[davidjay]

First it's anti-Semitism, now it's Islamaphobia. It's as though someone is moving through Labour supporters stirring a checklist ofdiscontent.

Yup and I sadly feel it has momentum…

Well put.

[Youngian]

Low down tacky electioneering. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella.

[The Weeping Angel]

Low down tacky electioneering. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella.

Was this from Labour?

[Youngian]

No suggestion it came from Labour. Galloway’s list of enemies is limitless.

[MisterMuncher]

I'm amazed someone had to fake a photo of George making a tit of himself. That's like taking a wanker with you to Wetherspoons

[Tubby Isaacs]

Have Labour thought about telling Muslims that Galloway doesn't give a shit about them being killed if Americans or Israelis aren't doing it?

[The Weeping Angel]

As this is Guido I'm inclined to be doubtful but if this is true

https://order-order.com/2021/06/22/excl ... eadbeater/

[MisterMuncher]

True is quite a spectrum there.

Such messages may well be circulating. How authentic and influential they are is an open question.

It is a little convenient for Guido narrative about Muslims. It's a little less clear how "Antisemitic Homophobes reject Labour, go Tory" is a win for their side.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'll take this one over the Savanta poll with a 14 point lead. God knows what the situation is in Batley and Spen.

[davidjay]

As this is Guido I'm inclined to be doubtful but if this is true

https://order-order.com/2021/06/22/excl ... eadbeater/

There's more than an element of ""While we cannot say for certain that....but..." here.

[MisterMuncher]

A screenshot from a WhatsApp group isn't particularly convincing, given you can give yourself whatever handle you like, spoof numbers, messages with burner phones or straight up fakery, as well as just simply omitting context and reaction.

It's barely a step above posting a chain email.

[The Weeping Angel]

There's also this.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/exclusive ... y-1.517918

Residents in Batley and Spen have told the JC “lesbianism” and the “Zionist lobby” are reasons why they will abandon Labour at the constituency’s upcoming by-election.

One voter also criticised the Labour candidate Kim Leadbeater because she “spoke against Palestine”, adding that her sister, the murdered Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox, had spoken “favourably of Muslims and Palestine” but “they gave an English a pistol to kill her”.

Over two days the JC spoke to residents across the West Yorkshire constituency, covering areas including Hyrstand Road, Albion Street, Market Place, Town Street and Oak View.

One voter said that Labour leader Keir Starmer “follows the Zionist lobby” and that the party’s candidate Ms Leadbeater was promoting “male to male relations” within schools.

Residents – several of whom were speaking in Urdu - also voiced strong support for the independent candidate George Galloway.

Mr Galloway, who has previously heaped praise on the Assad regime in Syria, was sacked by talkRADIO over an alleged antisemitic tweet last year.

The former MP for Bradford West also declared the city an “Israel-free zone” in 2014, prompting West Yorkshire Police to interview him under caution.

In Batley and Spen, one voter told the JC: “The local community feels that Labour leader Keir Starmer is a wrong man from the Muslim point of view.

[davidjay]

Someone, somewhere, is doing a very good job of destroying the party.

[Nigredo]

Someone, somewhere, is doing a very good job of destroying the party.

A smirk upon their face as with vindication, they stir a pot of jam in an Islington kitchen.

[The Weeping Angel]

Christ almighty the state of this.

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/la ... st-claims/

[The Weeping Angel]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Galloway's put round a letter saying vote for me to get rid of top Israel supporter Keir Starmer. And a shameless homophobic dogwhistle about parents having say over education so that kids aren't "taught in a moral vacuum".

[Tubby Isaacs]

The more appalling people that come out in the by election, the better it is for the Tories. Galloway knows exactly what he's doing.

[Samanfur]

Currently doing the rounds on Twitter:

[Tubby Isaacs]

The school protest's biggest gobshites weren't local either. The damage done to the area is very local though. Not that damage is local only, of course.