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Dr Strangelove (how I learned to stop worrying and love Boris)

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  1. Blond Bombshell

    Blond Bombshell Well-Known Member

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    Agree, just hope the right-wing rhetoric of Patel and Braverman is toned down for the greater good.
     
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  2. The Exile II

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    You handwaved the idea that a racist was nonetheless selected as a Labour candidate. A 'non-entity candidate'.
     
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  3. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Johnson, for the sake of Brexit, painted Macron and France as the enemy. Patel and Braverman have made huge empty promises which have made things worse.

    The only way to deal with the 'boat people' is with slow, practical cooperation and common sense. It's not the massive problem it's being portrayed as but it really is becoming a major issue in the minds of the public.
     
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  4. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    <laugh>

    What part of 'He was cleared of wrongdoing' are you struggling with?

    Haven't you noticed how, and why, most people can't be bothered with you.

    You're a really boring bloke tbh.
     
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  5. The Exile II

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    You saw what he said. You saw the apology. Why apologize when you've done nothing wrong.

    Angry texts by the other side is worse than racism by my side. You've made that perfectly clear.
     
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  6. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    He admitted he'd done wrong and apologised.

    That doesn't mean he's a proven racist as you keep posting over and over, you're wrong.

    I'm sure all this drivel, you keep posting, makes sense in your head ...

    ... but it's ludicrous and idiotic when you type it out.

    Don't you ever wonder why no one comes to your defence or even agrees with you <doh>
     
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  7. The Exile II

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    He admitted to making racist comments.

    Which you've already said isn't as bad as sending an angry text message.

    Thank you.
     
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  8. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    He didn't.

    And I didn't say that's as bad as sending a text.

    I said the Williamson situation is more serious.

    Wrong twice is such a short post <laugh>

    Please, without your usual deflection, quote where he admitted making racist comments.
     
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  9. The Exile II

    The Exile II Well-Known Member

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    From the same article.....

    Rodwell was able to tell the committee it was an “awful thing for me to say”,

    https://www.theguardian.com/politic...odwell-had-worst-tan-possible-for-a-black-man

     
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  10. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Nowhere, in anything you've posted, does it say he admitted saying anything racist or was proven to do so.

    'He was cleared of any wrongdoing'
    .

    Awful or stupid doesn't mean racist.

    Please, without your usual deflection, quote where he admitted making racist comments.
     
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  11. The Exile II

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    A white council leader who once joked that he had “the worst tan possible for a black man” has been selected to stand as a Labour MP.

    Darren Rodwell, the leader of Barking and Dagenham London borough council, fought off selection competition from councillor Josie Channer, a black councillor who has previously run for selection near Bristol.

    Channer was previously selected for the Kingswood seat in Gloucestershire, but stood down after she was found to have £2,000 in unpaid parking fines, in 2013. The Black Labour movement had backed Channer’s campaign.

    Rodwell was investigated after a video emerged of him telling an audience at a Black History Month event he used to do “swing dance” and loved “jiggling about”.

    You might have known that I’ve got the worst possible tan possible for a black man,” Rodwell said at the event. “But I have the passion and the rhythm of the African and the Caribbean. I used to do swing dance, because I used to love jiggling about.”

    He was cleared of wrongdoing after an hour-long interview in front of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), and also apologised on Twitter for making the “stupid and embarrassing” remarks and the offence caused. He later told the Independent he had worn the kufi, with his colleagues’ blessing, after he took part in a Nigerian Independence Day event on 1 October.

    A local source has claimed it is another example of “blatant stitch-ups”, with Momentum adding the party has swept “anti-black racism under the carpet out of factional loyalty”. Earlier this year a number of black MPs claimed the party was not taking the matter seriously enough after the Forde report was published.

    A senior Labour source refuted the claims of “factional loyalty”, claiming there have been instances where some leftwing candidates were allowed on to long lists as they were able to “apologise and understand what they have done wrong”. But some are blocked from lists because they appeared “arrogant” and “can’t understand that what they have done is bad. That’s a problem,” they said.

    Rodwell was able to tell the committee it was an “awful thing for me to say”, a source close to the investigation told the Guardian, with locals from his constituency providing evidence to the NEC that he’s “an ally”.
    The council leader will replace Dame Margaret Hodge as the candidate for Barking, as she will step down at the next election after 27 years in parliament.

    A Momentum spokesperson told the Guardian: “Coming after an expose of Labour’s failures on anti-black racism under Keir Starmer, Rodwell’s selection lays bare a serious issue in the party. Just as the Forde report warned, anti-black racism is being swept under the carpet out of factional loyalty.

    “As black Labour MPs have said, the leadership’s actions risk losing the faith and support of BAME communities.
    “What’s more, it makes a mockery of Labour’s claim that the ongoing purge of leftwingers from parliamentary selections is about ‘due diligence’ – when trade unionists are blocked for once liking an apolitical Nicola Sturgeon tweet, while prominent Labour Right candidates can freely joke about racist tropes without so much as a slap on the wrist, it’s clear that the system is being rigged.”

    A Labour party spokesperson said after the investigation: “The Labour party takes all complaints extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.”

    There you go. I do hope you'll place the same weight on the opinion of the Commons Privileges Committee should they find Johnson innocent.
     
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  12. Smug in Boots

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    <laugh>

    Like anyone's going to read that man ...

    ... you're retired, bored and have no one to talk to.

    Sorry but it's true.
     
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  13. The Exile II

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    Didn't read it in the first place then. That explains the contortions.
     
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  14. The Exile II

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    That lads got a wicked set of teeth<laugh>
     
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    Joke this scumbag is in office.

    Screwed over thousands of students. Tried to benefit the wealthy schools with uneven algorithm.

    Fired after leaking secrets of national security.

    Bullying claims all over.
     
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  17. The Exile II

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    Knows where the bodies are buried. Unclear whether that's literal or metaphorical. Although he looks like he'd **** himself if anyone challenged him.

    Should have been sorted on May's watch really. Now he's their version of Mandelson.
     
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  18. The Exile II

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    Francois in bother again. At least he didn't send a sweary text though.
     
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    I just dont get the brain behind the face of some of these people. That language is pathetic frankly. I am of a certain vintage, where that sort of language was commonplace in my youth, but in the modern world it is just idiotic. If you choose to work in the public domain I am afraid you need to do better.
     
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  20. Blond Bombshell

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    Sir Vasey (or whatever, a tory on politics live this morning) saying house of commons is behind the real world in political correctness...
     
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