The Left is having a meltdown. On the Labour side – smarting no doubt from increasingly terrible polls as the threat from Nigel Farage and Reform UK increases, while a looming bad Budget and illegal immigration reforms send everyone into a tailspin – the Left is allegedly looking to move against the PM. The Tribune group of soft-Left Labourites apparently has the required 80 MPs to challenge Sir Keir Starmer. Worse news for the PM, one of his merry men – MP Clive Lewis – said he would vacate his Norwich seat as a route for Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to challenge Sir Keir for leader.
Careful what you wish for Clive! If you Labour folks learned anything from the toxic Tories it should be that civil war isn’t a great look and switching leaders often starts a trend, which eventually spells the beginning of the end for any government. Not content with deserting Sir Keir, many on the Left are now eyeing up the Greens. Zack Polanski has become the Nigel Farage of the Left. Yet while Tory-to-Reform defections are no longer splitting the Right sufficiently to let Labour in through the middle, Labour-to-Green defections are making Reform UK’s rise even more pronounced.
Speaking of Farage, The Guardian has seemingly dragged up allegations that a teenage Farage used racist and anti-Semitic language as a teen at Dulwich College. Aside from the fact these claims are unproven (and frankly getting old), what point does it prove?
The Guardian itself concedes there is no indication Farage holds these alleged views today, so this is vilification of – what – a teenager? With what? Unproven claims? Those of us in the Jewish community who detest what our country has become couldn’t give a toss what was allegedly said in 1977. Again, allegedly! Where’s the evidence?
The real story is the Left’s panic about Farage and Reform. With weak answers on policy, the Left has to play the man, not the ball, by dragging up purported quotes from nearly 50 years ago.
So we have two disastrous tactics. Turning on the son-of-a-toolmaker-PM, splitting the Labour Party and Left apart in the process, and dragging up unproven quotes from the year Saturday Night Fever hit the silver screen, the Left is in meltdown. Whatever was said or not in 1977, Nigel Farage is clearly saying the right things today if he is getting under the Left’s skin this much!
