If you attend a party and someone gets stabbed, are you guilty? If, obvs, you didn’t actually do the stabbing? Some kind of ‘guilt by association’ perhaps? Or maybe you were in the kitchen when it happened in the garden and knew neither party… at the party.

Thus, is Jonathan Mendelsohn ‘guilty’ of crimes for merely attending the Presidents Club dinner at which blatant sexism (but no stabbings, fortunately, not with knives anyway) took place? Is he guilty just by being at a place where sleazy and dirty behaviour occurred?

Jeremy Corbyn has sacked Mendelsohn from the Labour Front benches in the House of Lords, where he ‘lives’. He’s still a Lord, Corbyn is not yet sufficiently powerful to remove a peerage, though obviously, come the glorious day of the revolution, the peers will all be up against the wall with a blindfold and last fag, along with leaders of industry and all others who employ (ABUSE!!!) his working men. Oh, and women.

Its not a crime, in Corbyn-world, to consort with terrorists. Flirt with them. Court them. Befriend them as ‘allies in a struggle’. Even if those terrorists are proven murderers and bombers and jihadis and knee-cappers or whatever. So yesterday, when there was a motion in Parliament to proscribe Hezbollah from marching here, as they do every year, the motion was denied by the Labour front bench. ‘They are political, not terrorists’, even though their ‘flag’ has an AK47 on it. ‘They’re downtrodden workers’, even though they’re not. So Labour wouldn’t join the motion. Against an organisation who pledge not just the destruction of the State of Israel, which would, in that weird fucking world, be almost acceptable. Hezbollah state their aim is to destroy Jews, and stress, NOT just Israel, but Jews. And Corbyn, whilst never being ‘antisemitic’ himself, has always been very comfortable around those who are.

So back at the Dorchester, Lord Mendelson is there, as are many of high and noble people. And a bunch of superrich squillionaire bum-pinchers. Philip Green is a regular. With his knighthood or without. Many attendees were completely unaware of the ‘goings on’ in terms of groping and molesting the working girls (in every sense as in previous ‘dinners’, sex-workers had been shipped in at the end of the evening), and you can perhaps assume that Mendelson was there to network and perhaps even contribute to the undoubtedly worthy charities.

But Corbyn sacked him nonetheless. For what? For being at a place where bad things happened? Or for being a wealthy Jew, successful businessman and almost the worst crime of all, a Blairite.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re NOT out to get you.

Happy Friday

A xxxx