Not that they, or anything else, are making the tiniest difference to the outcome, but Jeremy Corbyn's newly "surfaced" remarks about IS were the kind of thing that people used to say about a deal with Iran, to very much the same response from very much the same quarters.
And are we seriously expected to believe that an MP hosted a Holocaust denier at the Palace of Westminster, but that no one in the Parliamentary Press Gallery bothered to report it for six years?
If I were the media, then I'd keep pretty damn quiet about that one. Or accept that the whole suggestion was an obvious pack of lies.
If I were the media, then I'd keep pretty damn quiet about that one. Or accept that the whole suggestion was an obvious pack of lies.
But anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are real. These boys crying wolf will come to regret having done so. When that day comes, then the first man on the metaphorical, or even the literal, barricades will be Jeremy Corbyn.
Are you kidding? Those letters and articles don't "dismiss" anything-they don't even address Corbyn's association with anti-semites (and the Morning Star is a Soviet-Union supporting rag?) .
ReplyDeleteHe lobbied the British Government on behalf of one anti-semite. He invited another to tea in Parliament. He donated to a Holocaust denier, and gave an evasive Channel 4 interview with Cathy Newman, in which he said he "can't remember giving him a cheque" but may have donated to a collection-tin!
He claims he "forgot" having met another Holocaust-denying anti-semite.
You find lots of this on the Far Left. It used to be the Soviet Union.
It's one of the few things Nick Cohen is right about; the Left has consistently disgraced itself with its foul associates.
It did at least bring memories back of Peter Hitchens long-forgotten days on the Far Left. How he regrets it now!
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah 23h Peter Hitchens on the weird world in which Left-wingers live: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2015/08/yes-east-germany-was-terrible-but-was-it-a-joke-or-a-warning-.html …
There has been no Soviet Union since before you were born.
DeleteAll of the rest is simply impossible, unless no one in the media thought it worth reporting at the time. If I were they, then I'd keep very quiet indeed about that.