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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2020, 04:01:13 PM

Title: Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2020, 04:01:13 PM

The Labour Party has a mound of troubles


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51797316

Title: Re: Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations
Post by: Steve H on March 09, 2020, 10:54:54 PM

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Labour said it takes complaints about Islamophobia "extremely seriously".

Whenever I see a statement beginning "We take... extremely seriously", I know I'm being stonewalled.

Title: Re: Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations
Post by: jeremyp on March 10, 2020, 07:08:02 AM

If the summaries of his remarks in the story are correct, he will not be in any trouble because they were just the truth. People don’t get hysterical about such things, do they?

/sarcasm

Title: Re: Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations
Post by: Udayana on March 10, 2020, 09:07:27 AM

Imo, Phillips often talks bollocks but he is not an Islamophobe, Neither is Labour institutionally anti-semitic.

Need to look at behaviour and actions not keep re-interpreting peoples words and inferring underlying views and attitudes.