I do love it when the left turns upon itself as it is wont to do.
Labour has expelled an activist for bringing the party into disrepute after he criticised a Jewish MP at the launch of an anti-Semitism report.
Marc Wadsworth accused Ruth Smeeth of working “hand in hand” with the media to undermine Labour.
Labour’s National Constitutional Committee found he breached the party’s rules and should be thrown out.
Okay…
Before Wednesday’s hearing, Mr Wadsworth – an anti-racism campaigner and Momentum activist – suggested that he was being “hung out to dry”.
Ah, Momentum, the modern incarnation of the hard left Militant Tendency, everything that is vile about the left – even more vile than the usual left, I suppose. A party within a party, a parasitic creature that is designed to eat away at any remaining moderates. And of course he is an anti-racism campaigner. Aren’t they all?
Still, it’s not all bad.
Speaking afterwards, he told reporters he believed he had the support of Mr Corbyn.
Well of course. We expect nothing less…
What is delightful is that the nasty antisemitism that lives in the black heart of the British Labour Party is being waved before the media for all to see. Long may it continue.
Until it was decided that might be a bad idea:
Edit: why aren’t links visible as such until you hover over them?
It’s the design of the theme.
Interesting… how are you supposed to know they’re there? 😀
They are coloured red in my browser.
When I look at an article in Longrider’s blog all of the provided links show up as red-coloured text. Very easy to see
All our political parties seem to be in a civil war to some degree – although it is especially amusing to see the fascist left tearing itself apart. All this popcorn isn’t doing my weight much good but it’s a price well worth paying.
Despite all this Labour maintains its 20+ percent lead over the Tories in London. Anyway, before you know it, Marc will be back. Actually what does his “expulsion” really mean? AFAIAA Momentum is separate from (but, as LR writes, parasitic on) Labour. Presumably Marc retains his membership of Momentum and will continue working hard for Labour: I doubt he’ll be joining the Conservatives.
Corbyn, idiot though he is, is canny enough to recognise that the continuing fuss over anti-semitism is solidifying – probably increasing – electoral support for Labour. After all Labour (1997 – 2010) wisely (for Labour) opted to import its own electorate: a process unbelievably continued post-2010 by the “Conservatives” in the Labour interest. Not coincidentally, a substantial part of those imported comprise a bloc of voters whose holy book enshrines hatred of Jews as a doctrine of faith.
I wish Wadsworth’s expulsion was an example of the “monster eating itself”. Rather, I fear it’s simply a publicity stunt designed to make Labour look marginally less disreputable (until the next example of blatant thuggery, abuse, criminality and/or anti-semitism comes to light)
So here’s my question. If Wadsworth can be expelled from the Labour Party for accusing Jewish MPs of working “hand in hand” with the media to undermine the Labour Party, then what is going to be the sanction for Len McClusky, who this week accused MPs protesting about anti-semitism within the party of doing it purely to undermine Jeremy Corbyn?
Or is it one rule for the peasants, and another for Union officials?
And why is nobody asking Sharmi Chakrabarti, originator of a discredited review two years ago which now clearly whitewashed this whole issue to resign her seat in the House of Lords?
There is of course a big difference between something like criticising Israel’s foreign policy and hating Jews just for being Jewish. There is a lot of mischief being made by people pretending that the two are the same.
Though very often, those who “criticise” Israel’s policies, domestic and foreign, curiously never find the time to criticise the policies of any other country on the planet (except US under Trump, but not under Obama). Funny that.
How sweet it is to see the biter bit.