This Blog has no real experience of Labour’s antisemitism problem other than the fact that it is a constant running sore. Clearly there can be no anti semitism in Labour or any other political party. At the same time the party must be given time for its new systems and processes to bed in. Moreover at no stage must anti semitism be used as a proxy for anti Corbynism.
New Labour lost votes at every election it fought after 1997 until 2015, when Ed Miliband moved slightly left and recovered a few hundred thousand votes from the 5 million lost by Blair and Brown. But Corbyn took the party back to its founding purpose further left and in 2017 gained millions more votes and and hundreds of thousands more members. Labour is not the party of the centre and with an economy so badly tipped to favour the few over the many, it must remain true to the left wing tradition. It must also stop fighting itself. This is not just about Labour. It is about hope, opportunity and ambition for our country. About everyone.