UK shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on the British government's plans to bomb Syria

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell reads a passage from the Little Red Book Reuters


This week's Any Questions? is very interesting this week. Well worth a listen!

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Brooks Building at Manchester Metropolitan University with Financial Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke MP, the Editor of Prospect magazine Bronwen Maddox, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP, and Simon Stevens the Chief Executive of NHS England.

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BBC Radio 4 - Any Questions?, David Gauke MP, Bronwen Maddox, John McDonnell MP, Simon Stevens

 

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The shadow Chancellor John McDonnell came under fire from senior Labour MPs after he brandished Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book during a scathing attack on George Osborne’s handling of the economy.

He provoked uproar when he read from the famous collection of writings by the founder of Communist China and threw the book towards Mr Osborne’s Commons despatch box.

McDonnell is under fire by Labour MPs after giving Osborne Mao's Little Red Book

 

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In 2008 during an appearance onThis Week, Abbott found herself fighting the communist leader’s corner during a discussion on dictators with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo:

MP: Mao Zedong killed 30 million, 60 million. People still wear Mao t-shirts, people still carry Mao Little Red Books and if you go to China there’s still a huge picture of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square. It’s absolutely bizarre. When a royal prince dressed in an SS uniform he was absolutely condemned. Had he worn a Mao outfit, nobody would have blinked.

AN: Why is that? Why is it right to wear a Maoist t-shirt but obviously wrong, as it is, to wear a Hitler t-shirt?

DA: I suppose that some people would judge that on balance Mao did more good than wrong. We can’t say that about the Nazis.

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Watch: Diane Abbott on the positives of Chairman Mao - Spectator Blogs

 

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Bastards.

 

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In 2008 during an appearance onThis Week, Abbott found herself fighting the communist leader’s corner during a discussion on dictators with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo:

MP: Mao Zedong killed 30 million, 60 million. People still wear Mao t-shirts, people still carry Mao Little Red Books and if you go to China there’s still a huge picture of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square. It’s absolutely bizarre. When a royal prince dressed in an SS uniform he was absolutely condemned. Had he worn a Mao outfit, nobody would have blinked.

AN: Why is that? Why is it right to wear a Maoist t-shirt but obviously wrong, as it is, to wear a Hitler t-shirt?

DA: I suppose that some people would judge that on balance Mao did more good than wrong. We can’t say that about the Nazis.

VIDEO
Watch: Diane Abbott on the positives of Chairman Mao - Spectator Blogs

The Jews lead communism in China: Thank them.

Chinese President Praises Jewish Journalist Israel Epstein

April 22, 2005

Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the country’s most prominent Jewish citizen, the journalist Israel Epstein, on the eve of Epstein’s 90th birthday earlier this week.

The president praised Epstein’s “outstanding contributions” to China’s progress and his “sincere affection for China and the Chinese people,” according to a news report by Xinhua News Agency, the state-run news service.

During the visit with Hu, the media veteran thanked the Chinese leader and his government for taking good care of the foreigners who call the country home, the Xinhua report said.

Born in Poland in 1915, Epstein arrived in China as a toddler when his father, Lasar Epstein, began a 20-year tenure as the Bund’s representative in Tientsin. During World War II, the elder Epstein coordinated aid distribution to European Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and after the war he immigrated to the United States and joined the staff of the Jewish Labor Committee. Israel Epstein stayed behind to pursue work as a journalist.

In a long and varied career, Epstein worked in China as a correspondent for an English-language Communist party magazine, as well as United Press International and The New York Times. After stints with the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and the Allied Labor News in New York, he returned to China in the early 1950s to found the multi-lingual magazine China Reconstruction, since renamed China Today. He became a Chinese citizen in 1957.


Read more: http://forward.com/news/israel/3328/chinese-president-praises-jewish-journalist-israel/#ixzz3smyU2dGx

Ps: I'd wear a Hitler t shirt before a Maoist t shirt, (Zionist t shirt)..

 

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In 2008 during an appearance onThis Week, Abbott found herself fighting the communist leader’s corner during a discussion on dictators with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo:

MP: Mao Zedong killed 30 million, 60 million. People still wear Mao t-shirts, people still carry Mao Little Red Books and if you go to China there’s still a huge picture of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square. It’s absolutely bizarre. When a royal prince dressed in an SS uniform he was absolutely condemned. Had he worn a Mao outfit, nobody would have blinked.

AN: Why is that? Why is it right to wear a Maoist t-shirt but obviously wrong, as it is, to wear a Hitler t-shirt?

DA: I suppose that some people would judge that on balance Mao did more good than wrong. We can’t say that about the Nazis.

VIDEO
Watch: Diane Abbott on the positives of Chairman Mao - Spectator Blogs

The Jews lead communism in China: Thank them.

Chinese President Praises Jewish Journalist Israel Epstein

April 22, 2005

Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the country’s most prominent Jewish citizen, the journalist Israel Epstein, on the eve of Epstein’s 90th birthday earlier this week.

The president praised Epstein’s “outstanding contributions” to China’s progress and his “sincere affection for China and the Chinese people,” according to a news report by Xinhua News Agency, the state-run news service.

During the visit with Hu, the media veteran thanked the Chinese leader and his government for taking good care of the foreigners who call the country home, the Xinhua report said.

Born in Poland in 1915, Epstein arrived in China as a toddler when his father, Lasar Epstein, began a 20-year tenure as the Bund’s representative in Tientsin. During World War II, the elder Epstein coordinated aid distribution to European Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and after the war he immigrated to the United States and joined the staff of the Jewish Labor Committee. Israel Epstein stayed behind to pursue work as a journalist.

In a long and varied career, Epstein worked in China as a correspondent for an English-language Communist party magazine, as well as United Press International and The New York Times. After stints with the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and the Allied Labor News in New York, he returned to China in the early 1950s to found the multi-lingual magazine China Reconstruction, since renamed China Today. He became a Chinese citizen in 1957.


Read more: http://forward.com/news/israel/3328/chinese-president-praises-jewish-journalist-israel/#ixzz3smyU2dGx

Ps: I'd wear a Hitler t shirt before a Maoist t shirt, (Zionist t shirt)..

none of the Chinese people I have known were jews