Get a Grip, Labour!
I listened to Ken Livingstone on the radio earlier today trying desperately to 'defend the indefensible' in terms of his comments about Hitler and Zionism.
As often happens on these occasions, 'attack' seems to be the preferred form of defence and instead of apologising for being such a dick, Ken sought to deflect attention away from his foolish words by blaming the whole business as a storm in a teacup whipped up by MPs who are hostile to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
Now that takes a great deal of 'chutzpah' - a brass neck, as people are fond of saying in Glasgow - but I encountered a similarly dumb argument on Twitter the other day with a chap who couldn't tell me whether he thought that Jon Lansman (the Chair of the pro-Corbyn Labour group Momentum) is an arch-Blairite - see Twitter exchange below.
So while Ken and his chums continue to grasp at any passing straw, the biggest irony of all is that Ken Livingstone set out to defend the Labour MP Naz Shah who, by the time ken stirred up this hornet's nest, has already apologised for her offensive anti-Semitic comments.
Seems like the old Labour figures are badly in need of learning some new tricks, as today's cartoon in The Times by Morten Morland illustrates.
As Hugo Rifkind said on Twitter earlier today: "Arguing that Hitler was a Zionist is like arguing that the slave trade was pro-immigration. Get a grip."
Exactly.
- @Mark1957 Pretty good conflation. Who's that Malcolm Tucker gadgie again?
Mark Irvine 
Tony Kenny 
@TonyKennyAye Thank you, but I think we're done......especially if you can't say whether you regard Jon Lansman as an arch Blairite!
