To wish we had someone like Mamdani in UK politics?

[LostInManhattan]

Someone who’s passionate, young and willing to break the rules in politics, all while caring about his city and the people in it. I wish we had someone like that here.

I’m not here to post for you. I’d ask if you post to call out antisemitism ever but really it’s up to you. If the Arabic one moved you to post but not something else then great.

It is hateful to do things like push open-border mass immigration policies that the people do not want.

It is hateful to push literal socialism when to do so risks the extreme right getting in at the next election when the literal socialist completely messes up like they always do.

Yes affordable rent, affordable groceries and free public transport is sooooo hateful.

He’s not in charge of the USA’s immigration policies. That’s down to Trump (sadly)

I notice @EasternStandardcant reply to the fact she was actually the first one to accuse posters on this thread of being Israeli and/or Russian bots. I do wish you’d tell us who you think!

That poster was talking about Mamdani's campaign. New York is a city of immigrants and, as the US has actually got an extreme right wing government after the Democrats ran a very timid campaign that nobody could have called socialism, your argument doesn't even make sense.

What a great result! Congratulations New York.

We have Zack Polanski finally someone for progressives to vote for

Yes, he is doing very well.

Starmer needs to bite the bullet and introduce PR, in order to prevent reform getting into power.

What? Are you looking at the wrong post? There have been a couple of accusations which I said report to mnhq instead. As per guidelines.

i said that it was a well known fact that Israel and Russia use bots on social media.

you then responded and asked why I was accusing posters on this thread of being bots.

I said no such thing. I think you owe me an apology.

Did you agree with @EddyFand @xILikeJamx?

Don’t try and distract from the question I’ve posed to you.

You agreed with them, don’t distract. If you do then yes you meant posters on the thread, you can see that’s what they say.

Feel free to clear up whether you did or didn’t agree.

No, I never agreed. I said it is a well known fact that Israel and Russia use social media bots.

as I’ve said. You owe me an apology.

It would be nice to have a rational left to vote for, but those of us who yearn for such things have learnt not to hold our breath.

Mamdani certainly doesn't fit the bill, with his predictable support for the transgender lobby, its nonsensical ideology and its crusade against women's rights.

Here you are agreeing with @EddyFand @xILikeJamx

That’s a totally different conversation about a totally different topic.

you owe me an apology.

I am active in women’s rights, but when the only political parties that want to speak out for ‘free speech’ (note: not women’s rights, major difference) against the identity politics are also the massively right wing ones who would also decimate the public services that support women and children if they got into power.. then it’s just much more complicated than a left/right voting split if you support women’s rights (and if you or your kids might need rely on those public services).

It’s almost as if the hair’s breadth we came to introducing self ID in the UK wasn’t under the Tories. Women have to vote according to their conscience like they always have done and it doesn’t make you a TWAW genderist zealot if you vote for a left wing party.

Good luck with any concept of women’s rights under Reform..

It’s three post chain, you do know it’s possible to expand that on mn?

You are agreeing with their take on bots on the thread. If you didn’t mean to then by all means update but it’s there.

You owe me an apology, like it or not.

If you don’t want to be called out don’t agree with that take, it’s pretty simple. You can say you got it wrong you know, it’s ok.

Then you need to report to Mumsnet. Its offensive to delegitimate posters who you don't agree with by accusing them of being bots and it weakens your position that you can't engage with their argument.

Well, indeed. Cool to know that I am either a bot or part of a targeted campaign.

Rather than someone who knows, from long experience, that you can, as a non-Jew, disagree with Jewish people and criticise Israel without being called an antisemite, and also finds an unwillingness to criticise 'from the river to the sea' to be bordering on antisemitism, and supporting terrorists linked to Hamas to be outright antisemitic.

Yes you said it well.

The only reason for saying that is to express agreement and imply their are bots on here. Ridiculous to try and deny it.