Yesterday Guido was first to reveal the depth of the Unite the Union’s involvement in a political party called Reform Jersey (no link to Reform UK) – and it is now facing fresh questions after new material emerged. The party shares ties with the Jersey Palestine Solidarity Campaign, founded by Reform Jersey leader and Unite member Sam Mezec. Unite are Reform Jersey’s largest donor, providing 94% of the party’s publicly declared donations at the last election. A Unite delegate is even constitutionally required to sit on Reform’s board…
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A dive through the JPSC Facebook page turns up some grim reading. The campaign has shared posts including: “Zionists actively thwarted the saving of European Jews from the Nazis” and accusations of “Zionist-Nazi collaboration”. Not what you’d expect on sunny Jersey…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”
