All the mystic Meg centrist commentariat are out on Xitter, desperately trying to make it not Kieth's fault and vehemently denying it'll have any effect at the election. 🙄
"The Labour Party is understood to believe the proposals (on further restricting the right to protest) are sensible but the PM's language is not."
Source: BBC
"Harriet Harman is asked why Labour couldn't support the SNP ceasefire motion: 'Their motion had condemning Israelis for what they describe as collective punishment'"
It's what the ICJ and every other international NGO describes as collective punishment too, Harriet. Try making up your own mind rather than getting your instructions from Isaac Herzog.
"The group pushing for voters to choose “uncommitted” – called Listen to Michigan – set the goal of 10,000 uncommitted votes in the primary. With more than half of the votes tallied Tuesday night, “uncommitted” had received 74,000 votes out of a total of more than 580,000 – almost 13% of the vote."
Would you have a look at this dangerous mob of extremists ... erm ... singing in a workmens' hall in south Wales? I hope the local MP has police protection. 🙄 😡
Charlotte Church leads a choir in a special arrangement of "From The River To The Sea" in Bedwas, Caerphilly on Saturday. Proceeds from the event are going to the Gaza Hospital Ambulance Appeal.
"Matt Chorley [on his Red Box podcast] stating that the SNP have been calling for a ceasefire in Gaza due to 'large Muslim populations in Glasgow and Edinburgh'"
Jesus motherfucking christ - it's the fault of ceasefire protesters 🤬
Robert Jenrick: "We have allowed our streets to be dominated by islamist extremists and now we're allowing islamist extremists to intimidate British members of Parliament..." #UKPolitics
Listen to Lammy on Politics Hub, telling us why Labour won't support the SNP motion. How can voting for a ceasefire, which 70% of the electorate want and has already caused them to haemorrhage voters "cut across [our] ability [to serve]?!??? 🤬
“We don’t want to do anything in an election year, in which the Labour Party might have the privilege of serving, that cuts across our ability to do that.”
“The Labour Party leadership has tabled an amendment seeking to water down the #SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza. This amendment seeks to dilute the clear call for an immediate ceasefire by handing the Israeli government a veto over whether or not a ceasefire should happen, at a time when Israel is on trial at the #ICJ for the crime of genocide."
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious It seems the full text of Labour's motion is even weaker than anticipated - check this out as a sub-clause:
" ... noting that Israel cannot be expected to cease fighting if Hamas continues with violence and that Israelis have the right to the assurance that the horror of 7th October cannot happen again ... "
Full text below. #UKPolitics#TelAvivKeith#NoCeasefireNoVote#SaveGaza
@HelenG I fucking knew it 🤬
A tiny act of semantics that aligns with America's draft resolution at the UN later, and gives them cover for voting against the SNP motion.
Cunts.
Just found this on the dark side for anyone who hasn't had the chance to read it - the text of the SNP ceasefire motion. I really don't know how anyone can find fault with what's rather euphemistically being called "the form of words". #UKPolitics#NoCeasefireNoVote#FreePalestine
This mealy-mouthed little cunt saying what is and has been blatantly obvious for the last four months. I can't help wondering whether Leanne Mohammed's popularity in his constituency has something to do with it 🙄 🤬
@ScepticalScot1 We'll find out tomorrow. Given that Streeting said yesterday "we won't be told what to do by the SNP", I'm not holding my breath. Here's what Taj Ali of Tribune had to say about it:
"The SNP position is the position of the UN Secretary General, UN agencies, the World Health Organisation, over 700 leading international NGOs, the vast majority of Labour members, the vast majority of the British public and the vast majority of the world." #UKPolitics#SaveGaza#NoCeasefireNoVote