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Me too. The TAMB page is jerking all over the place and now this cr*p 😡
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7 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said:
I do recall them saying they don't interfere in a country's democratic process. Since the UK voted to leave the EU it will remain that way for them.
Of course, I suppose, if a second referendum was to be had and a different result returned that would change things. However, I cannot see that happening. It would be too big a climbdown for the egotistical Tories.
It would be the end of the Tory party as we know it. Maybot and others know this and that’s why she’s sticking with brexit means brexit line, even though she’s not proposing a true brexit.
It was said over a year ago that the Westminster government will speak about brexit in two ways, one for domestic consumption and the other for European consumption.
The chequers agreement was supposed to bridge that gap, but it obviously didn’t with the reaction from members of her cabinet, Michael Barnier and some members of the UK public who will only accept a no deal.
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Army put on standby to deliver essential goods for the vulnerable and no doubt the privileged tories.
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2 hours ago, aaid said:
I refer the honourable TAMBer to my previous comment about his lack of leadership credentials.
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2 hours ago, exile said:
I've yet to see what the specific anti-Semitic allegation is spelled out. The closest I got was something about if you say Israel is behaving like Nazis, that's anti-Semitic.
Now I think it's unwise to bandy about accusations of anyone being or acting like Hitler or the Nazis.
And to lay it at the door of Israel must be considered tactless and/or offensive.
But is it anti-Semitic? I am not convinced.
I think his lack of clarity in disputing the accusations is doing him no favours.
His old Facebook comment.
Backing for Palestine. I have no opinion on this.
Not to sure on this, but did he not back ken Livingston (not his views) when he aired controversial views?
Then there’s the NECs decision to approve a new code of conduct on anti semitism which the Jewish community doesn’t like, for reasons I’m not to familiar with.
He doesn’t seem to want to clear up these matters quickly for some reason.
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18 minutes ago, aaid said:
I suspect it's probably a bit deeper that that, that' article's just a stick to beat him with
Then Corbyn is handing out free sticks to everyone.
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3 minutes ago, aaid said:
My read of situation is that main reason that a lot of Labour MPs, especially those that are pro-Israel, don't like Corbyn is because of his support for Palestine and what that means as regards his views on Israel. So I don't see them complaining about anti-semitism in the party being completely opportunistic, I suspect it's at the root of why they don't like him.
Corbyn himself doesn't strike me as being anti-Semitic, it would be a strange sort of bigot that worked for equality for all races bar one specific one. I've no doubt there are some in the Corbynista camp for who the line between being gainer the policies of Likud and being anti-Semitic is a bit more blurred though.
That said, his inability to sort this out - which actually shouldn't be that difficult - is another example to me of how he unsuited he is to leadership.
According to this article it all stems from an old Facebook comment he made.
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8 minutes ago, phart said:
They a single homogeneous entity with one opinion on the subject? That I can even ask "them".
Okay, then take the opinion of just about every labour politician who has been asked about this subject on tv.
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40 minutes ago, PapofGlencoe said:
what is it we're actually being told to believe here... that Corbyn is prejudiced against jews?
feels like a smear job to me.
23 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said:I would definitely say it is a smear job.
Well why has he not said anything, or why is he now trying to pospone a report on it.
Mid he’s not guilty of anti Semitic then he’s surely guilty of being ineffective as well as useless to stamp this out right from the start.
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7 hours ago, phart said:
He's been SNP on currency, but political partisanship doesn't allow folk to give others the pass they gave themselves. In my opinion of course.
I don't know how strong Corbyn has been as hard to see all the interference, he's not had it any harder than the SNP have though as well.
tbh Jeremy Corbyn main strengths seem to be that he isn't a lying cunt. Which shows you how far down the barrel we've got at Westminster.
I wouldn't vote Labour at a General Election I quite like him though despite all the shit he has had.
Ask the Jewish community on that one.
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55 minutes ago, Third Lanark said:
He's done well to run the LP on behalf of the members despite constant sabotage from the right of his party plus T. Blair.
I beg to differ.
The only reason the Labour Party has seemed to have done well is because the main focus on everyone’s eyes, including the media, has been because of the tory party’s infighting, division and poor handling of brexit.
Brexit and the tory party are the main topics.
These are also the reasons why they’re doing so well in the opinion polls.
There is not much alternative in England to choose from.
As for labour’s pie in the sky NHS.
Corbyn, like many labour politicians before, will promise the earth when not in power, but when in power?
yes they put more money into the NHS.
“However, in 1999 ‘New Labour’ marked the start of a transition of the NHS from a public sector provider to include the private sector under the disguise of choice and competition. New Labour’s reforms of the NHS proved to be highly unpopular both within and outside the mainstream Labour Party.”
There’s a mountain of information out there to suggest that the Labour Party is just as bad, if not worse, with the nhs as the tories are.
That, imo, will not change with Corbyn because he will fall into the establishment role.
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44 minutes ago, Third Lanark said:
A Corbyn government is the ONLY hope of saving the NHS from total US privatisation. You call that a pipe dream. The SNP is incapable of saving it; they are still too wedded to the capitalist model.
Corbyn couldn’t run his office Christmas raffle.
Some hope.
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2 hours ago, weekevie04 said:
From May's speech today, she is going back on her agreement in December about the backstop regards Northern Ireland.
Although the last few days have certainly made it look like there is a chance that there might be not be a deal, I think when push comes to shove, the British government will back down and there will be some form of agreement - customs union and single market for the whole of GB/NI. The Brexiteers will huff and puff a bit, but they don't have the wits, numbers or cajones to take down the British prime minister (the likes of Gove and Fox are not warriors) - and seriously, Jacob Rees Mogg will be PM ? Not a scooby, he's a backbench MP who gets far too much time!
They have to back down for the sake of the city of London which makes most of the dosh for them.
A no deal would mean they move out of London on mass taking thousands of jobs with them. They don’t care that much for some losses in the manufacturing industry, but their jewel in the crown is a step to far.
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4 minutes ago, exile said:
Heard some govt official this morning talking about Brexit, they're all over the place, they have no clue what they are going to do, they are still in denial, all they can say is something along the lines of Theresa May is very clear... we will fulfil [all the good things you /the people say they want] and will avoid all the bad things. But wthey have still to decide which package of good an dbad things we are going to get.
You can't have a permeable N-S border in Ireland, ad no east west barrier ireland-GB, and also have the UK fully leaving the EU. You just can't. Unless Ireland rejoins the UK.
Sometimes I think the only solution would be a special status for the island of Ireland, where NI has a special status within UK, and RoI has a special status within EU, so that everyone is compromising (maybe a bit like Cyprus must have some sort of spacial status). That seems unlikely. More likely, the fudge of a soft Brexit that no one is enthusiastic about but sh*fts the hard Brexiteers, or a crash-out no deal hard Brexit that sh*fts everyone else.
A special status for the island of Ireland, including Northern Ireland a part of the UK, but no special status for Scotland.
Of course the Neanderthal knuckle staggers would have nothing to do with the idea of being separated, in any form, from the UK what so ever.
See the dilemma.
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2 hours ago, ParisInAKilt said:
I couldn’t agree more.
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5 hours ago, ParisInAKilt said:
Politics and politicians. You may not agree with the people who voted to leave the EU but they exercised their democracy and it’s been shat over by the system. This could easily have been Scotland in 2014, although granted at least the SNP wanted independence, when its unclear if the Tory’s actually want to leave the EU.
It could easily have been the Labour Party again who have promised Scotland so much, home rule, and shat over Scotland time and time again by their betrayal to our country.
Corbyn will not make one iota of a difference in this respect as he will just follow the establishment line when it comes to Scotland and its aspirations.
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1 minute ago, Ally Bongo said:Gets more and more fucking ridiculous by the day
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@theresa_may says 70 "technical notices" for businesses and households will be published in Aug and Sept setting out how we can all prepare for a no-deal Brexit (should that be what happens). YikesBuild a bomb proof shelter in your back garden, stock up on medicines, paracetamol, and fill your cupboards with tinned beans.
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3 hours ago, AlfieMoon said:
I'm not close to the industry but have heard multiple times from sources like ScotGov and Ian Wood that there are skills shortages for the industry and want better alignment from Scottish education through to industry. Surely if we're not filling the jobs ourselves than we only have ourselves to blame? The same could be said of the IT sector in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Or am I missing something? Your post suggests something more sinister.
Trust me it’s more sinister. I didn’t say the ‘teeside mafia’ for nothing.
The likes of Ian wood only speak about skill shortages so there’s a glut of particular trades, thus driving down the wages.
Saying that I would say there is a skill shortage in Scotland, but that should have been addressed decades ago.
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36 minutes ago, Dave78 said:
Presumably the Norwegians are able to do that because they're not part of the EU? It'd contravene single market employment laws i'd imagine?
Not too sure of that. I remember a few years back that expats had to speak Norwegian, or some words, to get a job in Norway.
This was aimed mainly at the polish migrant workers.
The Norwegians, as a good few other eu countries Denmark, Italy etc, seem to be more nationalistic when it comes to who gets jobs within their country, or on their projects overseas. Fluent speakers seem to be the buzz words.
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@ Hamden loon. And most of our towns, villages and cities would be booming with all that spending power.
In times gone by the teeside mafia used to block Scots getting a job in their own waters, now they do it inadvertently (maybe not) by getting their mates, family members in first.
I always say that no voters should work beside these guys for a few days and they’ll soon be voting yes.
I was scheduled to go on the stair ridge, but knocked it back at the last second. That’s after me doing all the week long course too 🤭
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33 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
Seemingly Labour MPs have done it again tonight by voting with the Government
Turns out they prevented a vote of No Confidence in Theresa May and a General Election in 2 weeks time
Mann, Stringer, Hoey, Hopkins and Field
Calls for the whip to be withdrawn from them and debarred from future MP selections !
According to the biased bbc on news at ten, Labour voted against the government, no mention of any labour MPs voting with the government.
No wonder the message is not getting out there.
Biased cvnts.
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33 minutes ago, ParisInAKilt said:
It would have hurt people with money that’s for sure
I’m sure hampden loon will back me up on this.
It would also hurt the working class, in particular, the north east of England if Scotland were to go down the road of Scots get a job first offshore, like the Norwegians do.
You can hardly get a job offshore for Geordies, teesiders etc.
The loss to Scotland in economic spending from these migrant workers is huge.
The North Sea is practically driving their local economies.
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59 minutes ago, ParisInAKilt said:
But the people telling me Brexit will be a disaster are the same people who told me Scottish independence would be a disaster. I’m confused.
Scottish independence would be a disaster for rUK.
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24 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
I can't get my head round the fact both Vince Cable and Tim Farron missed a vote last night the hard Brexiteers won by three votes
Three Labour MPs voted with the government 😡
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