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Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

In the long term though, it's bringing things to a head and the cranks are being exposed and isolated (seems to me anyway - there's an awful lot of noise in every direction) - that should be a positive if they finally get their act together.
Which cranks? The members and politicians? There's an endlessly replenishable supply of nutters at the council & local level, it'll never end, and these days it's all retrospectively searchable. They're fair game too since you can't argue their Tory or Kipper counterparts haven't had any scrutiny over the years, although the outcomes are usually different. It's only significant change to structure and process that will get the LP off the hook for this.
 
Hmmm. Chris Williamson responds to furore around Willsman’s comments by moving him to top of his list (from bottom in earlier tweet) of recommended candidates.....excusing himself by saying that they are in ballot paper order....

 
Like going to the Priory

Someone should write a PhD on this. Seriously.
It’s the British cobweb left under late capitalism perfectly captured - identity obsession, training in avoiding wrong think for trusted comrades who need their speak updated, bubble assumptions that their lazy anti semitism isn’t ‘a thing’ and is just a weaponised attack from the bubble enemy, the drift away from the concerns of the real world where the suggestion that maybe political activism is about trying to address/engage/discuss/care about the collapsing lives of the class they profess to represent magically becomes a mere fleeting half forgotten memory.
 
Someone should write a PhD on this. Seriously.
It’s the British cobweb left under late capitalism perfectly captured - identity obsession, training in avoiding wrong think for trusted comrades who need their speak updated, bubble assumptions that their lazy anti semitism isn’t ‘a thing’ and is just a weaponised attack from the bubble enemy, the drift away from the concerns of the real world where the suggestion that maybe political activism is about trying to address/engage/discuss/care about the collapsing lives of the class they profess to represent magically becomes a mere fleeting half forgotten memory.

Sure, but what’s that got to do with the priory?
 
Meanwhile in Birmingham we had a protest today from social care workers who’ve been told that due to cuts their hours will be reduced to 14 per week (paid at the living wage or just above). The workers are already poor and trapped in the ‘in work benefits’ trap. Most of them have decided it’s better to just pack up and sink into benefits. They wondered why a labour council is doing this to them.
 
Corbyn apologises for hosting 2010 event

Corbyn hosted an event in 2010 at which a Holocaust survivor compared Israel to Nazism, held at the House of Commons on Holocaust Memorial Day.

He's the liability.
If it was some ultra-left random saying this, it would perhaps be right for the reaction to be as it has been. But when it's a Jewish Holocaust survivor, I'm not sure the situation is quite so clear cut.

And despite the fact that comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is supposed to be an example of what could be considered anti-semitism, the apparent agenda of those attacking Corbyn is that it should always be regarded in that way.
 
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