@jerlevi Jeremy if she was gettin beaten up "simply because she's Jewish" then your definition for being Jewish includes committing Islamophobic assaults.
That sounds pretty antisemitic to me
@ta_mills@JohnbwMayes That kind of goes without saying though right?
If their ambition was to exercise power, then their ambition would be the thing they're exercising power to achieve.
They want power just to have it - and maybe a bit of the prestige that comes with it
@ChadeFall5tar "getting out of the way" has literally just been tried in the case of office conversions and the industry immediately took the piss.
https://t.co/4bXLUImvhI
@TallyCat8 I know what you meant. You made assumptions about me and chose to have a hypocritical dig at me over something you'd made up. And you last reply is more of the same.
@TallyCat8 I think I get it, a defection is an extra seat for Labour and an embarrassment for the Tories. Five points for the red team! If I'm wrong do feel free to enlighten me
@TallyCat8@SkipMcQueen@johnandi When I saw "get the Tories out" in your bio I really wouldn't have taken it to mean "get them out of the Tory party and into Labour so they can keep their seats in parliament"
But here we are
@ka8895 Politicians pursuing policy can justify it however they please. Law, science, morality, expediency... usually the last one.
Given that what the law chooses to record in this instance will be informed by the same studies I'd rather they skip the middleman.
@ka8895 My guy your argument that nothing happens until it's legally recognised to have happened is bizarre.
She died in 2013 and it took until 2020 to get the contributing factor of air pollution recognised. What the law gets around to recognising is not a great mirror of reality.