StarkingBarfish posted:

https://twitter.com/BlueYoungLabour/status/1272908903609753601

This is going to be a pro follow account imo.

Noxville posted:

Sad now that this is probably not real.

Prince John posted:

The Mirror has coverage here of him raising it in Parliament: link when the Tories first confirmed they were definitely scrapping it.

His twitter timeline has tons of posts and retweets about it, including supporting Rashford's letter.

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1272495560898097152

Here's a video of him raising it during PMQs a week ago:
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1272186533131493376

Here's a link to Labour's campaign on the topic:
https://action.labour.org.uk/page/content/holidays-without-hunger

Oh, and he felt it was an important enough a topic to burn one of their limited number Opposition Day debates on the subject. I suspect the prospect of having to sit through a debate today, in combination with all the publicity caused by Rashford's appeal, was a factor in the government deciding to cave in to avoid an entire day of humiliation in parliament.

So he's tweeted about it, he's raised questions directly in PMQs, he's used the party's parliamentary time to force a debate on the issue, and the party started a petition campaign on the topic, which he supported - this isn't "doing gently caress all and not mentioning it".

I'm getting flashbacks to when Corbyn was in charge, and all the blue ticks were saying "where is Corbyn on <insert topic here>???!" and we were all sitting ITT and saying "he's been talking about this all week".
Can we please have a little perspective on how terrible Keir Starmer is? He is, unsurprisingly, not in favour of starving children this summer.

Aramoro posted:

Come on, no one in this thread gives a poo poo what Kier has or hasn't actually done, just what they think he might have done in their own headcanon.

XMNN posted:

will from the Inbetweeners weighs in on the culture war

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1272646001548038145?s=20

quote:

While senior Conservatives agree that tackling racism should be a priority for the government, many in the party believe that elements of the British BLM movement are making unreasonable “far-left” demands such as defunding the police.

vodkat posted:

Does anyone know more about or have links to any articles about the Revolutionary Communist Party? This thread has made me want to jump down whatever horrible rabbit hole (conspiracy theory or not) is behind this bunch of bastards.

vodkat posted:

https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1272624965569916928?s=21

Does anyone know more about or have links to any articles about the Revolutionary Communist Party? This thread has made me want to jump down whatever horrible rabbit hole (conspiracy theory or not) is behind this bunch of bastards.

vodkat posted:

https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1272624965569916928?s=21

Does anyone know more about or have links to any articles about the Revolutionary Communist Party? This thread has made me want to jump down whatever horrible rabbit hole (conspiracy theory or not) is behind this bunch of bastards.

quote:

Munira Mirza is the bigoted Left's worst nightmare

The No 10 adviser tasked with a new racial equality commission refuses to bend to identity politics

The new government commission on racial inequalities, set up by the Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, Munira Mirza, is coming under fire from “progressive anti-racists” who are interested in neither social progress nor fighting all forms of racism.

Mirza has previously criticised the politics of grievance, which acts as a barrier to meaningful policy change on issues of race and ethnicity. Radical leftist figures, in predictable fashion, have wasted little time in directing racially charged slurs towards her. Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar has labelled Mirza as a “racial gatekeeper” – a term used for non-white people who supposedly provide “political cover” for perceived injustices based on race.

Arguably one of the most toxic voices in Britain’s race relations debate, Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, has called Mirza a “brown executioner” of “white supremacy”. The acceptance and normalisation of the most egregious forms of racism from Left-wing social activists, reinforced by identitarian academics operating in Britain’s universities, is a worrying development to say the least.

Debates on race-related matters and ethnic inequalities are being infected by the virus of tribal identity politics. Radical Leftist figures – in the spheres of politics, academic, media, and policy – are intent on framing every single racial inequality as a direct outcome of structural racism. This includes the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK’s ethnic minorities, where myriad potential factors may be at play – including lifestyle choices and genetics.

While there is a serious discussion to be had on enduring forms of racial discrimination in the UK’s labour market, the creation of socio-economic ethnic inequalities is a complex phenomenon. Mirza’s role has ruffled feathers because she will not shy away from delving into politically sensitive territory. This includes exploring the role of internal religio-cultural norms and social behaviours in the production of socio-economic disparities between British ethnic groups.

This is deeply unsettling for Leftist ideologues who refuse to acknowledge the possibility that family dynamics, lack of female empowerment, and a general failure to cultivate aspirational attitudes in the household may be holding back the progress of certain non-white communities in the UK. The debate on race relations and ethnic inequalities must not be hijacked by extreme-Left ideologues who are not only uninterested in holding level-headed discussions, but are directly complicit in one of the most dehumanising forms of racism: that an individual must think a certain way on a range of social, economic, and cultural issues, purely on the grounds of their racial identity.

A notable number of self-labelled “anti-racists” do not truly prioritise ethnic-minority advancement, nor the empowerment of marginalised sections within non-white communities. Unfortunately, a growing number on the Left are ultimately obsessed with framing British society as a white-supremacist superstructure, and locking non-white people under a perpetual state of victimhood. There really is no surprise that Mirza is being subjected to racially motivated attacks from this dangerous political cult. A successful working-class Northern woman of Pakistani Muslim origin, who refuses to tow the identitarian line, is the radical Left’s worst nightmare.

Dr Rakib Ehsan is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.

Prince John posted:

Wow, the Torygraph is loving the person appointed to head the enquiry:

Prince John posted:

Wow, the Torygraph is loving the person appointed to head the enquiry:

Prince John posted:

Wow, the Torygraph is loving the person appointed to head the enquiry:

Torygraph article posted:

Dr Rakib Ehsan is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.

Henry Jackson Society Wikipedia's page posted:

Co-founder Matthew Jamison wrote in 2017 that he was ashamed of his involvement, having never imagined the Henry Jackson Society "would become a far-right, deeply anti-Muslim racist [...] propaganda outfit to smear other cultures, religions and ethnic groups", further relating that: "The HJS for many years has relentlessly demonised Muslims and Islam".

DeadButDelicious posted:

Huh, wonder what this group are about...

... Oh.


Thumping good source, a think tank that one of the original founders is deeply ashamed for having a hand in.

quote:

The debate on race relations and ethnic inequalities must not be hijacked by extreme-Left ideologues who are not only uninterested in holding level-headed discussions, but are directly complicit in one of the most dehumanising forms of racism: that an individual must think a certain way on a range of social, economic, and cultural issues, purely on the grounds of their racial identity.

forkboy84 posted:

Henry "Scoop" Jackson

Guavanaut posted:

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I feel like that would make a horrific mess.

Jose posted:

one of the reasons brendan o'neill and tom harwood are constantly on the bbc is that they have absolutely nothing else going on in their lives so are always available and producers know this

not defending it just pointing out their lives are loving miserable cos nobody likes them lol

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

That fake Rashford tweet reply to KTH is doing the rounds now on FB in the form of an image. I see the parody account has changed its twitter handle now but obviously that won't change in the screenshots.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

That fake Rashford tweet reply to KTH is doing the rounds now on FB in the form of an image. I see the parody account has changed its twitter handle now but obviously that won't change in the screenshots.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

gently caress, I just got reminded that Cummings seemed to be on the verge of being fired, what, a week ago? And it's just gone, completely. This loving year.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

gently caress, I just got reminded that Cummings seemed to be on the verge of being fired, what, a week ago? And it's just gone, completely. This loving year.

peanut- posted:

It's not that unbelievable really, I only heard of it from the letter that he published yesterday.