I’m loving this run. My biggest frustration with much of the British left is that they’re moderates posing as leftists, trying to carve out a little space to make money. So they sit on the fence or fold whenever taking a principled stand might cost them something.
Pushing a two-state solution. Joining the media-driven antisemitism campaign against Labour. Falling for every colour revolution targeting sovereign anti-imperialist states.
But @comrade_kumar_ is having none of it and isn’t backing down to the bullshit peddlers of respectable compromise politics.
Keep going, bro!
@smith_arro42884@WesthamHenry He was also our record signing when we bought him, which led to people having high expectations which he didn't meet initially. I think most Engels critics converted after his injury spell last season as the team improved dramatically when he came back into the team.
@smith_arro42884@WesthamHenry The big frustration among Celtic fans is that he is inconsistent domestically but in the Champions League and Europa League he was immense. Also he was great in Old Firm games and big games come the end of last season, which managed to win us the league.
This thread is not designed to attack @michaeljswalker but is instead designed to push back against the prevailing narrative that the Australian model successfully "stopped the boats".
Even putting the moral issues aside, on the main goal of stopping the boats, they didn't.
Recently on @novaramedia's #NovaraLive, @michaeljswalker made the claim that Australia's small boats problm was solved by pushing them back to where they departed.
There's one small problem with this argument...
It's not true.
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So, how did Australia stop the boats?
1. Making it illegal for border force to disclose anything relating to their work.
2. Only considering specific small boat routes as "arrivals".
3. Creating a bizarre new belief that "sometimes when a boat arrives, it actually doesn't."