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So JC and the kkk are now bed fellows

49 replies

Metoodear · 24/08/2018 14:34

You couldn’t make it up really

Do people really think JC can get people who are in the Center to vote for him

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/08/24/jeremy-corbyn-praised-nick-griffin-former-kkk-leaderafter-video/

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Sparklesocks · 24/08/2018 14:37

I can't read the article as I don't subscribe to The Telegraph, do you have a full copy?

Phosphorus · 24/08/2018 14:40

That story is behind a pay wall.

Nick Griffith is not anyone I'd set my store by though.

Anti Semitism in the labour party is an issue. But I don't expect to pay to read about it. Whatever happened to the free press?

DrMantisToboggan · 24/08/2018 14:41

But I don't expect to pay to read about it. Whatever happened to the free press?

That’s not what the free press means! Grin

Neshoma · 24/08/2018 14:42

Doesn't surprise me. Who the hell is still going to vote Labour?

BlackberryBramble · 24/08/2018 14:42

Hardly bedfellows.

You would be better to look at who he genuinely hangs out with rather than who jumps on newspaper bandwagons.

Sparklesocks · 24/08/2018 14:43

Obviously I can't see the full article so can't fully comment, but am I right in understanding the takeway is Nick Griffin and a KKK leader praised Corbyn for a speech? What did he say? Has Corbyn commented?

I'm no Corbyn fan but it feels like quite a big leap to say he's in bed with KKK, though?

DoubleNegativePanda · 24/08/2018 14:44

Free press means freedom of the press and gives them legal protections. They still get to charge us for reading it.

Phosphorus · 24/08/2018 14:45

It may have meant that the press are free to publish what they will.

But people have come to expect free access. A free press in every sense, if they expect to be read/listened to.

Not laughed at and mocked over money and access.

Stuckinthis · 24/08/2018 14:46

Also can’t read, so no idea where it’s going but the very first paragraph says:

Jeremy Corbyn has been praised by the ex-leader of the BNP and a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after a video emerged in which he claimed that British Zionists “don’t understand English irony”.

Two points based on limited information - no idea what the context of
jC’s comment is/was (is it actually directly to Zionists or has a single comment been taken to use in another scenario.

And secondly, based on the wording of that paragraph , would that make me a ‘bed fellow’ of the KKK if they praised something I said (even if I had never spoken to them)?

ilovesooty · 24/08/2018 14:47

Oh FFS. Ever considered getting a hobby, OP?

BlackberryBramble · 24/08/2018 14:48

Rubbish. Pay up if you want to read their journalism.

Stuckinthis · 24/08/2018 14:49

Also no fan of JC but your title is utterly ridiculous and it would be nice if you could actually evidence your claim for everyone (or are you paid to encourage people to subscribe to the Telegraph by pasting sensationalist links?) Hmm

HopefullyAnonymous · 24/08/2018 14:49

The stories just get more and more extreme/ridiculous. The KKK?!

BlackberryBramble · 24/08/2018 14:50

It is precisely the sort of guilt by association ( although i note that there hasn't been any association!) Insinuation that momentum types use.

Yuck.

DrMantisToboggan · 24/08/2018 14:52

But people have come to expect free access. A free press in every sense, if they expect to be read/listened to.

Ah yes, all those journalists should just work for free! In fact, why don’t they pay us to read it?

Don’t post rubbish if you don’t expect to be sniggered at.

PositiveVibez · 24/08/2018 14:53

Nick Griffin and a KKK leader praised Corbyn for a speech?

KKK leader could praise findus crispy pancakes. Does that make him bedfellows with said crispy pancake.

ShakeShakeTheMuffin · 24/08/2018 15:00

Seriously OP? Have a Biscuit

MrsTerryPratchett · 24/08/2018 15:03

I haven't searched OP but I'd love to see you posts condemning TM for being in bed with the DUP and Trump for ng in bed with the KKK, rather than them saying something about him.

And I don't even like JC. But play the ball, seriously.

woodfires · 24/08/2018 15:08

JC's speech was out of order as well as being very stupid but it doesn't mean that he is in bed with the kkk.

DistanceCall · 24/08/2018 15:12

Just wondering what Jewish MNtters think about Corbyn and the way the Labour Party is dealing with this anti-semitism thing.

PigletJohn · 24/08/2018 15:13

@Neshoma "Who the hell is still going to vote Labour?"

People who don't read tory propaganda.

WindDoesNotBreakTheBendyTree · 24/08/2018 15:14

Don't be silly OP

SpitefulMidLifeAnimal · 24/08/2018 15:14

Is this what they call fake news?

Anasnake · 24/08/2018 15:15

Utter bullshit