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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Exactly this. The SNP motion had the term ‘collective punishment’ in it that no serious party of government or potential government could sign up to without some serious strong evidence. Basically, you don’t accuse nation states of war crimes unless you are really sure if you want to be taken seriously as a government.
The SNP only stood to gain from labour and indeed the Conservatives not voting for the motion from a political point of view.
It’s pretty shoddy using a desperate international situation to further your domestic political ambitions.
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Red herring alert.
Whether the SNP motion was credible or otherwise is an irrelevance. 600 MPs could have stood there and voted it down, leaving Stephen Flynn howling into the abyss.
And it would have followed the correct process.
The SNP had the right to stand there and put forward a motion that the earth is flat, against all credible scientific evidence, should they so wish.
The rules were broken to give Starmer, and by proxy Israel, cover and deny the SNP their right to put their motion before Parliamentarians first.
The fact that a significant number of Labour MPs, and a small number of Conservatives have publicly said they would have voted for it suggests the accusations are not as incredible as you propose.