Labour incumbent wins 1,088,225 votes – 275,828 more than his main rival, Tory candidate Susan Hall
  • Devi
    17•14 days ago

    I’m really glad, he seems like a good egg, but I do wonder when Count Binface is getting his turn.

    • livus
      11•14 days ago

      Ha ha ha no.

      You’re probably thinking about the time he had a disagreement with the Chief Rabbi. That got resolved.

      His conservative opponent in the mayoral race tried to parlay that into a thing though.

    • downpunxx
      -3•14 days ago

      That has not been the experience watching him all through the deeply frightening and antisemitic Corbyn years, who he broke with on most things related to British Jewry and Israel. He’s considered an ally to the community.

      • Daniel QuinnEnglish
        13•14 days ago

        “Deeply frightening” can you name even one thing Corbyn said or did that was antisemitic other than be openly antizionist? Given that it’s Israel’s Zionist regime that’s currently committing genocide, I would think Corbyn would have been vindicated by now.

        • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2•14 days ago

          He was anti-zionist sure, but he also openly associated with and supported groups that go beyond anti-zionism into full blown anti-semitism and, despite plenty of prompting, continuously maintained that there was no issue with this.

          There’s inferences made there, sure, but it’s very easy to say “I generally support X but they take Y too far” - even the current government is doing it when supporting Israel, but also making (hollow) statements that they should be more careful not to attack civilians as it’s clearly not right, but they still want to support their allies. Corbyn could’ve made similar statements, but he didn’t, either meaning that he didn’t see anything wrong with the anti-semitism or he thought that them also being anti-zionist excused it, neither of which are a good look.