Chuka Umunna – who pines for the bankrupt and discredited politics of a decade ago and cosies up to Tories – said in his ‘launch’ speech this morning that his quitters’ group was for those ‘sick and tired of politics as usual… guess what so are we‘.
Luciana Berger went on to add jaw-dropping crassness, by offering condolences to the family of veteran Labour left-winger Paul Flynn, just after she and her colleagues spent interminable minutes smearing the party he loved and served and in particular the left-wing politics he represented.
Here’s what Flynn said about their ilk in 2016:
Jonathan Ashworth, himself more of the centre-left, had no sympathy for the ego-driven:
SKWAWKBOX comment:
Hypocrisy or a world-class lack of self-awareness? Both, most likely.
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