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Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
@bobfrombrockley
Sep 27, 2018 • 17 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
[thread] I'm a big fan of nationalised utilities, universal childcare, green jobs,worker share ownership & other policies unveiled at #Lab18
...but the whole thing has left a sour taste in my mouth. Here are some of the reasons why:
1/ The determination of part of the leadership to push Brexit, which will be disastrous for working class people:
2/ The poses the Novara/Repeater intelligentsia adopt to give that determination cover:
3/ In fact the whole hipster-Leninist shtick of the Novara cool kids, with their shiny new American buddies:
4/ The desire to appease xenophobes, inheriting one of the worst habits of the Blair/Brown years:
politicshome.com/news/uk/politi…
5/ The dogma from union leaders that "working class" means white old men, never minorities, migrant workers or the urban precariat:
6/ The mix of Stalinism and tinfoil hat conspiracy that is in the leader's inner circle:
7/ The fucked up priorities of Momentum-following CLP activists:
8/ The selective solidarity:
9/ The zombie army:
10/ The apparent desire to troll Jews:
11/ The embarrassing obsession with punishing our own party's MPs:
12/ The cranks attracted to the party:
I think that's it for now.
Of course, because Labour is a genuinely mass party, with more of a democratic member conference (rather than stage managed rally like some other parties, some of this inevitable. But I wish it were kept more to the fringes...
A reminder that however fucked up Labour is, the Tories have absolutely zero moral high ground in criticising it: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

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Sep 18, 2018
Couple of tweets re the Putin/Erdogan “demilitarisation” deal on #Idlib:
1. The Syrian regime army is depleted to the point of collapse. Without Russia/Hezbollah support they couldn’t advance against Turkish-backed and properly armed rebels thedailybeast.com/assads-final-o…
2. A lot of hyperbole around about Idlib being controlled by al-Qaeda. This BBC explainer is quite good on the balance of forces there: bbc.co.uk/news/world-454… But need to add that Turkey & HTS are not friends - Turkey wants this deal for leverage against HTS, who it can’t contol
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Aug 20, 2018
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW Fair point, but based on a false premise. Let’s think it through – apologies if this takes a few tweets.

1/ Millions of us opposed the Iraq War, for a variety of reasons, while supporting Vanessa Beeley is a pretty fringe cause in the UK, confined mainly to the far right...
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW 2/ Most of us opposed the Iraq war for good reasons: saw it as a war for oil, or opposed wars in general, or had an anti-interventionist default. Others opposed it coz they saw Saddam as objectively the good guy, out of admiration for his brand of authoritarian nationalism...
@Back2Bataan @DerbyChrisW ...Griffin was one of the latter, a pro-Baathist, and anyone on the left who shared that position should be suspect.

3/ Why does Griffin support Beeley? Because she shares many of his basic assumptions:
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Aug 19, 2018
@DerbyChrisW medium.com/@Brian_Whit/va…
@DerbyChrisW m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vanessa-…
@DerbyChrisW short thread on VB and her antisemitic connections:
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Jul 26, 2018
A short thread in which I read Robert Fisk's latest appalling Syria report so you don't have to independent.co.uk/voices/white-h…
1/ Fisk has been saying the Syrian war is in its end stage for 5 years now. Now he's amped up the rhetoric, while pretending to be smarter...
2/ A bit sickening how Fisk rhapsodises about his friend the "poet" Brigadier General Suheil al-Hassan, without mentioning the fact that he’s a vicious war criminal international-review.org/tiger-forces-p…
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May 11, 2018
This is a thread on the Labour candidate selection for the upcoming #LewishamEast by-election (written by an embarrassingly inactive Lewisham Deptford party member)
Before getting to the candidates, a huge thank you to @Heidi_LDN for her years of excellent service to our community, as a Deptford councillor, Lewisham MP, battler to save Lewisham Hospital from Tory cuts, and Shadow Cabinet member.
So far, I believe five local candidates have put themselves forward for #LewishamEast Here they are, in alphabetical order:
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Apr 17, 2018
Robert Fisk's crimes against truth: three detailed case studies by @im_PULSE pulsemedia.org/2016/12/03/rob…
An evergreen blogpost by veteran Middle East reporter @Brian_Whit on Robert Fisk's comedy of errors, including some hilarious Arabic mistranslations al-bab.com/blog/2013/10/r…
Here's a good list of other articles exposing times when Robert Fisk was economical with the truth:
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