Labour sees off Green challenge to win Holborn by-election
7 days ago by mannycalavera to c/uk_politics
It's a bit difficult when you have the entire establishment gunning for you. There's not many media owners who aren't psychopaths with a vested interest in destroying the planet, so it's no wonder you only ever see bad things about him.
He got Burnham elected
The Greens toxified themselves with the Zionism motion, quite possibly irredeemably. There is now a cordon sanitaire around them, with no mainstream party willing to touch them with a 10-foot pole, in the UK or in Europe, and they’re in the same political cesspool as Corbyn and Galloway, while still insisting that they’re something different.
I don't know about that. If they still continue receiving support - and the outcome here shows they are in fact still popular, almost enough to challenge Labour, - then I don't think it'll be as big of a deal-breaker as some politicians and the media are making it out to be.
Parties work with all sorts of right-wingers and known creeps all over, an anti-Israel/genocide stance will be tolerable. The media will blast it for a while, the main question is only if it'll put them out of contention with the electorate.
“anti-Zionism” is a slippery term that doesn’t nearly stop at anti-genocide or even anti-ethnic-supremacy but can go all the way to “Jews out of the Middle East”. Even if one doesn’t take that maximalist stance, one is stuck on a tough hill to defend.
Zionism is racism though, trying to equate Corbyn & Galloway is wild, especially given that Labour got 2.5m more votes under Corbyn than any other leader.
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The timing on this was just atrocious for Polanski. We're still firmly in the Burnham honeymoon and the Zionism motion being the dominant story about the Greens; he was just delt a bad hand here.
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