Daily Archives: 9. April 2019


09.04.2019 - 17:35 [ Left of Centre Brexit ‏/ Twitter ]

It‘s torture to watch, but we have to share this everywhere. They have all let us down

09.04.2019 - 17:33 [ Change Britain / Twitter ]

It is no wonder voters are feeling more frustrated than ever before with established politicians – too many of them are not honouring their promises that a vote to Leave would be delivered on.

09.04.2019 - 16:26 [ Haaretz ]

Israel Election 2019: Netanyahu‘s Party Places 1,200 Body Cameras in Arab Polling Sites

Police confiscated dozens of cameras while the Central Elections Committee‘s legal counsel said filming in polling stations was not allowed. Netanyahu: Cameras should be everywhere

09.04.2019 - 16:13 [ Haaretz ]

How Israel‘s Resurgent Right Wing Killed Politics, Silenced the Left, and Pushes Autocracy – or Theocracy

In Israel‘s Orwellian elections, national ‚unity‘ means no Arabs, self-censorship is rife, ‚freedom‘ is vague and fear is a core political asset

09.04.2019 - 16:12 [ Paul Embery, Blue Labour / Twitter ]

Tonight I learned that you may innocently use two everyday words in a discussion that had nothing to do with Jews, Jewishness or even race at all, but because Stalin used the same words to attack Jews 70 years ago, your comment will be considered anti-Semitic. Utterly insane.

09.04.2019 - 15:46 [ Thomas Fazi ‏/ Twitter ]

Impossible to overestimate the damage @UKLabour‘s #Brexit betrayal will do to the socialist cause. The message people will take away is: if it‘s not even possible to contest membership of a free trade area, how is one supposed to believe that it‘s possible to contest capitalism?

09.04.2019 - 15:30 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Exclusive: Liam Fox tells Tory MPs that Customs Union will be ‚worst of both worlds‘ in leaked letter

Liam Fox has told Tory MPs that a Customs Union is the „worst of both worlds“ and will leave Britain unable to set its own trade policy in a leaked letter obtained by The Telegraph.

The International Trade Secretary said that the UK will itself be „traded“ by the European Union as it sells access to British markets as part of future deals after Brexit.

09.04.2019 - 14:51 [ Independent.co.uk/ ]

European far-right parties unite into new alliance ahead of EU elections

The group includes Mr Salvini’s League, as well as France‘s far-right National Rally (formerly National Front), Austria‘s Freedom Party and the Netherland‘s Party for Freedom. Those parties have long sat together in the European Parliament.

But Mr Salvini was also joined on Monday by the far-right Alternative for Germany‘s co-leader Joerg Meuthen, Olli Kotro of the Eurosceptic populist Finns party, and Anders Vistisen of the right-wing, populist Danish People‘s Party.

09.04.2019 - 14:35 [ ITV News ‏/ Twitter ]

Theresa May arrives in Berlin for Brexit talks with German leader Angela Merkel – but no one is there to greet her

09.04.2019 - 14:25 [ Metro.co.uk ]

Theresa May arrives in Europe to beg for Brexit delay

Theresa May has headed for top-level talks in Berlin and Paris as she seeks European support to stop us crashing out of the EU on Friday.

The prime minister exchanged a warm greeting with Angela Merkel and they spent an hour together in Berlin.

09.04.2019 - 14:14 [ YouGov ‏/ Twitter ]

66% of Brits consider David Gauke’s statement regarding Brexit – that “sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse”, to be generally good life advice

09.04.2019 - 14:13 [ Yougov.co.uk ]

Would you like to work for the Security Services? Plus, Catholic priests, and compromising in life results

1. Would you ever like to work for GCHQ, MI5 or MI6 (Britain’s security services)?

I would: 45%
I would not: 36%
Don’t know: 19%

09.04.2019 - 14:02 [ NewStatesman.com ]

European elections are happening and they will be the most important in British history

Pro-Brexit MPs, whether they voted to leave or to remain, have long feared that holding European elections would provoke a political backlash. One MP in a marginal constituency recently told me that their constituents would “burn my office to the ground” when they received their polling cards in the mail.

09.04.2019 - 13:42 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Nein means NEIN! Merkel ‚will rebuff May‘s desperate pleas‘ in Berlin as Macron vows to get even TOUGHER on year-long Brexit delay with a ‚stop Boris‘ clause to prevent a new Brexiteer PM ‚vandalizing‘ the EU

– Theresa May will jet to Berlin and then on to Paris today to urge Merkel and Macron to agree Brexit delay
– Their price is expected to be to refuse to let the UK have any say in future EU budget talks and trade deals

09.04.2019 - 13:40 [ Standard.co.uk ]

Brexit news: Behave to earn long Article 50 extension, EU set to tell Theresa May

Theresa May was today ordered by Germany and France to accept “very strict” conditions in return for a Brexit delay.

In a fresh humiliation, the Prime Minister was told she can only have a longer extension of Article 50 if Britain is bound by a good behaviour contract.

09.04.2019 - 12:30 [ Tamer Nafar / Youtube ]

Tamer Must Vote – (تامر مجبور يصوت (الفاشي ماشي

Lyrics & performance: Tamer Nafar
Script: Tamer Nafar & Udi Aloni
Special Guest Appearance: Lamis Ammar
Producers: Reut Mor, Udi Aloni, Tamer Nafar
Director and Editor: Eliav Lilti
Line Producer: Ruty Klein

09.04.2019 - 12:13 [ New York Times ]

Boycott Israel’s Election? A Palestinian Rapper Says No

(4.4.2019)

Frustrated over their choices in the Israeli election, and at Arab politicians whom they describe as ineffective, some Palestinian citizens of Israel have been gathering popular support for a boycott of Tuesday’s ballot.

But a well-known Palestinian hip-hop artist released a powerful new video on Thursday pushing back on the boycott, urging Arab citizens not to waste their votes — and expressing hope that a strong turnout on Tuesday could help send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu packing, or even “to prison.”

09.04.2019 - 11:29 [ @Hadash_org / Twitter ]

הגשנו עכשיו תלונה דחופה לוועדת הבחירות בדרישה לעצור את הניסיונות הלא-חוקיים של פעילי הליכוד להטמין מכשירי הקלטה ומצלמות נסתרות בקלפיות ביישובים הערביים. נתניהו לא רוצה שהציבור הערבי יצביע, אבל אנחנו ננהר לקלפיות ונפיל את הממשלה.