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Fact for the day : Iain Duncan-Smiths real name is George Ian Duncan Smith. He adds an extra I to his middle name to use as his first name and presents his other middle name as a double barreled surname because it sounds pretentiously superior - in his opinion - to George Smith. George Smith remains a hypocritical chancer of small wit.

I havent watched the last day but in the first inning he dropped two easy catches and missed a stumps. Is he usually better than that for England ?

Anyone have physical silver or gold ? Gold at an all time high and silver up 70% in the last three months. Suspect it will continue to rise on and off for the next 18 months. https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/silver-price/3-month-silver-price/

I don't really do the cricket and don't know much about the state of it but I've caught a couple of days of this test. England appear to have Karius as wicketkeeper. Is there much competition for that spot ?

Relevant : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/nyc-to-shift-1-billion-from-nypd-to-social-services-mayor-says?fbclid=IwAR3JKOhCwfpPxVhS_VLyLmTjBu0bemjY9O9qgYCDiA41YU04jLVYFDQo_Bw

...a*** BISCUITS

Managed to find that vid of Williamson in Parliament calling for a review on selling arms to Israel due to how they treat Palestinians. Was it perhaps this that has caused him to be targeted ?

Meanwhile In Palestine (warning - distressing images) ...

Margaret Hodge again accusing Chris Williamson and 'many on the Hard Left' of antisemitism this last weekend. Williamson challenges her to say where he was antisemitic; no response from her yet. Watching the full vid he has linked is essential for any Labour supporter to be be familiar with. Put into context this was the accusation against him :

So when Williamson criticises Israel now do people : i) accept that and act on it, ii) dismiss him as an antisemitic irrelevance ? When Corbyn criticises Israel now do people : i) respect his life long service in antiracism and supporting the Jewish community, ii) think his opinion doesn't carry any weight because it's compromised and anyway he's a raving Irish Republican. When Dianne Abbott criticises Israel now do people i) accept action needs to be taken, or ii) laugh cause she can't add up and has never achieved anything. If

That's not how it works. It's what sammy says - they're shut down by accusations of antisemitism so their very valid criticisms of Israel can be dismissed. They can't actually be dismissed for their criticism of what Israel does because they are right. Williamson wasn't shut down when he detailed Israels atrocities in the House of Commons and went on record demanding sales of arms to Israel be stopped. Funnily enough I can't find that video now although it used to be all over youtube. He was shut down by a series of accusations of being antisemitic.

Dianne Abbott : Tahir Ali : Richard Burgon : https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/richard-burgon-s-remarks-show-how-deep-labour-s-antisemitism-problem-runs-1.496815 Zarah Sultana : That's a few at random but it makes the point.

Not what I said. I was very specifically pointing to the fact that criticising Israeli forces was defacto being considered as antisemitic. If that's not your point then I'm wrong and I apologise. This is what you said : Sorry if you’re done and you won’t see this, but it’s bad for my mental health to see decent people lining up to say they can’t see why it’s antisemitic to say “this massive specific thing that happened, Israelis were behind that, well maybe not that exactly but they have done other bad things”. The fact is that as a matter of procedure Israeli forces do

No judgement on him as a politician but the fact he is so readily dismissed as a racist is a massive red flag for all of us. He and Jackie Walker have been anti racist their whole career but they've been totally demonised. What Williamson is is a litmus test of the truth. Jackie Walker is an interesting and topical case in point - a black Jewish woman who has spent her career trying to bring attention to numerous examples of Black Holocausts which are entirely comparable to WWII. Yet a lot of trendy left wing pseudo-intellectuals will see no hypocrisy in linking a few BLM posts on social

Corbyn, Jackie Walker, Chris Williamson. Massive racists..... Honestly, anyone who believes this has bought into the tidal wave of propaganda that's been brought to bear against all critics of Israel.