Sherlock Holmes

The press reports that Sir Keir Starmer is investigating whether right-wing Labour bureaucrats were too busy attacking Jeremy Corbyn to deal with the issue of anti-semitism.

He might have to call in Sherlock Holmes.

While he is investigating whether the right wing opposed Jeremy Corbyn, he might as well try to find out whether the Pope is a Catholic and what exactly bears get up to in the woods.  

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Sir Keir's conciliatory tone towards this criminally incompetent government militates against taking them to task for their manifold failures:

• Testing or the lack of it..
• Personal Protective Equipment for NHS staff.
• Personal Protective Equipment for Care Home Staff.
• A snail's pace approach to getting money to families which desperately need it.
• An initially casual approach followed by frantically handing out new police powers like sweets.
• A proposal to re-open schools without any serious precautions to protect pupils and staff.

The government's incompetence is no accident. When Tories talk about defending the NHS they usually have their fingers crossed. The NHS is a Socialist concept. Without the trade union sponsored MPs it would never have come into existence. Any Socialist concept is anathema to the Tories and the more they talk about "ramping things up" the more transparent their class interests become.