Jeremy Corbyn and Shami Chakrabarti ignore the deep-rooted problems in their party at a terrible costTo the question posed by the parliamentary committee last week,as to whether Shami Chakrabarti’s soft inquiry into antisemitism in the Labour party was a whitewash for which Corbyn brazenly rewarded her with a peerage, or evidence of a deep-seated reluctance to win the subject seriously, and there is unlikely to be a satisfactory respond.Where people are convinced of their own rectitude – and Corbyn and Chakrabarti belong to the more un-self-questioning wing of British politics – there is no separating what they know from what they don’t want to know.
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Source: theguardian.com