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Quote from: EasyforDennis on October 30, 2020, 04:38:59 pmQuote from: albie on October 30, 2020, 04:35:46 pmAlways worth considering the input from Tory commentator Peter Oborne;https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ehrc-labour-antisemitism-starmer-corbyn-soulSometimes you have to look a little further than the news reports!Good old Peter Oborne, slightly to the right of Genghis Khan.It is actually written by Richard Sanders (a Daily Telegraph columnist) and Peter Oborne - so not two people you think would be at all sympathetic to Corbyn. So if they can defend him - then its probably worth the time reading it find out why.
Quote from: albie on October 30, 2020, 04:35:46 pmAlways worth considering the input from Tory commentator Peter Oborne;https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ehrc-labour-antisemitism-starmer-corbyn-soulSometimes you have to look a little further than the news reports!Good old Peter Oborne, slightly to the right of Genghis Khan.
Always worth considering the input from Tory commentator Peter Oborne;https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ehrc-labour-antisemitism-starmer-corbyn-soulSometimes you have to look a little further than the news reports!
I wonder what our moral guardians in here think about this. Michael Gove playing politics with an issue as serious as anti-Semitism. https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1321871058568359945
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on October 31, 2020, 12:03:57 pmI wonder what our moral guardians in here think about this. Michael Gove playing politics with an issue as serious as anti-Semitism. https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1321871058568359945Saw that the other day, really don't like it. Sums Gove up. A highly intelligent man but who is he playing to with that...
I actually watched the Marr programme this morning.As much as I like the way Starmer speaks he did the classic avoid answering questions thing that ALL politicians do.Yes he did bang on about TT and keeping schools open but he was far too evasive on answering some of the stuff that Marr put to him.
Starmer appeared on Marr today supporting Boris to keep schools (and colleges) open.This is directly against the evidence of the education sector as a route vector for the virus.So yeah...lets have a belated lockdown after the event, but keep a primary transmission route wide open!At least Burnham has had the nads to call this out today.
Absolutely with you on that BFYP. And the kids who will suffer most from school closures are the very poorest. It's the thing that most worries me about the first lockdown.
Sorry Wilts, bur Starmer did say Test and Trace to be ramped up.I agree with that, but how and by whom?He also said weekly testing should be in schools, but who is supposed to be doing this?The problem is Gov are trapped inside the defence of their own mistakes.They believe in the use of private providers who have shown themselves not up to the job. Pride will get in the way of an effective policy change.What about Further Education and Universities?I agree with the National Education Union;https://actionnetwork.org/forms/close-schools-and-colleges-now
BFYP.It's not about who does the tests.It's about what happens afterwards.We have a genuinely world class system of tracing and isolation devolved down to local authorities. It worked superbly in Salisbury after the Novichok attack. Why we haven't built on that, choosing instead to develop a private sector national dystem from scratch, is anyone's guess. Even Tory backbenchers have been vocal in saying we MUST scale up the local system. We now have a month to get our shit together, having pissed away most of the last 6.