My favourite comment about Angela Eagle came from some unnamed spiteful Corbynista MP who, with reference to her twin sister Maria, a former cabinet minister, observed that Angela was ‘the lesser of two Eagles’ and ‘not even the best politician in her own family’. Perhaps he was the bloke who chucked a brick through Mrs Eagle’s office window this week, or left the succinct, if politically incorrect, answerphone message for her: ‘fucking bitch’. Although there are two or three hundred thousand semi-house-trained infants in the Momentum movement who might well have behaved likewise, I suppose.
Feelings are running a little high across the political spectrum, aren’t they? This is becoming the Summer of Visceral Loathing. Great news if you’re a journalist, frankly. Less good news if you’re a member of the Labour party. I am not absolutely sure that I still am, as I was suspended a while back for having suggested that some Muslims aren’t too keen on Jews.
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