That was a very good post and I’d not argue with much at all beyond the key point that it was still all about leadership. Sure, you can say there was an NEC process, but once it was so abundantly clear not only that it was dysfunctional but it was also causing untold damage to the party’s credibility the leader should have stepped in and acted decisively. Contrast and compare with Starmer; the report came out yesterday, Corbyn made a spectacularly idiotic comment, and he was immediately out on his ear. That is exactly the way it needed handling. If the internal process wasn’t working then fix it later out of view, but not whilst the problem was mounting up.
Had Labour had a proper leader the anti-Semitism thing could never possibly have gained traction IMHO. I’m still beyond astonished that it ever did, even with someone as feckless as Corbyn. It takes spectacularly dumb leadership and broken internal processes to allow a genuinely institutionally racist party, let alone one built out of the slave trade such as the Tories and with a lot of more recent blood on its hands, to be able to land knock-out blows on an allegedly progressive left party. Even that duplicitous back-stabbing vulcanised epic fail Michael Gove is in on the act (
Twitter, warning: contains Michael Gove).
