• “I RESIGN” we hear nonentities utter as they leave the Labour Party, like a baby repeatedly throwing their dummy out of a pram or a petulant child taking the ball off the field of play because they cannot get their way.

But the stakes are far from childish. Relentless assaults are carefully choreographed, as we have repeatedly seen Labour is accused of being riddled with anti-Semitism.

And the Labour leader labelled a “F***ing anti-Semite and a racist”, by someone supposed to be on his home team. Jew-hater is the new term that is flavour of the month.

Facts, well, who needs them? Like there has been a decrease in anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in the last three years.

Complaints are dealt with at four times the speed they were before, even with political spanners being thrown into the works by the previous administration.

And the numbers of complaints amount to 0.04 per cent to 0.08 per cent of over 500,000 members. But the malignant accusations, the propaganda, sloppy, biased reporting is all about power.

The Liberal Democrats will tell the electorate “you can trust us now”. These part-time Tories lost all my respect when they enabled the Conservatives in coalition.

The Tory party has grabbed the headlines to fill column inches with two contenders for the steering wheel of power as prime minister swerving this way, then that, to promise anything to everyone as we hurtle high speed towards a no-deal wall that will damage us all.

And right now, 160,000 or so Tory members, not 44 million voters, will decide who leads us; and we are not to be consulted while this process is passed off as democratic.

And woe betide anyone who mentions wealth distribution, a fairer tax system where the super-rich pay their fair share, any proposals to roll back the creeping privatisation of our National Health Service to properly fund it, or build genuine affordable, much-needed homes in their hundreds of thousands, take back into public ownership incompetently run and highly priced rail, and other utilities, equip schools to teach properly, and question the human rights abuses of the voiceless and dispossessed.

Let’s not have a real debate no rather damaging mud-slinging and more powerless status quo please. How dare we ask for more?

PATRICK EDLIN
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