Keir Starmer At The Holocaust Memorial.....

[mushroom25]

apparently Keir Starmer (and David Lammy) are getting stick for allegedly featuring the Holocaust-Mahnmal (holocaust memorial) in political campaign material.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11022253/Keir-Starmer-David-Lammy-face-backlash-using-Holocaust-Memorial-new-campaign-video.html
(other reports are available but are in German.....)

was it unwise of messrs Starmer and Lammy to have done this, or is it a case of mischief makers creating a non-issue?

[Gromit]

// A reporter said filming the solemn site in a clip is a 'massive faux pas in Germany' //

But not in the UK. A none Story. zzzzzzzzzz

[jno]

the complainants seem to have thought it was an election campaign video. It wasn't. I don't think they're mischief makers, they've just got the wrong end of the stick.

[Gromit]

He is not campaigning.
When politicians (left, right or centre) go to Germany, they always pay their respects the holocaust victims.no matter what A reporter said filming the solemn site in a clip is a 'massive faux pas in Germany'0

[douglas9401]

Looks like somebody high up at Das Daily National Socialist Supporter has an inventive streak.

[andy-hughes]

No doubt the Labour Leader is trying to underline his right-on support for Jewish people, given his party's lamentable record of antisemitism under his predecessor.

[jno]

except that he didn't even identify the place, which was what the Germans were complaining about. Hard to see how that would influence British voters either way.

[Paigntonian]

Just trying to play 'international statesman'. Both of them, of course, said little, if anything, about the appalling anti-semitism of Corbyn and his friends. Just the usual grandstanding, vacuous, pointless exercise that, sadly, all Parties display.

[youngmafbog]

Well it was unwise because mischief makers were always gong to pick up on it.

One wonders what the advisors are thinking when they do these things.

[naomi24]

//He is not campaigning.//

That's exactly what he's doing. In the wake of Boris's departure he has high hopes (he said so himself) and is setting his stall.

//No doubt the Labour Leader is trying to underline his right-on support for Jewish people, given his party's lamentable record of antisemitism under his predecessor. //

Yes indeed.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "He is not campaigning. " - well that's got to be the silliest thing you've said this year! Of course he's campaigning, he's trying to show that he is not an antisemitic Corbynski type but a fluffy bunny normal nice guy who loves the Jews. He personally, probably is, but sadly he's got a lot of nasties of various shades "under the bed" as it were. I'd expect nothing less of a LOTO just after a PM has resigned. He wants to show the public he is an electoral prospect. Sadly the stats are not on his side.

[vulcan42]

When does a potential future PM, in his /her eyes, ever stop campaigning?

[Stableford]

What on earth are the antisemitic party hanging round the holocaust memorial for anyway? Sickos.

[Peter Pedant]

Is it taboo to photograph? Really? - or is it taboo to campaign outside?
can someone explain why?

Japan: Shinto shrine to the war dead is frequent the place Politicians ( Abe) rewrite history.

dont they queue cue at the menin gate and pontificate - no more war at least not like this!

and - - - looks at the name of poster - - it is a question asked of Mushie the Anthropologist ( c'est juste etc)

(oh and can you recommend any book oon medical anthropology that I can read please)