When you have a distinct number of Labour MPs, allied to just about every political commentator / journalist just brazenly making shit up without question then it will never be anything but ashow.
This is a direct exchange on the radio last week between a proper journalist and Luciana Berger, one of the leading campaigners against Corbyn
This is the sort of thing that every leader of the Labour party is going to be confronted with. The Only way to get around it is to have a strong, clear, reasoned and logical position, that you express forcefully. This is the sort of bullshit that thrives in a vacuum. For Instance we had three or four days of nonsense about adopting in total that set of anti-semitism guidelines, before anyone pointed out that the reason that things were omitted was that parts of it weren't legally tight enough to expel someone, and would be open to legal challenge, and that this was made clear in the definition itself. That was a really good reason, but it took ages to explain, and allowed people run riot for ages.
The People who lead the Labour Party have simply got to take for granted that the Media are going to come up with this sort of bullshit all the time. They need to be prepared, and be capable of immediately dealing with the situation. It should not be hard for a political party that had a jewish leader until 2015 to show that it is obviously opposed to Anti-Semitism. The whole fiasco left me with the impression not that the Labour party was a party uniquely ridden with Anti-Semites, but that they were incompetent.
This is a direct exchange on the radio last week between a proper journalist and Luciana Berger, one of the leading campaigners against Corbyn
This is the sort of thing that every leader of the Labour party is going to be confronted with. The Only way to get around it is to have a strong, clear, reasoned and logical position, that you express forcefully. This is the sort of bullshit that thrives in a vacuum. For Instance we had three or four days of nonsense about adopting in total that set of anti-semitism guidelines, before anyone pointed out that the reason that things were omitted was that parts of it weren't legally tight enough to expel someone, and would be open to legal challenge, and that this was made clear in the definition itself. That was a really good reason, but it took ages to explain, and allowed people run riot for ages.
The People who lead the Labour Party have simply got to take for granted that the Media are going to come up with this sort of bullshit all the time. They need to be prepared, and be capable of immediately dealing with the situation. It should not be hard for a political party that had a jewish leader until 2015 to show that it is obviously opposed to Anti-Semitism. The whole fiasco left me with the impression not that the Labour party was a party uniquely ridden with Anti-Semites, but that they were incompetent.
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