The Story.

Rebecca Long Bailey, hard-left, stroppy northern uber-Corbynite loser of the last Labour leadership contest (she’s going on ‘Britain’s got Talent’ next week to see if she can do a bit better), has been sacked from her shadow cabinet post. Because she re-tweeted a post from Maxine Peake, an actress I’ve never heard of either, and endorsed with ‘she’s a diamond’ by RLB. Ahhh. Sisters. Except Peake had written, among other drivel, rubbish and nonsense, that ‘the American police were taught the George Floyd stranglehold by the Israeli secret police’. A claim so ludicrous and without a grain of truth that the actress herself later withdrew that part of her comments.

RLB stated that she endorsed the tweet in general, not in any specific terms and, guess what? She never even realised that it contained what her own party leader defined as ‘an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’.

So she was sacked by Kier Starmer. Which instantly and inevitably thrilled all Labour moderates (another Corbynite bitch bites the dust) and angered the party’s hard left, the militants and all other rabid anti-semites. Who stated the usual bollocks in justifying a cabinet minister’s endorsement of a bunch of lies and untruths which just by coincidence, were levelled against Israel.

The action.

Starmer sacked her. Quickly, almost instantly and without even setting up the usual 3 sub-committees to investigate allegations of anything un-party-like or possibly inflammatory to people they don’t like anyway. This was a seed change from the Corbyn times of ‘stopping just short of another Krystallnacht.’

The repercussions.

The remaining hard lefters are threatening to resign. 10 of the fuckers. Which to me seems a win-win, a purge of the scum. But is a problem for Labour because those 10 and RLB represent the Unions’ interest. And without Unions Labour are unfunded. But Starmer rose on a wave of ‘I shall root out anti-semitism in the party’ because it had blighted Corbyn’s reign. Mainly because Corbyn was the worst and most guilty of all in that respect.

The judgment.

It may seem harsh. RLB did backtrack a bit afterwards. But too little too late.

And here’s the rub. The paradigm. Which is that no-one ever stated “I fucking hate Jews!!” even if they really did. Not since Oswald Moseley has anyone publicly stated that over here. Though its a fairly common sentiment in Hamas, Hezbollah, most of Iran, half or Syria, bits of Libya. All of Corbyn’s old mates.

Anti-semitism in the post-holocaust world is more subtle. And more deniable. Oh, I laid a wreath on the graves of terrorist murderers in Libya but only because I was there. I ‘shared a platform’ with a hate preaching Imam sworn to the death of all Jews, but only because we use the same aftershave. I hate Israel because of its atrocities. Even though I forgive Syria for chemical bombing its own civilians, and forgive Hamas for sending rockets into schools and hospitals.

And the death of the Corbyn era was in part because of the denials. Always the ‘little things’, the ‘almost insignificant’, the throwaway lines, like, ‘Israel is responsible for the death of George Floyd’. All followed by ‘I am opposed to all forms of racism’. Or ‘I didn’t mean that bit’.

Kier Starmer was so right. What RLB did was exactly what those Labour hypocrites have been doing for the Corbyn years.

And then Liverpool won the league.

Happy day for Scousers

A xxxx