Here’s some good news to start the day.
Film director Ken Loach says he has been expelled from the Labour party.
The 85-year-old revealed on Twitter on Saturday that he had been kicked out because he would not “disown those already expelled”.
Mr Loach attacked the Labour party over a “witch hunt” and hard-left Labour MPs branded the move “a disgrace” but it was welcomed by Jewish leaders.
The expulsion follows the proscribing of four hard-left groups by Labour’s ruling NEC last month, including LAW an organisation that Mr Loach sponsors.
In his statement, Mr Loach said: “Labour HQ finally decided I’m not fit to be a member of their party, as I will not disown those already expelled.”
He added he was “proud to stand with the good friends and comrades victimised by the purge”.
“There is indeed a witch-hunt,” he said, “Starmer and his clique will never lead a party of the people. We are many, they are few. Solidarity.”
Of course, “those already expelled” is a euphemism for those peddling in antisemitism. So of course, Loach would be standing with them. Whether it is accusing some Zionists of collaborating with the Nazis, his defense of Holocaust denial, attacking of those opposing Jew hatred, denying the existence of antisemitism in Labor while accusing the Israeli government of infiltrating the party, Loach has shown himself to be an antisemite.
Oh, I almost left out the biggest proof he is one.
