Currently, the BBC is running a story about John Cryer and Labour’s anti-semitism:
‘A senior Labour MP has said he is shocked at some of the anti-Semitic tweets by party members that come before its disciplinary panel.
John Cryer said some of what is written “makes your hair stand up”, adding: “This stuff is redolent of the 1930s.”
He was speaking at a fringe debate at the Labour conference in Brighton…
…Mr Cryer, Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead, described a “seeping poison” and warned that future generations might not realise that when it came to Nazism, “we were right and they were wrong”.
As chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, he sits on the disputes panel of the National Executive Committee, which rules on what members have “said, written or tweeted”, he told the audience.
“I have seen some of the tweets from paid up Labour Party members and I am not kidding you, it makes your hair stand up,” he said.
Some Labour members dismiss reports of anti-Semitism as a myth, he said.
“But you don’t have to look very far before you see it’s not a myth…and there’s no place in the Labour Party for stuff like that.”‘
Fair play to Mr. Cryer for tackling a controversial issue.
But things must have come to a pretty pass in the Labour Party if an M.P. previous known for not saying boo to a goose now feels impelled to so intervene.