UK General Election 2017

[Light]

What are your thoughts on the Labour Party, mates?

I think that guy, Jeremy Corbyn, has some interesting things in his mind for the country. Don't you think?

I only read about him on wikipedia and watched a video about his thoughts concerning university tuition, health care, retirement and so on.

I think I'm more on the left of the political spectrum (especially when it comes to economics) so maybe I would vote for him. But again, I do not know a lot about him or the Labour Party.

[Odin]

From what I read about UK politics, the Conservative party in Britain is really more similar to the Democrats than the Republican party. In fact the Conservative party is probably further to the left than the Democrats. To find an equivalent to the Republican party, really you'd have to look towards a fringe party like UKIP. But they are down to 7% in the polls or something like that, and may not even get a single MP elected into parliament. And the Labour party, I don't think America has an equivalent, the closest thing would be Bernie Sanders.

[Zephyrus]

What are your thoughts on the Labour Party, mates?

Well, Jews hate him, so he must be doing something right.



Undercover recordings seen by Middle East Eye have revealed how an Israeli diplomat sought to establish organisations and youth groups to promote Israeli influence inside the opposition Labour party, in an effort to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

In secret conversations filmed by an undercover reporter, an employee at the Israeli embassy in London, Shai Masot, described his plans to set up a youth wing of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) organisation and revealed that he had set up other such organisations in the past.

Masot described taking delegations of Labour members on trips to Israel and told Joan Ryan, the chair of LFI, that he had been approved £1m ($1.2m) to fund further visits.
READ: Shai Masot, the Israeli Machiavelli caught in the act

He also said he had set up a group called “The City Friends of Israel” in collaboration with AIPAC, an influential pro-Israel lobbying organisation in the US.

Describing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as “crazy”, Masot said he had set up a youth-wing of the Conservative Friends of Israel in 2015 and wanted to do the same inside the Labour Party, but had been unsuccessful because of the “crisis” surrounding Corbyn's election as leader.

Masot also described Corbyn's supporters as "weirdos" and "extremists".

Corbyn is considered supportive of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which Masot elsewhere in the recordings said he had been tasked with discrediting and undermining.

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The conversations were covertly filmed by an undercover Al Jazeera reporter posing as a pro-Israel Labour activist who gained Masot's trust and infiltrated his circle so effectively that he was himself tasked with the job of establishing Young Labour Friends of Israel.

In a subsequent conversation, Masot stressed that the organisation should remain independent, but reiterated that the Israeli embassy could help.

Asked whether he had set up other groups in the UK, he said: “Nothing I can share, but yeah.”

He then said: “Yeah, because there are things that, you know, happen, but it’s good to leave those organisations independent. But we help them, actually.”

The undercover reporter also caught pro-Israel Labour activists on film describing financial support that they had received from the Israeli embassy.

In one conversation filmed outside a London pub, Michael Rubin, the parliamentary officer for LFI and a former leader of Labour Students, said: “Shai spoke to me and said the Israeli embassy will be able to get a bit of money as well, which is good... he said he’s happy to sort of help fund a couple of events so it makes it easier, so I don’t think money should be a problem really.”

Rubin also said that he and Masot “work really closely together... but a lot of it is behind the scenes”.


http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/is...byn-1016879568

[Anthropos]

That was one of the least interesting elections for sure. I can't understand what so many Brits are thinking about when they aren't voting for something that can help their country in this age of decay and violence.

[Mortimer]

I like jeremy corbyn