There’s sayin’ things and there’s sayin’ things. There’s gilding lilies and there’s calling spades spades and there’s evading issues and there’s cutting to the chase. And then there’s Margaret Hodge. Dame Margaret Hodge. Bless her saintly Baronetcy.

Because ever since Jeremy Corbyn emerged from his cocoon (not a racist term) and thrust himself into the political spotlight as new Labour leader sounding a lot like an old communist leader, there have been ‘issues’ (hateful, all-encompassing, totally vague type word that we all sometimes have to use, so I apologise) with anti-semitism in the Labour Party. Things happened, words spoken, attitudes aligned, in such a way that Jezza, whilst always claiming that ‘he abhors all kinds of racism’ without ever managing to separate the anti-semitism or give it any kind of individual status, he appeared as a wonderful and powerful magnet for anti-semites and Jew-hate narrative. They were drawn to him. Like flies round shit. And he hedged and he hummed and he said the usual ‘taken out of context’ and ‘that’s not what he meant’ (when ‘he’ probably said he wished the rest of the Jews had died in the war, or something nice like that) and he has systematically skirted the issue. With the help of his gang of total, all-out Jew haters like Seamus Milne. The Labour Party has a very strong policy on antis-semitism; deny, deny and deny again.

So they set up an ‘enquiry’ headed by the (exceedingly recently) ennobled Shami Chakrabarti who found there was absolutely no problem whatsoever. Ah, brilliant, job done, all over now, fab.

Whitewashing tossers.

Meanwhile the antisemitism continues unabated to such an extent that the newspapers barely bother to even report it. Like infighting within the Tory party, there’s just too much of it. But Labour set up some committee, because that’s what they do, and in order to ‘keep out the antisemitism’ that they don’t even think exists, they first have to have a good, working definition. Oh, its ok, one already exists. The same definition used in every organisation in the country and every country in the civilised world. Yeah, but we can’t use that one. Huh? No, unfortunately, its not quite antisemitic enough in its defining of anti-semitism for Labour to use. There’s no room within that definition for 98% of our members to speak freely and openly about the sodding kikes. Oh. Ok.

So Labour brought in their own one. Without consulting any Jews, obviously. What the fuck would they know about anti-semitism. Especially the 96 rabbis who complained about the unacceptability of the new definition

And so to Dame Margaret Hodge, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, who encountered Le Corbyn in the hallways in Westminster. And called him a “fucking anti-semite and racist”.

God Bless Margaret Hodge. The Jewish God, at very least.

And of course, Labour, specifically Seamus Milne, has immediately started action for her suspension for disloyalty to the party. Far quicker than anyone ever acted in cases of antisemitism, it must be noted.

Ahhhhh, happy Friday

A xxxx