[The Earl of Chesterfield]

In the interest of balance today's hypocrite of the day is the Labour Party of which I've been a decades long member.

Or to be specific the Cult of Corbyn running it these days.

Because whilst lifelong socialists who've done untold good for their communities and class are hounded for not buying into that cult, anti-Semites are at best tolerated and at worst endorsed.

Infact we see the Chris Williamson responsible for cluelessly crass comments surrounding anti-Semitism received back into the party despite Alistair Campbell being hastily expelled simply for tactical voting.

Then there's the utterly bizarre timing of these events that divert attention from a Tory Party committing Harakiri on a daily basis.

Farage, Johnson, the ERG and most of the print media are intent on dragging Britain back seventy years. However the Cult of Corbyn are culpable for behaving more like the 'Rick' character from 'The Young Ones' than a credible alternative...

[Wooden Spoon]

MDCCCLXVI, on 27 June 2019 - 05:19 PM, said:

In the interest of balance today's hypocrite of the day is the Labour Party of which I've been a decades long member.

Or to be specific the Cult of Corbyn running it these days.

Because whilst lifelong socialists who've done untold good for their communities and class are hounded for not buying into that cult, anti-Semites are at best tolerated and at worst endorsed.

Infact we see the Chris Williamson responsible for cluelessly crass comments surrounding anti-Semitism received back into the party despite Alistair Campbell being hastily expelled simply for tactical voting.

Then there's the utterly bizarre timing of these events that divert attention from a Tory Party committing Harakiri on a daily basis.

Farage, Johnson, the ERG and most of the print media are intent on dragging Britain back seventy years. However the Cult of Corbyn are culpable for behaving more like the 'Rick' character from 'The Young Ones' than a credible alternative...

The re admitted member of an anti Semite is a disgrace.



It’s indicative of the current “culture of the minority” that is the driving force in labour politics.



While I can’t be critical enough of the Israeli regime and it’s policies, they disgust me, you can’t go the whole hog in the opposite direction and be automatically pro palistinian and anti Semitic. It’s just not right. Where is the balance?



Imagine being an unemployed person in shirebrook a lifelong labour voter and seeing this nonsense. Then you hear the words from “the man of the people” ...... the man who “says what you all think” ....Mr Farage.



Who represents you? JC? DA? ET? KS? or NF?



A rise of the right is ALWAYS a failure of the left. And the left is failing in unimaginably spectacular fashion.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Whilst Boris 'public debates are essential' Johnson continues to duck and dodge any meaningful explanations - such as the mythical solution to the Irish border question - we're reminded that for all his opponent's zeal for a face-to-face he's the same Jeremy Hunt who was equally evasive when it came to junior doctors.

Whom he ducked and dodged with exactly the same cynicism.

And whilst he might be Johnson 'light' in terms of lying, self serving, Parliament proroguing scheming he still took part in undermining those doctors. And nurses. And teachers. And unions. And benefit claimants. And the disabled. And refugees. And everyone else he voted to take money off whilst handing tax cuts to millionaires. Like himself.

So well done Jeremy Hunt upon receiving today's hypocrite of the day award.

[Nerima Spireite]

I’m going to take a different tact today and nominate these two ladies as impressive people who are standing up for what they believe in despite the difficulty they face in doing so...or whatever the exact opposite of “hypocrite” is.

https://www.theguard...re_iOSApp_Other

[Phil V 72]

Surely today’s competition winner has to be whoever put a (presumably pro immigration)banner up at Glastonbury saying ‘I don’t see any borders’ but attached it to the fence, patrolled by security, that people have to pay £250 to get into.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Phil V 72, on 29 June 2019 - 10:10 PM, said:

Surely today’s competition winner has to be whoever put a (presumably pro immigration)banner up at Glastonbury saying ‘I don’t see any borders’ but attached it to the fence, patrolled by security, that people have to pay £250 to get into.

Good shout, but here's the champion of free speech - who's on record insisting comedians should allowed to tell their jokes - making a bid of his own: https://www.msn.com/...ocid=spartandhp

Interesting to see Martin 'I'm the son of a miner' Daubney sticking his beak of a nose in, too. The same Martin Daubney who used to regularly accuse left leaning figures of being pansy-assed snowflakes whilst reviewing the papers on Sky...

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[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Today's hypocrites of the day are the entire collection of Brexit Party MEP's who behaved like petulant kids dragged to a wedding they didn't wanna attend by turning their backs' on a bit of music.

Though I've yet to hear a single one say they're gonna turn their backs on the perks, privileges, pensions, salaries and expenses they'll be pocketing from the EU.

I'm pretty damn sure they'd be throwing teary temper tantrums if any 'foreigner' did that to our national anthem, too.

Then to excuse such schoolyard stuff by saying it somehow symbolised the British people's attitude towards Europe was as arrogant as it was just plain wrong.

The overwhelming majority of British people voted against Farage's crew just as the overwhelming majority of British people respect others' anthems.

This post has been edited by MDCCCLXVI: 02 July 2019 - 05:19 PM

[Westbars Spireite]

Wasn't it the EU anthem? Nothing like being disrespectful to a national anthem in my book.

[Wooden Spoon]

MDCCCLXVI, on 02 July 2019 - 05:18 PM, said:

<br />Today's hypocrites of the day are the entire collection of Brexit Party MEP's who behaved like petulant kids dragged to a wedding they didn't wanna attend by turning their backs' on a bit of music.<br /><br />Though I've yet to hear a single one say they're gonna turn their backs on the perks, privileges, pensions, salaries and expenses they'll be pocketing from the EU.<br /><br />I'm pretty damn sure they'd be throwing teary temper tantrums if any 'foreigner' did that to our national anthem, too.<br /><br />Then to excuse such schoolyard stuff by saying it somehow symbolised the British people's attitude towards Europe was as arrogant as it was just plain wrong.<br /><br />The overwhelming majority of British people voted against Farage's crew just as the overwhelming majority of British people respect others' anthems.<br />

&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><br /><br />An anthem? A federalist European anthem? Why wouldn't they turn their back on it? It represents their entire ethos and reason for being. <br /><br /><br /><br />



And to think we have people, nay, leaders of the opposition, happy to not wear poppies in respect for war dead but are up in arms over a non democratic federalist Europe that the people of Britain don't want to be part of.




The disconnect between ordinary people and the political elite has never been greater and represents a huge danger in ter,s of opening the door to the extremes.




There is a huge vacuum of trust and respectability between parliament and the electorate. See the YouTube video of Sadiq Kahn as an example, or ANYTHING at all from the the Tory leadership debacle.




No one is standing out, NONE of them appear honest or trust worthy, none of are interested in the opinions of the voting public, and the voting public have “turned their backs on them”



Had they been in touch with and represented the public, the likes of Farage wouldn’t even be an M.E.P. The fact they are the biggest EU parliamentary party is a damning indictment on the polio system and those career politicians who have delivered the current crisis. Cameron chief amongst them.

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[Wooden Spoon]

Westbars Spireite, on 02 July 2019 - 06:44 PM, said:

<br />Wasn't it the EU anthem? Nothing like being disrespectful to a national anthem in my book.<br />

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The fact they have have an anthem signals what the intentions of thenEU politicians are. Next will be asking the french to give up the seat at the UN permanent member of the security council in return for an EU. one.



Let’s see how Macron gets on with that now we have left and retain ours

[mr. smith]

DEATH, on 02 July 2019 - 08:16 PM, said:

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The fact they have have an anthem signals what the intentions of thenEU politicians are. Next will be asking the french to give up the seat at the UN permanent member of the security council in return for an EU. one.



Let’s see how Macron gets on with that now we have left and retain ours

no need to panic just yet, even the champions league has an anthem

[calvin plummers socks]

What a c@@@ Farage looked today

[mr. smith]

calvin plummers socks, on 02 July 2019 - 10:04 PM, said:

What a c@@@ Farage looked today

Why should today be so special?

[dart in the crossbar]

The serving Conservative Chancellor warned of a 90Bn hit to the economy if the country leaves the EU without a deal. Both Conservative candidates for the PM job pledged to leave the EU without a deal by 31 October 2019 if one doesn't materialise.

A group of people, most of whom are known to virtually no-one, turned their backs on the EU flag.

There's a public interest story here somewhere... which one? Yes, the second one.

jeez

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Today's hypocrites of the day are all those free marketeers crawling out their cracks to criticise the BBC for...

..adopting a free market strategy to talent.

Or in other words paying their better presenters a decent whack so they aren't headhunted by competitors.

Y'know, the same free marketeers who also insist Boardroom rewards going through the roof whilst ordinary folk suffer austerity is totally acceptable.

Then there're folk like, say, Piers Morgan - who I'm pretty damn sure wouldn't get out of bed for what's available at the BBC - playing the pantomime villain by linking salaries to the over seventy five licence issue.

Or the collection of right wing lobbyists speaking on behalf of those who'd make millions if the Beeb were privatised (did I hear someone say 'Taxpayers Alliance?).

Or conservative radio hosts condemning the Beeb for poor quality whilst at the same time saying it's spending too much on quality.

Take your pick, 'cos the commercial airwaves have been alive with such hypocrites all day long...

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

calvin plummers socks, on 02 July 2019 - 10:04 PM, said:

What a c@@@ Farage looked today

Because of this, perhaps?

https://www.msn.com/...ocid=spartanntp

This post has been edited by MDCCCLXVI: 03 July 2019 - 04:52 PM

[dart in the crossbar]

Apparently Brexit will be akin the the emancipation of the slaves - according to the infamous ex MP who recently hopped onto the latest 'look at me' bandwagon.

Good that she's got a firm grip on reality then.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

dart in the crossbar, on 04 July 2019 - 06:07 PM, said:

Apparently Brexit will be akin the the emancipation of the slaves - according to the infamous ex MP who recently hopped onto the latest 'look at me' bandwagon.

Good that she's got a firm grip on reality then.

Widdecombe reminds me of that old lass who sits in the corner of the bar room, wrinkled stockings hanging loose, nursing her half of stout and insulting passers by in a nineteen seventies style...

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Today's hypocrites of the day are all those who happily accused judges, Lords, MP's and anyone else who in any way opposed Brexit of treachery - yet utter not a single word to condemn the leaking of classified information that could possibly harm the country.

Or as it might be called, well, treachery.

Infact Farage has instead demanded Sir Kim Darroch be axed ASAP whilst Reece-Mogg joined him in dubbing the content far more scandalous than the exposure.

With associated touting of tax cuts, of course. Yeah, who cudda possibly thought uber-wealthy establishment types like them'd be all for paying less towards public services used by us plebs...

And this is a purely political plot designed to achieve a single aim - undermine the US Ambassador allowing Boris Johnson to replace him with a similarly ass-kissing crony who'll facilitate US companies carving up our economy.

What? An unelected yes-man nodding through another un-elected man's policies over which we've no control?

I thought that's exactly why we've gotta leave the EU...

This post has been edited by MDCCCLXVI: 08 July 2019 - 02:53 PM

[Wooden Spoon]

mr. smith, on 02 July 2019 - 08:23 PM, said:

<br />no need to panic just yet, even the champions league has an anthem<br />

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Why don’t they just be honest? Why don’t they say we want closer integration that leads, eventually to a United States of Europe.




We know that’s the eventual aim, so why don’t they ever admit that’s the aim? Why all the denials, yet with each treaty something they have denied materialises. Like the EU defence force, Something long denied and yet a couple of years later it’s revealed as a long term aim?




Simple, because no one wants it, so introduce it bit by bit, by stealth until it’s so far down the road it’s too difficult to reverse, and people become used to it so they will just shrug shoulders and go “meh”




Just as your doing right now.