There are many takes to be taken from yesterday, but this is a thread about the current Labour leader, in which you posted many times about what "we could have had".
What "we could have had" was a man who called a terrorist group, who have murdered civilians in the street and paraded their corpses his "friends".
Thank god we didn't.
It's a courtesy and an attempt to be inclusive. I've been at meetings where I've talked about 'our friends in haematology', 'our friends in the Manchester laboratory', 'our friends in dietetics', 'our friends in New Zealand'.
These people are not my friends, most of them I don't know and have never met but they're people I work with professionally and I extend them the courtesy of talking about them with respect when I discuss work which we are all involved in.
Plus he said at committee that he regretted that language anyway so it's not any sort of gotcha.
What I perceived yesterday though, was a Labour leader so afraid to be labelled antisemitic that he immediately put out a statement that was completely pro Israel and lacking in any subtlety or nuance regarding what is a tragic and complex situation all round. I think we, and the Palestinian people*, deserve better from our leaders.
ETA: *and the Israeli people quite frankly.
