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But no, “both sides bad”, file in the big black hole we dumped the chilcot report into and let’s go win an election.
Its not that though is it? Nobody is saying ignore the massive problems the report has put a focus on. Labour clearly are a party in a shambolic state. They're saying stop the public infighting and fix the problems to move on. If Labour go into the next GE with the question of antisemitism, racism and infighting still bubbling away...it will not do as well as it could.
This stuff is a total fucking gift to the Daily Mail tbh. The Labour party NEEDS to be seen to address the problems and move the fuck on.
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This stuff is a total fucking gift to the Daily Mail
No it’s not.
Mentions of the Forde report on the front pages (web based) of the right wing press today
Daily Mail: 0
Telegraph: 0
Times: 0
Express: 0
Sun: 0Because the British press
A) do not give one teeny tiny fuck about racism or otherwise reprehensible behaviour when it’s people they approve of doing it
B) don’t want to revisit that period when they were screeching and finger pointing and gnashing their teeth, because the Forde report indicates they should really go back and reconsider the work they did at that time, and that would be deeply inconvenient for them.As a thought experiment: if the Labour left were still in control of the party today and a report as damning as the Forde report was released, do we think it would be off the front pages a mere handful of days after it had been published?
Eejit
In other words “let’s ignore all this inconvenient shit that completely contradicts what everyone has been saying for the last five years”
Had I come in here three days ago and stated the blindingly fucking obvious - that the Labour right had weaponised antisemitism against the Labour left - then I would have been hounded out again as a conspiracy theorist, and likely accused of being an antisemite.
Three days later, that blindingly obvious fact is now acceptable discourse, thanks to a chap with some letters after his name giving everyone permission to believe their own lying eyes.
To me, that is a very interesting phenomenon, worthy of reflection, highly reflective of how ideology functions in the UK, and strongly indicative of the horribly corrosive nature of our press in particular.
But no, “both sides bad”, file in the big black hole we dumped the chilcot report into and let’s go win an election.