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It is a great idea.

No the last thing we want as the tories cannot be trusted any longer.

Ash is wrong about everything, as usual.

The last two decades can be summed up as : the nutters in the conservative party got loose and set fire to the couch. Now, we're all stuck with a burnt couch as the nutters have run away.

isn't it the other way round? shouldn't we be saving with the conservatives because labour likes the welfare system and stuff like that?

Podcast hosts complaining about how hard this election is for them, how exhausting they find it all…I remember my dad saying that when he came home from the steel mill….before he was laid off. New Labour lives…🤢

challenge any of the Labour steps and you see none have credibility - reduce waiting lists for what, by who. Find 6.5K teachers-when 40K quit in 2022 from the sector- where from? economic stability- as a third party economy to BREXIT europe.......

Labours five steps are as nebulous as Sunaks pledges. No content at all.

Really? People see him as different to Fishy Sunak? It no longer makes a difference whether you vote labour or tory

Please update us on UKs role with the ongoing genocide

This would be a dream team that could actually keep Britain British.

No party has ever become more left wing once they get into office. I can see them get more radical... radically right-wing with PFI on steriods across the public sector leading to costing tax payers billions

My god he's hot.

Pretty rank and innacurate represenation of the situation rachel cuntliffe with enlightening and principled analysis as expected, but what else to expect from a mouth piece of the labour right. 'So called purge' ... parachuted in is right, national executive into seats where they dont live. candidates deselected despite democratically being selected for abslaloutely nothing, just stating facts. Blair didnt do it did he? No. He will have a huge majority he doesnt NEED to do this. There are right wing candidates that have been found guilty of actual racism that are being selected, neil coyle, no mention of that though right?

Hope so, we need a Labour government not a student protest group with no understanding of compromise. Labour handed the Tories the biggest majority in my memory because of “entryism” if they were ever to be elected again, that needed to be resolved.

Tories are right wing not Labour is right wing.... they may as well be one party

Glad to see so many other comments calling out the channel on their double standards and wrongly blankly saying the concept of the Israel lobby is anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitism is real but it's not the same as criticising Israel and misusing the term to try to silence criticism of the Zionist project only dilutes the term and worsens the problem of anti-Semitism as the label losses it's impact.

The problem for the Tories is that they haven't really won a general election since Thatchers last victory in 1987. John Major scrapped through in 1992 only to loose in a landslide 5 years later. David Cameron failed to get a majority in 2010 and again scrapped through in 2015, Teresa May only kept going with support from the DUP (remember the £1billion funding bribe) and finally of course Boris Johnson, well basically he fought the 2019 election on one issue only, Brexit. Today of course the Tories are back to fighting on policies alone and their record in government and it's not looking promising at all..

The question is a couple of years too late, and the answer is whitewashing the extreme right wingers within Labour who support IDF terrorists...

If there isn’t a hierarchy of racism how come she only had to do a course on antisemitism but not one for anti traveller or Irish people?

Putting whether his actions were ‘right,’ Starmer was just being ruthlessly pragmatic, just like Blair when he dumped Peter Mandleson from cabinet prior to 2001. Again, putting aside right and wrong, the left still doesn’t realize (or acknowledge) just how deeply politically toxic anyone attached to Corbyn is. Apparently, if you replace Starmer with Corbyn in polling questions, the race becomes a dead heat _immediately._

Do we really want to do this now! Its a month till the election and we are living under the most crooked and fascistic government we have ever known. We all have to close ranks and get the Tories out. Addressing the iniquities of Labour has to wait. It just has too. Tactics people!

Regardless of your politics, referring to a political 'lobby' for a nation is not colorably racist (i.e. antisemitic). This is inherently true because Israel is a nation state, not an ethnicity. It is especially true in context because AIPAC exists. Now this does not mean that you are prevented from pointing to other things from Abbot as problematic. But what you can't do is use this particular instance as your red-line because if you do so, even if you interpreted it as a dog-whistle, you are signalling that any discussion of the topic of political influence from this particular nation state is taboo. That is ridiculous and untenable. I don't know how many times it needs to be pointed out, but criticising Israel is not inherently anti-Semitic. If you genuinely hold that it is, you have an ethno-nationalist perspective. I hope I don't need to explain why that is bad.

Abbot performed woefully in all of her roles. A number of her interviews were complete car crashes. She is out of her depth.

Labour is going to win the election, but not on their own merits at this point. They'll lose again in five years.

YES

Of course, we can expect the hand picked members of the Starmtrooper Parachute Regiment to cause problems. Just because they've been loyal to this point doesn't mean they can't get involved in the usual scandals that befall MPs. Even if some of them did wipe their own social media accounts and think people wouldn't notice.

The view from the “poor bloody punter” of the Labour Party is terrible. It only do we have an awful election process of two parties cola and pepsi but we have now got the only news is about infighting in labour once again. The opportunity wasted and the people of the UK slowly falling into losing interest all together in the political process. I don’t see me voting but maybe I spoil the vote but then the extremists get the chance to broker power. Labour having a putsch now the mind boggles.

So funny, purging the left. Is that the left of the Nazi one party state? I was just wondering. #dianeabott. #spelling.

Of course they are. I'm a left wing socialist but the truth of the matter is, the UK population are not. They like the sound of the policies but look how Labour got hammered under JC. Labour are shifting to the centre right as that's how you get into power sadly. The UK gets the government it deserves.

Didn't C.S. Lewis write about this too? He was another victim.

A fascinating campaign from the very start

"The Israel Lobby" is not an antisemtitic trope. It's a verifiable lobby that exists in Westminster,.

Sad, but not surprising, that UK elections are being influenced so much by anti-Semitism accusations being dragged out the moment anyone criticizes Israel. Israel, in my opinion, has had far too much influence on the UK - and US - systems for decades.

Mean what she write was completely unacceptable

Tony Blair's New Labour project, had its wheels come off when "spin" got out of control, morphed to lying (weapons of mass destruction)/; where that lying saw us complicit in an arguably illegal war (Iraq); with the consequence of countless deaths, and infrastructural damage, from which a region has never recovered. Starmer begins with all these boxes already ticked. Complicit as he is in what is taking place in Israel-Palestine. Arguably the spinning and lying has to do with how the Starmer project has its foundations in systemic misrepresentation of Corbyn and Labour under his leadership. As a base for defining Labour under his leadership, spinning on he not being Corbyn and Labour not being what it was under Corbyn, is painfully narrow as well as being specious. My sense is that Starmer will not escape, in whatever time he has to lead the country, from the same character and action perceptions which Blair has never escaped from. How this will effect his leadership as PM, and effect what Labour can do under his leadership while in government, should be focused on and spoken to by professionals such as Rachel Cunliffe and Hannah Barnes. The size of the constituency who vowed never to vote Labour again, after Blair's ignoring of the democratic will regards Iraq, arguably had a significant effect on the nadir of New Labour. The size of the constituency who will never vote for Labour under Starmer, is indeterminate; but may well be the bloc whose votes lost to Labour, may crucially figure in the eventual demise of what ever takes place under Starmer as PM.

Andrew Marr is simply brilliant

They’re playing dirty because it works. Negative ads work, sadly.

It is antisemitic to criticise starmer

"Scheming jews" is an antisemitic trope. The many, publicly visible, professional groups who lobby on behalf of Israel are very real and highlighting their influence is a statement of fact, not a trope.

I suspect disgruntled people who detest Starmer on the left making trouble

He did from the start. Bit odd this is news now.

Starmer is a liar and a coward. Starmer and labour offer absolutely nothing

Struck by Rachel Cunliffe saying that that referring to an "Israel lobby" "is" an "antisemitic trope". Clearly there are individuals and groupings and agencies who are unconditionally supportive of Israel and its interests. How can capturing and expressing that fact with a phrase such as "Israel lobby" be intrinsically "antisemitic". Rachel may have been over casual in what she there said; but she does seem to be laying down conditions where any reference to active supporting of Israel, is open to being deemed "antisemitic".

New Statesman saying Rosie Duffield had been treated appallingly, but someone being deselected for liking a clip by a well-known jewish comedian is an antisemitic embarrassment? Ridiculous.

How old are these two? - they seem way too young to be political wonks.

8:47 Luke Akehurst, NEC member parachuted 250 miles, has article after article against him - try one in The National (respected Scottish newspaper) titled "Luke Akehurst: Labour pick 'extremist' Israel lobbyist for safe seat"...

Sorry, can we just establish one thing. Simply stating that there is such a thing as the 'Israel lobby' is not a lie nor simply an anti-Semitic trope. AIPAC has funded vast sums towards US politicians and significant sums come from Israel into UK politics. You cannot accuse someone of anti-Semitism simply for pointing out reality. FS supposedly 'liked' a sketch in which Jon Stewart - a Jewish comedian - lampoons the way any criticism of Israel is stamped down upon. So what? We see this play out all the time.

Excellent broadcast, its so refreshing to hear two people that really understand what they're talking about for a change!

Is labour purging the left of the party? Honestly the new statesman is just satire at this point lol wtf