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Won’t be long until they ban The Wind In The Willows (even though it was first published in 1908).
Have a gander at these Moehat, preferably on an empty stomach
https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/poisoning-the-well
https://blogs.dickinson.edu/quallsk/files/2014/10/jewishratmsn.jpg
“I had no idea that rats were used in an antisemitic way. Banksy has often used rats. I’ve got a Banksy t shirt with a rat on.”
It depends on the context. It should have been obvious even to Lineker that the material he was sharing and recommending to his millions of followers was equating Jews with rats.
That is not what Banksy was doing, still less Kenneth Grahame in his beautiful book.
It encourages a world where politics is treated like a football match all that matters is that your ‘team’ is ‘winning’.
See what I mean? Growth in the economy announced yesterday, actually marginally better than expected, and barely a peep from the Tory media. If it happened under The Blue Team or was negative/less than expected then it would have been front page news. Instead it’s whatever negative Labour news they can find. Don’t people get tired of reading this rubbish day after day?
It is a bit unrealistic to expect anyone to get excited about such meagre “growth” figures, which months later usually get rounded down anyway when no one notices. Given the rate the population is increasing and various other factors, the economy is in effect flat lining at best – and that is before the April tax rises start to have an effect.
No one is really feeling any benefit, so no newspaper is going to expose itself to ridicule with a headline making it sound like everything is rosy. It would be mocked like the tractor production figures in communist countries.
A British Prime Minister told where he can stick his migrant plans by his counterpart in Albania. Once things start going wrong for a government, they tend to keep on going wrong.
I’m not expecting anyone to get excited about growth figures (what little left wing press we have didn’t either) but the point is the Tory rags happily crow about it when it’s their lot in charge but not now.
I like the idea that no newspaper is going to expose itself to ridicule. I think that ship sailed a long time ago for all of them.
True, the dead tree press is finished. As is BBC News. People can find out lots of things for themselves nowadays. They don’t need the remnants of Fleet Street or the BBC to inform them.
It explains why all of these leftovers from the analogue age along with the governing classes are so enthusiastic about trying to bring the internet under control.
The usual caveat of you shouldn’t always believe everything you see or hear. But oh dear, has Sir Keir lost the youth vote now as well? It doesn’t exactly look like it was filmed at the Young Conservatives either, assuming that still exists (which it probably doesn’t).
Is there anyone still round who still likes him?
I had no idea that rats were used in an antisemitic way. Banksy has often used rats. I’ve got a Banksy t shirt with a rat on.
Nor did I.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysAnd Blek le Rat was using rat graffiti years before Banksy. I don’t think that was anti semitic either.
CAS I doubt asking any teenager about a politician is going to get a positive response …
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I know what you mean HDLG but that crowd looked a little bit older than teenagers. The sort of age group which was singing “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” to the same tune at Glastonbury not so long ago.
The latest opinion poll shows Starmer now has a negative approval rating even amongst Labour voters. He has become a serious liability and I believe the bookmakers who have him odds on as not to be Prime Minister when the next election is called have probably got it right.
He ain’t going no where , despite it being a good week for Reeves with the increase in growth Starmer is the most solid of all the part leaders , a week is a long time in politics , 3 years is a life time , Starmer might be many things , stupid isn’t one of them
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