Come May will Respect make hay while the sun shines?

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They endorsed Labour candidates such as Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Alan Simpson, Harry Cohen and John McDonnell too. In fact they endorsed more Labour Candidates than those of any other party; more than all the other parties put together in fact. Which is also interesting.

Hey we an agree on something! And it is interesting that the MAB can endorse candidates standing for three different parties. Perhaps from their perspective the differences between the three are of little import?

 

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Hey we an agree on something! And it is interesting that the MAB can endorse candidates standing for three different parties. Perhaps from their perspective the differences between the three are of little import?

We agree something is interesting? It was said with heavy irony, but it's about the only thing I think I'll ever agree with Tories on.

Have you ever considered the possibility that MAB might not be interested in the alleged differences between parties, but in the differences between candidates? Like supporting the LibDem in Rochdale, where there is a large muslim population, against the pro-war sitting Labour MP for example? (I'm not endorsing this approach by the way). Given that they are not a political party but a pressure group, it's hardly revelatory stuff is it?

 

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We agree something is interesting? It was said with heavy irony, but it's about the only thing I think I'll ever agree with Tories on.

Have you ever considered the possibility that MAB might not be interested in the alleged differences between parties, but in the differences between candidates? Like supporting the LibDem in Rochdale, where there is a large muslim population, against the pro-war sitting Labour MP for example? (I'm not endorsing this approach by the way). Given that they are not a political party but a pressure group, it's hardly revelatory stuff is it?

The idea of the MAB being a mere 'pressure group' like road safety campaigners is amusing. Certainly it wishes to bring pressure to bear on the state but to what aim? Surely it's aim is the creation of a single Muslim Community in place of the many communities that are, often nominally, Muslim today? Which program cuts across and contradicts the socialist program of class struggle.

Given which it is no surprise that the MAB endorses candidates on non-class criteria that place the interests of this imagined community first and everything else a poor second. Given which it is no surprise that they are willing to endorse candidates from the three parties mentioned as for them the social question, that is class, is of no importance compared to community.