Paul Mason
Last week’s by-election in Batley & Spen, an old Yorkshire manufacturing town with a Labour tradition and a large postwar south-Asian Muslim population, has opened up a new chapter in post-Brexit politics.
With Labour trailing badly behind a Conservative government, seemingly untouchable despite its lies and corruption, the script seemed clear. The party would lose in a straight fight with the Tories, Keir Starmer would face a challenge to his leadership of Labour and the disintegration of British social democracy would accelerate.
It didn’t quite turn out that way. Labour won just by 323 votes. Starmer emerged rejuvenated and all talk of a leadership challenge evaporated. And the government remains mired in personal and financial scandals.
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A Church of England bishop for the diocese of Manchester, England, has been facing criticism for saying he s more concerned about former health secretary Matt Hancock breaking social distancing rules than having an adulterous affair.Â
When Bishop David Walker was asked whether the moral character of political leaders should be debated, he replied that he felt sorry for Hancock and was more concerned about him and other politicians breaking the government s social distancing rules than his sexual infidelity. Â Â I think what is of concern is, of course, when somebody who is telling the rest of us how we have to behave during the pandemic then is videoed very blatantly behaving in an extremely different way,â Walker said in an interview with Nigel Farage and Dehenna Davison, a Conservative Member of Parliament, on GB News Political Correction on Sunday.