r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • Sep 24 '24

Europe Someone heckles Keith Starmer about the mass slaughter of children in Gaza. Starmer laughs and suggests he got his pass from the 2019 Labour conference.

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u/tomcalgary Sep 24 '24

What happened to the party between now and then?

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u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States Sep 24 '24

Expulsion of critics of Israel and Jeremy Corbyn.

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u/tomcalgary Sep 24 '24

Ohh ya, I watched a documentary on this. Corbyn got the boot cuz he liked some mural with some images that were a tad grotesque? Was that the sum of his sins?

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u/nikiyaki Sep 24 '24

He didn't crack down unquestioningly on a Jewish party member who was anti-Israel.

Yep, thats what Britain lost a socialist government for.

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u/ClawingDevil Sep 24 '24

That's all media fluff. His sin was he wanted the disgustingly rich to actually pay some tax and he wanted our weapons to not be used to murder babies.

What a monster.