Viable and Professional?

As a proud member of Unite, I am delighted that it has not given one penny piece to the Labour Party since Keir Starmer became Leader. Labour has today ruled out the Universal Basic Income as a manifesto commitment at the next General Election, even though it is likely to be in place by then. Is Labour going to vote against it in this Parliament? Or, as is its custom, just abstain? As with the renationalisation of the railways, the Labour Party is being outflanked on the left precisely by being overtaken by events.

Our unions have better things to do with our money, leaving the party to fall back on the likes of David Abrahams, who tweeted as recently as 2017 that black South Africans, "preferred white rule as less corrupt and more viable and professional." Abrahams retains a Labour Party membership card, yet look who increasingly do not. The Metropolitan Police has given up on the Labour anti-Semitism hoax, because that political project has met its objective outside the Labour Party. The objective inside the party remains only partially met, however, so the frenzy continues. 

From the number of the wrong sort of Jews that Labour is able to find to punish, then they must comprise at least 40 per cent of Britain's tiny Jewish population, 60 per cent of that small minority of British Jews which might ever consider voting Labour, and 80 per cent of those Jews who were members of the Labour Party, most of whom have either never heard of the Jewish Labour Movement, or would not join it to save their lives. The true figures are probably closer to 50 per cent, 70 per cent, and 90 per cent, respectively.

Labour is sacrificing its existing Jewish base, and the possibility of electoral appeal to those rapidly growing Jewish communities in which issues of economic inequality were very pressing, while antagonising larger ethnic minorities that had hitherto been loyal to the party, with BAME voters the most loyal of all to Labour at the last General Election. Black South Africans preferred, as Joe Biden might put it, "clean" white rule? Really? I mean, really?

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are strengthening links with Yair Lapid, having taken in several people who, having been elected as Labour MPs, decided that they could not remain in a party that did not toe the Israeli Government line utterly uncritically; so much for Lapid, who is clearly a Leader of the Opposition in the mould of Starmer. As long as you were that and a Remainer, then apparently you could be a Lib Dem, and at heart you always were one. Ed Davey is working hard to stop those people from going back to a Labour Party that is openly desperate to regain them. I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?