well, this certainly seems balanced

(the full article as opposed to the headline/sub)

yeah, I mean the problem is that the Tories are acting in Bad Faith about racism where I think that for the most part Labour are attempting to act in good faith but are damned if they do, damned if they don’t and I zeroed in on your comment because it was a bit ‘they’re both as bad as each other’

The actual problem on the left is …and historically has been …one of competing ideologies of ‘equality’ - class, race, religion, gender and so on. Hence why the only real solution is a comprehensively universal and intersectional one. AS cannot be effectively considered in isolation because it doesn’t exist in isolation, just like how feminism is ineffective and counter productive if it’s exclusively white feminism and/or transphobic and so on… and then there’s personal prejudice, structural prejudice & the feedback between them

I think both Labour & the Tories saying ‘we will have enquiries into all forms of prejudice’ might sound flat but what that actually means as an outcome is night & day between the two parties

I guess we agree on that right?

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essentially

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Just going to be music to the ears of Tory voters really, innit?

Corbyn doesn’t need a Help to Rent scheme because he’s living rent free in these fuckers’ heads

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Omg I just heard some ominous rolling news coverage from across the office talking about Labour AS - and it turned out my colleague’s dad was on there defending Labour. Surrounded by secret comrades!

Odd how the BBC article about Islamaphobia in the Conservative Party is full of references to anti-semitism in the Labour Party, but it isn’t the case the other way round.

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That is odd. Must be a string of unrelated coincidences

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Oh is peston on itv now. Thought he was just a pro Twitterer

Been over there for years

Cant remember the last time i watched itv news…

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Nor me. Has his own politics programme, imaginatively named Peston

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Should have called it pastor and peston and got a vicar on to shout at him

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i always think of a pestle and mortar when i see his name

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“peston my chips”

just him ruining everyone’s day

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Absolutely SEARING report at the top of the news with the anti antisemitism row
Definitely going to harm Labour’s chances

Doesn’t read well from the bbc’s reporting of it

Big interview’s at half 7 though, if he can come out strong it’ll help

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