The time for appeasement is over

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/16/labour-antisemitism-row-unite-boss-accuses-jewish-leaders-of-truculent-hostility

Unite boss accuses Jewish leaders of 'truculent hostility'

Len McCluskey could well be right, but the fact is that no matter how far the Labour party leans over backwards to appease these individuals and groups, they will always come back for more concessions and more domination.Their intention is and has always been the removal of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership of which they disapprove.The evidence for this view is compelling with a daily smear  offensive in the media led by the Mail, Express and Telegraph and Sky and BBC News from our televisions.

At last the Labour party has made a complaint to the press regulator, naming the Daily Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph, Express and Metro. The time is long overdue when the lies and distortions of the media should be challenged, but at least this is a start. Personally, I would have abandoned "appeasement"  long ago when this smear campaign started after Corbyn first appeared on the leadership election ballot paper and has only grown more hysterical and bellicose since.

The latest contributions from Margaret Hodge and  Chuka  Umunna, evidence how some individuals will never be satisfied and how they will distort and fabricate in support of their particular viewpoint. 

The Labour response to the Margaret Hodge comment that Corbyn is on the "wrong side of of the line between being pro-Palestinian and anti semitic" and  "the cult of Corbynism" had allowed this to happen, following on from her outburst calling Corbyn " A f******" racist and anti semite", has be answered with, "Dame Margaret's comments were extreme and disconnected from reality". A very mild response considering her crass and vitriolic attacks over recent weeks.

As for Chuka Harrison Umunna saying that the Labour party is institutionally racist and that Labour MPs are being "pushed to breaking point" by the party's battle with anti-Semitism is, as McCluskey suggests, being used as a tool to advance the possibility of a breakaway party of the usual suspects and heir few supporters, led of course by Umunna himself, (provided that he can overcome his fear of the media putting him in the spotlight). The "policy" of appeasement to these groups and people has failed. It is now time for the party to meet this head on to prevent them from taking Labour back to the days of "Top down" leadership and a numbers of members.

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