Yet another Labour comrade has been feeding the Daily Telegraph’s insatiable appetite for comments designed to assist Labour win the next election. Comrade Blunkett pronounced to an audience (which almost certainly will have outnumbered purchasers - still less readers - of his book ‘The Blunkett Tapes’) that “Either Jeremy Corbyn can lead a party into gradual decline and irrelevance, or demonstrate that he can lead a party fit for government. The choice is his." Actually David, the choice was in the hands of Labour Party members, and your coded call for Corbyn to resign can be consigned along with the Telegraph to the toilet. But another ‘Big Beast’ – Gordon Brown has unintentionally reminded voters what irrelevance is since that was the judgement of the electorate on him in 2010. Speaking today at a meeting of the Jewish Labour Movement, Gordon has like an Old Testament prophet seen the future of Labour if Jeremy doesn’t buck his ideas up. He wants Labour to adopt the contentious IHRA definition of anti-semitism in its entirety (it already has of course, but perhaps that fact is a post-truth fact). The dividing lines are becoming clearer, and as this affair drags on, it must be obvious to even the most disinterested, couldn’t-care-less observer that this row has bugger all to do with anti-semitism.
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