In suspending Naz Shah and Ken Livingstone,Labour leader may have made small but significant move in direction of electabilityIn suspending Bradford West’s MP, Naz Shah, or from the Labour party while the context of her antisemitic comments (on Facebook in 2014) are thoroughly investigated,Jeremy Corbyn may have made a small but significant move in the direction of electability. Ken Livingstone’s suspended too. But dont immediately demolish open the champagne.
Why should supporters of Labour’s reality-based community take some consolation from this nasty runt row? It is championed with normal Labour-baiting enthusiasm by some newspapers, blogs and politicians who are not always as fastidious as they should be in the hypersensitive world of identity politics. They share some pretty obvious ulterior motives too. We’ll come to them.
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Source: theguardian.com