The Levant As Mornington Crescent

William Hague gave a very good summary of why Britain would vote on Friday for the UN to give de jure recognition to the de facto State of Palestine. But at the end, he declared, with absolutely no relationship to the rest of his statement, that our representative would be abstaining. I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue.

Except, of course, that I have, and so have you. The number of Soviet agents on the Labour benches, occasionally requiring to be purged, was always tiny; there were probably far more on the other side, having sat at the feet of certain Oxbridge figures, and enquiring as to a gentleman's political opinion having been the nadir of vulgarity in his progress up the Conservative Party. Still, they would always have been a fairly small minority.

But within that latter party today, 80 per cent of MPs are known, mostly because they say so openly, to be members of the Israeli party that leads a coalition including the denaturalisers of Yisrael Beiteinu and the racist loonies of Shas. Our own dear Prime Minister is one such avowed Likudnik. And then there are the payments from Mossad.

The matter-of-fact pointing out of this blatantly obvious treason, since confirmed by the enforced resignation of a Defence Secretary who was and is a key figure in it, once got me removed, admittedly from an unpaid position with no higher a profile than this site, by a someone who either thought that he was still employed by Conrad "Jailbird" Black, or else had motives altogether more sinister, if not both. He then embarked on a demented and deranged campaign of defamation and abuse against me, in alliance with strong adherents of the nominally Labour or Labour-inclined Likudniks, namely the supporters of David Miliband.

Such as there still are, since today even Tristram Hunt spoke from below the gangway, the bench also occupied by Dennis Skinner and Ronnie Campbell. Hunt, furthermore, is a member of the most un-Blairite Balanced Migration. I wonder if he, and others cajoled into nominating the wrong Miliband last year in order to advance their careers, might not be so neoliberal at home and neoconservative abroad after all? One of them certainly isn't, and her career is coming along nicely.