That's actually great (non-sarcastic). The fact you've taken those steps is more than most would even consider. I've heard mention of the Socialist Rifle Association as an alternative in other places, but I've had no personal interaction or in depth research.
I have my sources... Also... Papa Bear has a message for you. "Next time you try to kill someone with an electronic wok, make sure it's turned on."
Tell Mama Bear that next time he wants to make a threat, he should make sure his drapes are closed when he's partaking in his nocturnal activities. Also to take a shower and commandeer some Red Spice or something.
Only so much money, yes. And Keir Starmer decided to give away hundreds of thousands of pounds to people who were deliberately sabotaging the party from the inside and lying about it publicly.
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The vast majority of the total cost-- 400,000 out of 580,000-- was in legal fees. A protracted court case would have cost immeasurably more.Only so much money, yes. And Keir Starmer decided to give away hundreds of thousands of pounds to people who were deliberately sabotaging the party from the inside and lying about it publicly.
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Exclusive: As Labour agrees to pay out nearly £600k in damages and legal costs, Justin Schlosberg reveals how the BBC's Panorama investigation into Labour antisemitism omitted email evidence and key parts of Labour’s pre-broadcast reply.
As Silvanus said, that's mostly legal fees just to get to this point. Labour could then spend another few truckloads on a court case, with no guarantee of recouping those costs even if it won.
The quickest way to secure gun control in the USA would be for socialists and black people to take up gun ownership en masse.
Something I was taught in law school: just because you're right doesn't mean it's worth the time, effort, and resources to prove it.
Stick with it.
If I may borrow your lawyer hat (mine is in the wash)...
Then they'll make up baggage about whoever else, amplify it and then receive a nice payout and apology if the party objects. If you're going to just let them win the argument over whatever fabricated bullshit is the flavor of the year to take down a real representative of workers whenever they're within striking distance of power, you'll never take power.
That's true, but the place to weed out the headaches and the lost causes I've generally found to be in the intake period. Discovery might turn up a pile of gold, but if the client is problematic, whether in questioning or how they interact with you, it might not be worth it to the attorney.
Most of Washington's CLEs were online broadcasts for the last several years, so I've attended like 5-6 credit hours of my CLEs in person in the last two years. The rest have been from the comfort of my home office in my PJs. And that's not counting the pre-recorded ones. I could meet my CLE requirements for the next two years by paying just $400 and taking a long weekend, which I might if the next stimulus passes... Been a while since I did a good business law update for my clients.
I'm very glad my job does not require me to speak to clients. Or screen them. I did that as an undergrad clerk.
Labour is polling way better at the moment than they did in the last general election or the years before it. It's pretty clear that you might dislike the current party but the public at large prefer it much more than they did momentum version. So the question isn't current labour or momentum labour but more current labour or conservative.
Yeah, but the public at large would also like us to sink dinghies full of children in the English Channel, so it's not a great barometer.
The reason this particular scandal had the legs that it did was because there was something there. It was not simply the product of invention.
I suspect you're being facetious, but on the off-chance: this is utterly implausible. Leaving aside the fact that "centrists" and centre-right Labour MPs were compromised by the antisemitism scandal as well, and that it didn't really fall along Left-Centre-Right lines; leaving aside the fact that the majority of "centrist" Labour MPs aren't guilty or even accused of sabotage.
Corbyn had a ton of baggage which leftists don't need to. There are years meeting and conversing with and terming as "friends" extremist organisations. I know this isn't "supporting" them, but it's easy to portray as supporting them, which then ties into a lot of further left anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist leftist. You and I and other people familiar with typical socialist talking points can buy that stuff, but the bulk of the British left wing don't have an intellectualised socialist understanding of geopolitics, and they can be really quite nationalist, so it just looks like a naive lefty pallying up to terrorists. He came across as weak and ineffectual. Again, we might complain about the myths of strong leaders, but someone who won't get themselves forward and at least look like they have shit in order will take punishment.
Yeah, but those working class communities are actually pretty right-wing, certainly here. I was at the Newcastle BLM rally that kicked off - Nazi salutes and 'white lives matter' all over the place. Just a bunch of white supremacy statue nonces.
They are indeed often nationalist and conservative. That's part of the problem trying to marry them to metropolitan liberals as an electoral alliance, because they might be somewhat near the same page in economic policy, they can be reading completely different books in other ways.
I'm sure you're right. I live close to Blyth, which is one of the towns that turned blue in the last election. It's a dump - people literally have security shutters on their doors and windows (this isn't a common feature, but pretty unusual however you look at it). There's been a heroin problem there for decades. It's a town that's been shat on for years - at least since the 80s. Even walking around there fills me with a deep sense of hopelessness. I could've bought a 3-bed terrace there for 35K last year - probably less now. It's just so utterly hopeless, but the people who live there have been convinced it's the fault of someone other than the government. And they're happy to lash out at those people.
