Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
She had a good soul and served the party for a very long time ( 56 years ) and born form Jewish refugee parents.

I liked the quote below yes she could have easily walked a long time ago .

I do admire that fighting spirit , especially within a party will strangely has never elected a females leader which ,never mind one of Jewish heritage , it has always baffled me .


""Margaret Hodge is asked about Luciana Berger's claim that the Labour Party is institutionally anti-Semitic.

The Jewish Labour MP said she has been in the party 56 years and she was a "fighter" who was not going to give up when Politics Live presenter Andrew Neil asked her why she was still in the party.""



Margaret Hodge was a poisonous Blairite hypocrite.

Luciana Berger's claim is nonsense - runs counter to the findings of the Home Office Select Committee, the Chakrabarti Report, the EHRC Report and all the allegation and investigation evidence that has come out from the Legal & Governance Unit.

In fact most of the high profile allegations of antisemitism against Labour members turned out to be unfounded (after the mud had stuck and the press had moved on) although sometimes changed to 'bringing the Party into disrepute' as a replacement catch-all charge. There were and are instances of antisemitic behaviour or on line activity - but according to the all-party MP group at a lower level than society in general, and at a lower level than on the right of the political spectrum.

Ed Miliband was of Jewish heritage and he was elected Labour leader! His father Ralph was subjected to anti-semitic press attacks, led by the Daily Mail, who went on (with hypocrisy to match Hodge) to play a leading role in the 'antisemitism crisis' constructed around Corbyn and Labour.

Labours failure to ever elect a female leader is indeed a source of embarrassment if not shame. But not Hodge.