Guest Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, Anon said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51797316 "The former UK equality watchdog chief, Trevor Phillips, has been suspended from the Labour Party over allegations of Islamophobia." Labour are a complete and utter joke. Wonder if what he said will be classed as fake outrage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 20 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said: Wonder if what he said will be classed as fake outrage? Most of it is historical, calling out Labour recently over anti-semtitism seems to have triggered the suspension. https://news.sky.com/story/labour-veteran-trevor-phillips-suspended-over-islamophobia-allegations-11953457 As with some other policies Labour are promoting, their target audience is now the vocal outrage mob on twitter and the block Muslim vote - they are on course to becoming and irrelevance for years and therefore complicit in allowing the Tories to do whatever they want in the meantime. Happy days ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 God damn it Trev! You were only supposed to notice racism when it aligned with our political goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 23 minutes ago, maxjam said: As with some other policies Labour are promoting, their target audience is now the vocal outrage mob on twitter and the block Muslim vote Do all muslims vote the same way then? Didn't know that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, SchtivePesley said: Do all muslims vote the same way then? Didn't know that http://www.brin.ac.uk/religious-affiliation-and-party-choice-at-the-2017-general-election/ Only a Sith deals in absolutes, but moreso than any other religious demographic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 26 minutes ago, SchtivePesley said: Do all muslims vote the same way then? Didn't know that That would be like thinking all Sun/Daily Mail readers voted Leave... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 47 minutes ago, Anon said: Only a Sith deals in absolutes, but moreso than any other religious demographic Hmm - interesting that they don't have Sikh or Hindu as separate categories, despite the fact that there are twice as many Sikhs as jews and 3 times as many Hindus. Also funny that they managed to break Christianity into 6 different groups! I guess if you included all the largely east asian religions it might become more obvious that a majority of oppressed groups vote for the party that is least likely to enable their further oppression. Hardly a surprise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 There's a Church of Scotland? Genuinely didn't know that and I lived there for years ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, SchtivePesley said: Hmm - interesting that they don't have Sikh or Hindu as separate categories, despite the fact that there are twice as many Sikhs as jews and 3 times as many Hindus. Also funny that they managed to break Christianity into 6 different groups! I guess if you included all the largely east asian religions it might become more obvious that a majority of oppressed groups vote for the party that is least likely to enable their further oppression. Hardly a surprise https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-4-charts-that-show-labour-may-be-losing-the-ethnic-minority-vote-10274051.html According to this alt right source, Hindus and Sikhs do not favour Labour nearly as much as you imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Ram for All Seasons Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 27 minutes ago, SaintRam said: There's a Church of Scotland? Genuinely didn't know that and I lived there for years ? Also known as the Scottish Episcopal Church Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 minute ago, A Ram for All Seasons said: Also known as the Scottish Episcopal Church The internet tells me they're different. CoS is Presbyterian, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstand Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 hour ago, SchtivePesley said: Do all muslims vote the same way then? Didn't know that Keep defending your most loyal supporters no matter what happens will mean another disaster for the Labour Party at the polling booths, so please carry on regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Probably pointless arguing about politics when the world is teetering on some unprecedentedly messed up times. Wall street just suspended trading because of an impending crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51796806 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthram Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 10 minutes ago, SchtivePesley said: Probably pointless arguing about politics when the world is teetering on some unprecedentedly messed up times. Wall street just suspended trading because of an impending crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51796806 I agree there are fair more important things to argue about than politics (and hand towels!) just now and things don't look great for the financial markets, economies and, of course, most importantly peoples health and lives but, trading only stopped for 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstand Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 12 minutes ago, SchtivePesley said: Probably pointless arguing about politics when the world is teetering on some unprecedentedly messed up times. Wall street just suspended trading because of an impending crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51796806 Trying sweep it under the carpet oh dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 17 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: R-R are obviously one of the most respected engine manufacturers globally. There's no reason for any region to suddenly decide they aren't airworthy and it's in nobody's interests to do so. For instance, should the EU say no you can't use R-R engines it would immediately lead to enormous tit-for-tat sanctions and a full-on trade war. For zero good reason whatsoever. So it's not going to happen. No, that won't.......but Priti will have found something for her 8.5m economically inactives to do.......they can all become regulators of something to replace the EU bodies we aren't part of thereby becoming fully economically acti....er......oh.....hang on.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Git Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Not sure how accurate the figures are, but the EU aviation regulatory body we are ditching on 31st Dec apparently cost us £4m a year, it's going to cost us £35m when we go it alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstand Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Tamworthram said: I agree there are fair more important things to argue about than politics (and hand towels!) just now and things don't look great for the financial markets, economies and, of course, most importantly peoples health and lives but, trading only stopped for 15 minutes. Well I am buying BP shares lowest price for 20 plus years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, Grumpy Git said: Not sure how accurate the figures are, but the EU aviation regulatory body we are ditching on 31st Dec apparently cost us £4m a year, it's going to cost us £35m when we go it alone. That's in line with what I read. So if that's replicated across a wide range of industries, AND we end up with tariffs then logically that is going to hurt our competitiveness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Tamworthram said: I agree there are fair more important things to argue about than politics (and hand towels!) just now and things don't look great for the financial markets, economies and, of course, most importantly peoples health and lives but, trading only stopped for 15 minutes. And "only" the 5th biggest one day fall in the Dow, so yeah nothing to see here... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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