I thought the area was largely populated by ethnic minorities. I could be wrong.
Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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I thought the area was largely populated by ethnic minorities. I could be wrong.
Right and how does that explain Jeremy Corbyn favouriting a tweet that accuses him of covering up child sex abuse?
He is sticking up for his constituents? Do you think he has done it by accident?
How is that sticking up for his constituents? Am I missing something here?
Really? He is rubbishing the claim that there are child brothels in the area made by a Tory politician. Why do you think he favourited it?
I not a Corbyn fan
But the tweet says ask Corbyn why... Perhaps that's what he wants people to do so he can explain the rational and reasoning behind his actions.
Thst would seem the most likely and logical reason - it was certainly my first thought as to why he would have favourited it
Are you saying that the tweet that Corbyn favourited is rubbishing those claims?
Have you even read the article? Corbyn demands the withdrawal of the claim in it.
So you are saying that the tweet that Corbyn favourited is rubbishing those claims?
He favourited the tweet because he is not ashamed that he demanded the withdrawal of the claim. If there are child brothels in that area I have no idea. You are the one who finds it weird that he favourited that tweet. I do not.
Okay I understand you now. Sort of.
He could be doing what a lot of people do - using the 'favourite' function to save a link to an article he didn't have time to read at that moment in time. Or he could be ironically/passive-aggressively liking something he sees as a misrepresentation of actual events.
More likely an aide did it for one of the above reasons. Corbyn probably writes the tweets but I doubt he's the one maintaining the account on a day-to-day basis, I'd imagine he's a little too busy.
More likely an aide did it for one of the above reasons. Corbyn probably writes the tweets but I doubt he's the one maintaining the account on a day-to-day basis, I'd imagine he's a little too busy.
You are probably correct.
Labour opens inquiry into antisemitism allegations at Oxford student club
Decision by university’s Labour society to support Israeli Apartheid Week prompts MPs to call for party to sever ties with club
By Mark Tran
Wednesday 17 February 2016
The Labour party’s national student organisation has launched an inquiry into allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at Oxford University Labour Club. Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, who was due to address the club’ s annual John Smith memorial dinner in a few weeks’ time, said he was “deeply disturbed” by the reports and was postponing his appearance until an investigation had been carried out.
A co-chairman of the club, Alex Chalmers, resigned earlier this week, claiming a large proportion of members “have some kind of problem with Jews”. He alleged that some members had expressed support for the Islamist group Hamas.
A decision by the club to support Israeli Apartheid Week, which seeks to highlight Israel’s “ongoing settler-colonial project and apartheid policies over the Palestinian people”, has angered some Labour MPs, who have called for the party to dissociate itself from OULC.
In explaining his decision to resign, Chalmers wrote on Facebook: “A large proportion of both OULC and the student left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews. The decision of the club to endorse a movement with a history of targeting and harassing Jewish students and inviting antisemitic speakers to campuses, despite the concerns of Jewish students, illustrates how uneven and insincere much of the active membership is when it comes to liberation.”
The Oxford University Jewish Society (JSoc) said it was “high time” that the issue of antisemitism within the student left was confronted: “When antisemitism intersects with Palestinian solidarity politics, it is not the job of Jewish students to be quiet, but the job of Palestinian solidarity activists to rid their movement of anti-Jewish prejudice.”
A Labour party spokeswoman said the party supported an inquiry announced by Labour Students, the national students’ group affiliated to the party. “Following recent allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at Oxford University Labour Club, Labour Students have launched an immediate investigation and the Labour party welcomes and supports this action. If complaints are made about any individual member of the Labour party, the party will take robust action to deal with any antisemitic behaviour.”
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John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, has called for the party to sever ties with the club. He said: “I have written to the Labour party asking for an investigation as a matter of urgency. It is hugely embarrassing for the Labour party. This is something Jeremy Corbyn should personally look into.”
Louise Ellman, vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, said: “I am deeply disturbed by the news that Oxford University Labour Club has decided to support Israeli Apartheid Week and by the revelations from Alex Chalmers about the troubling tone of the discourse in which this debate appears to have been conducted.” She said comparisons between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa were “a grotesque smear and the Labour party should dissociate itself from them”.
The OULC executive committee said it was launching an investigation and encouraged members to come forward with information. “We are horrified at and condemn antisemitic behaviour in all its forms,” it said. “The comments detailed in JSoc’s statement indicate a shocking pattern of hateful and racist behaviour by some club members, and it’s of the highest priority that this be dealt with swiftly and lastingly.”
More than 30 former and current chairs and executive members of OULC and others have signed a letter condemning the club’s decision to endorse Israeli Apartheid Week. The signatories, who include Alexander Charles Carlile and Ruth Deech, say Israeli Apartheid Week promotes a “one-sided narrative, seeking to dismantle the only majority-Jewish member-state of the United Nations”.
The letter goes on: “We are troubled by OULC’s decision and feel compelled to speak out. In a climate of rising antisemitism, we have a duty to oppose initiatives that foster an intolerant political culture which intimidates Jewish students.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...semitism-oxford-university-labour-club-claims
Decision by university’s Labour society to support Israeli Apartheid Week prompts MPs to call for party to sever ties with club
By Mark Tran
Wednesday 17 February 2016
The Labour party’s national student organisation has launched an inquiry into allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at Oxford University Labour Club. Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, who was due to address the club’ s annual John Smith memorial dinner in a few weeks’ time, said he was “deeply disturbed” by the reports and was postponing his appearance until an investigation had been carried out.
A co-chairman of the club, Alex Chalmers, resigned earlier this week, claiming a large proportion of members “have some kind of problem with Jews”. He alleged that some members had expressed support for the Islamist group Hamas.
A decision by the club to support Israeli Apartheid Week, which seeks to highlight Israel’s “ongoing settler-colonial project and apartheid policies over the Palestinian people”, has angered some Labour MPs, who have called for the party to dissociate itself from OULC.
In explaining his decision to resign, Chalmers wrote on Facebook: “A large proportion of both OULC and the student left in Oxford more generally have some kind of problem with Jews. The decision of the club to endorse a movement with a history of targeting and harassing Jewish students and inviting antisemitic speakers to campuses, despite the concerns of Jewish students, illustrates how uneven and insincere much of the active membership is when it comes to liberation.”
The Oxford University Jewish Society (JSoc) said it was “high time” that the issue of antisemitism within the student left was confronted: “When antisemitism intersects with Palestinian solidarity politics, it is not the job of Jewish students to be quiet, but the job of Palestinian solidarity activists to rid their movement of anti-Jewish prejudice.”
A Labour party spokeswoman said the party supported an inquiry announced by Labour Students, the national students’ group affiliated to the party. “Following recent allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at Oxford University Labour Club, Labour Students have launched an immediate investigation and the Labour party welcomes and supports this action. If complaints are made about any individual member of the Labour party, the party will take robust action to deal with any antisemitic behaviour.”
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John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, has called for the party to sever ties with the club. He said: “I have written to the Labour party asking for an investigation as a matter of urgency. It is hugely embarrassing for the Labour party. This is something Jeremy Corbyn should personally look into.”
Louise Ellman, vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, said: “I am deeply disturbed by the news that Oxford University Labour Club has decided to support Israeli Apartheid Week and by the revelations from Alex Chalmers about the troubling tone of the discourse in which this debate appears to have been conducted.” She said comparisons between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa were “a grotesque smear and the Labour party should dissociate itself from them”.
The OULC executive committee said it was launching an investigation and encouraged members to come forward with information. “We are horrified at and condemn antisemitic behaviour in all its forms,” it said. “The comments detailed in JSoc’s statement indicate a shocking pattern of hateful and racist behaviour by some club members, and it’s of the highest priority that this be dealt with swiftly and lastingly.”
More than 30 former and current chairs and executive members of OULC and others have signed a letter condemning the club’s decision to endorse Israeli Apartheid Week. The signatories, who include Alexander Charles Carlile and Ruth Deech, say Israeli Apartheid Week promotes a “one-sided narrative, seeking to dismantle the only majority-Jewish member-state of the United Nations”.
The letter goes on: “We are troubled by OULC’s decision and feel compelled to speak out. In a climate of rising antisemitism, we have a duty to oppose initiatives that foster an intolerant political culture which intimidates Jewish students.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...semitism-oxford-university-labour-club-claims
This is a quite worrying sign IMO, in terms of future elections, and internal party conflicts. Like @Ubik keeps banging on, Momentum are the closest thing Britain has to the Tea Party (obviously in terms of political tactics rather than politics).
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-sweeps-board-at-labour-party-youth-elections
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-sweeps-board-at-labour-party-youth-elections
Momentum sweeps board at Labour party youth elections
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership take all 18 seats in youth elections ahead of Young Labour annual conference next week
Candidates supported by Momentum, the group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn inside Labour, have swept the board in the party’s youth elections.
All 18 seats up for election were won by candidates backed by the grassroots group, in a sign that the party’s left is increasing its influence internally.
The results, published on Thursday, come one week before Young Labour’s annual conference in Scarborough, where party moderates and Momentum will battle it out for a crucial seat on Labour’s ruling body, the National Executive Committee (NEC).
Party leader Corbyn currently has the support of a slim majority of members of the NEC.
Thursday’s results, for seats on Young Labour’s national committee and for youth positions on the party’s regional boards, saw candidates that were supported by Momentum elected in every region.
There was a poor turnout with only 3.5% of those eligible to vote taking part in the online ballot. A total of 50,926 party members under the age of 27 were eligible to take part in the election.
Momentum activist Max Shanly, who was elected to regional board of Labour’s south-east region, said: “The left did well because we organised the unorganised. We intend to continue doing so as representatives of Young Labour so as to fulfil Labour’s historic role as a vehicle for the liberation of working people and their families.”
Some young members criticised the results. Luke Pagliaro, 21, from the north-west Cambridgeshire branch of the party said: “Obviously Momentum have been very successful in this election, but the reality is most members want a party which can win elections and challenge the Tories; I don’t think this takes us any closer to that.”
Others were disappointed that so few young members has taken part in the election. Sarah Freestone, who lost in the south-east, said: “The turnout in the election has been the most disappointing thing – to have so few vote in the region in such an important election is upsetting. I think this really shows we need to look at how Young Labour engages its members who live outside of London.”
The victory for Momentum will alarm the party’s centrists before two crucial votes at the youth wing’s annual conference next weekend, where a chair and NEC representative will be elected by delegates from Labour Students, Young Labour and trade union youth wings.
The delegates to next weekend’s conference were elected as part of a separate ballot held in December last year and are understood to be more closely balanced between the party’s left and right.
The election of the NEC representative is considered particularly important as Corbyn’s supporters attempt to increase the committee’s powers over party staffing and policy making. This has been seen as an attempt to undermine MPs and the shadow cabinet who are considered less loyal to Corbyn.
The elections at youth conference will be a key test for Momentum’s election machine before more NEC elections are held in the summer, where six members from constituency labour parties will be elected.
A Momentum spokesperson said: “Momentum supports democracy in the Labour party, which is why we are offering bursaries to young members so they can attend Young Labour conference later this month. We look forward to seeing how the new Young Labour Committee engages with young people in the party, advances their interests, and broadens the party to attract and support more young members.”
If you want something that'll cheer you up - the recently announced steering committee for Momentum has on it people with convictions for electoral fraud, hardline defenders of Lutfur Rahman, and someone that stood as a candidate against Labour for the Alliance for Worker's Liberty party, which is Trotskyite.
But everything is fine!
The party is a mess. Anyone that says otherwise is delusional.
Momentum have been linked with the Oxford Uni scandal as well.
Jeremy Corbyn has to be very careful now. He can/will roll out his anti-anti semitic spin but the Jewish community - me included - are more than aware of the racist company he keeps.
I saw that on the news, even Andy Burnham was trying not to laugh. It was rowdy in Parliment today.
He did a very bad jobIt was quite funny, although shows how much of a farce the whole thing is when it's kind of important and meant to be serious. Burnham laughing behind Corbyn was so awkward though.
Corbyn should've handled it better, maybe come back with a jibe of his own, instead of looking like an annoyed headmaster.
It was quite funny, although shows how much of a farce the whole thing is when it's kind of important and meant to be serious. Burnham laughing behind Corbyn was so awkward though.
Corbyn should've handled it better, maybe come back with a jibe of his own, instead of looking like an annoyed headmaster.
It was quality entertainment for a bunch of reasons
He isn't sharp or charismatic enough for that. He loses on the personality scale big time, along with all his other failings as a leader.
Well at least Labour are doing it right. Momentum on the other hand...
I see Cameron's shown his nasty side in PMQ time again. He excels in trying to get cheap laughs by mocking others.
My mother would have given both him and his mother a clip round the ear for being rude to people.
My mother would have given both him and his mother a clip round the ear for being rude to people.
It was childish.But it did make me laugh.
Asking him what his mother would think is sly and puerile as well. It is just that Cameron is better at it than the current Labour party.
He's such a nasty, obnoxious piece of shit.
Got an email from Labour today unveiling their new range of Jeremy Corbyn merchandise - https://shop.labour.org.uk/products/jeremy-corbyn/
Thought he handled it well. Didn't fall into the trap of responding in kind and made Cameron look worse in contrast.
Instead of exploiting the Tory divide over Europe, Corbyn decides to show off his party's cracks by yelling at a CND rally. Genius.
Trident rally is Britain's biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/27/cnd-rally-anti-nuclear-demonstration-trident-london
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/27/cnd-rally-anti-nuclear-demonstration-trident-london
How many actually attended
It just says thousands... It does mention 300k at a similar one in 1983
Labour anti-Semitism row threatens to divide the Party
Former shadow cabinet ministers call for suppressed investigation to be published as Party is accused of failing to take issue seriously
By Camilla Turner
06 Mar 2016
The Labour anti-Semitism row threatens to divide the Party as two former shadow cabinet ministers accuse officials of failing to take the issue seriously.
It comes as insiders claim that Jeremy Corbyn is trying to “bury the Party’s problem with anti-Semitism” after refusing to publish the original investigation into harassment of Jewish students at Oxford University, then subsuming it within a new, wider inquiry that involves unrelated complaints.
Michael Dugher MP and Rachel Reeves MP, both of whom held shadow cabinet roles under Ed Miliband, called for the initial report by Labour Students to be published immediately while Labour peers joined the chorus of criticism against the Party’s stance.
Mr Dugher and Ms Reeves said the Labour Students investigation must be published “in the interests of transparency” and "to demonstrate beyond all doubt the seriousness with which we take these allegations”.
They said that it “isn’t acceptable for the Party to now wrap serious allegations about anti-Semitism inside Labour Students into a wider inquiry”.
Meanwhile, Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has written to Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol to express her “deep concern" about the new inquiry, chaired by Baroness Jan Royall.
She said it is “highly inappropriate” for the new investigation to be “rolled together” with other issues surrounding the Labour Youth elections which took place last weekend in Scarborough.
Two distinct investigations must be set up to “provide a degree of reassurance that allegations of anti-Semitism are being treated with the seriousness that they deserve”, she added.
• Momentum activists blamed for rise of anti-semitism at Oxford Labour Club, a senior source has claimed
Lord Tony Clarke, a former Labour chairman, and Lord Bernard Donoghue, a senior advisor to the late Prime Minister Harold Wilson, also expressed disappointment at the Party's stance.
"For the Labour Party, or left-wing elements of it, to now be flirting with anti-Semitism is an appalling development," Lord Donoghue told the Jewish Chronicle.
Two Momentum activists - Max Shanly, 25, and James Elliott, 22, - are both understood to be the subject of allegations in the original Labour Students report. Both vigorously deny the claims.
The Party’s decision to launch a new investigation while failing to publish the initial report, led to claims that it was a “cover-up” and an attempt by Mr Corbyn to protect his favoured candidates at the Labour Youth Elections last weekend.
A Labour Party source said: “The original report was handed to Corbyn’s office and circulated among senior Labour staff but they wanted it to be buried, especially the week of the election. It was clearly a politically motivated decision.
“It plays to a wider issue: everyone knows there is a problem with anti-Semitism on the left but they continue with impunity, they have a carte blanche under Corbyn.
"There was an understanding that the Party would endorse the Labour Students’ findings and build on them. But that is not what has happened. They did not like the findings so shut it down.”
Elliott, 22, lost out on a seat as youth representative on the powerful National Executive Committee by a narrow margin to Jasmin Beckett. Shanly, 25, also lost the election but was subsequently elected to the Young Labour National Committee afterthe initial results were overturned on a technicality.
At this week’s Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) meeting, general secretary Iain McNicol said that the investigation into alleged anti-Semitism will also examine claims of election foul play in the Labour Youth Elections over the weekend.
A Labour spokeswoman said: "The Labour Party takes all allegations of anti-Semitism, racism, bullying, intimidation and candidate misconduct very seriously.
"Baroness Jan Royall is currently leading an investigation into the conduct of individual Young Labour Party members. Baroness Royall will consider all allegations and all relevant evidence."
Mr Corbyn's office did not respond for comment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...mitism-row-threatens-to-divide-the-Party.html
Former shadow cabinet ministers call for suppressed investigation to be published as Party is accused of failing to take issue seriously
By Camilla Turner
06 Mar 2016
The Labour anti-Semitism row threatens to divide the Party as two former shadow cabinet ministers accuse officials of failing to take the issue seriously.
It comes as insiders claim that Jeremy Corbyn is trying to “bury the Party’s problem with anti-Semitism” after refusing to publish the original investigation into harassment of Jewish students at Oxford University, then subsuming it within a new, wider inquiry that involves unrelated complaints.
Michael Dugher MP and Rachel Reeves MP, both of whom held shadow cabinet roles under Ed Miliband, called for the initial report by Labour Students to be published immediately while Labour peers joined the chorus of criticism against the Party’s stance.
Mr Dugher and Ms Reeves said the Labour Students investigation must be published “in the interests of transparency” and "to demonstrate beyond all doubt the seriousness with which we take these allegations”.
They said that it “isn’t acceptable for the Party to now wrap serious allegations about anti-Semitism inside Labour Students into a wider inquiry”.
Meanwhile, Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has written to Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol to express her “deep concern" about the new inquiry, chaired by Baroness Jan Royall.
She said it is “highly inappropriate” for the new investigation to be “rolled together” with other issues surrounding the Labour Youth elections which took place last weekend in Scarborough.
Two distinct investigations must be set up to “provide a degree of reassurance that allegations of anti-Semitism are being treated with the seriousness that they deserve”, she added.
• Momentum activists blamed for rise of anti-semitism at Oxford Labour Club, a senior source has claimed
Lord Tony Clarke, a former Labour chairman, and Lord Bernard Donoghue, a senior advisor to the late Prime Minister Harold Wilson, also expressed disappointment at the Party's stance.
"For the Labour Party, or left-wing elements of it, to now be flirting with anti-Semitism is an appalling development," Lord Donoghue told the Jewish Chronicle.
Two Momentum activists - Max Shanly, 25, and James Elliott, 22, - are both understood to be the subject of allegations in the original Labour Students report. Both vigorously deny the claims.
The Party’s decision to launch a new investigation while failing to publish the initial report, led to claims that it was a “cover-up” and an attempt by Mr Corbyn to protect his favoured candidates at the Labour Youth Elections last weekend.
A Labour Party source said: “The original report was handed to Corbyn’s office and circulated among senior Labour staff but they wanted it to be buried, especially the week of the election. It was clearly a politically motivated decision.
“It plays to a wider issue: everyone knows there is a problem with anti-Semitism on the left but they continue with impunity, they have a carte blanche under Corbyn.
"There was an understanding that the Party would endorse the Labour Students’ findings and build on them. But that is not what has happened. They did not like the findings so shut it down.”
Elliott, 22, lost out on a seat as youth representative on the powerful National Executive Committee by a narrow margin to Jasmin Beckett. Shanly, 25, also lost the election but was subsequently elected to the Young Labour National Committee afterthe initial results were overturned on a technicality.
At this week’s Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) meeting, general secretary Iain McNicol said that the investigation into alleged anti-Semitism will also examine claims of election foul play in the Labour Youth Elections over the weekend.
A Labour spokeswoman said: "The Labour Party takes all allegations of anti-Semitism, racism, bullying, intimidation and candidate misconduct very seriously.
"Baroness Jan Royall is currently leading an investigation into the conduct of individual Young Labour Party members. Baroness Royall will consider all allegations and all relevant evidence."
Mr Corbyn's office did not respond for comment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...mitism-row-threatens-to-divide-the-Party.html
Not sure this'll end well http://www.theguardian.com/politics...n-for-labour-leadership-talk-corbyn-challenge
But I suppose you never know if you don't try.
But I suppose you never know if you don't try.
I'd personally welcome the Green Party taking over the British left.