Keir Starmer only ever appointed Rebecca Long-Bailey in order to make a point of sacking her, and it is inconceivable that she did not realise that from the start.
Now a strongly anti-austerity and pro-Brexit voice from the North has been purged, and a confrontation with the unions has been contrived over when the schools should go back.
Any excuse would have done, even if it had had to be made up. As, in fact, it was.
Newspapers do not just include every political opinion that a celebrity interviewee might have proffered. They check. They check very, very carefully.
At the time that The Independent published its interview with Maxine Peake, which was not an article written by her, then these words of hers were universally acknowledged as an uncontentious statement of fact. For so they are:
“The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.”
Any excuse would have done, even if it had had to be made up. As, in fact, it was.
Newspapers do not just include every political opinion that a celebrity interviewee might have proffered. They check. They check very, very carefully.
At the time that The Independent published its interview with Maxine Peake, which was not an article written by her, then these words of hers were universally acknowledged as an uncontentious statement of fact. For so they are:
“The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.”
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