Oh dear. Onetime Labour leadership hopeful Clive Lewis, the soft left’s answer to Richard Burgon, has waded into the Sewell Report row with his usual tact, guile and diplomacy.
Responding to an Independent headline which read: ‘No proof of institutional racism, claims key report’, Lewis, a former shadow defence secretary, tweeted a picture of a Ku Klux Klan member standing in front of a burning cross with the caption: ‘Move along. Nothing to see here #RaceReport’ adding in a subsequent tweet: ‘To be crystal clear this image represents structural racism. Just so we’re clear.’
Lewis clearly has a short memory about who the KKK’s electoral preferences in Britain. In 2015 Grand Wizard David Duke hailed Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership victory as a way to stop Jews from running Britain, claiming the Islington MP would help his cause find ‘sunshine in the world’ and that ‘it’s a really good kind of evolutionary thing, isn’t it, when people are beginning to recognise Zionist power and ultimately the Jewish establishment power in Britain and in the Western World.’
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