Many of us suspected the Labour party was on a suicide mission. Now we know for sure.
The party’s suspension of Trevor Phillips over allegations of Islamophobia feels like a turning point. It is surely one of the final nails in the coffin of irrelevance that has been enveloping this party for a few years now.
The casting out of Phillips confirms two things about Labour under the baleful, Stalinist rule of the Corbynista left.
First, that they will brook no dissent. No questioning of their deathly creeds of identitarianism and multiculturalism — a questioning Phillips has pursued with great clarity and purpose in recent years — will be tolerated. Dissenters from woke orthodoxy will be punished, branded ‘phobic’, erased from the party record like those old commissars who irritated the big boss.
And secondly it confirms that Labour right now has no intention whatsoever of recommitting itself to the values of community, solidarity and nationhood — values that Phillips and others on the sensible wing of the party have been discussing and defending with vigour.
No, Labour will remain dominated by the divisive, destructive ideologies of the over-educated metropolitan middle classes who now make up its membership and its leadership.
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