Wednesday 13 February 2019

Consonant, Please

Of all the absurd claims made by Tom Bower against Jeremy Corbyn, the funniest is that Corbyn, "does not read books." This, from the devotees of Tony Blair. Tony Blair! Bringing us to the plans, such as they are, for a new party. We are supposed to be impressed at the involvement of J.K. Rowling and of Her Off Countdown.

Other than as a set book, if that, Harry Potter is the only "literature" that these people have ever read. They regard Her Off Countdown as at least the peer, and really the superior, of Noam Chomsky. After all, they have heard of her, whereas they never heard of him. Tony Blair, indeed. The intellectual guiding lights of the New Party are to be Rowling, Her, Blair, and Chris Leslie. What a Symposium.

The latest excuse for this execrable nonsense is still "Labour anti-Semitism", even though that has now been found to have been negligible for a second time. There have been barely a thousand of the complaints that anyone might have submitted, with one in five of them made by the same person (an anti-Corbyn obsessive of several decades' standing), with two in five made against people who were not even members of the Labour Party, and with all of 12 upheld in the only way that could possibly have meant "yes, really" by resulting in expulsion.

There are plenty of things wrong with the Corbyn Project, and I have been pointing out some of them from the start. But the only one that has had anything to do with anti-Semitism has been the failure to protect distinguished black and other activists from allegations of it. One trusts that there will be no such failure from now on.

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