Burnham's Zionism Balls Up: Polanski Handed An Opening

Right, so Andy Burnham has taken to PMQ’s, having been teed up ever so kindly by Tory MP Harriet Baldwin, the Uniparty exposing itself yet again, at the at the Green party’s Zionism Is Racism motion and slapped the antisemitism label on it like a warning sticker on a dodgy microwave. The motion defines Zionism as an ethnonationalist project propped up by excluding or dominating Palestinians, and ditches the party's two-state bedtime story for the radical notion of one democratic state shared by all. Bold move from a man whose party's Gaza record is about as clean as a festival portaloo after a typical British summer – not this year’s obviously – has had its wicked way with it. Well, the Greens' Jewish leader Zack Polanski, speaking for a great many of us who aren’t inclined to take such hypocrisy on the chin, hurled the accusation right back at Labour, because let’s face it, there’s no shortage of places for it to stick.

Harriett Baldwin must have been beside herself with glee. Toss a Labour prime minister the chance to smack the party to his left, and he lunges for it like it's the last sausage roll at a funeral buffet. Eager service for the establishment once more in the House of Commons, to nobody’s surprise whatsoever