Sorry Steve, I guess I’m still suffering from ‘Jim-Lag’, whose ranting at and about me I found very insulting and hurtful (I also have feelings, y’know!), and I’m still kinda instinctively reacting to his kind of vitriol, even when it’s not there in your posts! Pax on that?

Well, we’re never going to agree about RL-B, who I see as a very good brain, a first-class back-room girl and shadow-cabinet-member, but too wooden in her public oratory style to make a leader. So let’s agree to disagree, eh?

Regarding ‘fake antisemitism shite’, I agree that there’s unlikely to be any more antisemitism in the LP than in any other party, but there’s been a protracted propaganda campaign aimed at shit slinging at the LP, and you know what they say about shit, don’t you - some of it inevitably sticks. And I’m fairly sure that, because of that campaign, there’s a perception amongst the voting public that the party is antisemitic, and it’s this perception that any leader needs to quash. Well, there’s more than one way to swing a cat, and perhaps Starmer’s policy is to silence any comments that any enemy of the party could conceivably latch on to as being evidence of antisemitism and use it in the inevitable pre-election re-run of the Tory Propaganda Campaign? It’s a tactic. Maybe not a tactic you’d agree with, but neither of us have the insider knowledge of what goes on in Westminster currently.

Only time will tell, but it’s just a thought...