It's very difficult to tell how much of the Honda plant (or the other plant curtailments) is Brexit, diesel, global trends, electrification. However, every other car plant in the world is facing those issues, only the ones in Britain have Brexit added to that list and, as the old joke goes, I don't have to outrun the lion, Carruthers, I only have to outrun you.
It's exactly "la, la, la, I can't hear you." As if that makes the problem go away or makes you look like you are doing something serious about it.
I don't know if the Labour Party is institionally anti-semitic. I do know that blaming a Jewish bankers' conspiracy for the world's ills is an easy trope for the left and that eliding Anti-Zionism, with Israel and then Israel with Jews is also easy and that if someone keeps telling you that you have X problem than, you probably have at least some X problem and you also now have a second problem of not listening.
Dealing with anti-semitism in the Labour Party ought to be easy. Being agin that sort of stuff is sort of what the Party is for. It's not like the Tories where Anglo-centric British nationalism is a core part of the offering.
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Date: 2019-02-19 12:48 pm (UTC)It's very difficult to tell how much of the Honda plant (or the other plant curtailments) is Brexit, diesel, global trends, electrification. However, every other car plant in the world is facing those issues, only the ones in Britain have Brexit added to that list and, as the old joke goes, I don't have to outrun the lion, Carruthers, I only have to outrun you.
It's exactly "la, la, la, I can't hear you." As if that makes the problem go away or makes you look like you are doing something serious about it.
I don't know if the Labour Party is institionally anti-semitic. I do know that blaming a Jewish bankers' conspiracy for the world's ills is an easy trope for the left and that eliding Anti-Zionism, with Israel and then Israel with Jews is also easy and that if someone keeps telling you that you have X problem than, you probably have at least some X problem and you also now have a second problem of not listening.
Dealing with anti-semitism in the Labour Party ought to be easy. Being agin that sort of stuff is sort of what the Party is for. It's not like the Tories where Anglo-centric British nationalism is a core part of the offering.