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Remember if you were a total mug & paid £35 for a ticket to #LabourLive #JezzFest then you should probably sue for your money back as they are shoveling out free tickets now to anybody now in a final act of utter desperation
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Remember if you were a total mug & paid £35 for a ticket to #LabourLive #JezzFest then you should probably sue for your money back as they are shoveling out free tickets now to anybody now in a final act of utter desperation
Jun 13, 2018 -- 10:46AM, kenny mann wrote:
CS bumboy.Owen, not u Capt.
That's homophobic .....would you be throwing gays off buildings like they do in Iran ?
Owen Jones is a great guy.....future Prime Minister possibly .....if he doesn't get murdered by one of the right-wing knuckle-draggers.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/brexit-traitor-trope-hard-right-fantasies-risk
Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were a menace. So were the Nazi sympathies of many British aristocrats in the 1930s. Today’s ascendant far right poses its own unique dangers, using familiar tropes that have been fuelled and legitimised by the political and media elite – and there is all too little appreciation of where Britain could be heading.
Brexit, for the Tory right, was a national revolution: not simply a recalibration of Britain’s relationship with the EU but a blunt instrument to roll back progressive social norms. Those deemed to be critics or opponents were now enemies of the people, saboteurs, traitors, all splashed on newspaper front pages. A rising Labour left is portrayed as treacherous, in league with terrorists and foreign powers. For the hard right, in Britain and beyond, the left is an agent of the nation’s destruction because of its support for migrants and refugees, and opposition to anti-Muslim bigotry. Islamophobia is a respectable bigotry, fanned by national newspapers such as The Sun and The Times which are forced to publish corrections after publishing articles which twist the truth and whip up hatred, but by then the damage is already done.
The odds of a deal being negotiated to the satisfaction of the Tory hard Brexiteers are low. And what then?
A classic far-right trope has always been to portray opponents as betrayers of the nation. This week, it reached a zenith with the threatening Daily Express headline: “Ignore the will of the people at your peril”. Little wonder that the Labour MP for Wigan, Lisa Nandy, tweeted: “These front pages are not just disgraceful but downright dangerous. What the hell is happening to our democracy?” This while an alleged member of a banned neo-Nazi group has admitted to plotting to kill her friend and neighbouring Labour MP for West Lancashire, Rosie Cooper, with a knife. Jo Cox was murdered by a fascist terrorist almost exactly two years ago; the anti-Muslim terrorist Darren Osborne drove to London last year hoping to murder Jeremy Corbyn, and mowed down a group of Muslim worshippers, killing one; and four far-right plots were thwarted last year.
The profile of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (or “Tommy Robinson”), who founded the English Defence League, flourishes despite, or perhaps because of, his being jailed last month for contempt of court. His growing far-right movement benefits from the promotion of bigotry by the media and political elite.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/brexit-traitor-trope-hard-right-fantasies-risk
Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts were a menace. So were the Nazi sympathies of many British aristocrats in the 1930s. Today’s ascendant far right poses its own unique dangers, using familiar tropes that have been fuelled and legitimised by the political and media elite – and there is all too little appreciation of where Britain could be heading.
Brexit, for the Tory right, was a national revolution: not simply a recalibration of Britain’s relationship with the EU but a blunt instrument to roll back progressive social norms. Those deemed to be critics or opponents were now enemies of the people, saboteurs, traitors, all splashed on newspaper front pages. A rising Labour left is portrayed as treacherous, in league with terrorists and foreign powers. For the hard right, in Britain and beyond, the left is an agent of the nation’s destruction because of its support for migrants and refugees, and opposition to anti-Muslim bigotry. Islamophobia is a respectable bigotry, fanned by national newspapers such as The Sun and The Times which are forced to publish corrections after publishing articles which twist the truth and whip up hatred, but by then the damage is already done.
The odds of a deal being negotiated to the satisfaction of the Tory hard Brexiteers are low. And what then?
A classic far-right trope has always been to portray opponents as betrayers of the nation. This week, it reached a zenith with the threatening Daily Express headline: “Ignore the will of the people at your peril”. Little wonder that the Labour MP for Wigan, Lisa Nandy, tweeted: “These front pages are not just disgraceful but downright dangerous. What the hell is happening to our democracy?” This while an alleged member of a banned neo-Nazi group has admitted to plotting to kill her friend and neighbouring Labour MP for West Lancashire, Rosie Cooper, with a knife. Jo Cox was murdered by a fascist terrorist almost exactly two years ago; the anti-Muslim terrorist Darren Osborne drove to London last year hoping to murder Jeremy Corbyn, and mowed down a group of Muslim worshippers, killing one; and four far-right plots were thwarted last year.
The profile of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (or “Tommy Robinson”), who founded the English Defence League, flourishes despite, or perhaps because of, his being jailed last month for contempt of court. His growing far-right movement benefits from the promotion of bigotry by the media and political elite.
The Leopard 16 Jun 18 11:49
Jun 13, 2018 -- 10:46AM, kenny mann wrote:
CS bumboy.Owen, not u Capt.
That's homophobic .....would you be throwing gays off buildings like they do in Iran ?
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Typical knee jerk analogy which is so common these days. Lots of people manage to live a long time disliking cats/dogs without actually killing or harming a single one. Get a grip.
Jun 13, 2018 -- 10:46AM, kenny mann wrote:
CS bumboy.Owen, not u Capt.
That's homophobic .....would you be throwing gays off buildings like they do in Iran ?
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Typical knee jerk analogy which is so common these days. Lots of people manage to live a long time disliking cats/dogs without actually killing or harming a single one. Get a grip.
He is tolerant of intolerance by some people in the name of religion. But he cannot tolerate the intolerance of the 'far right' of the intolerance of some people in the name of religion.
He is very mixed up in what his 'liberal' values will allow.
He is very mixed up in what his 'liberal' values will allow.
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