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Thing is, though, she's got a damned good point, and the response from The Party has been to accuse HER of anti-Semitism, by calling her comment "truly contemptible and grossly offensive to Jewish colleagues in particular", which I see as just yet another example of Labour's deflection tactics - The Party isn't anti-Semitic, so those criticising The Party must be.
Hitler had his critics executed, all Jezza can do - at Milne's behest - is sack them, and why do that if there isn't the tiniest grain of truth in what they're saying…? If they're talking bullshit, then The Party should be able to produce robust evidence that what they're saying isn't true, sacking them rather proves the opposite.
He is rendering - or, most probably has rendered - Labour completely unelectable. What I can foresee happening is that those who have been sacked, and hopefully others will examine their consciences and come to the conclusion that they cannot in good conscience remain a Labour MP, and will resign. This will leave Jezza with - at most - 18 or 20 (guesstimated figure) loyalists.
I think that it's a grave mistake to focus too much on Corbyn, when the driving force is Seumas Milne. I don't believe we can really know what JC thinks about anything - bar Europe - when Milne is telling him what to think. Whilst Jezza has dabbled in Communism (he was a member of the British Communist Party), Milne is a full-blown commie, who lamented the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the demise of the DDR, ("Saying the fall of the Wall was a good thing has become a loyalty test for Germans") and has become an apologist for terrorism, calling the world domination ideology of Al-Qaeda and ISIS "Western disinformation". According to an article he wrote in The Guardian in 2014, Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea would never have happened if the US and EU hadn't "sponsored the protests to oust the corrupt, but democratically elected, Viktor Yanukovych", a claim for which he has yet to produce any credible evidence (
The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion | Seumas Milne).
Corbyn was very much for a two-state solution, in line with the cross-party Friends of Israel group, so I wonder how much his embracing of those who would see Israel annihilated, such as Galloway and Hatton (I don't like Williamson, but I don't know enough to say if he's an anti-Zionist hardliner, or not. I know he's a Holocaust denier, so…) is on the advice of Milne. I don't believe it would be hyperbolic to suggest that Milne is Labour's de facto leader, and Jezza is simply his willing mupp… er puppet). (as an aside, I do think that the FoI need to come up with a better name, one that makes it totally unambiguous that they are NOT supporters of the Netanyahu regime). Milne's strategy is working, as the petition to oust Watson proves; sadly, Corbynistas (or should we perhaps now refer to them as Milneites…?) have drunk deeply of the Kool-Aid (that needs to be Anglicised).
I bet Margaret Beckett is ruing the day she suggested JC be added to the leadership ballot paper "for breadth" (especially as she has been the target of some of the vilest anti-Semitic abuse). Corbyn may not be anti-Semitic, but he's being advised by someone who unashamedly is. Even if he was to sack Milne - which he won't - JC has proven he has zero ability to form policy off his own back.
Oh and another thing, according to Kevin Schofield editor of Politics Home, the Party leadership contacted the BBC to demand that Panorama wasn't aired because, according to Schofield, Labour asked the BBC to: "suspend and reconsider the planned broadcast". The complaint claims that the programme is biased against the party, places "undue influence" on the Equalities and Human Rights Commission's own probe, contains "unsubstantiated allegations", calls on the BBC to do the same exposé into Tory anti-Muslim bias, and claims presenter John Ware "has an anti-Corbyn agenda". Paranoid, much…?
The thread is, as you can probably imagine, filled with the whinings and wailings of Corbynistas. One demands to know how many Jews are employed by the BBC, another claims that the title "Is Labour anti-Semitic?" "gives the assumption to the viewer that Labour is anti-Semitic", and therefore this means that the BBC is biased against Corbyn and Labour.
Labour goes to war with BBC over Panorama probe into anti-semitism in party
Full text: Labour complaint letter to BBC about Panorama antisemitism episode - LabourList
John Ware's response on the Jewish Chronicle website:
'If Labour wants a fight, bring it on,' says Panorama's John Ware
Labour seems to be demanding that any future BBC programmes where it is the subject should be subject to leadership approval. Jezza and Seumas don't like it, it doesn't air. It really is incredibly sinister.
