An Election? For What? (Take 2.)

by Les May

I DOUBT that Tony Blair needed to warn Jeremy Corbyn about the ‘elephant trap’ that Boris Johnson was busy digging for Labour by calling for an early general election.

It’s a pity that he did not have a word with Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi who yesterday decided to dig his own trap so that he could fall into it himself.

This gentleman decided to attack Johnson for making ‘derogatory and racist remarks’ about the Muslim women and ask when he was going to order an inquiry into Islamophobia in the Tory party.

This of course went down well with the MPs on the Labour benches, but its a dangerous path to go down. As they have already shown the people who shout about anti-semitism in the Labour party have bigger, much bigger, guns, and more recruits than Labour will ever be able to muster to make much headway with claims of Islamophobia in the Tory party. 

 

Perhaps it would be a good idea to fight any election on Labour’s traditional ground of delivering economic and social justice, and not be diverted into arguments about identity politics.

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