Jewish group walks away from Labour

[jon1959]

If he hates racists he wouldn't have just taken a job working for the party that brought you windrush and the pm who makes Muslims the punchline of his jokes.

Strange move. So many potential masts to nail his colours to and he chooses Boris??

The Tory Party seems to be hoovering up a group of unlovely anti-Corbyn ex-Labour MPs and giving them jobs. Most of them are no loss to any political party - especially Labour.

John Mann has been given a ticket to the Lords and appointed 'Antisemitism Tsar' by Johnson. Ian Austin is to become the Tories' trade envoy to Israel. John Woodcock (still with the sexual harassment allegations unresolved) has been appointed by Johnson as 'special government envoy to tackle violent extremism'.

It wouldn't surprise me to see a clutch of other ex-Labour MPs pop up with similar new job titles and similar prime media slots to slag off Corbyn and Labour. They will all be on Dominic Cummings' whiteboard and primed to detonate when he thinks they will have most effect. Cynical and hypocritical but will it have any effect? Maybe at the far margins?

[rs3100]

The Tory Party seems to be hoovering up a group of unlovely anti-Corbyn ex-Labour MPs and giving them jobs. Most of them are no loss to any political party - especially Labour.

John Mann has been given a ticket to the Lords and appointed 'Antisemitism Tsar' by Johnson. Ian Austin is to become the Tories' trade envoy to Israel. John Woodcock (still with the sexual harassment allegations unresolved) has been appointed by Johnson as 'special government envoy to tackle violent extremism'.

It wouldn't surprise me to see a clutch of other ex-Labour MPs pop up with similar new job titles and similar prime media slots to slag off Corbyn and Labour. They will all be on Dominic Cummings' whiteboard and primed to detonate when he thinks they will have most effect. Cynical and hypocritical but will it have any effect? Maybe at the far margins?

Kate Hoey next.

Ian Austin has had an axe to grind for a long long time. He is using antisemitism as political point scoring.
I'm not saying that antisemitism doesn't exist in the Labour party, but to use Ian Austin as your evidence for raging antisemitism is foolish.