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1/Children & young people with autism and learning disabilities who could be living in the community with specialist support are languishing for years in Assessment & Treatment Units, some of them locked up 24/7 in isolation rooms, bec of severe financial pressure on Local Auths
2/ At the same time, private providers running these ATUs are raking in profits, being paid ÂŁ452m per yr in what has become a market driven provision where autistic and LD people are little more than commodities
3/ This in spite of the fact that caring for them in the community would be far less expensive not to mention far better for the individuals concerned, their quality of life, their security and safety and their wellbeing
After yesterday I cannot walk back into the conference floor.
Iâm here inside the secure area and I cannot walk inside the hall.
Sitting through the debate yesterday was harrowing.
Iâm here inside the secure area and I cannot walk inside the hall.
Sitting through the debate yesterday was harrowing.
Sitting through the debate yesterday was harrowing. The antisemitism from one speaker on the floor, the unfettered hostility, the union leaders taking the floor and dismissing AS all as a smear (yes I do mean Len and Tosh)
Lässt sich der #Brexit noch aufhalten? Das denken offenbar einige Beobachter des Brexit-Chaos in Deutschland. Auch von einem zweiten Referendum liest man derzeit oft. Ich glaube: Der Brexit wird kommen. Warum? Ein Thread: 1/
2/ Gestern lange mit einem Freund darĂźber gestritten. Seine Ansicht: Die Briten erkennen, dass der #Brexit nur schaden anrichtet. Wer das denkt, hat die #Leave-Kampagne nicht verstanden.
3/ @REWearmouth war fßr die @HuffPostUK in Thorntree. Hier haben ßber 80 Prozent (!) fßr den Brexit gestimmt, so viel wie nirgendwo sonst. Fßrchten die Menschen sich vor No-Deal? Nein, wie diese Aussage eines Leavers zeigt: huffingtonpost.de/entry/brexit-m⌠
@RabbiZviâs #LabourAntisemitism roundup:
Itâs 5 months and a half since the first demonstration of the Jewish Community against @jeremycorbynâs obvious antisemitism. How is it going?
This thread is a position document referencing #CorbynAntisemitismOmnishsmbles in @UKLabour
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Itâs 5 months and a half since the first demonstration of the Jewish Community against @jeremycorbynâs obvious antisemitism. How is it going?
This thread is a position document referencing #CorbynAntisemitismOmnishsmbles in @UKLabour
1/12
Corbyn has been outed as an obvious antisemite, sneering at Jews, laying a wreath on the grave of a Jew-killer, supporting a 9/11 conspiracist, calling Jew-killers brother and pedalling Israel conspiracy theories on @PressTV #CorbynAntisemitismOmnishambles 2/12
@ukLabour Party is now outed as an institutionally #antisemitic organization due to the exposure of @PeterWillsman ranting paranoia and smears against our @BoardofDeputies and others as âTrump fanaticsâ. Levers ofpower are being used to avoid #CorbynAntisemitismOmnishambles 3/12
THREAD: I think we need to talk about the lefts stance on Party rebirth, & the holier than thou attitude that #Labour has on #libdems & tuition Fees. Given the rise of the far right & how much we actually agree on we really should be working together, so lets try to clear this up
For many of us @LibDems, we left @UKLabour when they voted & took us into Iraq.
Now the Labour left make the argument that Labour is not the same party that it was with Blair, & because Corbyn voted against Iraq; all must be forgiven. The party should be allowed to start afresh.
Now the Labour left make the argument that Labour is not the same party that it was with Blair, & because Corbyn voted against Iraq; all must be forgiven. The party should be allowed to start afresh.
Fair enough. But if this was the case, why was Tim Farron nailed to the tuition fees cross by Labour campaigners at the last election? He voted AGAINST Fees in the same way Corbyn voted against Iraq.
PRESS STATEMENT:
#OpenSelection is a grassroots initiative by ordinary #Labour members.
We have NEVER been encouraged or contacted by @jeremycorbyn or anyone from his office,@uklabour HQ, or the front bench.
(thread)
theguardian.com/politics/2018/âŚ
#OpenSelection is a grassroots initiative by ordinary #Labour members.
We have NEVER been encouraged or contacted by @jeremycorbyn or anyone from his office,@uklabour HQ, or the front bench.
(thread)
theguardian.com/politics/2018/âŚ
We respect @jeremycorbyn as the democratically-elected leader of @uklabour. But if he asked us to stop the campaign, we would NOT. Sorry.
We have had to wait 18 months for our #OpenSelection motion to be debated at #LabourConference and will not pull out now.
We have had to wait 18 months for our #OpenSelection motion to be debated at #LabourConference and will not pull out now.
Our campaign is for Labour members to have a democratic vote on the BEST Labour candidate for their seat. Every election.
It's not about a 'purge' - it's about a principle.
Hope that puts your minds at ease, @guardian & @angelasmithmp! đ
It's not about a 'purge' - it's about a principle.
Hope that puts your minds at ease, @guardian & @angelasmithmp! đ
Thread: How are UK online news outlets covering #Brexit in 2018? An analysis, with data and charts!
Part 2: **Cabinet vs Shadow Cabinet**
#Labour #Conservatives
Again, usual spiel on being conducted in personal capacity
Part 2: **Cabinet vs Shadow Cabinet**
#Labour #Conservatives
Again, usual spiel on being conducted in personal capacity
Iâll start off with saying that this really isnât looking great for the Shadow Cabinet⌠So for the faint of heart or easily enraged, look away now. 1/
Across ~2000 news headlines on #Brexit since Jan 18, there were 463 references to Conservative Cabinet ministers, and just 48 for their Shadow counterparts.
In other words, 91% of news headline references to Cabinet-level MPs were to Government politicians. 2/
In other words, 91% of news headline references to Cabinet-level MPs were to Government politicians. 2/
Some stats on the coverage of #LabourAntisemitism in UK national newspapers:
⢠In seven years from 2009-2015, there were just 212 articles with the words #Labour and #Antisemitism appearing in the same sentence
⢠In the three years since there have been 2,053
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⢠In seven years from 2009-2015, there were just 212 articles with the words #Labour and #Antisemitism appearing in the same sentence
⢠In the three years since there have been 2,053
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⢠In those same three years, there have been a total of 3,740 articles containing the word #Antisemitism
⢠So 55% of all articles mentioning #Antisemitism have mentioned #LabourParty in the same sentence (since 2016)
⢠2009-2015 it was less than 7%
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⢠So 55% of all articles mentioning #Antisemitism have mentioned #LabourParty in the same sentence (since 2016)
⢠2009-2015 it was less than 7%
2/7
On the flip side:
⢠2009-2015 there were just 41 articles with the words #Conservative and #Islamophobia appearing in the same sentence
⢠In the three years since this has risen, but only to 92
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⢠2009-2015 there were just 41 articles with the words #Conservative and #Islamophobia appearing in the same sentence
⢠In the three years since this has risen, but only to 92
3/7
Meet #Israel's #Hasbara, which means #Propaganda, MSM Censorship Applicationđđ¤¨
This app came out about last year, and it is still on the iTunes store.
The app posts daily missions & TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHAT TO SAY
#Trolls #Palestine #Gaza #BDS #JeremyCorbyn #JC4PM
This app came out about last year, and it is still on the iTunes store.
The app posts daily missions & TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHAT TO SAY
#Trolls #Palestine #Gaza #BDS #JeremyCorbyn #JC4PM
6yrs ago #Jerusalem, #IDF Rep:
"we are now located in the SAME building where the Foreign Journalists are,we have close working relationships w/ hundreds of journalists. In addition we launched media project working in many platforms,twitter in Arabic, Russian, French & English."
"we are now located in the SAME building where the Foreign Journalists are,we have close working relationships w/ hundreds of journalists. In addition we launched media project working in many platforms,twitter in Arabic, Russian, French & English."
How #Israel-i Propaganda (#Hasbara) Works: #TheLuntzDocument
If you want to understand how the #propaganda works you need to read the Luntz document -- "The Key," Luntz says, "is the Claim that the Fight is Over Ideology, Not Land. About Terror, & Not Territory."
#Palestine #BDS
If you want to understand how the #propaganda works you need to read the Luntz document -- "The Key," Luntz says, "is the Claim that the Fight is Over Ideology, Not Land. About Terror, & Not Territory."
#Palestine #BDS
I've absolutely had it with this 24/7 #antisemitism news cycle, which is being weaponised by elements of the Labour party and the mainstream press to undermine the Labour party and its leadership... #TomWatson
If you haven't heard @MikeSegalov on anti-semitism yet, his interviews for the #BBC and Momentum are well worth a listen
As Segalov makes clear, its right to say there are legitimate concerns regarding anti-semitism both across society & within Labour. A fringe element within Labour & most political parties = anti semitic. Also fair to say #antisemitism is being weaponised
Okay, we've got far enough now that we can see No. 10's #Brexit strategy. /Thread
It's basically to bring things to a head as late as humanly possible - December to late January. At that stage they will squeeze Tory rebels with (among Euroenthusiasts) 'it's this or chaos' and (among Eurosceptics) 'it's this or no Brexit at all'.
Early signs - this will help with the pro-Europeans. Will probably work there. With the Eurosceptics? You can squeeze them, but probably not below 20-30, surely.
As far as I am concerned, the time to convert Leavers is over. Thread. 1/
2/ Since the referendum we meticulously collated facts, enlisted people who know their stuff - from politicians over scientists, business owners, teachers and healthcare professionals.All walks of life, all nationalities represented in modern Britain
3/ We presented facts, figures, estimates, graphs, cartoons.... you name it. Even songs and breakfasts. We reached out and stayed patient when we were yelled at and called enemies of the people. Some people were assaulted.
Okay, since we're debating anti-semitism again, let's have a quick run-through of what #Labour might have done, and what they have done.
Have they announced a specific speech by the Leader, or Deputy Leader, admitting mistakes in the past, and laying out a *specific* policy agenda to tackle the problem? No.
Have they admitted that, while of course one finds AS in lots of places, there is a *particular variant* of the curse on the Left, which is insidiously worming its way into the party's DNA? No.
As yesterday was Israelâs National holocaust memorial day where six million Jews were sent to their deaths, it seems appropriate to write a thread explaining both the real #FarRight and the #FarLeft in Britain and their obsession with the Jews. 1/17
Why have #Labour under #Corbyn got so much in common with the #BNP under #NickGriffin that both he and the Daily Stormer have endorsed the #Labour Party? They must undoubtedly now be the broadest of broad churches. 2/17
This thread is about the #SelfID debate and why #labourlosingwomen is going to be such a massive problem for #Corbyn and his ever increasingly lunatic supporters. We have three biological genders, male, female and hermaphrodite but the % of hermaphrodites is tiny. 1/11
Now Eddie Izzard is part of the NEC of #UKLabour this issue is going to re-ignite rather than disappear as he recounted in his memoir of how he deliberately broke the law getting changed in a female bathroom: 2/11
vulture.com/2017/06/eddie-âŚ
vulture.com/2017/06/eddie-âŚ
But why is there so much controversy about all of this and why is it justified? #UKLabour has alienated traditional #Labour female voters about having to compete with men who have decided to describe their gender as female #SelfID #labourlosingwomen 3/11
Action - not words - against Antisemitism starts here!
Obviously not with me, despite me being guilty as hell. But I canât chop my own head off.
Not with the leadership team, ditto, because, well, they ARE me. Even though we all want Israel destroyed. So ... 1/
Obviously not with me, despite me being guilty as hell. But I canât chop my own head off.
Not with the leadership team, ditto, because, well, they ARE me. Even though we all want Israel destroyed. So ... 1/
How about the General Secretary, Jennie Formby? Sheâs hired an antisemite, said some dodgy things but most of all, sheâs âLenâs representative on Earthâ. So canât touch her, even though she will surely impede progress in antisemitism because 2/
... Len is chief agitator. He and Unite actively promote âJewish Voice for Labourâ an organisation packed with vicious antisemites fronted by people born Jewish in order to undermine the Jewish community in the media. Len bankrolls me! So not him. Well ... 3/
Dear @BBCR4Feedback
Tomorrow I will post a package of #StopBrexit paraphernalia to you
The materials are used by the Remain campaign & have been crowdfunded
I will also post prints of photos from the last 21 months (see thread below) so you can see what you haven't been covering
Tomorrow I will post a package of #StopBrexit paraphernalia to you
The materials are used by the Remain campaign & have been crowdfunded
I will also post prints of photos from the last 21 months (see thread below) so you can see what you haven't been covering
Upon reading London now has worse murder rate this year than New York and other soaring gang related crime statistics, felt compelled to write a thread about @SadiqKhan his role as Mayor and what his #priorities should be instead of what they appear to be. 1/15
He has taken action in ensuring (a) Mean tweets on social media are being policed and has also ensured some of his targets have been ex-Muslims for so-called âhate speech.â See @ShaziaHobbs for example. 2/15
(b) He avoids answering questions on the annual Al-Quds march in London which is pro-Hezbollah, âHezbollahâ means âParty of Allahâ regularly features banners & chants of âdeath to the Jewsâ #Corbyn has been a speaker. 3/15
(Thread) To all @UKLabour candidates in the upcoming May local elections:
Unfortunately I will not be able to vote for you as a representative of the Labour Party; this is despite having been a #Labour voter myself in the past. Please allow me to explain briefly my reasons why.
Unfortunately I will not be able to vote for you as a representative of the Labour Party; this is despite having been a #Labour voter myself in the past. Please allow me to explain briefly my reasons why.
After the sacking of Owen Smith, I cannot vote for @UKLabour in any shape or form at the moment due to Jeremy Corybn's approach towards #Brexit which I view as highly undemocratic and contradictory to what the Labour party is meant to stand for ("for the many, not the few"?).
The attitude towards #Brexit by @jeremycorbyn and other hardcore Brexiteers like him really is now bordering on the fascist, something I find deeply disturbing. It seems that dissenters are being crushed.
1. All of this flagged up by #Remain before A50 passed by the CONS & Labour..I remember distinctly our warnings that if it went thru Control passed to the EU27. It goes to prove how much damage both parties are prepared to inflict on our country to impose their ideology on us all
2. This price to buy a Transition that merely allows our politicians to kick the real impact down the road so they can con ppl into thinking things will be fine after #Brexit. If we don't #StopBrexitSaveBritain we'll be out on 29/03/19 & it will be too late to avoid the cliff.
3. This is all about leaving the EU 29/03/19..once out we've lost our BEST POSSIBLE DEAL, it will be Pay & Obey No Say on many issues ad infinitum; we'll never get back in. At that point we lose Rights...we're already losing jobs to the EU as companies relocate at least in part.
Two serving Jewish Labour councillors have spoken out for the first time to expose the âextraordinaryâ levels of âinstitutional anti-semitismâ in Momentumâs Haringey heartland in north London - thread đ
thetimes.co.uk/article/jewishâŚ
thetimes.co.uk/article/jewishâŚ
Joe Goldberg and Natan Doron said they had been repeatedly abused to their faces by pro-#Corbyn #Labour members â including fellow councillors â with crude allusions to their race or insulting references to the #Holocaust đ
Goldberg the councilâs cabinet member for economic development was accused by #Labour councillor of âbagel-barrel politicsâ
Same councillor said academy schools comparable to âKristallnachtâ, the Nazi pogrom in which 1,400 synagogues were attacked & dozens of Jews murdered đ
Same councillor said academy schools comparable to âKristallnachtâ, the Nazi pogrom in which 1,400 synagogues were attacked & dozens of Jews murdered đ
Thread -
We don't canvass for deluded bigots, ta very much. #Labour #Labourantisemitism #Antisemitism #Peterborough
We don't canvass for deluded bigots, ta very much. #Labour #Labourantisemitism #Antisemitism #Peterborough
Evidence 1
Evidence 2
The noises coming out of #Labour on racism towards Jews (let us call it that) are increasingly hollow.
Let's not even talk about the 1000s of oddballs in & around Labour, who rant on about "Zionists", etc like UKIPers talk about "immigrants", but we know where both are pointing.
One is profiled here in detailed (& mostly ignored by Labour "radicals")
antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/he-âŚ
One is profiled here in detailed (& mostly ignored by Labour "radicals")
antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/he-âŚ
I asked this question ages ago, with no satisfactory answer:
Labour members, do you like antisemitism or Holocaust denial? Can you spot it?
antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/labâŚ
Labour members, do you like antisemitism or Holocaust denial? Can you spot it?
antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/labâŚ
1. Worst national leadership in my lifetime forcing through the most damaging, misguided & missold policy I can remember. Ideology & vested self interest replace statesmanship, soundbites replace sound judgement & autocracy subverts democracy.
#Brexit harms us irreparably #FBPE
#Brexit harms us irreparably #FBPE
2. A flawed Leave campaign based on lies, deceit, disingenuity & over simplification & a #Remain one fought w/o any positivity from the Govt & no real commitment from Labour, whose leader was virtually AWOL, did no justice to #Brexit complexity & betrayed our democratic process.
3. A mere 37% of voters/26.5% of the Ppl voted leave in a legally Non-Binding test of public opinion which has been corrupted, on the basis of an illegitimate political promise & interpreted as being the irrefutable Will of the Ppl.
The 1st is insufficient to claim the latter!
The 1st is insufficient to claim the latter!
