Andrew seemed much calmer today.
Not so some of his viewers though. John McDonnell's repeated claims that “We’ve done everything, I think, we can possibly do” concerning antisemitism in the Labour Party has aroused some anger:
Karen Pollock, Holocaust Education Trust: I’m afraid this isn’t true. It just isn’t true. That is the tragedy but also the danger.
Sam Freedman, Education Partnerships Group: It just a complete lie. I can't describe how angry this makes me.
John McDonnell remains an compelling performer though, and I suspect many will have been 'taken in' by his 'passionate sincerity' at the end:
We've always got to learn lessons, of course we have, all political parties, it isn't just the Labour Party. I want us to be a shining model. I apologise to the Jewish community for the suffering we've inflicted on them. I say to them we are doing everything possible. We are going to learn more lessons and we want to be the shining example of anti-racism that the Labour Party should be, and I hope I come out of this now having in this, gone through this horrible, horrible period, we come out of it now actually showing respect to the Jewish community and tackling this issue and enabling the Labour Party to tackle anti-Semitism in wider society.
One who did seem to be 'taken in' was Andrew Marr himself. After Mr McDonnell reached his peroration there, Andrew slapped his thigh and said, with a dramatic flourish, "At last!", before thanking the shadow chancellor for talking to the programme - as if John McDonnell had finally done the right thing.
Marr slaps his thigh....... well it's almost Panto season, after all.
ReplyDeleteOh no it isn't. Oh yes it is.
DeleteBehind you.
DeleteEvery time we point out the hourly lefty bias of the BBC
ReplyDeletethe leftmob shout
"Look the Berry Report from the Cardiff School of Journalism shows that there is no lefty bias in the BBC"
So Berry who finds no left bias in the BBC
now tweets
"There is no antisemitism crisis in Labour.
There is a small number of people who hold antisemitic views
and Labour has robust system to deal with them. "
Strangely he's been ratioed
46 people clicked like vs 99 who clicked reply to disagree with him
Thanks for pointing that out Stew. It doesn't surprise me in the least.
DeleteWorth nothing that Biased Berry continues agreeing it is (in his own words) "correct that centrists pushing this line will be partly responsible for terrible Tory victory". So he views a Conservative victory as a terrible outcome, has stated so in public and identifies with the left of the Labour Party".
DeleteSo the question is: "How on earth can the BBC quote Berry in support of their claims to impartiality?".
Discussion on LBC now
Deleteanother surveyor (Dr Daniel Alington of KCL") coming from different angle to Berry
A-S is widespread in Britain upto 50% of people
and strongly in the far-left
"China is putting Muslims in concentration camps , and Israel doesn't
So it is absolutely wrong to compare Palestine to the Holocaust"
"That is taking the victims of the Holocaust and saying they the same level as the perps"
MN "That's victim blaming"
Yes, I've always thought McDonnell was more dangerous than Corbyn.
ReplyDeleteDid Marr not raise anything about McDonnell's pro IRA past and praise of dead IRA volunteers?
No, he didn't. I can't remember if he ever has.
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