init! deluded 'damage control'?
Well, had they issued that statement at the time I’d have paid some attention. But at this point its relevance is next to zero. Who gives the SWP even a moment’s thought these days?
Low on membership numbers? Need that subscription money. Just a guess i don't really follow them.
Good question. Whilst the revised policy is obviously an improvement, as is the invitation for advice from outside the SWP I wonder why it took so long and what prompted the review and implementation. I am not in contact with anyone who is still a member although I am with ex-members who still do some work with them on some campaigns but none of those mentioned anything.
They've a stall outside my local shopping centre on a Saturday morning so I have to run the gauntlet* of petitions and paper sales every week.
(The homophobic, racist paramilitary religious fuckers in the purple Star Trek type outfits** are often on the other side of the road so the SWP are actually the better option.)
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Hebrew Israelites? What's their unacceptable behaviour policy like?They've a stall outside my local shopping centre on a Saturday morning so I have to run the gauntlet* of petitions and paper sales every week.
*I mean it's not much of a gauntlet or whatever but
** Can't remember what they're called but people locally will know who I mean. Not Nation of Islam as no bowties but that kind of thing.
Oh might be. Given the horrible shite they spout, I'm guessing they're all about unreasonable and horrible behaviour.
Has there been a change in the composition of the Central Committee making it possible to discuss the issue publicly? Or is this just the political equivalent of a deluxe anniversary box set of one of their 'albums' to keep the brand alive? Or would that be too cynical even about swappies?
Yeah, similar here. RCP is where it’s at for the earnest youngsters. The SWP disappeared up one of Tommy Sheridan’s dead ends, and I’ve no idea if they followed him into Alba or they fell by the wayside somewhere else.
Might be me but when I went to look at the Unacceptable Behaviour policy it was dated Jan 2019 . So one could have reasonably expected the apology to have been made then rather than now?
I'm really glad that the JWs now recruit through city centres stalls. When they used to knock on doors I was sure they kept coming back to my house more than the neighbours'. I eventually realised it was probably due to my always being fairly polite and respectful even as I edged the door closed on them, as some of them at least came across as having suffered a lot in life. It got that way, for a time, that I was always dashing upstairs to peer from behind the front bedroom curtains before I'd answer a knock on the door.
Here (Hackney) they put tracts through the door in brown envelopes with the flat numbers written in pencil.
