tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post4808986942106155559..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Two prominent Lib Dems join the Labour Party (and a third is rejected)Jonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-46598868734955778972019-10-03T10:22:12.082+01:002019-10-03T10:22:12.082+01:00Anonymous 2,
Can you point to any documented (ev...Anonymous 2, <br /><br />Can you point to any documented (evidence-based) instances of antisemitism and misogyny in the Labour Party? If not please withdraw your accusation. <br /><br />PS People on Panorama making claims with no supporting evidence doesn't count.billovitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-36529860381089877152018-01-29T15:41:37.269+00:002018-01-29T15:41:37.269+00:00I don't know much about Stephen Knights, but I...I don't know much about Stephen Knights, but I do remember a London friend complaining about his fondness for Labour just after he had been voted in as second on the London list. Four years ago? If he started distancing himself from the LibDems then, it is no wonder that the electorate remembered and placed him further down the list for 2018.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-3094302563127385242018-01-26T22:13:17.885+00:002018-01-26T22:13:17.885+00:00Thank you Anonymous 2.Thank you Anonymous 2.Jonathan Calderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-80838766231718927202018-01-26T05:49:38.070+00:002018-01-26T05:49:38.070+00:00Changing parties is NOT as easy as it sounds, sure...Changing parties is NOT as easy as it sounds, surely?<br /><br />Knights interest in the Party waned visibly when, as a sitting GLA List member, he was reselected in an unpromising position on the list for the last elections; victim of a mix of procedure prioritising women and perhaps a failure to convince members of his worth. In the event we only held one seat on the Assembly. With his partner having already defected to the pro-Brexit, anti-Semitic, misogynistic Labour Party, what was a convinced Liberal to do?<br /><br />I have some sympathy with your correspondent about the Banning tendency in the Party - step forward Ms Swinson - but cannot see that Labour is any better in this respectAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-46864935804427725802018-01-25T23:26:07.569+00:002018-01-25T23:26:07.569+00:00Certainly, it's harder and harder to see what ...Certainly, it's harder and harder to see what the point of the Lib Dems is.<br /><br />At least there used to be an element of liberalism there, but now it seems very much to have been supplanted by "I disapprove of what you do, so let's ban it".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com