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Imagine if they’d wished the Muslim community Happy Eid & illustrated it with a pork chop & a bottle of champagne. Or inviting them to a Ramadan lunch. That’s how much of an issue it is.

To be honest I don’t how bad it is.

It’s certainly laxed at best considering what the fucking idiots have been up to.
 
Well well well...

Britain’s equalities watchdog is expected to launch a full investigation into Labour after its failure to stamp out antisemitism in the party
 
Seemingly going to walk the next election.

The Tories are quite rightly going to be hammered.

May could go down as the worst story leader of all time.
 
Imagine if they’d wished the Muslim community Happy Eid & illustrated it with a pork chop & a bottle of champagne. Or inviting them to a Ramadan lunch. That’s how much of an issue it is.
Imagine if people didn’t get offended by ridiculous things such as someone wishing you well and forgetting that you don’t eat bread on a particular day.
 
I think back to that speech on the day she was sworn in.

What has happened is the exact opposite.
Yes. In any normal circumstances, she'd have lost her job IMMEDIATELY after the last GE fiasco. That on its own was 10x worse than needed for any normal PM to be ousted.
 
In defence of May. She was dealt an impossible hand, albeit she played it very badly. But, unlike Anthony Eden, she did not embark on a disastrous war. Unlike Chamberlain, she did not play a major role in the most immoral British act of modern times throwing an ally to the tender mercies or Hitler. So she is not the worst tory leader of modern times.
Now consider Blair and the invasion of Iraq.
 
In defence of May. She was dealt an impossible hand, albeit she played it very badly. But, unlike Anthony Eden, she did not embark on a disastrous war. Unlike Chamberlain, she did not play a major role in the most immoral British act of modern times throwing an ally to the tender mercies or Hitler. So she is not the worst tory leader of modern times.
Now consider Blair and the invasion of Iraq.

Blair was a fantastic PM that oversaw years of prosperity.

Iraq was a disaster in hindsight but the removal of dangerous and murderous dictators isn’t the act of a poor leader.
 
Imagine if people didn’t get offended by ridiculous things such as someone wishing you well and forgetting that you don’t eat bread on a particular day.
It wasn't that people were offended but the sheer stupidity of it, when they should be building bridges. It was so stupid that one might have come to the conclusion that they were just trolling.
 
Blair was a fantastic PM that oversaw years of prosperity.

Iraq was a disaster in hindsight but the removal of dangerous and murderous dictators isn’t the act of a poor leader.
Fair enough, except that Blair said before the invasion that regime change was not his objective. The justificiation of removing a dictator was post hoc rewriting of history.. You are wrong to suggest that removal of a dictator is somehow ok. History of uk involvement in the ME showsthat to be nonsense. See Iraq post WW1 and 1956 invasion of Egypt eg. Blair by all accounts was ignorant of UKs previous involvement in Iraq.
If you think the prosperity of the Blair years was his doing, you should study the economic history of the times more closely and consider Browns role and the role of Ken Clark before that.
I can't consider as a great PM a man who refused to talk to his chancellor for several years.
Politically succesful, yes but not the same as great.
PS. Iraq was not a failure "in hindsight". A million ppl marched against it in advance foreseeing the impending disaster.
 
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Fair enough, except that Blair said before the invasion that regime change was not his objective. The justificiation of removing a dictator was post hoc rewriting of history.. You are wrong to suggest that removal of a dictator is somehow ok. History of uk involvement in the ME showsthat to be nonsense. See Iraq post WW1 and 1956 invasion of Egypt eg. Blair by all accounts was ignorant of UKs previous involvement in Iraq.
If you think the prosperity of the Blair years was his doing, you should study the economic history of the times more closely and consider Browns role and the role of Ken Clark before that.
I can't consider as a great PM a man who refused to talk to his chancellor for several years.
Politically succesful, yes but not the same as great.
PS. Iraq was not a failure "in hindsight". A million ppl marched against it in advance foreseeing the impending disaster.

That’s just simply untrue.

The Iraq Liberation Act was passed through US Congress in the late 90’s which had regime change at the heart of it.

The removal of a murderous dictator is always ok - you’re often judged on what follows though which can sometimes be out of your control.

I have studied the economic history of the times thank you very much and Blair and Brown did talk, they fell out but they did talk.

The economic history was that we had a boom and the growth in living standards was the fastest in history.
 
That’s just simply untrue.

The Iraq Liberation Act was passed through US Congress in the late 90’s which had regime change at the heart of it.

The removal of a murderous dictator is always ok - you’re often judged on what follows though which can sometimes be out of your control.

I have studied the economic history of the times thank you very much and Blair and Brown did talk, they fell out but they did talk.

The economic history was that we had a boom and the growth in living standards was the fastest in history.
What is untrue?
The Iraq Liberation Act had no force in UK. Blair was adament that UK aims were not the same as US aims, even tho' we were acting together.
Edit : See below for what Blair told parliament.. He repeated this statement on TV.
In private letters to Bush, he supported regime change and the difference between his public and private statements was a major point in the Chilcot enquiry and the parliamentary debate on the report.
 
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