Comments on: HSC’s Letter to the Prime Minister: Call for urgent response to recent events in Iraq https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Thu, 21 Aug 2014 05:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-438638 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 05:24:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-438638 In reply to David Lindsay.

Oh right, I’ll break away from being English, and you’ll try and kill me.

Nice of you to spout your nonsense, Islamist.

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By: David Lindsay https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-427438 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:59:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-427438 In reply to Guest.

You will break away in the next Parliament, if not before. Oblivion will then beckon.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-427334 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:12:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-427334 In reply to David Lindsay.

I’m not pushing a Silly Dump Patch or whatever. That’s you.

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By: David Lindsay https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-420276 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:35:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-420276 In reply to Guest.

Enjoy your SDP Mark II. It is now inevitable. And it’ll get as far as the SDP Mark I ever did.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-420272 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:32:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-420272 In reply to David Lindsay.

So you’re saying 80% of Labour MP’s support Hamas? Erm…
And then I’m sure you’d target the other 20%, yes.

Yes, your fanatics would indeed stand out in any debate.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-420271 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:31:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-420271 In reply to Dave Roberts.

Who the fuck elected YOU?

How dare people other than you have an opinion!

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By: David Lindsay https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-416052 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:51:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-416052 I really wouldn’t blame any MP who voted either way on military intervention this time. But that is what there now needs to be: a parliamentary vote.

The suspension of arms export licenses to Israel also needs to be put to one. About 80 per cent of Labour MPs would vote in favour, and the other 20 per cent would usefully be identified.

For Blairism is becoming increasing secessionist: those who want only an urban, metropolitan, upper-middle-class, more-or-less (often fiercely) secular, economically neoliberal, socially ultra-liberal, Green-over-Red, internationally hawkish, European federalist, “Atlanticist” and Likudnik party are preparing for the SDP Mark II, which awaits the same fate as the SDP Mark I.

Some have already gone. Yesterday’s spat between Dan Hodges and James Bloodworth on Jeremy Vine showed that the division was opening up between the splitters and the stayers, with Hodges as a kind of outrider, a latter-day Dick Taverne or Reg Prentice.

Although not the topic of the discussion, a Commons division on the continued arming of Israel might be as catalytic as that on accession to the European Communities was, but catalytic of a far more rapid process. For that division to occur in time, however, there would need to be a recall of Parliament. As in any case there ought to be over Iraq.

Then again, why wait? MPs ought now to recall themselves to an appropriate venue, of which there are several in London and plenty elsewhere, in order to hold debates leading to votes that even on the floor of the House do not in these matters have any binding force.

As much as anything else, that would expose the idiocy of MPs’ taking themselves off home or on holiday for such a vast tranche of the year, including what is always the most belligerent season and month.

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By: Dave Roberts https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-415414 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:19:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-415414 Who the fuck elected you? Boots on ground and arm the Kurds. 23877661 L/Cpl Roberts.

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By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2014/08/hscs-letter-to-the-prime-minister/#comment-415346 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:50:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=87541#comment-415346 Who exactly are these ‘community leaders’? They’re always quoted in the media but nobody can ever say who appointed them, how they were appointed, where they work, or their day-to-day functions. Perhaps you could elucidate.

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