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Israel supporter loses the plot in TV debate (this is deranged)

The look in his eyes says it all: James Schneider (right) is taken aback by the vehemence – and incoherence – of David Mencer’s attack.

If you thought you had seen bizarre televised debates before, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

James Schneider, co-founder of Momentum, took part in a debate on Talk TV in order to – as you see below – call for a ceasefire in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza (let’s be honest; it isn’t a conflict, and it certainly isn’t between Israel and Hamas).

He expected a reasoned debate with a well-informed disputant – or at least, whatever passes for that in TV studios these days.

If David Mencer, formerly a director of Labour Friends of Israel (apparently), is what Talk TV considers to be well-informed, then that channel needs new leadership.

It seems Mencer had no defence for the war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza, so he resorted to false and defamatory statements about Mr Schneider instead.

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This Writer isn’t going to repeat the allegations for you; watch the clip for yourself. Mr Schneider’s comments about Keir Starmer, at the end of the clip, are also well worth watching.:

A commenter on ‘X’ suggested that Mencer is probably still ranting at his laptop now. This is believable!

How can anybody support Israel’s slaughter of the innocents with people like this supporting it?


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Dorset Eye team defamed and intimidated: statement from Independent Media Association

Journalists from This Site’s fellow left-wing social media site, Dorset Eye, have been targeted for exposing racism and extremism.

Now representative organisation the Independent Media Association has released a statement explaining what has happened and calling for the police to investigate and act:

Dorset Eye recently published an article titled “Fear, Grievance, and Hate: How a Community Became Radicalised,” shedding light on concerning issues within our society. Individuals associated with the article’s subjects, some linked to groups like Patriotic Alternative and the BNP, have responded with alarming harassment.

These journalists have faced unwelcome visits, relentless phone calls, and malicious messages. Around 25 fake Facebook accounts have been created in their names to spread hate and falsehoods, a blatant violation of their rights and journalistic integrity.

We urge the police to take action and stand with Dorset Eye’s journalists. We call on our members and supporters to show solidarity and insist that authorities investigate this harassment thoroughly, ensuring accountability under the law.

The Independent Media Association remains committed to protecting journalists and preserving press freedom. Harassment and intimidation will not deter us from our shared goal of giving voice to those who need it most and exposing the truth, regardless of the challenges face.

Source: Statement from the Independent Media Association re the defamation and intimidation of the team at Dorset Eye – Dorset Eye


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Bullying bigots tried to stop book launch. When will they be arrested?

Chris Williamson speaking to a crowd in Brighton on August 8. He had to carry out his talk in the open air after bigots falsely claiming he was an anti-Semite intimidated staff at two hotels.

Brighton was the venue for shameful scenes when a gang of bullying bigots managed to get an event at a local bookshop cancelled with a campaign of intimidation. When it was moved to another venue, they launched another campaign of hatred against that.

Why did these bigots intimidate staff at Waterstones Brighton – and try to shut down the rescheduled event at the Rialto Theatre?

Simple. It was the launch of a book by academics examining the “anti-Semitism” crisis in the Labour Party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader – and the bigots opposing it are dedicated to shutting down any discourse on this subject that doesn’t support their own position.

You see, these are people who claim to speak for the UK’s Jewish community – but don’t. It is a role they have assumed for their own political ends.

They claim that the people they are trying to silence are peddling hate – but the only hatred on display comes from them.

Consider the book whose launch they were trying to stop: Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David Miller.

Publishers Pluto Press describe it as “a ground breaking study revealing how accusations of antisemitism damaged the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.”

Its promotional copy states: “During the summer of 2018, numerous members of the Labour Party were accused of anti-Semitic behaviour by their detractors. The controversy reached fever pitch amid claims that the Labour Party had become ‘institutionally racist’ under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and that the prospect of a Corbyn-led government posed an ‘existential threat’ to Jewish life in Britain.

“This book clears the confusion by drawing on deep and original research on public beliefs and media representation of antisemitism and the Labour Party, revealing shocking findings of misinformation spread by the press, including the supposedly impartial BBC, and the liberal Guardian.

“Bringing in discussions around the IHRA definition, anti-Zionism and Israel/Palestine, as well as including a clear chronology of events, this book is a must for anyone wanting to find out the reality behind the headlines.”

The event at Waterstones was set to feature a discussion of the book by its authors, joined by film director Ken Loach.

And who were the authors? From the hatred directed at them, they must be a disreputable gang of anti-Semites – right?

Greg Philo is Professor of Communications and Social Change at the University of Glasgow, and Director of the Glasgow University Media Unit. Mike Berry is a lecturer in the Journalism School at Cardiff University. Justin Schlosberg is a media activist, researcher and lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a former Chair of the Media Reform Coalition and Edmund J Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University. Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. He has written on multiculturalism, racism, antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine for the Guardian, Independent, New York Times, Haaretz, Prospect, Jewish Chronicle and London Review of Books. And David Miller is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol. He is a founder director of Public Interest Investigations and a director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies.

So: No – not anti-Semites. Academics.

Still, the campaigners against their book managed to get the Waterstones event shut down, as Skwawkbox elaborated yesterday:

“An event this evening near Labour’s conference in Brighton, to launch a book by five academics that examines the wider context of antisemitism allegations against the Labour Party, has been cancelled by bookseller Waterstones after a ‘vicious’ and threatening campaign by the party’s opponents.

“The event was scheduled to start at 7.30pm and would have featured a panel discussion including the authors and world-famous film director Ken Loach. An organiser of the launch described the campaign as ‘vicious, large-scale and threatening’.

“Brighton was also the scene of threats – including in person – that forced two venues to cancel a recent event involving suspended Labour MP Chris Williamson. Staff were so traumatised by the sinister campaign that at least one was unable to resume work.”

Pluto Press put the cancellation as mildly as it could – but it was still clear that the “external pressure” put on the store was intimidation.

Then the Rialto Theatre, which has hosted other Labour conference fringe events, stepped in:

And the campaign of intimidation and accusation started again – on the social media as much as anywhere else. This is quite handy, really – as it means we can put names to the bigots:

https://twitter.com/NobodyNorman/status/1176171499667017728

https://twitter.com/IanMackintosh04/status/1176160362657472512

I would like to see all of the above interviewed by the police, in relation to the threats suffered by staff at Waterstones and the Rialto. Such behaviour is illegal and must not be tolerated.

It is especially abhorrent when it is being carried out by people who are claiming the moral high ground, accusing their victims of anti-Semitism and threatening violence to prevent those victims from presenting a case that could exonerate them.

I was particularly interested in the tweet by Gary Spedding, highlighted here by Jackie Walker – another innocent victim of the bigots’ smear campaign. Mr Spedding co-wrote a particularly virulent online article, falsely accusing me of anti-Semitism.  When I wrote to him, pointing out the errors and asking him to take it down, he and his co-author refused, flinging a few personal insults at me along the way.

I am pleased that he has implicated himself in this hate campaign and hope that Sussex Police contact him at their earliest possible opportunity.

Don’t get me wrong – I have maintained, from the moment I first started writing about it, that anti-Semitism does exist, in the Labour Party and throughout UK society.

But it doesn’t exist in the book that these bigots have been attacking, and it doesn’t exist in the academics who wrote it. I’m unfamiliar with staff at Waterstones Brighton or the Rialto, but I’ll hazard a guess that they don’t spend their days consumed with hatred for Jews either.

On the other hand, I’m willing to bet that the authors of the hate-filled tweets you’ve just read do spend their days consumed with hatred – and vent that hatred on anyone they can shoehorn into their enormously wide definition of anti-Semitism.

It simply isn’t acceptable.

These aren’t campaigners fighting prejudice against Jews.

They are vicious, hate-filled bigots.

And they need to be stopped before they seriously harm somebody.

One more thing – they did get an aspect of their campaign right: the slogan “Don’t host hate”. That’s a good slogan, and it can very clearly be applied to these bigots.

So I’m having it. If you see these people, or anyone else pushing their message, then flag it up with #DontHostHate

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Blackford threatens to sue Tory MP over ‘arms dealer’ claim. Why won’t Corbyn sue the Sunday Times?

Jeremy Corbyn and Ian Blackford: Both have been subjected to claims they say are false, but they have reacted in markedly different ways. Why?

The SNP’s leader in Westminster is threatening to sue Conservative MP Ross Thomson over a claim that he is an “arms dealer”.

According to The Herald, the threat follows a tweet from Mr Thomson of a news story claiming that an investment fund Mr Blackford chairs profits from defence deals.

Mr Thomson included a shocked-face emoji and the line “Just a simple arms dealer”.

He deleted the tweet two hours later but the SNP has said Mr Blackford’s solicitors have contacted Mr Thomson, demanding an apology and a charitable donation.

This chain of events raises an obvious question: Much more serious allegations were made about Jeremy Corbyn by reporters for The Sunday Times – so why hasn’t he demanded reparations from them?

His inaction encourages readers and commentators – including certain Labour backbenchers – to claim that the allegations (of anti-Semitism) are true.

It is hugely damaging – not only to Mr Corbyn but also to all Labour members who have been falsely accused of anti-Semitism, just because they support Mr Corbyn and the direction he has taken the Labour Party.

As a victim of this discrimination, I certainly don’t understand the thinking behind Mr Corbyn’s lack of action. Isn’t it time we had an explanation?

Source: Ian Blackford threatens to sue Ross Thomson over ‘arms dealer’ comment | HeraldScotland

Fake ‘anti-Semitism’ accusers are fabricating hate to turn opinion against the innocent

Extreme flatulence: According to JVLWatch, this is a sign that Hitler is being portrayed as a superhero. How many superheroes do YOU know who have the farts?

If anti-Semitism is rife in the Labour Party, why are the accusers having to lie about it?

This morning (November 1), I woke up to an email from a friend, as follows: “Mike just letting you know this lot on Twitter appear to be targeting individuals who have donated to your crowd fund.”

“This lot” would be a new name on the fake anti-Semitism bandwagon, JVLWatch on Twitter (joined September 2017). I have no doubt that the same old liars are behind it, though.

Who knows – they may even be connected with the right-wing ‘anti-Semitism’ troll that Skwawkbox has exposed for promoting a fake anti-Semitic Twitter account and then inventing a biography for the same nonexistent person. Read about it here.

You may be aware that This Writer has been falsely accused of anti-Semitism, and I have launched a crowdfunding campaign to take my accusers to court for defamation.

JVLWatch appears to be attacking people who are contributing to my JustGiving site, who happen to be members of Jewish Voice for Labour.

For example:

https://twitter.com/JVL_Watch/status/1057381787805147136

The claim refers to a comic strip I wrote for a small-press publication called Violent! which I created in 1999. Violent! was a tribute to the 1970s comics legend Action. I created a series for it entitled Hard-Boiled Hitler.

The strip parodies Hitler’s career using themes common to superhero comics – but there I part company with JVLWatch, whose authors have either never read the story or are deliberately trying to mislead the public.

In HBH, Hitler is the recipient of superhuman abilities in a similar manner to that of Captain America – but he steals the syringe containing the serum that gives him these powers and shoots up in a filthy toilet. A superhero? Perhaps not!

The scene referenced in the tweet, in which “Hitler punches through gas clouds, using the Nazi phrase to justify aryan supremacy & extermination of Jews” is, of course, nothing of the sort.

It may interest you to know that The Sun and The Sunday Times tried to use this strip as justification of their claim that I was an anti-Semite, to the press regulator IPSO. After reading my response, the regulator dismissed the claim out of hand.

Here’s what I wrote:

“I find it interesting that the representative mentions the humorous – yes it was! – comic strip I wrote, ‘Hard-Boiled Hitler‘. From the way it is mentioned, I would have suggested that nobody involved with The Sunday Times has read it, or they would have realised that it in no way supports Hitler or the Nazis, and is in no way anti-Semitic.

“The whole idea was to ridicule the man, his ideas, and the political party that promoted them – and to warn that, unless the people are vigilant, it can be easy for such people to gain power, no matter how silly they really are.

“I was going to raise the issue of anti-Semitism in the strip: The intention was to have veiled references to something going on in the background – as I recall, the Allies had no idea what was going on for most of the war – until I reached an appropriate time in the narrative for the liberation of a concentration camp. Then, I think the appropriate metaphor is, the other shoe drops – it would have become apparent that, while this ridiculous character was behaving in the ridiculous ways chronicled in the previous episodes, he had also been carrying out the genocides for which the real Hitler is justly infamous.

“The point would have been that even the most clownish of people may be capable of the most heinous of crimes. Nowadays I would connect that to the behaviour of real people in power at the moment, around the world, but I wasn’t as politically-motivated at the time. Unfortunately, the series was cut short by the premature death of the artist.

“Nobody who worked on it considered it to be anti-Semitic – if it was, one might as well suggest that every war comic published since 1945 was anti-Semitic too, because most of them don’t even mention the Holocaust. How could they miss out something so central to our understanding of that conflict? But of course they are not. I have no reason to believe that any of the readers considered it to be anti-Semitic either – certainly nobody ever contacted us to express such concerns.

“I am therefore drawn to the conclusion that The Sunday Times – and anybody else who wants to use the strip to support their position – is rather desperately scrabbling for anything that can be reinterpreted to support its claims, in the hope that people seeing the strip after being exposed to the publication’s interpretation of it will be influenced to accept those claims.”

On that last point – shall we find out?

Below is the episode of Hard-Boiled Hitler  containing the image JVLWatch mentioned: The Orator. Did it show him punching through gas clouds, “using the Nazi phrase to justify aryan supremacy and extermination of Jews” – or did it portray him as a flatulent git?

You decide:

No anti-Semitism there – it’s simply a swastika-smashing send-up.

So JVLWatch – and all those who join it in accusing the innocent – are a gang of liars.

And the best way to teach them the error of their ways is to do exactly what they don’t want.

So, please, if you haven’t donated to the crowdfunding page before (or even if you have), please visit it and give what you can. Attempts to mislead the public in this way are nothing less than evil.

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A good day’s work: Lying and libellous plots to attack Jeremy Corbyn seem set to fail

August 27 was an interesting day for those of us wrapped up in the Labour Party – anti-Semitism storm-in-a-teacup.

We learned that certain Jewish Labour MPs have decided they will need bodyguards when they attend the party conference, due to a perceived increase in anti-Semitic feeling – a perception that some of them played a part in creating, by giving credence to false allegations of anti-Semitism.

We also learned that unnamed malcontents were cloning Twitter accounts belonging to Labour Party supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – creating new, fake accounts that look identical to the real things, intending to use them to post abuse they can then attribute to the real accounts and their owners.

It seems possible that this is intended to give credibility to the claims of the afore-mentioned Jewish Labour MPs, that they need bodyguards, setting up a nice – fake – controversy with which to hit Mr Corbyn during the conference. “Your supporters are threatening our lives. Step down!” That sort of thing.

And we learned that right-wing members of the Labour Party (although we cannot be sure they include the Jewish MPs already mentioned above) have complained bitterly about plans to penalise anybody making false, vexatious and/or malicious allegations about fellow party members.

Now, why would they do that, if it wasn’t to protect the Twitter cloners (among others, I’m sure)?

The plan seems to be to undermine Mr Corbyn with a landslide of fake accusations against his supporters, made by people who believe they will be immune from retribution, with protection from senior Labour figures.

Now, who could possibly come up with a plan like that? It’s too intelligent for the usual suspects in the Labour Party (the brains tend not to reside on the right wing of politics).

Could it possibly have been Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs?

And does it matter?

Hopefully not.

A new resolution has been submitted for inclusion on the agenda of Labour’s NEC meeting next week – that’s the committee that runs the party. It states:

This NEC:

– Notes that an unfortunate side-effect of the party’s renewed determination to root out antisemitism has been that, in a small number of cases, false accusations have been made about Labour party members, officers and elected representatives.

– Believes that maliciously-made accusations are damaging, hurtful and cannot be accepted in a democratic party.

– Resolves that:

(1) Labour must be tough on vexatious claims made about its members and must never accept such behaviour becoming the norm.

(2) To be taken seriously, formal complaints about alleged wrongdoing by party members must therefore be precise and based on facts and must take into account the context within which the alleged behaviour took place.

(3) Complaints that do not meet these standards may be considered vexatious, in which case they may result in disciplinary charges being pursued against the complainant.

Notice that, while the resolution mentions anti-Semitism for context, the proposal relates to all categories of complaint. It has a good chance of being passed, which is good news for everybody – except those who are trying to manufacture fake outrage in order to remove political opponents.

Amid all these, we learned that the mis-named Campaign Against Antisemitism, the fake ‘charity’ that pretends to fight anti-Semitism but in fact smears those who speak out against the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestine, has launched a petition on the Change.org website, calling for Jeremy Corbyn to be removed as leader of the Labour Party and claiming that this is due to numerous examples of anti-Semitism.

But the examples cited are lies and have been disproved, the petition is libellous, and both the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Change.org are vulnerable to prosecution under UK defamation law.

And it has provided an opportunity for signatories to make death threats against Mr Corbyn, exposing the double-standards of the fake charity behind the petition; it poses as an organisation protecting people from the threat of death because they are Jewish – but is perfectly happy to host death threats against Mr Corbyn, based on lies.

Oh – and guess what?

The Charity Commission is now investigating the Campaign Against Antisemitism for breaking the conditions of its charitable status.

You see, organisations that register as charities must never engage in party political activity – and trying to remove the leader of a political party by means that include inciting others to harm or even murder him is an emphatic form of such involvement.

They must remain independent and politically neutral – yet the Campaign Against Antisemitism concentrates almost entirely on making allegations against members of the Labour Party.

And charities must not be used as an expression of a trustee’s own political views – yet it is clear that chairman Gideon Falter, whose pro-Zionism, pro-Israeli-government views are well-known, is using the CAA as a front for his own attempts to remove an opponent of the same government’s slaughter of Palestinians which is carried out in the name of Zionist ideology.

Talk about backfiring!

It seems both these plans have blown up in the faces of their instigators.

The bid to smear Corbyn-supporting Labour members seems set to flounder if the accusers know they will face harsh penalties once their subterfuge is exposed.

And the Campaign Against Antisemitism could lose its charitable status – and face legal action – over its libellous, politically-incendiary petition.

For those of us on the side of the angels, I’d call that a good day’s work.

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Pro-Israeli government stooges launch ‘Corbyn is anti-Semite’ petition – duping thousands into signing

This is the lowest attack yet from that fake ‘charity’, the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

It has launched a libellous petition on the Change.org website, to the Parliamentary Labour Party, calling for Jeremy Corbyn’s removal as party leader on the grounds that he is an anti-Semite.

There is a big problem with this: While many allegations are made, absolutely no evidence is provided to support them.

And we know that these ridiculous claims have been shot down on the social media as they were made. Right?

So they are defamatory of Mr Corbyn – libellous.

Fortunately, there is a way to stop this nonsense.

Visit the petition and scroll down to just below the ‘Comments’. You will find a link marked “Report a policy violation“. Click on that link.

On the next page, click on the button stating that the petition is against the law, and fill in the box below, pointing out the reasons.

Make the point that repetition of a libel is a fresh libel, and that Change.org is endangering itself by hosting the petition.

And while you’re at it, why not complain to the Charity Commission?

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism poses as a charity – but charities are forbidden from interfering in politics. This is a clear breach of that rule.

This is the complaints page on the Charity Commission’s website. Please use it and follow the instructions.

These people must be stopped.

ADDITIONAL: There is a death threat against Jeremy Corbyn in the comments section of the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s petition.

This is beyond the pale.

What will the Campaign Against Antisemitism say when their lies have incited somebody to make an actual attempt on Mr Corbyn’s life?

This organisation is responsible for creating an atmosphere of hatred in the UK. Enough was enough a long time ago. It is time for deterrent action.

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Huge response to Vox Political’s crowdfunding appeal to fund legal action against anti-Semitism liars

A crowdfunding appeal to help clear me of false and libellous anti-Semitism allegations has raised more than £1,000 – on its first day alone.

I started the appeal on the JustGiving website after it became clear that the organisations and individuals, who have lied to the public with false claims about my character, will not willingly withdraw their accusations. Vox Political doesn’t make anything like enough money to fund an expensive court case so I had to take this step.

The response so far has been overwhelming. More than £1,000 was pledged in the first 24 hours alone.

Some of the comments provided along with the donations have been inspiring.

“I loath the way certain people use anti-semitism as a weapon. You are innocent!” wrote Jane. “I hope justice is done, you get the right decision, and your enemies have to pay a BIG fine. Good luck to you Mike.”

Sandra Harvey contributed: “Really admire your battle/s with the DWP and your sheer dogged determination. Best wishes for your court action. You are no anti-semite.”

Anthony O’Malley offered the following, in addition to his financial help: “Over the past few years you have educated and inspired me about the importance of finding the truth of politics within an inherently corrupt society. You now need help, and I give what I can!”

And Steve Hall made this very important point: “Trying to destroy people’s careers with false allegations of something as serious as anti-Semitism is extremely low-grade behaviour. All cases should be prosecuted. Good luck with this one.”

I am grateful to everybody who has contributed so far.

But £1,000 is on a fraction of the £25,000 I need to fund effective legal action against my persecutors.

I will not repeat their lies in this article, but if you want to see how my accusers twisted my words to make them say things I never intended, you can find information here.

The JustGiving page is here. Please share the link to it and ask everybody of good conscience to help.

Why should the liars get away with this? They should not.

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‘Tis the season to be jolly: Cameron insults half the UK, slanders MPs, in eagerness to bomb Syria

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Some of you may have noticed that yesterday (Tuesday) was December 1, the first day of Advent and therefore the start of the Season of Goodwill, here in the UK.

It has been marked by a series of increasingly bitter exchanges between those of us who are pro- or anti- the plan to launch air strikes to bomb people in Syria, and topped off by a staggeringly offensive comment by the UK’s own prime minister.

So it’s all going swimmingly. Joy to the World, eh?

Cameron’s foot-in-mouth moment was made in an attempt to persuade fellow Conservative MPs to vote for his war in Syria. The BBC‘s version of the story states:

David Cameron has urged Tory MPs to take a stand on fighting terror on the eve of a vote in Parliament on authorising UK airstrikes in Syria.

The prime minister called on them not to “sit on their hands” and side with Jeremy Corbyn and others he labelled “a bunch of terrorist sympathisers”.

This is, of course, an act of defamation.

Claiming that his political opponents, including not only Jeremy Corbyn (who is named) but also any other MPs who agree with the Labour leader, agree with the unlawful use or threat of violence to intimidate or coerce, usually for political or ideological reasons, certainly seems to be defamation as This Writer learned it!

Does the comment seem intended to expose Mr Corbyn and the others to hatred, ridicule or contempt? Yes.

May it cause them to be shunned and avoided? Yes.

Does it seem intended to lower them in the estimation of right-thinking people generally? Yes.

And does it disparage him in his office, trade, calling or profession? Certainly.

So: Defamation.

(Note that This Blog’s reporting of it is not an act of defamation as it expressly states that there is no reason to believe Mr Corbyn and the others who have been tarnished by Cameron’s words should be described in that manner.)

Anybody who opposes Cameron’s will at the vote – and it seems likely that many more will do so than had intended it, prior to his outburst – will be able to sue him for trying to bring them into disrepute. Some may consider it reason enough to vote ‘No’.

Needless to say, the social media has been having huge sport with this.

For example, Jill Segger tweeted: “Are British Quakers “terrorist sympathisers”, David Cameron? If not, why are MPs with a conscientious objection to airstrikes so called?”

Nick Pettigrew added: “‘Terrorist sympathisers’. Ballsy talk from a bloke recently seen bowing to the Saudi royal family.”

Several people have contacted the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, demanding that Cameron be made to retract his comment and apologise.

Why did Cameron do it?

Long-term readers will be aware that This Blog often compares the behaviour of the current Conservative Party with that of the Nazis who governed Germany between 1933 and 1945. With that in mind, take a look at this:

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Does that clarify matters?

He’s on a hiding to nothing though – according to a new poll he has just insulted more than half the population of the UK:

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In related news, the Commons Foreign Affairs select committee has decided that Cameron has failed to address its concerns over air strikes. Those who voted for the motion include Tory John Baron, who intends to vote against air strikes, and his colleague Andrew Rosindell – also a Conservative.

Mr Baron has tabled a cross-party amendment to the motion ratifying air-strikes, with co-signatories including the SNP’s Angus Robertson, Labour’s Graham Allen, Plaid Cymru’s Hywel Williams, the SDLP’s Alasdair McDonnell, Green MP Caroline Lucas – and 104 others, according to Labour MP John Mann.

The wording states that the House of Commons, “while welcoming the renewed impetus towards peace and reconstruction in Syria, and the government’s recognition that a comprehensive strategy against Daesh is required, does not believe that the case for the UK’s participation in the ongoing air campaign in Syria by 10 countries has been established under current circumstances, and consequently declines to authorise military action in Syria”.

Eoin Clarke tweeted: “Since we started bombing ISIS 481 days ago, recruitment to ISIS’s terrorist army has grown by 1400%. I [am] less than convinced bombing’s working.”

Dr Clarke also tweeted an image showing 10 reasons he believes bombing is not reasonable:

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MPs will debate Cameron’s plan – to bomb Syria – for 10 and a half hours, starting at 11.30am today (Wednesday, December 2), with a vote immediately afterwards.

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