Will Starmer Sack Steve Reed?

BlindBoyGrunt

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At the weekend Steve Reed - Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government - made an anti-Semitic tweet that Richard Desmond was the Government's puppet master. This for me is worse than RLB's transgression. It came straight from his own keyboard and there is no doubt about the meaning.

Should he?
 
Didnt he delete it and issue an apology after finding out Mr Desmond was Jewish?

Doing what RLB didn't do.
 
Immediately apologised when he realised the implication.
Can't ask for more.

He should have been sacked if he refused to apologise and refused to delete the tweet.
 
is this where we've come to as a society ? I don't know he ins/outs of this but he seems to have criticised the man and the government not the fact that he's Jewish.

So what, anyone who is Jewish is now beyond criticism because it's "obviously" anti-semitic now. No one can criticise a black person of course as that is "obviously" racist as well. FFS :rolleyes:
 
Yes! The blood letting must go on! Purge! Purge! :p
Do you not expect consistency from the Leader of the Opposition?

So where was the anti-semitic bit ?
Do you really not know? OK Jewish people being puppet masters of Governments is one of the most common tropes, along with them controlling world finances.

Reed deleted another tweet, praising Starmer's zero tolerance approach to anti-Semitism so I guess he knew what he was doing.
 
Surely its just in relation to the donations Desmond has made to the tory party in return for saving him 50 million?
 
Point two of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism (which Corbyn was under much pressure to adopt):

Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.

It is crystal clear.
 
It's obviously got antisemitic implications when knowingly aimed at a Jewish person.

Given he quickly deleted it when he realised, I'd guess it wasn't knowingly, and he has since apologised, so not sure what else needs to be done.

RLB dug her heels in and refused to delete her tweet, even after being made aware of the issues, and gave a non-apology.
 
Is it? I'm not aware if a precedent has been set.

You tried to compare two opposite outcomes to a similier event and claimed inconsistency. One did what the other did not, if you cant see how this hugely effects Keir Starmer sacking him or not then there's not much else to say.
 
Well people also said the same thing about Muroch pulling the government strings (is he Jewish o_O) and more recently that the government were being run by Dominic Cummings.

The comment was about the man and the fact he is Jewish is irrelevant.
 
You tried to compare two opposite outcomes to a similier event and claimed inconsistency. One did what the other did not, if you cant see how this hugely effects Keir Starmer sacking him or not then there's not much else to say.
I'm asking how this is consistent to Starmer's approach to people who delete and apologise. Is there a precedent?
 
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