The point here - in my view at least - is that it’s clearly too late for a successful PV now.
Fairly sure there were strong rumours about Cable being in talks to start a new party a while back. Which seemed weird considering he's the Lib Dem leader, but hey nothing surprises me any more.
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It was a rhetorical point. Forget the ‘worst’ actions. By choosing to go out of your way to chair an Israeli lobby group you choose to endorse the status quo of objective occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. There are other means to encourage a fair and peaceful two state solution without resorting to aligning yourself to a PR machine backed by the Israeli embassy.
Decent letter TBF.
I’m not denying it was poor judgement but it’s worth remembering that this was someone who was a senior advocate of an Israeli lobby group, who in association with the Israeli embassy had been proactively attempting to undermine and silence any criticism of Israel within British politics, a country under international scrutiny for occupation and oppression.
It would be a huge win for Jeremy Corbyns, wouldn't it? The anti-Corbyn sentiment is ultimately what ends this shambles of a Conservative government.
Let’s see what actual policies they put forward before we rush to labelling them the saviours of the current political quagmire.
yes i think so - I mean the context of it being an institutional problem is not as prevalent as it currently is within labour but certainly in a similar environment if a conservative MP left the party and said the main reason was a toxic atmosphere of islamaphobia and then the young conservatives tweeted out basically good riddance yay for israel then indeed I do think there would be a similar outcry and the tweet would be seen as very much a reflection of that attitude and reinforcing that there is indeed a problem with the party
Whatever helps you get off, I guess.
“By choosing to go out of your way to chair a Palestine lobby group you choose to endorse the status quo of glorification of Palestinian terrorism and rejection of the legitimacy of Israel.”
I look forward to her follow up letter later:
Seems like common sense, what’s wrong with that?
So who on earth's interests were they putting first before?...
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Oh that's a shame.
You’re drawing false equivalence between what’s official government policy of one nation, backed by the world’s sole superpower, and extremist elements of another so that parallel doesn’t quite work. Ryan isn’t a member of both groups either, she’s chair of the Israeli group all while being vocal in her distaste with MPs being involved with the other. So it’s fair to say her impartiality in this is void. Hence why it is understandable why those who harbour sympathy with the Palestinian cause within the Labour Party could feel vindicated with someone like her leaving the party.
See I don’t think it’s less prevalent in the Tory party, but rather it gets brushed aside to the extent that even a senior Tory calling for an inquiry gets dismissed. I’d also agree to disagree with the notion it would generate a similar outcry.
He also said it was a tiny minority of mostly new members. Its of course abhorrent behaviour but beyond adopting the IHRA and insisting zero tolerance towards anti-semitism or any form of bigotry, what do you expect Corbyn to do? They’re not MPs but rather bigoted idiots on social media. What would you have him do?
It's hypothetical to an extent... I mean no conservative MPs are quitting because of it.
I think you have hit the nail on the head here. It is an interesting development though as they now number more than DUP in Parliament so you have to wonder if the PM will have to start pandering to them as well.
