Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
There's a lot of cranks in Labour. He's probably happy to be rid of some of them.
Come on James, you know the correct expression is 'shaking off the fleas'.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...rael-hamas-war

Go with 'fleas' in future, not 'cranks' when you are describing people with convictions and principles.

Newspeak forty years on!