London Mayoral Election

As usual, roses, you missed the important bit.
They are filthy rich people that the Tories paid their rent to while they were not paying tax in this country.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2010/11/13/the-tories-landlord/

This is how lots of problems start. People miss the most important bits.
I presume Annie found out about them being Jewish Iraqis and also running Jewish private schools which hide their profits offshore because she followed what I was saying.
What I was saying is true.

Personally, I do not care where they come from, so long as they pay their taxes.
By the way, they were born in India.

How is talking of iraqi's anti Semitic ?

Just what is anti Semitic to say two Jewish brothers run Jewidh schools , I accept it's the in thing to condemn anyone who critises Jews but I have criticise Israel not every Jew that walks the earth.

Thanks Riverwalk, for setting out so concisely, your views, which are similar to the ones expressed by so many of us on this thread.

Gently does it folks. There are better ways of making your point without throwing such accusations around.

Seeing who the criticism is from - I don't care sorry

I'm well aware of the activities of the Reuben family and am a long-time critic of Zionism and the state of Israel.

But I do despair of talk of Jews, Iraqi's, Jewish schools, and an Iraqi & Jew marry.

It smacks of anti-Semitism.

So? they are wealthy business people and donors to the Conservative Party.There are plenty of wealthy business people donating money to the Labour Party.Is your point that they are Jewish, filthy rich or give money to Goldsmith for his campaign?

I am sure not all Iraqi Jews are like the Reuben brothers. However, I do not think anyone said they were. Just like not all Christians are like Anniebach, more's the pity.

"The billionaire property investors David and Simon Reuben have been linked to £46,000 in donations received by Zac Goldsmith. The developers last week secured approval for a controversial proposal to turn a London landmark into hundreds of luxury flats from the incumbent mayor, Boris Johnson.

The bulk of these donations, received by the MP and Conservative London mayoral candidate since the general election, either came from the children of the Reuben brothers or from entities overseen by them but none of them was listed as being made from a person with the Reuben name.

The Reuben brothers, who were born in India, first rose to prominence doing business in post-Soviet Russia before buying up several London landmarks, including John Lewis’s headquarters on Oxford Street. According to the Sunday Times they are now Britain’s richest family with a combined fortune of £13.1bn.

Last Thursday Boris Johnson’s team approved the brothers’ plans for 207 luxury flats and a 150-room boutique hotel at Millbank Tower, near the palace of Westminster."

And the small matter of them building a lot of luxury flats with not a single affordable home among them, which again I thought illegal.
Zac must approve of this. If he is elected mayor because of his dirty tactics, this will happen more often. Zac has shown over the past few weeks that he cannot stand up for himself against the likes of Johnson, Cameron and Osborne.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/03/luxury-flat-developers-reuben-linked-to-46000-of-donations-to-zac-goldsmith

This seems to have been forgotten about.
The basic facts are that the Reuben brothers are Iraqi Jews, who were born in India, do a lot of offshore stuff, made lots of their money in Russia, have an organisation which runs private Jewish schools which banks offshore in the BVI among other British tax havens.
They own the Tory party HQ building, and lots of real estate in London.
Personally, if I were Zac, I'd think it was a bit cheapskate being given £46,000 from the richest people in the country. However, the problem is that none of it was given directly.

Go with the sensitive, thoughtful and kind iam64

I had an Iraqi Jewish friend I met at Postnatal classes. I believe the Saatchi Brothers are also Iraqi Jews. Many Arabic countries had Jewish as well as Christian minorities.

I can't work out whether annieb is deliberately using derogatory words to describe people of the Jewish faith/race in posts here and on the Ken Livingstone thread - or whether you genuinely don't understand how offensive you're being annieb

You are sensitive, thoughtful and kind about many other minority groups.

What's honest about being so ignorant of basic facts - and going on to talk about given names and that they run Jewish schools?

It was not out of order Alea, carry on playing judge and jury with your supporter , I said nothing out of order

Riverwalk, ok I may be ignorant but I am honest and I am content with that

Anniebach I'm afraid that you're showing your ignorance of the history of the Middle East.

An Iraqi and a Jew married?

There are such people as Iraqi Jews, going back to biblical times.

Anniebach - You've done it again!!
I still think it is outrageous to make assumptions in a derogatory way invoking Jewish (or Iraqi ) names as stereotypes. Especially the light of all the anti-Semitic flak of recent days, to say what you did was out of order.

What does strike me though is that every day folk seem to have a much higher standard in their approach than all these MPs who have the nerve to pontificate at us.

Good grief, who sits at computers Google for things said six years ago

Pity the Labour Party would do the re the Tories, yet I am glad they don't sink to the level of the Tories

What .khan said was wrong, equal to Boris and his sneering 'water melon smiles '

At least Khan apologised

I see that Sadiq Khan has apologised for using the rasist term 'Uncle Toms'
He used this term in 2009 while he was minister for community cohesion.

Outrageous Alea? Rubbish . An Iraqi and a Jew marry, the sons are named David and Reuben , they build and run Jewish schools , that's it

Much worse.

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Witzend, if he really did spend a day on public transport seeing the difficulties the disabled have why do you think he voted in favour of taking moobility alloances from many disabled people ?

I think he is hypocritical and a racist ,