ITV’s Robert Peston opened a can of worms when he invited Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall onto his TV show.

Mr Corbyn has been treated disgracefully by the Labour Party, having been suspended from its Parliamentary membership by current leader Keir Starmer on the basis of a flimsy falsehood about anti-Semitism. Kendall is a senior member of Starmer’s team, who promotes that falsehood.

You can hear her doing it in this clip:

Kendall had the lion’s share of attention there, so let’s have a balancing view (look out for the strong language):

For those of you who have a milder disposition:

Let’s have a think about what she was saying. Failure to apologise? What’s this then?

Note that Mr Corbyn said he accepted EHRC report, and the Forde Report showed the scale of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was as Corbyn said:

Additionally:

She’s proud that Starmer has changed Labour. But what did she mean by “firm action”? Well…

“The “firm action” @Keir_Starmer has taken – which Liz Kendal is so proud about – is to expel dozens of left-wing Jews from @UKLabour, making it more antisemitic than it ever was with Jeremy Corbyn as leader,” tweeted “Oliver”.

Why did she talk about the Armed Forces and pride in the UK? ‘George SUROS Regime’ tweeted: “Quite frankly I am amazed that Jeremy Corbyn would appear on this tv show when Peston himself would be aware that Corbyn has apologised time and time again. Liz Kendall suddenly shifting the goalposts from antisemitism to “armed forces” was an incredibly dumb move.”

And why did she twist his words, trying to make it seem as though he’d said that the evil of anti-Semitism was exaggerated?

Mr Corbyn has won praise for his dignified response to Kendall’s tirade:

And there has been a huge backlash against Kendall online:

“People like her are the reason I didn’t vote before Jeremy Corbyn became leader, and why I won’t vote for them now,” tweeted Andrew Stephen. “Utterly horrendous and extremely unpleasant individual who’s personality won’t allow her to give a flying duck about anyone but herself.”

‘Sharon’ tweeted: “One duplicitous lady. The fact that Jeremy Corbyn still bothers them, shows that they know full well what they did was dishonest and has led to all this turmoil we are now facing.”

(For the sake of balance, I should point out that some have tweeted in support of Kendall.)

But why bring back this old debate at all? It is months since the Forde Report confirmed that factionalism within Labour had killed the party’s chance of winning an election with Jeremy Corbyn as leader, and anti-Semitism was one of the sticks used to beat him at that time. There’s no current news that justifies bringing this back.

So is it just a ‘dead cat’ – a distraction to take attention away from other news?

Well, there’s this…

… and this…

… and this:

https://twitter.com/Julie70627827/status/1609985976067133441

It’s a flawed strategy, if the aim is to paint Jeremy Corbyn and socialists as villains. Remember: he was right about many of the Tory-created crises facing the UK now.

For example, the tweet by Dan Hodges, below, hasn’t aged well:

And just because he’s been booted off the Labour benches by Starmer and his bullies, that doesn’t mean Mr Corbyn has gone quiet. You can see what he’s doing in a few online shows coming up soon:

What do you think? A dead cat? Or is there more behind this? Perhaps there’s something coming that we’re yet to discover?

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