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I completely agree with you AAV. And I'm very angry about the whole thing, especially Starmer trying to make out that the SNP were trying to be divisive when they have been consistent during all these months. I've written to my MP to express my anger ( and my wholehearted support for the SNP).

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Starmer’s actions put me in a quandary, yes we have to get the Tories out but I’m loathe to vote for a party that would seem to be in the pay of Zionism, whether direct from Israel or via the USA.

The disdain that MP’s show for the electorate is shown by their corruption.

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"... the kind of stuff you’d expect from a fascist party, not one that supposedly represents the interests of the trade union movement." Labour is now a fascist party so we should expect it. Fascists being those who think the state should act in the interest of the corporate/oligarch sector. It appears that Labour is now also a Nazi-like party in that it supports the extermination of a population Labour leaders consider less er than them and, perhaps, less than human.

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You've absolutely nailed this. Disgusting spectacle. Starmer and his cronies are going to be a further disaster for this country. As if we can survive any more.

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On the bright side, we got to have a - 'Jackanory, Story-time - with Barry Shearman.' - as the lead story on Channel 4 News, last night, although, it left me scratching my head, wondering what it had to do with a Ceasefire in Palestine.

Sat in his upper middle-class - taxpayer-funded - living-room, Barry was determined to get his story of trials and tribulations across to a bewildered Cathy Newman, and the nation.

Obviously, Shearman is the go-to man, this Labour Party turn to when they want to thoroughly cloud the issue.

Enjoyable as his story was, it still didn't make me want to dash out and canvass for this Labour Party, let alone vote for it.

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Excellent article AAV. Cited in THE LEFT LANE #6 out on 23 Feb. ( We are just getting started!)

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Just another example that politics is completely broken in the UK.

Problem is, the choice of who to vote for becomes more of a quandary each day.

I'd never dream of voting Tory, I stopped voting liebour when the war monger Blair took control, now it would seem there are more and more right wing parties springing up and gaining support while any centrist or left wing parties seem to be falling apart.

Look at the Greens, they have been slowly building up momentum but now they seem to be imploding, dismissing members, dropping candidates and their policies are in a complete mess!

Then, even if you do find a party whose policies you agree with, there's nothing stopping them doing a 360 as soon as there get any sort of power.

I've always said people should use their vote but now I'm not sure, vote for a back stabbing, self confessed liar or an egomaniac or a dithering idiot or one of the many thinly veiled national front parties? I'm seriously considering not bothering for the first time in my life!

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The Greens have been supportive of Palestine from the start of the genocide. At least vote for them or a socialist independent if one stands.

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Spot on analysis of the farce in Parliament this week, cynically engineered by Starmer to protect the image of his own party and that of Zionist Israel.

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Should progressives queue up behind George Galloway and his party?

https://theleftlane2024.substack.com/p/the-workers-party-of-britain-as-the

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