Demonstrable

I have seen bigger demonstrations against housing developments in Lanchester. I'm not joking. I have.

But remember 26th March 2018 as the day when Labour MPs addressed the Conservative local election candidates, the Conservative MPs including Sajid Javid, the Conservative Peers including Norman Tebbit, the DUP MPs, and the staff of a foreign embassy, who had marched on Parliament to demand that the Leader of the Labour Party be removed. A march that had been endorsed by Tommy Robinson.

Hours later, on Newsnight, up popped Tony Blair. Do they think that we are stupid? Oh, well, I hope that they enjoyed their first ever demonstration, however small it was. When did you last hear of 20 Labour MPs on a demonstration, least of all 20 Blairite Labour MPs? They sometimes whine that Jeremy Corbyn ought not to attend such things because it is not "Prime Ministerial".

But remember this: the number of people who re-elected Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party was certainly larger than the entire Jewish population of the United Kingdom, and there were probably more British Jews on the barely reported counterdemonstration yesterday than there were on what was supposed to have been the main event.