Matt
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Matt
@mattymo77
The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.













Just done a really interesting meeting. In Kilburn - lots of feisty discussion about Labour politics until a woman stood up and said "Keir Starmer is an agent of Israel and Labour is full of Israeli supporters". Completely soured the atmosphere - I am so sick of left anti-Semitism and tolerance for it. Two out of three of us on the platform condemned the comments but there were still people arguing the toss. If the far left goes down this route - of tolerating and accommodating to the ideology that legitimised the Holocaust - because that's what the "socialism of fools" was - it will end up in a dark place.



Just done a really interesting meeting. In Kilburn - lots of feisty discussion about Labour politics until a woman stood up and said "Keir Starmer is an agent of Israel and Labour is full of Israeli supporters". Completely soured the atmosphere - I am so sick of left anti-Semitism and tolerance for it. Two out of three of us on the platform condemned the comments but there were still people arguing the toss. If the far left goes down this route - of tolerating and accommodating to the ideology that legitimised the Holocaust - because that's what the "socialism of fools" was - it will end up in a dark place.

Here’s Jody McIntyre on BBC News in 2010. He’d been dragged out of his wheelchair by Police on a student protest, all caught on camera. The BBC presenter suggests he might’ve had it coming for ‘rolling towards the Police’:










