You’re worse than the Blairites because you pretend to be on the left for opportunistic reasons when all you care about is a seat in the H of C.

Of course, that’s it - because being left is the way to get ahead, in an election campaign that’s being fought largely on being tougher and tougher on immigration.

I don’t cheerlead for Oona King - I think she shouldn’t have backed the war. But in what way is replacing a black woman Labour MP with a pro-Saddam sectarian populist progress?

If you’d been at the meeting, you would have heard me denounce Islamophobia in answer to a question from a young Muslim woman - and not just denounce it, but demonstrate what I and the Labour party would do to fight it - including supporting training for imams in the UK, supporting bringing Muslim schools into the state system and supporting a new crime of incitement to religious hatred.

Come on mate - surely there are better targets for your ire than me? Can’t you go and find some Tories to bash?

Plenty of people are ‘genuinely anti-war’ but don’t want George Galloway to get elected or the resistance, many of whom have a fundamentalist Islamic or fascist ideology, to take over Iraq. Like, for example, Antonia. And if you think that she is worse than the Blairites, then I’m rather pleased you left the Labour Party.

I’m not a Liberal Democrat member, voter or supporter Merseymike. Sorry if I gave that impression, in fact I spoiled my ballot this time round because I wasn’t satisfied with any of the candidates in Oxford.

An excellent argument against Respect by the way Merseymike. Calling one of the parties involved “wankers”. I suppose ad hominem attack are all New Labour’s got to fight with these days.

Fundamentalist Islamists in Respect?
They seem pretty moderate to me, that’s why they are standing on a manifesto that any socialist would be proud to see implemented. In fact you are indulging in sectarianism (which in this case borders on racism), branding anyone who has the audacity to be a Muslim and oppose New Labour a fundamentalist.

King should have had the sense to vote against the war, though. Surely she cant be THAT bothered about being a PPS to some unknown minister???

Must say, ‘Anonymous’ is quite enough to put anyone off the LibDems - and I still haven’t made up my mind who to vote for.

You’re worse than the Blairites because you pretend to be on the left for opportunistic reasons when all you care about is a seat in the H of C.

If you were genuinely anti-war you wouldn’t be cheerleading for Oona King, who enthusiastically backed the war. Nor would you throw stupid phrases like Islamo-Fascist about. Could you define this term, so beloved of US neo-cons?

Enjoy coming third Antonia…

You’re worse than the Blairites because you pretend to be on the left for opportunistic reasons when all you care about is a seat in the H of C.

If you were genuinely anti-war you wouldn’t be cheerleading for Oona King, who enthusiastically backed the war. Nor would you throw stupid phrases like Islamo-Fascist about. Could you define this term, so beloved of US neo-cons?

Enjoy coming third Antonia…