Why Labour wants to smear Trevor Phillips

I do not know enough to comment on the merits of the Labour party’s action against Trevor Phillips. But I know what the far left looks like when it is building a cover story to hide its wickedness, and everyone else looking at the Phillips case should know it too.

In normal circumstances, you would wait to see the evidence that Phillips is an ‘Islamophobe’, and read with care the judgement of impartial and competent Labour officials. But nothing about Labour is normal now, and its officials are the last people whose judgement you should trust.

The easy point to make – and just because it is easy does not mean you shouldn’t make it – is that the Labour party isn’t competent. Lost in a far-left fantasy land, Corbyn’s appointees fought a disastrous election. They believed the precariat and the proletariat would rise like lions from their slumber and turn to socialism in their millions.