Another one bites the dust. Mr S can only marvel at the lemming-like tendency of the Labour left. Just days after Diane Abbott used the Observer letters page to get herself suspended, a draft speech by John McDonnell has ended up in the New Statesman in which the former Shadow Chancellor argued that you are ‘now more likely to be disciplined for antisemitism [in Labour] if you are a Jew than a gentile’.
And now, Emma Dent Coad, one of the lesser-known Corbynites, has decided to euthanise her political career by quitting Labour. Having sat in parliament from 2017 to 2019, the former Kensington MP and longtime republican posted her predictable resignation video on Twitter today in which she bewailed the current Labour leadership, asking:
How can the party which set up the welfare state penalise benefit recipients? I’m not leaving the party, the party has left me. It is unrecognisable… I can no longer be complicit with the current trajectory of the party.
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