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it still blows my mind that the media managed to convince a nation that a lifelong anti-war and anti-racism campaigner was a dangerous racist terrorist.
Just to preface my post, I firmly believe that JC was subject to a disproportionate right wing media onslaught. However....
- Under his leadership in conjunction with Momentum there have been a series of incidents of antisemitism. These were ignored, belittled, and to be blunt framed as a Jewish conspiracy.
- He has a clear history of sitting down with terrorist groups. These were often at wholely inappropriate times.
- He has been anti-NATO - our most important military alliance.
- He has been anti-EU - our most important regional political ally, in particular through a time when Russia has increased it's regional aggression.
This pattern of behavior is fundamental to his identity and his world view.
Honestly, he would never normally be my choice of PM from a national security POV. Personally though I view Johnson as a far, far greater security threat - but that doesn't evaporate my 4pts above. Also it doesn't diminish the reality that a huge section of the British public see Muslims as terrorists and JC as a friend of Muslims.
- Under his leadership in conjunction with Momentum there have been a series of incidents of antisemitism. These were ignored, belittled, and to be blunt framed as a Jewish conspiracy.
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it still blows my mind that the media managed to convince a nation that a lifelong anti-war and anti-racism campaigner was a dangerous racist terrorist.
another thing im still confused by is this labour post-mortem. up to 10pm on december 12 everyone was enthusiastically urged to vote labour. by 11pm on thursday all those people had posted screeds explaining all the patently obvious flaws in the labour party since 2015.
I don't know what to think any more