Tomás Ó Flatharta

A resident of Great Britain advises these posters are appearing in an English city. The correspondent observes “Someone is sailing very close to the wind with electoral law even if it is an accurate account of what he said. This is the latest and biggest of a series of these that have popped up locally.”

Has anyone seen these posters in other parts of the British state, including the bit styled “Northern Ireland”. I am guessing the posters would be popular in Scotland and Wales. They could catch on!

A correspondent wondered “And of course it’s not what he said!” – so the blog team looked it up.

“In an interview with LBC on 11 October, Sir Keir was asked whether it was “appropriate” for Israel to cut off the supply of power and water to Gaza.
“I think that Israel does have that right,” he said. “Obviously everything should be done within international law, but I don’t want to step away from the core principles that Israel has a right to defend herself.”
A spokesman for the Labour leader later said he had only meant to say Israel had a general right to self-defence.
However, Oxford councillor Imogen Thomas – who quit the Labour Party last week – said it was “reprehensible” that Sir Keir was “ambiguous” on the right to water supply in Gaza and took more than a week to clarify his comments.”. Keir Starmer says (or appears to say) Israel “has the right” to cut off electricity etc from Gaza

Sir Keir Starmer and his handlers are justifying the unjustifiable – they are in a denial hole, and will not stop digging.

Arguments about the exact meaning of Starmer’s disgusting words are the 21st century version of “how many angels can dance on a pin head”.

The “Scholastics” were medieval philosophers of the Roman Catholic Church who were struggling to try to make sense out of the world within the dogmatic constraints imposed by their religion. A very tough job! They included people such as John Duns Scotus, WILLIAM OF OCKHAM, and THOMAS AQUINAS. 

The disputes they entered into often seem like pedantic hairsplitting, futile word games, or even downright incomprehensible nonsense to most everyone today. Scholasticism thus has a deservedly “bad name”, and has been continuously and justly ridiculed ever since Rabelais first did so in the 1500’s.

https://massline.org/PhilosDog/S/Scholasticism.htm

Some parallel questions :

• Does a bear shit in the woods?
• Is the Pope a Catholic?
• Was Sir Keir Starmer once a Trotskyist, a Pabloite? (*)

Starmer and company need to do the decent thing – even at this late stage – completely renounce what they said and keep saying about Israeli genocide in Gaza – and accept just political consequences – including resignation.

John Meehan December 28 2023

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The answer to the third question is YES. The above picture comes from the Christmas reading of Paul Murphy TD (People Before Profit, Dublin South-West)

Here are details of the book :

Michel Pablo, the well-dressed revolutionary (book)