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Senior UK Labour party lawmakers ‘exasperated’ at handling of anti-Semitism

2019-07-01

[IsraelTimes] A senior politician of the UK Labour Party said Friday that she, along with other members of the shadow cabinet, are frustrated at the party’s failure to properly address anti-Semitism within its ranks and suggested that an independent system may be necessary to handle the matter.

Labour has been split apart by claims that the party has become hostile to Jews under the far-left leader MP Jeremy Corbyn, a harsh Israel critic and longtime supporter of the Paleostinian cause.

Shadow Education Secretary MP Angela Rayner, considered to be an ally of Corbyn, said that her fellow shadow cabinet members ‐ the Labour body charged with presenting the party’s policies on current events ‐ are "totally exasperated by the failure of our movement to be able to deal with this issue," The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday.

Another senior politician from the party told the newspaper that Labour had lost over 100,000 members since its peak in 2016, and was now in financial difficulty.

"The membership has dropped to around 400,000 [from more than half a million] and we are losing money," the anonymous MP said. "We are not in a fit state to fight an election which I think we are heading towards."

One can only hope the Democratic Party will soon follow suit.

The remarks came after Labour reimposed the suspension of a politician on Friday, just two days after it was lifted amid an ongoing furor over remarks he made about the party’s response to anti-Semitism.

Last Wednesday Chris Williamson, a Corbyn ally, was reinstated after being suspended pending an ethics review but the decision was then reversed following wide protest, including from within the Labour party.

Some 90 senior members of the Party have urged its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to expel Williamson who was filmed in February telling a meeting that the party was "too apologetic" and had "given too much ground" in its response to anti-Semitism allegations.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 The problems of the left are based on their mental environment was frozen in the 19th century up to the 1930s. But they can't change with the times.

That whole "workers of the world unite" is a farce in the age of the internet and good paying jobs most everywhere so they can't process what anti-semitism is now that the Nazis are no more, and the landlords don't control the peasantry.

They are out of date and out of ideas. They probably still picture plow horses in the fields to harvest the wheat.

Posted by: AlanC 2019-07-01 09:07

#2 ^ ooops that was me.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-07-01 08:15

#1 A senior politician of the UK Labour Party said Friday that she, along with other members of the shadow cabinet, are frustrated at the party’s failure to properly address anti-Semitism within its ranks and suggested that an independent system may be necessary to handle the matter.

Senior aka older. Maybe because it isn't your party anymore. Maybe because of habit or routine you blinded yourself to what your party has become. Maybe because you refuse to come to the conclusion you can no longer associate with those around from so many years. We have the same problem with 'Liberals'. They refuse to acknowledge that their party, and thus by their go along attitude, are no longer 'liberal' in the classical terms.

Posted by: Glusonter Unomons9288 2019-07-01 08:12

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