Simple statement standing up for working-class people has Express in a tizzy
Unite leadership favourite Howard Beckett has terrified the Express into a frantic headline screaming about his ‘brutal warning’ to Labour leader Keir Starmer.
The article beneath the headline goes on to describe Beckett’s comments as ‘chilling’ – but when it finally gets round to saying what the chillingly brutal warning is, it’s Beckett’s simple statement that he won’t stand by and let Boris Johnson and Starmer ‘dump the fall-out’ of the economic impact of the pandemic on working-class people:
Beckett’s forthright approach and track record of success in industrial disputes has also seen the Murdoch Times attack him as a left-wing ‘hard man’.
It’s not hard to see why Labour movement giants including Jennie Formby, Jim Kelly and – in an email circulated by the Scottish PULS – Unite chair Tony Woodhouse – have all backed Beckett to be the left’s candidate for Unite’s next general secretary.
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Hatchet man
Yes please we could do with one of those
I don’t buy the Express but I am familiar with some of its online comments. The Express seems to delight in confrontation and routinely uses words like brutal as if someone being brutal is praiseworthy. Another favourite word is hilarious used to belittle and sneer. The Express is a rubbish newspaper and is on a par with the S*n and the Mail – beneath the notice of most reasonable people.
Regarding Howard Beckett’s comments – well said Howard. Its a pity there weren’t more like you.
Another one of their favourites is ‘attacked’, as in, for example, ‘Jennie Formby attacked Tom Watson’, as they did when he was deputy leader and was trying to take control of A/S complaints and Jennie reprimanded him for trying to do so. They use it all the time, when someone on the left is criticising someone on the right, that is, but NOT when it’s the other way round for some strange reason……
But THAT’s propandists for you!
Starmer really does need a wake-up call! Currently, like Blair used to, Starmer seems to be presuming that all those disenfranchised former Labour supporters will go with Labour as the least worst option. Truly aspirational!
Just like friending Garry Glitter, as he was not as bad as Saville.
And what happened. The membership fell by 250,000, lost 143 seats, lost the former rock solid Labour bastion of Scotland and turned many many rock solid, ferociously loyal Labour seats into marginals and at the last NL GE it lost 90 seats plus the numbers of voters had shrank to 8,500,000. Like the Borgias, Starmer and his brethren, some of them can be witnessed on SB, have forgot nothing and learnt nothing!!
It was the Bourbons that were described as such Brian but in any event the sentiment was the same! Starmer is looking at us disappointed Labour voters and saying Behold brethren, I am your saviour. It was the Left wot lost it and I’m a man of the middle. I will bring all the lost sheep er voters back to the fold with a mixture of Bliarism and er Bliarism! Remember me. I am he who talks like a Tory and walks like a Tory although I must say I may dabble in Toryism while the red tops are around! Hail to me the man who would be talking it over with Rupert Murdoch now and again! See you at the ballot box!
… and worth less than nothing.
Looks like Skwawk consistently backs the wrong horse here. McCluskey and Beckett gave us Jeremy which got us Bojo and further years of unbroken Tory rule now with an 80 seat majority. How much more damage can these guys do? Mind you Len got himself a £417,000 loan from the union without asking the members, which was nice for him. I’m sure all members are now shown such generosity. I hope Beckett is not guilty of similar infractions which have yet to be uncovered by the gutter press or it’s going to be embarrassing for all concerned. I’m sure it wouldn’t be one rule for them and different for us ordinary mortals would it?
Yeah, and for 40+YEARS the rich have been fleecing us to the tune of trillions and paying themselve what they bastard well like while we starve.
Got nowt to say about them being made to give it back, plain cretin?
No? Then do us all a favour…
I thought he volunteered to give it back I didn’t realise they had to make him.
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Such loans come with contracts – there’s no ‘volunteering’ and no ‘being made to’ – it’s just a case of both parties abiding by the terms of an agreement.
They’re so common I was offered a house purchase loan by an employer when I was 18 at only 1% over Bank Rate.
There’s nothing underhand about it, pc.
Not notice the entire UK media lying about, and smearing Labour every single day for years.
Not notice the senior staffers plotting to ensure Labour lost?
Reply to Plain Citizen
It would not be normal practice to ask members to approve a loan – in order to do so you would have to ballot the entire membership. What normally happens is that things like loans are approved by the NEC ( who are elected by the membership ) or a sub committee of it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting a loan approved this ways but I expect you know that already.
You prefer this then?
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Late in 2002 Lady Thatcher came to Hampshire to speak at a dinner for me. Taking her round at the reception one of the guests asked her what was her greatest achievement. She replied, “Tony Blair and New Labour.
Source- conservativehome
Different Frank…I always suspected Blair as a crossover politician ,but now he’s finally come out as a cross dresser…blue suits him…nice?
Plain Stupid….We all know what “thought did” now bugger off back to the z”Bowton conservative and unionist party .Ps last year I drove through Bolton and it looks like you and your Conservative and unionist party have a l of work to do.IT looks like the slum clearance of the 50a did not finish in your area,Get down the Town hall and volunteer to clean up and stop the nonsense on here.
Another superb contribution from ‘Komedy O’Keefe, Please carry on enjoying your sun drenched stay with the other tax exiles in the far east. I suppose you have got the champagne out to toast Putin, Jeremy, Joe Stalin and the other peoples champions. Enjoy.
Plain troll. Oh dear.
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Russian involvement in the Cheap and Nasty Tory party
Anyone for tennis
Anyone for a football club
Anyone for a newspaper
The Express? Really?!?!
This is the paper that talks about snow coming every week in summer…
Or how Diana’s death affects your house price
Yes, well as I related in a recent post, the Express ran a story about Jeremy not bowing his head to the Queen when he entered the chamber for the Queen’s Speech, with the headline ‘National Disgrace….’, despite the fact that he wasn’t supposed to, and no-one else did apart from Theresa May (who DIDN’T bow her head the previous time!), and the joke of it was – ie the joke on their readers – was that right at the end of the ‘article’ they say the following:
‘Parliamentary officials later confirmed that Mr Corbyn did not breach protocol. A House of Lords spoksman said the only people required to bow were Speaker Mr Bercow, Commons Clerk David Natzler, senior Lords official Black Rod and the Serjeant at Arms Kamal El-Hajji.’
In other words, the author of the piece and their editor KNEW that it was a non-story PRIOR to writing it AND giving it the headline: ‘NATIONAL DISGRACE: Jeremy Corbyn refuses to bow to Queen and then WINKS at colleagues’, and needless to say it is just a blatant black propaganda smear. BUT, they were very clever – in a devious and deceitful way – in the manner in which they constructed the ‘article’, and having dished all the dirt, they then throw in a relatively long section about the Queen’s Speech itself, knowing that the vast majority of readers would probably soon loose interest at that point and not read much further as such.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/819660/Jeremy-Corbyn-refuses-to-bow-to-Queen-State-Opening-of-Parliament-Queens-Speech-live
Seems Starmer is waiting for Boris to fall on his own sword.
Talking of propaganda, as we ARE, yesterday, out of interest, I entered >corbyn anti-semitism< into the Sun's search engine, and 978 results came up. A small percentage of the results weren't related to A/S, but a good 90% of them were. So that's somewhere between 850 and 900 articles the Sun (alone!) has published in relation to anti-semitism since Jeremy became leader (and since he stood down). So, that's approximately 3.5 articles a week during the past four years and ten months! It then occured to me to try it with jeremy corbyn anti-semitism< and got 6,133 hits as of May 2015 (when Jeremy first entered the leadership election), and I have little doubt that there have been close to as many articles AGAIN since then – ie since July 2018. And needless to say, there have also been thousands upon thousands of 'reports' on TV news broadcasts and other programs and radio stations in relation to A/S in the Labour Party during the past five years.
https://www.medialens.org/2018/charges-without-merit-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-norman-finkelstein-and-noam-chomsky/
I don’t know what happened to my comment above, but around half of it didn’t appear when I posted it. Very odd! So here it is again:
Talking of propaganda, as we ARE, yesterday, out of interest, I entered >corbyn anti-semitismanti-semitism labourjeremy corbyn anti-semitism< and got 6,133 hits as of May 2015 (when Jeremy first entered the leadership election), and I have little doubt that there have been close to as many articles AGAIN since then – ie since July 2018. And needless to say, there have also been thousands upon thousands of 'reports' on TV news broadcasts and other programs and radio stations.
https://www.medialens.org/2018/charges-without-merit-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-norman-finkelstein-and-noam-chomsky/:
I don’t know what the problem is, but it happened yet again!
Here’s hoping it’s THIRD time lucky!
Talking of propaganda, as we ARE, yesterday, out of interest, I entered >corbyn anti-semitism< into the Sun's search engine, and 978 results came up. A small percentage of the results weren't related to A/S, but a good 90% of them were. So that's somewhere between 850 and 900 articles the Sun (alone!) has published in relation to anti-semitism since Jeremy became leader (and since he stood down). So, that's approximately 3.5 articles a week during the past four years and ten months! It then occured to me to try it with <anti-semitism labourjeremy corbyn anti-semitism< and got 6,133 hits as of May 2015 (when Jeremy first entered the leadership election), and I have little doubt that there have been close to as many articles AGAIN since then – ie since July 2018. And needless to say, there have also been thousands upon thousands of 'reports' on TV news broadcasts and other programs and radio stations.
https://www.medialens.org/2018/charges-without-merit-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-norman-finkelstein-and-noam-chomsky/
I don’t think I’ll bother trying a FOURTH time, but the upshot of what I was saying is that the Sun published close to five articles a week in relation to Labour and anti-semitism during the period Jeremy was leader.
You’re a braver man than me, Allan, venturing into that cesspit. I hope you were vaccinated against dysentery, given all the shit there.
I’m not surprised by your findings. Anybody expecting fine, accurate and nuanced reporting from the S*n is more likely to step in unicorn crap. We all know that when the S*n claims it’s telling “The Truth”, it’s a vile assault. I was only 9 when Hillsborough happened, but I still remember the anger that headline provoked here on Merseyside.
I just hope your research didn’t earn the bastards much money from adverts.
You are of course being totally ridiculous Stark! And being .’brave’ has nothing to do with it. Steve Walker (skwawkbox) obviously checks out how the Establishment’s propaganda machine is reporting this, or that, fairly frequently (as he obviously did for THIS particular article), as do ALL journalists of left-wing news blogs, including The Canary and voxpolitical, to name just two. Not to mention medialens and Jonathan Cook and Craig Murray and the authors of Bad News For Labour. Oh, right, AND Noam Chomsky!
Jeeeze!
Christ, I meant brave as in I wouldn’t want to go wading through the S*n’s archives. I’m not entirely sure which part of my comment was totally ridiculous. I’m sure you’ll enlighten me on that, but I’ve got work in the morning so I’m not going to rush to check.
Why would anyone go ‘wading’ through the Sun’s archives to determine how many articles they’ve published in relation to A/S and the Labour Party over the past few years. And WHY would you suggest that I DID, when not only is it the most obvious thing in the world to use the search engine – ie the Sun’s search engine – to determine and obtain such information, but I said as much in my post.
As for which part of your comment was ridiculous…….. ALL of it! I mean have you ever said what you said in relation to Steve Walker, who often posts articles about media disinformation. And I REALLY don’t buy your garbage about how someone would have to be ‘brave’ to check out and investigate what the MSM are saying about whatever, or NOT. *THAT* is beyond ludicrous, and total B/S of course.
Oh, right, but when you walk past a newspaper stand you have to avert your eyes for fear of seeing some headlines on the front page of the Sun etc. Is that right?
What complete tosh! Oh, well, at least you were ‘brave’ enough to read this skwawkbox article ABOUT the histrionics of the Daily Express. Hope it wasn’t too traumatic for you!
Fuck’s sake. I was trying to say I was impressed by the fact you’d taken the time to look into the S*n’s coverage. I can’t abide that paper (no, I don’t avert my eyes whenever I see it, because you don’t see it often around here – the boycott after Hillsborough means there’s not many shops that have it on display where I live), so I personally wouldn’t expect it to tell the truth about Corbyn, and I’m surprised that anyone would expect it to do so. After all, it doesn’t tell the truth about a lot of things.
You appear to have interpreted my comments in a way I didn’t intend. Perhaps I expressed myself poorly? Never mind.
Seems like Starmer supports Johnson, and is a racist as him.
He never opposes the Tories.
It’s in his bloody job description.