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I agree with you the response is kind of dumb, but isn’t his point that this problem is nowhere near the problem it is being made out to be in the press and by the Tories?
Isn’t the percentage of Labour Party members that have been accused of antisemitism something like 1% EDIT: 0.1% is the figure I read (here: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/26/antisemitism-labour-everything-you-need-to-know) Have I missed a newspaper article Corbyn wrote about the Jewish community or something? Because we have a PM who literally wrote an article about Muslim women looking like letterboxes but he isn’t asked about Islamophobia in the Tory party at every single press conference.
I think it’s crazy for anyone to believe that if Corbyn admitted they were too slow in handling this, that like magic the press and the Tories stop. It would just carry on.
From the moment Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, the Tory tactic and the Tory press, has been to absolutely destroy his integrity. They started with his lack of tie, his lack of patriotism, his terrorist sympathising and so on.
Genuinely, as I’m sure it’s possible that I have, someone please point me to whatever it is I’ve missed that shows antisemitism has taken over the Labour Party.
There would have been a time when a bombshell like this NHS revelation today would have been an earthquake in an election campaign, I’m admittedly a pessimist, but just like Trump’s ability to shrug off lies I wouldn’t be surprised if Johnson does the same - particularly when the press is as batshit crazy as this:
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Corbyn could have drawn a line under this months ago and should have done years ago. He could easily have taken the high ground and said, yes Labour had a problem and we took too long to sort it out - hands up - but now we have. What about the Tories?
The refusal to do so smacks of the hand of Milne or extreme stupidity. Neither is a good look. In a country where the press is largely right of center to let yourself be backed into this corner is unbelievably dumb.