MINISTER HECKLED AT JEWISH VIGIL

An organiser appeals for calm as Labour's Ashley Dalton is heckled

A vigil held in central London in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre was addressed by hapless Labour junior minister Ashley Dalton on Monday evening.  Dalton was asked to step in when senior minister Steve Reed appeared to flunk out of his scheduled appearance, instead opting to attend a meeting of Jewish Labour.  Given the angry reception dealt out to Dalton, it's not difficult to see why Reed chickened out in favour of the much cosier indoor and in-house Labour event.

Reed's failure to attend only added to the anger felt by the Jewish community gathered in Parliament Square and the heckling of Dalton began just seconds after she began to speak.  As Dalton struggled to speak over the insults, organisers repeatedly interjected and appealed for calm, further disrupting her flow.

A Rabbi's appeal for the crowd to show Dalton 'respect' brought calm for a few moments, before the shouting resumed.  "Read the room", "Ban the marches", "Go away", "Liar", "Shame on you", "Rubbish" and "We are being killed" were all audible during her short speech.  The longest video clip, which begins moments after Dalton begins can be seen below.  Not all the heckles can be heard in this clip, but various other angles can be seen here, here and here.

Dalton was previously most notable for her trans advocacy, in particular her call for the abolition of gendered bathrooms and a spat on X in which she declared that even people who identified as llamas deserve 'dignity and respect'.  Labour had repeatedly tried to get her elected to the Commons since 2017, when she fought the Rochford and Southend East constituency.  She fought the same seat two years later, before finally joining the Westminster gravy train through the West Lancashire by-election of 2023.

MP TROTS OUT THE USUAL

The Bondi Beach gunmen and Labour MP Lola McEvoy

The massacre at Bondi Beach will come as no surprise to anyone who has long warned about the perils of mass immigration and multi-culturalism.  Such horrors are the direct result of importing millions of people into the West, along with their religious and cultural grievances.  The same establishment ultimately responsible for this insane policy will never admit wrongdoing, so they continue to gaslight their native populace with smoke and mirrors bullshit.

In the aftermath of the slaughter at Bondi, the Labour MP for Darlington appeared on GB News and delivered the now standard establishment response: "Diversity is strength".  Lola McEvoy's rambling assessment of the incident was reminiscent of Gary Neville's infamous evaluation of the Manchester synagogue attack, in which he failed to address the actual perpetrator and instead went on to blame 'middle-aged white men' for creating division.  Likewise, McEvoy spoke of those amplifying a 'narrative of division' and how 'the way we think of people who aren't like us' needs to be 'detoxified' - as if white Western Europeans are the problem, as opposed to the men using guns, knives and vehicles to kill our people.

She then trotted out the 'diversity is our strength' line, before some soundbites about Jo Cox.

Watch below.

Diversity is not strength, it is death - the death of our civilisation.  The traitors who deploy this sickening deception are fooling no-one and if there is any justice in the world they will one day pay for their complicity in the murder, rape and terror they have inflicted on our nations.

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #49

As if we didn't already know from two summers of weekly protests, the left despise the state of Israel.  And sharing a trait with some elements of the far right, it's not enough to simply voice opposition to a state that routinely attacks and occupies neighbouring territories.  All too often, the left take out their frustrations on ordinary Jews, who they perceive to be linked to a hive mind that makes them equally to blame for the criminal actions of Netanyahu.

The same people call other white people 'racist' if they dare generalise other ethnic groups with negative stereotypes.  But it's OK for the left to do that with Jews - they are fair game - as are white people (the 'gammon' and the 'Karens').

It's rank hypocrisy, but of course such things do not apply to the high and mighty of the self-righteous left.

They have no problem at all in taking a Jewish folk hero and turning their life into a public display of ridicule, purely as a means to insult as many Jews as possible.  And that's what has happened in New York of all places.  It's probably no coincidence that in order to maximise the insult, they chose a city that is home to the largest Jewish population of any city in the world - that's including Israeli cities.

Yes, woke playwright progressives have taken Anne Frank - the most iconic of all the Nazis' Jewish victims - and turned this innocent teenager into a pansexual Latino girl in a relationship with a 'non-binary' person.  They have also thrown in a 'neurodiverse' family in just for progressive measure.  The fact that Anne Frank was barely 15 years old when she died doesn't seem to matter to these degenerates.

The play, entitled Slam Frank, has drawn staunch criticism from Jewish groups.  Naturally, they perceive it as 'disrespectful', which is clearly the intention of the writer.  You see, the people who preach the most about hate, are the most hateful people of all...

The previous Woke Wednesday (dog free zones) generated 37 comments and 18 shares on Facebook.

MEME MONDAY #56

Last week's biggest story appeared to revolve around a retarded ex-footballer who had been largely silent since he endorsed Chairman Starmer ahead of last year's election.  In a monologue worthy of any Labour minister or MP, ex-Manchester United full back Gary Neville shifted the blame for the synagogue attack onto 'middle-aged white men' putting flags on lamp posts...

Mon 6 Oct - 253 shares.  Several people in the comments genuinely
thought we had mistaken Gary Neville for Gary Lineker, apparently
not familiar with the expression 'Pound Shop'

Tue 7 Oct - 47 shares

Wed 8 Oct - 459 shares.  Because in the twisted world of cultural
Marxism, only Europeans (and Jews) can be the oppressors.
Brown people are forever the victims, for whose suffering
Europeans (and Jews) must face eternal wrath!

Thu 9 Oct - 85 shares

Thu 9 Oct - 53 shares

Fri 10 Oct - 36 shares.  Not for the first time a national poll projection
has the Lib Dems emerging as the second party, in spite of the fact this
FindOutNow poll has them on a net gain of zero seats

Fri 10 Oct - 42 shares

Fri 10 Oct - 45 shares

Sat 11 Oct - 625 shares

Sat 11 Oct - 52 shares

Sat 11 Oct - 188 shares

Sun 12 Oct - 164 shares.  Rachael Maskell (York Central) is a strange one,
currently suspended from the PLP since rebelling on welfare reform in July.
This is not her first remarks regarding national flags, having previously
lashed out at 'divisive' national flags on lamp posts and linking the 'Raise
the Colours' campaign to alleged racist incidents in York.  Dr Jeevun Sandher
(Loughborough) is not an MP with who we are very familiar, having only
been elected last year.  He is a senior Fabian, so anything he does or says
can be viewed with deep suspicion

Sun 12 Oct - 137 shares

Sun 12 Oct - 33 shares

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TOON TUESDAY #2

This year St George's Day falls on a Tuesday, so this week's topic is a no brainer...

James Mellor mocks the suspiciously trans-looking 'playful update' to the Cross of
St George as featured on the new England football kit

Matt Pritchett satirises a recent Gaza protest in London, during which a Jewish man
was warned by a Met officer about being 'openly Jewish'

Steve Bright mocks the left's attitude to any display of national pride - what about
the oppressed and disenfranchised imaginary creature!?!

DARE WE SAY IT? ALI WAS RIGHT! PROBABLY...

Next week's big Westminster by-election could turn out to be a damp squib thanks to Labour.  They were favourites to hold Rochdale, but that was before they disowned their candidate.  On paper, voters have a Labour candidate named Azhar Ali, but it's a wasted vote as he won't represent Labour if elected.  It's a laughable situation and the bookies have since installed George Galloway as the new favourite.  Galloway is standing for his hard left Workers Party of Britain, with the politics of the Middle East at the forefront of the campaign - such is the depth to which Britain has sunk into the multi-cultural abyss.

Meanwhile, Azhar Ali's Labour career is destined to remain in the local politics of the quasi-Islamist towns of south Lancashire and Greater Manchester.  His election would merely give him an independent seat in the Commons for the remainder of this year at best, or just a matter of months depending on which date Sunak goes to the polls.

Ali's career floundered upon a media exposé of his supposedly 'anti-Semitic' views.  Starmer acted to suspend him after a couple of remarks leaked, ostensibly a reference to 'Jewish quarters' in the media and a boast of having persuaded several Lancastrian towns not to parade the colours of the Israeli flag in the wake of the Hamas attacks.  However, he was not suspended for the initial Daily Mail exposé in which he voiced his firm belief that Israel allowed the Hamas attacks to proceed unhindered, thus giving them the justification to attack, invade, occupy and potentially even annexe Gaza.

This 'conspiracy theory' sparked 'outrage' claimed the Mail.  How on earth could a state allow the massacre of its own citizens to justify a war?  Of course, this faux outrage takes place in the established world where us mugs are supposed to believe that the Americans did not do exactly the same thing in September 2001 and used those attacks to justify carnage across the Middle East that continues to this day.

Now bear in mind that the mainstream media is constantly involved in psychological warfare against its own consumers, lurching from one scare story to the next, often creating contradictions in the process.  Lo and behold, it was none other than the Daily Mail itself that was among many news outlets that alleged that Israel deliberately downplayed prior warnings of the Hamas attacks.  The following headline appeared online in November.

The Mail report is based on an actual news story from Israel itself, and so it is remarkably shortsighted that in the space of three months such a significant revelation has become a tinfoil-hatted conspiracy while still - at the time of writing - freely available on the Mail website.

The mass media are so invested in the arrogant belief that its consumers are so stupid they won't ask questions.  Question everything they tell you, because what they tell you is almost certainly not in your own interest.

EX-COUNCILLOR CANCELS HERSELF

Former Labour councillor Harriet Bradley may be an 'academic' as she points out in her Twitter profile, but qualifications are not an antidote for stupidity.  On the back of some grotesque banners and chants in recent weeks, an emboldened Bradley thought it might be appropriate to publicly call for the bombing of a Jewish Labour meeting.  Retweeting a fellow anti-Semite, she added: "Somebody blow up the venue!"

It's not clear who 'Former Labour SPAD' is, but it will come as no surprise to find their profile indicates they are a Corbynite and potentially one of his 'SpAds' aka special advisors.  The same anonymous profile incorporates a Nazi swastika into the Star of David, a favourite insult of the far left towards the Israeli state.

While Bradley's own tweet may have been in jest, such a remark in the current climate is dumb to say the least.  It stayed up for two whole days before Jewish activists drew attention to it and it was removed in a rare act of Twitter censorship.  Having not deleted it herself, Bradley's apology five days later rang a little hollow.  She wrote: "I would like to apologise to anybody hurt or frightened by my tweet.  It was a remark made as a joke, but I can see now it was a terrible mistake in awful taste".  The 78-year-old added:  "I am of Jewish heritage, had a Jewish partner for many years and many of my extended family are Jewish.  I feel great respect for the Jewish people but I deplore what Netanyahu and the Israeli Defence Force  are doing in Gaza, killing and mutilating thousands of children and babies."

Bradley is now facing a police investigation by Avon and Somerset Police and has had two honorary  university titles withdrawn.  She had been a sociology professor at the University of Western England prior to her retirement in 2018, but retained the title of 'Professor Emeritus'.  The UWE stripped her of the title three days after the tweet 'with immediate effect'.  Bradley held a similar title at Bristol University, which was also withdrawn the same day.

Bradley has form when it comes to this sort of behaviour, having been accused of anti-Semitism more than once during Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.  The Bristol councillor had the party whip suspended in 2019, before being reinstated and then standing down on health grounds a year later.  She was expelled from the party in 2021.

STARMER BEMOANS 'ISLAMOPHOBIA'

In our latest YouTube video, Richey delves into Keir Starmer's exploitation of 'Islamophobia Awareness Month'.  Yes, seriously.  In a climate of surging anti-Semitism and rampant Islamist protests, the Labour leader has released a video bemoaning 'Islamophobia' in which he tries to paint British Muslims as a collective victim.

Click below or watch on YouTube (13 minute watch)

THE PROBLEM WITH ABBOTT (AND STARMER)

Keir Starmer has declared that Diane Abbott's letter to Sunday's Observer was 'anti-Semitic'.  This likely signals the end of Abbott's career as a Labour MP, with the removal of the party whip set to become permanent, as it has with Jeremy Corbyn.  However, this may not be the end of the parliamentary road for Abbott.

Like Corbyn, she has a huge majority - bigger, in fact - at 33,188 compared to Corbyn's 26,188.  Corbyn has already suggested he will stand as an independent in the next general election and will almost certainly win.  While most MPs who stand against their old parties tend to crumble without the party name, Corbyn and Abbott have represented their constituencies for decades (Corbyn since 1983 and Abbott since 1987).  During that time they have built commanding majorities and are prominent names, regardless of whether or not you regard them as archetypal 'loony left'.

The Socialist Campaign Group of far left MPs have not faired well under Starmer's leadership.  In addition to the removal of Corbyn and Abbott, a third London MP - Sam Tarry - was deselected following one of Labour's 'trigger ballots'.  Yet another far left London MP - Apsana Begum - also faces a reselection ballot later this year.  A trigger ballot to remove Liverpool MP Ian Byrne ultimately failed.

The left have not surprisingly challenged the legitimacy of these trigger ballots, with questions surrounding electronic voting and alleged dirty tricks.  However, there was little public sympathy for Diane Abbott from her comrades this week.  Not a word from the Socialist Campaign Group, nothing from McDonnell and Sultana, not even Dickie Burgon or Corbyn himself piped up in her aid.

They all knew that Abbott had only herself to blame and any association with her could put their own careers on the line.  Her absurd letter to the Observer was steeped in her own prejudices and stupidity, gifting Starmer the opportunity to kick her out.  Within hours of the Observer hitting the newsstands, Abbott published the following apology to her social media accounts.  It was a desperate last ditch attempt to save the whip, but there was no salvation.

The third paragraph, in which she bemoans an 'error', only confirmed that she had consciously written the words - regardless of whether it was a 'draft' or not.  Her greatest error was in submitting the letter full stop, but of course her own prejudice got the better of her.  She simply could not tolerate a stance that suggested anyone other than black people suffer racism.  Of course Diane, from the white slave trade to the gas chambers - whites and Jews have not been subjected to racism, merely 'prejudice'.  It was her inclusion of Jewish people that lost her the whip - because, as we know only too well, white people have no value in today's Labour Party, whether that be on the far left or the centre left.

Her letter can be seen in full below.

Still, if Diane does lose her seat at the next election, she will do so at the age of 70+, having spent more than three decades on the Westminster gravy train.  Not bad for a black woman who complains that black people are subjected to racism 'all their lives'.

As for Starmer, we see you.  Four years ago you campaigned to elect this woman as our Home Secretary.  You campaigned to have Jeremy Corbyn our PM.  We see you.

THIS IS THE LEFT II

Imagine taking a tweet in memory of a murdered child and mocking the child's appearance.  Well, that's just what this leftist Twitter user did on Friday...

The tweet has since gone viral and the tweeter has tried to evade the backlash by deleting the tweet, changing her Twitter name and locking down her account.  Unfortunately for Laura - who is (ironically) a self-proclaimed anti-fascist - the internet does not forget.

Laura is from Northern Ireland and appears to have followed in the Sinn Fein/IRA tradition of Marxist politics, including an affinity for Palestine.  She is an aspiring actress and also claims to be a writer and journalist.

This is the left.

Laura's Facebook profile

LOACH EXPELLED FROM LABOUR

Hard left film director Ken Loach has been expelled from Labour, having maintained links with one of the far left groups banned by Labour's NEC last month.  Labour Against the Witchhunt was formed in 2017 to contest allegations of anti-Semitism in the party and attracts support from expelled Labour members and prominent reds such as Alexei Sayle, Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson.  The group is chaired by Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein, both of whom were expelled from Labour for alleged anti-Semitic remarks.

Loach broadcast news of his expulsion to his 82,000 followers on Twitter...

Loach went on to retweet messages of support from members of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group, including John McDonnell, Zarah Sultana, Jon Trickett and Ian Byrne.  Also chipping in were Jeremy Corbyn's youngest son and the Beeb's favourite European leftist Yanis Varoufakis, the man billed as an 'economist', but who lasted less than nine months as Greek finance minister.

Surely Yanis wouldn't have misspelt Sir Keir's name on purpose?

It remains to be seen where Loach ends up next on his political meandering across the left, having previously been involved in Respect and Left Unity.  Will George Galloway be in touch?

A LONG SPOON

Jeremy Corbyn was humiliated on Wednesday after he posed a Commons question relating to online racism.  Tory minister Victoria Atkins took umbrage with the questioner as opposed to the question, highlighting Corbyn's track record on anti-Semitism: "I will listen to many, many people about tackling racism, I will work with pretty much anyone, but I must say I would take a long spoon with which to sup with this particular member".

Ouch.  Watch the exchange below.

ANTI-SEMITIC CHANTS AFTER MP'S SPEECH

As we wrote last month, left-wing Labour MPs are far from innocent when pro-Palestine rallies turn into anti-Israeli hatefests.  They rile up the crowds with fiery speeches and then retreat as things turn ugly.  The presence of hard left Labour MPs at these rallies was well documented at the time, but in recent weeks it has emerged that moderates were also involved.

Last week Naz Shah was forced to defend herself after it was revealed she addressed a rally in which anti-Semitic slogans were chanted and her colleague Geraint Davies has now been implicated in a similar incident.  In a video posted to social media, the MP for Swansea West can be seen addressing a crowd in Swansea.  Immediately after his speech two men lead the crowd in several chants, including: "Khybar, Khybar ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud".  This refers to a battle fought between Jews and Muslims in the 7th century and translates literally as: "Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is coming".

At this point Davies can be seen standing close by in a black face mask.  Click below for the one minute clip.

Davies responded on Twitter after the Jewish Chronicle published the story, using the same defence as Shah ie. that he doesn't speak Arabic.  That argument would have held more credence had it not been undermined previously by Shah, who tweeted in Arabic just days after claiming she didn't understand the language.

It's clear from the video whose side Davies is on.  It's quite ironic that he should surround himself with Islamo-fascists, considering that this ultra remoaner spent years resisting the Leave mandate, labelling Brexit a 'fascist' endeavour.

SHAH'S DODGY DEFENCE

Naz Shah has condemned anti-Semitic remarks blared out over a loudspeaker at a rally she herself addressed last month.  The speaker reportedly led the Bradford crowd in various Arabic chants that included "God, purify al-Aqsa from impure people" and "God, lift the curse of the Jews off the Muslims in Palestine".  Shah released a statement via social media (see below) in which she claimed ignorance on the basis she doesn't speak Arabic.

The statement is a bit rich for a woman suspended from her party in 2016 for the very thing she now claims to 'never tolerate' ie. anti-Semitism.  Just 48 hours before she issued the above statement, Shah retweeted her Labour colleague Afzal Khan (the MP for Manchester Gorton) who had taken part in a 'Friends of al Aqsa' rally.  The Friends of al Aqsa are headed by Ismail Patel, a Leicester-based activist who has strong links with Hamas.

Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas chairman) pictured with Ismail Patel

Patel also has shared platforms with both Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway.

Naz Shah certainly doesn't do herself any favours.  Three days after issuing her statement asserting that she does not speak Arabic, she tweeted the following...

Note the Arabic writing at the beginning of the message.  In English it reads: "We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return".  Did she copy and paste it or has she simply been telling porkies about her knowledge of Arabic?

THE LEFT UNLEASH THE COLUMN

Labour's Zarah Sultana addresses a protest in Coventry

The viral video of a convoy of cars blaring out vile anti-Semitic abuse in Jewish neighbourhoods of London yesterday has been widely condemned across the political spectrum - apart from those on the far left, naturally.  While Johnson, Starmer and their front bench colleagues were tweeting words of condemnation, there was silence from the likes of Corbyn, McDonnell, Burgon and Abbott.

Many MPs on the hard left participated directly in the protests over the weekend.  They gave passionate speeches, whipping up the mob into a frenzy of hate and fury.  If President Trump was responsible for the Capitol riot, these firebrand leftists are responsible for the flag-burning and missile throwing outside the Israeli embassy.

Labour MPs Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Zarah Sultana and Apsana Begum at the
London protest

Zarah Sultana was a busy girl in particular and addressed two protests - one in Coventry on Saturday and one in London on Sunday.  Her brief London speech consisted of a four minute rant, during which she screeched so loudly she almost lost her voice (watch below).

It was quite a performance from the young MP, but one wonders how her constituents feel about her efforts.  It's a safe bet that most of them are more concerned about their own employment prospects, the economy, holidays and travel.  Screaming about solidarity with besieged Palestinians is not exactly 'standing up for Coventry South' and the voters are likely to respond appropriately at the next election.

Also addressing pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protests over the weekend were Sultana's colleagues Diane Abbott, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Nadia Whittome and Beth Winter.  Jeremy Corbyn has been greeted by adoring crowds at several demos in the past week, as far north as Oxford no less.  While he talks about 'peace', the response from the crowd is anything but peaceful.  The flag burning and violence rarely begins before the speeches, but it flows directly from the emotive words of these far left speakers.  Likewise, protesters didn't march to the Israeli embassy as a first port of call - that decision was made after the speeches had finished.  It's no coincidence.

The silence from these speakers after whipping up an angry mob says it all.

CORBYN PROJECT MOCKED

Jeremy Corbyn's new venture has been brutally mocked in a spoof website set up in its name.  Corbyn announced the 'Project for Peace and Justice' on Sunday, something which he claims to have been planning since the spring.  A Twitter account appeared last month and has quickly amassed thousands of followers, but the domain name has been seized by a prankster who has set up a spoof site crammed full of digs at Corbyn's links to anti-Semitism (see example screenshots below).

The culprit behind the website claims to be a British Jew and says he has fired off his first donation to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism - in doing so has done more than 'magic grandpa' ever has.  He/she says the website will be updated daily, it can be found here.

So what is Corbyn's project actually about?  It's basically a communist front designed to push the far left agenda he was forced to abandon when it was crushed at the 2019 general election.  If he fails to get reinstated as a Labour MP the 'project' could easily be rebranded the Peace and Justice Party and registered as a political party.  So far his Labour comrades have been largely silent about it, with the exception of Zarah Sultana and the ever loyal Richard Burgon who retweeted Corbyn's badly edited promotional video (watch below).

A second promo video reveals some of the hard left supporters backing Corbyn's new venture including the Marxist 'comedian' Alexei Sayle, film director Ken Loach, ex-union leader Christine Blower and the former hard left president of Ecuador (watch below).

Corbyn's project ironically mirrors the path of his self-perceived nemesis Tony Blair.  Blair began to launch various projects less than a year after he stepped down as PM and party leader.  These have all now been incorporated into multi-million pound globalist enterprise the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.  Investors include the US State Department and the Saudi regime, who pumped in £9million in 2018 via the tax haven of Guernsey (according to the Telegraph).  It's highly doubtful that Corbyn's tinpot outfit would ever garner such financial support, but it will undoubtedly add to his already impressive £3million net worth.

The next stage in his new venture is the official launch on January 17, featuring online contributions from Zarah Sultana, his Unite pal Len McCluskey and a whole host of hard left has-beens.  Kerching!

CORBYN READMITTED

Jeremy Corbyn was readmitted to Labour on Tuesday evening.  The decision was reportedly made by  a panel consisting of five members of the party's National Executive Committee.  Jezza's suspension lasted just 19 days and his reinstatement looks set to avoid a damaging split.  Corbyn responded with a tweet about an hour after the news broke.

The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs issued a tweet minutes later, but Richard Burgon was its first member to broadcast his undying loyalty (beating Nadia Whittome by nine minutes).

While many on the hard left have expressed delight at the decision, some already on the outside have been less vocal.  Chris Williamson, who left the party last year, had been hoping to start up a new socialist party with Corbyn on board.  He has yet to respond to the reinstatement.

Meanwhile, some on the moderate pro-Starmer side have reacted with dismay.  Margaret Hodge was among them.  She was one of the few Jewish moderates who managed to survive the left's 2019 parliamentary purge.

The Jewish Labour Movement also condemned Corbyn's reinstatement, as did the Board of Deputies of British Jews.  The two groups both released official statements.  The Board of Deputies had earlier rebuked what it referred to as Corbyn's 'non-apology', a statement that Corbyn released prior to his reinstatement.  The Board urged Labour to consign Corbyn's statement to the 'dustbin of history'.

Keir Starmer has written a lengthy thread on Twitter, although in it he only refers to Corbyn by name once.  Sir Squeaky was damned if he did, damned if he didn't.  Whichever path he chose for his predecessor, his battle with the hard left would be far from over.  They are still on board, for now, but they are not going to make it easy for him.