I've been a bit busy today but am aware of the story. It just seems a load of non-sequitur nonsense to me. I don't follow the links between the anti-semitism report and her being nominated. Are they suggesting she is corrupt? Are they suggesting we are anti Arab and Jew? Most Jewish people of my acquaintance are more left wing than I!

Corbyn seems to have the establishment on the run. Have they blamed him for the shopping centre stabbing yet?

she gets on my last nerve, however, shes done a sh!t load for people & she deserves more recognition than samcams dress chooser woman or daves hairdresser

fatty watson putting his 10pence worth in-i notice his personal trainer hasnt got an award-as for shami, she did her job, got the goods, but the JC haters (inc some jewish ones) arent happy

why?

because theyre all sh!tting themselves if jezza gets in & removes their perks, cos lets face it, thats the only reason some of 'em became mps

What really got my goat was this...

Samantha Cameron's 'Girl Friday' Isabel Spearman was paid a £60,000 taxpayer-funded salary to style her hair, buy in her wardrobe and even pack her suitcases.

And now in return Ms Spearman, 37, a family friend, is set to be awarded an OBE by David Cameron for her diary and fashion services to his wife while working in Downing Street. 

What an absolute joke!!. You get people who run marathons to raise money for others, these people spend a lot of their own time and money raising funds (and there is lots of them) and don't get a look in, but buy a few clothes for Mrs Cameron and make sure she gets to meetings on time, picking up £60K a year and you are offered an OBE. This whole thing is madness and an utter joke.

I'm not a fan of the honours list anyway, but these kinds of things just make it an absurdity.

Where is mine for enduring government cuts for the last 5 years, not getting a pay rise in all that time and surviving in a job by the skin of my teeth and a lot of hard work?

Shit! I'm pissed off

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

What really got my goat was this...

 

Samantha Cameron's 'Girl Friday' Isabel Spearman was paid a £60,000 taxpayer-funded salary to style her hair, buy in her wardrobe and even pack her suitcases.

And now in return Ms Spearman, 37, a family friend, is set to be awarded an OBE by David Cameron for her diary and fashion services to his wife while working in Downing Street. 

What an absolute joke!!. You get people who run marathons to raise money for others, these people spend a lot of their own time and money raising funds (and there is lots of them) and don't get a look in, but buy a few clothes for Mrs Cameron and make sure she gets to meetings on time, picking up £60K a year and you are offered an OBE. This whole thing is madness and an utter joke.

 

I'm not a fan of the honours list anyway, but these kinds of things just make it an absurdity.

 

Where is mine for enduring government cuts for the last 5 years, not getting a pay rise in all that time and surviving in a job by the skin of my teeth and a lot of hard work?

 

Shit! I'm pissed off

 

 

 

100% with ya bro-its unjust,unfair & plain f*cking cheeky-the fat bloke got his last dig in at the end

suprised peppa pig didnt get a life peerage

Have they blamed him for the shopping centre stabbing yet?

 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

What really got my goat was this...

 

Samantha Cameron's 'Girl Friday' Isabel Spearman was paid a £60,000 taxpayer-funded salary to style her hair, buy in her wardrobe and even pack her suitcases.

And now in return Ms Spearman, 37, a family friend, is set to be awarded an OBE by David Cameron for her diary and fashion services to his wife while working in Downing Street. 

What an absolute joke!!. You get people who run marathons to raise money for others, these people spend a lot of their own time and money raising funds (and there is lots of them) and don't get a look in, but buy a few clothes for Mrs Cameron and make sure she gets to meetings on time, picking up £60K a year and you are offered an OBE. This whole thing is madness and an utter joke.

 

I'm not a fan of the honours list anyway, but these kinds of things just make it an absurdity.

 

Where is mine for enduring government cuts for the last 5 years, not getting a pay rise in all that time and surviving in a job by the skin of my teeth and a lot of hard work?

 

Shit! I'm pissed off

 

 

 

Don't blame you EC 

Ducky posted:

Have they blamed him for the shopping centre stabbing yet?

 

 

 

 

 

I know, it get more ludicrous as the days go by Ducky This is why I ignore the BBC 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

What really got my goat was this...

 

Samantha Cameron's 'Girl Friday' Isabel Spearman was paid a £60,000 taxpayer-funded salary to style her hair, buy in her wardrobe and even pack her suitcases.

And now in return Ms Spearman, 37, a family friend, is set to be awarded an OBE by David Cameron for her diary and fashion services to his wife while working in Downing Street. 

What an absolute joke!!. You get people who run marathons to raise money for others, these people spend a lot of their own time and money raising funds (and there is lots of them) and don't get a look in, but buy a few clothes for Mrs Cameron and make sure she gets to meetings on time, picking up £60K a year and you are offered an OBE. This whole thing is madness and an utter joke.

 

I'm not a fan of the honours list anyway, but these kinds of things just make it an absurdity.

 

Where is mine for enduring government cuts for the last 5 years, not getting a pay rise in all that time and surviving in a job by the skin of my teeth and a lot of hard work?

 

Shit! I'm pissed off

 

 

 

Me too! But it's DC pissing on the 'ordinary' people innit 

I have a lot of time for Shami, she's the right wing's bete noir, a highly intelligent Asian woman who highlights injustices the establishment would prefer to brush under the carpet.  

I also think the whole Labour Party antisemitic thing is overplayed.  The so-called anti-Semites are really anti Israeli policy rather than anti-Jew.  

That sometimes bleeds into a general undercurrent of "Zionist conspiracy" which is understandable with the likes of Rupert Murdoch.

 All the same, that's largely the excitable fringe and I have no doubt Shami conducted her examination of the Labour Party without fear nor favour.  She just doesn't strike me as a woman who'd really compromise her views just to get a crappy discredited establishment bauble.

Carnelian posted:

I have a lot of time for Shami, she's the right wing's bete noir, a highly intelligent Asian woman who highlights injustices the establishment would prefer to brush under the carpet.  

 

I also think the whole Labour Party antisemitic thing is overplayed.  The so-called anti-Semites are really anti Israeli policy rather than anti-Jew.  

 

That sometimes bleeds into a general undercurrent of "Zionist conspiracy" which is understandable with the likes of Rupert Murdoch.

 

 All the same, that's largely the excitable fringe and I have no doubt Shami conducted her examination of the Labour Party without fear nor favour.  She just doesn't strike me as a woman who'd really compromise her views just to get a crappy discredited establishment bauble.

the anti-semetic labour party members being investigated were some oxford students

but if you say its students, it doesnt sound as threatening as 'labour party members' which gives you the impression it was grown ups...

however

students being students are always anti something or other-they should've been

A-kicked out of oxford

or

B-kicked out of oxford

velvet donkey posted:

Can't stand her.

Why, she's for human rights?

velvet donkey posted:

Can't stand her.

velvet donkey posted:

Can't stand her.

Why, she's totally for human rights?  Which this government pays lip service to but really couldn't care less about if the money's right.   What's not to like?  She's a thorn in the side of the largely amoral establishment.  Her work has been of great service to the country.  

As usual Velvet, you're on the wrong side of the moral argument.  

Pirate1111

Well, before you climb your (hypocritical) moral high horse, let's not forget that under the Tories and Cameron, there has been a massive increase in sales to Saudi Arabia of arms. 

Those arms will cause maiming and deaths while Labour's indiscretions won't.  

So please wind your neck in and realise you are a ill-informed hypocrite and there's a real world out there, where your party of choice are behaving contemptibly.  

Any Tory voters here who feel like giving Labour lectures on anti-antisemitism need to get that under the Tories since 2010 Cameron massively increased arms sales to Saudi Arabia.  That's the country that stones rape victims to death and thinks that Israel should wiped off the face of the Earth.  You are ill informed hypocrites if you think you can lecture Labour Party.  

OK, time for me to chime in and remind you all that we're a small group of people who show respect to one another, and allow each other to have our own views. It's possible for you to express your opinions without insulting each other, yes?