The Labour Party will be fighting itself today.<\/p>\n
Ostensibly the issue is Gaza.<\/p>\n
Actually, the issue is that the Labour leadership think that they cannot cooperate with the SNP on any issue, and so they would rather vote against a ceasefire in Gaza rather than admit that the SNP were right to call for one before they did.<\/p>\n
This is not just pathetic. It shows three other things.<\/p>\n
The first is that labour remains totally tribal in its thinking - which is of absolutely no benefit to anyone in the UK. We live in a vastly more nuanced world than that. It's time labour admitted that fact. It is possible for people outside Labour to be right.<\/p>\n
Second, it shows them as irrational. I watched Yvette Cooper squirm on this issue in an interview at the weekend and her tortuous language only revealed that fact.<\/p>\n
Third, it shows that they care more about fighting the SNP than they do about people in Gaza. And that is unforgivable.<\/p>\n
It really is time that this lot grew up. We need grown-ups in government and they very clearly have not reached that low bar as yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"