive injustice which continues year on year, supported by our government, whose perpetrators are supplied with British arms. The UK has historical involvement in the Middle East, as you well know, so it's not surprising that many get passionate about it.
But there are clearly many people on the left who spend a lot of time on Israel/Palestine. There's nothing wrong with this and there's no reason they should shut up. But when Israel/Palestine is the only thing they focus on, to the impediment of all other issues, then it all gets a bit fishy.
not to be confused with smelliest aunts
Another illusion shattered
Does he actually need her ?
I'm not convinced he did screw her over. I suspect comms between them isn't great anyway, and whenever she perceives the slightest slight, she goes nuclear about it via her 'sources close to...'. The fact is that she's not leader of the party, he is, so he gets to do the reshuffles, and she doesn't get to sign them off. However, I think in reality she sees her role more as co-leader rather than deputy leader.
Broadly agreed, although as a person of strong crude smashy-smashy tendencies I reckon there is some stuff that can be done in the UK that has a direct material impact on Elbit and the like; but agreed that the majority of people talking about Palestine in the UK are not doing that. And I suppose there is even an argument to be made that the orientation of current Palestine solidarity stuff actually makes it harder to do some of the things that might lead to change in Israeli society, like support to refuseniks and other oppositional tendencies.
The good news is that the next Labour PM is already an MP; the bad news is it's this fucker:
That's one benefit of being colour blind. More time to do other stuff.
If you got passionate about everything that happened in the pink, purple and green bits of this map you'd not have much time to do anything else.
The next labour pm hasn't been invented yet
