A leaked internal Labour Party report—which to my knowledge only saw daylight over the Easter weekend—has made for some fascination reading. It deals with the great ‘anti-Semitism’ issue. It is 850 pages long and goes into forensic detail about the anti-Corbyn factionalism amongst party staff. It doesn’t surprise me at all that many senior staffers were horrified finding themselves having to work for a leader they considered less worthy than Satan. The document featured in a news report in the Guardian today. The report was largely matter of fact, but the Guardian’s editorial line on the Corbyn era had to creep in. Hence the execrable ex-party member and MP Ian Austin was asked for his thoughts. He claimed the report was ‘unreliable.’ I imagine he must have been contacted within 24 hours of its release. In other words, it seems highly unlikely that he had read it. I wonder if Rowena Mason, the Guardian’s Deputy Political Editor, who wrote the story asked Austin if he indeed had read it? I wonder if she herself had read it? All unlikely. If she or he had, they may have talked about the content of pages 186/7 which discusses the possibility that the Party soft-pedalled on a racism complaint relating to Ian Austin’s ‘friend’ the equally execrable Rod Liddle, the ‘journalist.’ (God knows why he was ever allowed into the Party in the first place.) I am barely a quarter of the way through the 850 pages, and I am feeling the strong urges of a political anorak. But it’s a change from Coronavirus.
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