PREVIEW: #UK: #LABOUR: #ANTISEMITISM: From a conversation with colleague Simon Constable re yet another episode of antisemitism in the Opposition Labour Party, this time in a suburb of Manchester during the run-up to a by-election. More later tonight.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
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| 0:31.4 | This is John Bachelor, speaking to my colleagues Simon Constable writing for the Wall Street Journal |
| 0:36.2 | and Barons and other distinguished publications. He's in the south of France. We speak of the |
| 0:42.4 | United Kingdom and the expectation of the general election sometime |
| 0:46.6 | later this year perhaps in the beginning of 25. |
| 0:50.4 | And the reports are yet another anti-Semitic episode in the Labor Party. |
| 0:55.5 | This in Rochdale, a suburb of Manchester. |
| 0:58.5 | Here's Simon Constable to explain the Labor Party's troubles and the polls closing because of them. |
| 1:05.0 | Well I'm amazed at this, that this has come back, it's sort of a ghost from the Corbyn past and |
| 1:10.7 | it's come back to haunt Kieastama that this anti-Semitism has popped up. |
| 1:17.1 | All Kiyastama had to do this time last year was to have his party say nothing and I think at that point a win would be assured and now I'm |
| 1:28.0 | not so sure by a long way. |
| 1:31.2 | You mentioned the Roshdale situation there was a private meeting inside which not just one person was caught saying anti-Semitic things but more than one and there were labor party people that the information was leaked to the daily mail I understand listening to the news this morning and it really is quite a big problem. |
| 1:54.0 | Britain's, Britons, the people who live there, generally have a great sense of fair play. |
| 2:00.6 | The idea that someone will be discriminated against because of their religion or their viewpoint just seems really off and a really quite un-British and that I think is why we're seeing this swing away from the Labour Party. |
| 2:15.6 | No one wants to be around haters. |
| 2:18.5 | More of this later. |
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