The worst

Hi All,

There's a saying that goes something like "evil flourishes when good men do nothing".

In the recent antisemitism row, there's been the typical rallying round toward the leader (as you'd expect of any cult)  by the hard left activists. There's been a few good men and women in Labour , along with conservatives , who have spoken out and attended the rally on Monday afternoon and that's cool.

But contrary to the conspiracy theorists of the hard left the bulk of the Parliamentary Labour Party have been silent. The Blairites and pro European centre left are silent.  Of course one suspects that's because they tried and failed to dethrone Corbyn,  who got re-elected by a landslide of party members.  Yet those same MPs will eventually be targeted by activists and de selected themselves.  

I cannot help but imagine if the Labour leader had been caught posting on a KKK or anti Islamic website , then he'd be gone by now. Certainly if a conservative or ukip person had done that. But because it's only us, a half hearted and dragged out of him apology will do.  But what does this tell you about the so called Labour moderates?

That they have been mostly silent is disgraceful . Yes our politics is tribal , hence the old expression of north  constituencies electing a cat if it wore red or blue if in the south.  But surely principles matter more.  The antisemitism row is the key issue, but in respect to Brexit , then clearly they have a different vision to the leader. They should as a matter of conviction leave the Labour party and set up a new left- social democratic party.  If they genuinely adhere to anti racism and anti antisemitism that's what they would do. But they won't. Because our electoral system doesn't favour new parties. Hence the coalition within party that we have in left and right. But that doesn't mean that they are right. Sometimes principles trump political or tribal calculations.