[The Weeping Angel]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ellie Chowns and the other rural Green voted against, Sian Berry voted for. I think the Greens will probably give up on rural seats, where the Lib Dems can challenge ToryKip better than they can.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This isn't great either. He's picked up stuff we've discussed about Wales being underfunded, but the problem isn't the Barnett Formula, and supporting independence any time soon isn't going to help.

I've never heard anyone suggest a London wealth tax that gets spent (by the sound of it) in London. That's not going to help regional inequality.

[The Weeping Angel]

Fuck off Zack

Very progressive to say immigrants are great, as they'll do all the crap jobs.

[Youngian]

Well do you, Mr Polanski?

[Boiler]

So, Polanski's got the same sense of superiority that plagues so many in this country. A Farage for the Left.

Well, he was never going to get my vote anyway, the prick.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think Zack's sensible enough to heed this constructive criticism. But again, how do you get to lead a (now) mainstream party of the left with this level of stupidity?

Even worse are the comments BTL in response to James Vaughan, who is a scholar of anti-semitism (not that you have to be one to see the problem of dual loyalty).

https://bsky.app/profile/equusonthebuse ... d3jzihys2y

[Youngian]

Don't know who James Vaughan is but comparing Polanski's views to Oswald Mosley smacks of cheapskate attention seeking.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's a professor who's studied anti-semitism for 15 years. He's saying that's the history of the trope. He says elsewhere that Polanski isn't prejudiced.

[The Weeping Angel]

I think Zack's sensible enough to heed this constructive criticism. But again, how do you get to lead a (now) mainstream party of the left with this level of stupidity?

Even worse are the comments BTL in response to James Vaughan, who is a scholar of anti-semitism (not that you have to be one to see the problem of dual loyalty).

https://bsky.app/profile/equusonthebuse ... d3jzihys2y

Oh god, the responses are really something .

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's dire, isn't it? How do they think "dual loyalty" ends up for any ethnic minority in the UK?

In other news, an example here of how some on the left don't want to face up to what the Green platform really is. Apparently it's a cheap gotcha to quote poiicies from "last year" back, because "hope".

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fuck off Zack

Very progressive to say immigrants are great, as they'll do all the crap jobs.

I'd actually defend him here. That's not his only argument for migration. He's just making this particular argument as it's one that lots of "migration sceptic" people would accept. And those people aren't by any means all people who look down on care workers or whoever.

We've got the Tories now, not even in "tens of thousands" territory, but negative net migration territory. I think Zack's point here is "You and I won't be doing those jobs", and that's fine.

[The Weeping Angel]

It's dire, isn't it? How do they think "dual loyalty" ends up for any ethnic minority in the UK?

In other news, an example here of how some on the left don't want to face up to what the Green platform really is. Apparently it's a cheap gotcha to quote poiicies from "last year" back, because "hope".

I mean it's not a shock to find out the chief rabbi is a Zionist and is supportive of Israel. I saw the list of policies yesterday and noted how the third renationalised rail was already been done along with a couple of others.

[Tubby Isaacs]

In fairness to them, they would have voted for that stuff, I'm sure.

Perhaps Polanski at some time will attempt some sort of "star chamber" on policy, where they make a serious attempt to get expenditure and tax into some sort of order. He's not doing that yet, if anything heading in a more stridently populist direction. His policies, while they exist, in the most recent manifesto are fair game.

[The Weeping Angel]

Labour MP Uma Kumaran on Polanski.

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/uma- ... 61995.html

His comments were dripping with snobbery - and are completely ignorant of the enormous and varied contribution that care workers make across our city and country.

It’s not the job of migrants to fill in if Zack Polanski thinks something is beneath him.

I am a proud Londoner. As the daughter of refugees, I know that migration has shaped the city we live in, and that migrants still make a fantastic contribution to modern Britain, from the arts to business, and from our health service to academia.

So, I challenged his demeaning language.

As Stratford and Bow’s Labour MP, I represent hundreds of care workers in Parliament- and thousands of people who, like me, have first-hand experience of just how important their work is.

Polanski was a knob towards Uma.