Then there’s the other candidate, or ex-candidate, for the Rochdale by-election, the one nobody is talking about. The Green party hopeful, Guy Otten, had his party’s support withdrawn last week and he decided to pull out over tweets he had written, some of them up to ten years ago. The one which really narked his Green colleagues, apparently, was this: ‘The Quran is full of war, slaughter, rape and pillage, with genocide and slavery as well. It’s not fit for the 21st century.’
Hmm. How to put this? I have to say, as a description of the gorier bits of the Quran it’s not terribly wide of the mark, is it?
It is now clear that Sir Keir Starmer is utterly incapable of making a decision without reversing it
If, by contrast, Mr Otten had said of Islam’s holy book: ‘It carries tales of debauchery, decadence, class A drugs and S&M orgies which would not seem out of place in a biography of Iggy and the Stooges’, then people might have genuine grounds for complaint.
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