Posted on 06/07/2019 8:03:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The victory of Labour’s Lisa Forbes in the Peterborough by-election shows “antisemitism is becoming normal in the party”, one of her new Commons colleagues said.
The new Peterborough MP faced controversy in the week before the poll, over a Facebook post she “liked” which said Theresa May has a “Zionist slave masters agenda”.
She subsequently apologized for “not calling out these posts” and promised to challenge antisemitism in future.
But Labour MP Jess Phillips said that while she was glad the Brexit Party had been defeated in Peterborough, “I cannot be (as) gleeful or proud as I’d want to be, because of how it shows that antisemitism is becoming normal in the party”. […]
Ilford North MP Wes Streeting said he had not campaigned in Peterborough since Ms. Forbes’ social media activity came to light, as he wanted to demonstrate a “zero tolerance” approach. He said her behavior was “serious enough to warrant disciplinary action”, adding: “She has apologized, but it is not my place to accept it. She will need to work hard to persuade the Jewish Labour Movement and wider community that her apology was meaningful and that she is genuinely committed to tackling antisemitism.” […]
Both Ms. Phillips and Mr. Streeting are prominent critics of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership. …
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As Britain becomes more muslim - antisemitism will become the norm
yep.
The political parties there that are leftists in nature are becoming more am more pro-Muslim so anti-Semitism will only increase.
And so the best way for them to try and deflect this is to try and pin anti-Semitism on the euro-skeptics when here we can see the problem of anti-Semitism is within the leftist Labour Party.
Take that De Blasio.
She must be one of DeBlasio’s “right wing” anti-Semites.
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I’m not English but is Petersborough or whatever its called THAT important? With all the headlines flooding in about it you’d think Corbyn was being being coronated in Westminster Abbey.
Does this mean the Brexit Party didn’t get their seat?
Not there, no.
It is a constituency known as a super marginal, historically between Labour and the Tories, and seen as a test of the momentum of the Brexit Party and its potential performance in a future general election. In the recent EU elections the vote was overwhelmingly for the Brexit Party.
From what I have been able to see Labour’s share of the vote has actually collapsed and in prior years the Tories would have taken that seat by a landslide but I think the Brexit Party is taking a lot of votes away from the Tories and judging from this result, the fact that support for Labour has heavily diminished under Corbyn is made up for the fact the Tories are essentially collapsing in the face of the Brexit Party as the core vote defects to them. Unfortunately this may mean that Labour could win the next general election on less than 30% of the vote. We could be in for a bumpy ride unless Brexit it is delivered and the reason for The Brexit Party’s existence disappears.
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