Tit for Tat

Bereft of any plans to rescue the country from the mess they've created, the Conservatives are, in desperation, opportunistically using a strategy of capitalising on the anti-Semitism accusations that plagued Labour under Corbyn. 

They have come down firmly on the side of Israel's Netanyahu and are colluding with him in attempting to portray any criticism of the ethnic cleansing taking place in Gaza as anti-Semitic - an ethnic cleansing which, by the way, has been going on in fits and starts since 1948 with each successive land grab and the moving in of Israeli settlers. It's a last ditch effort to smear Labour with an old trope.

Labour, rather than responding with the fact that criticism of Netanyahu's government is not anti-Semitism, has responded by highlighting the rampant Islamophobia the Conservatives have had to adopt as a direct result of their desire to portray Labour as anti-Semitic. We end up with an unedifying slanging match, rather than campaigning on policies.

We have seen two parties arguing about the precise wording of a ceasefire statement that neither side in the conflict will take a blind bit of notice of until ready, while countless thousands of civilians and children die on a daily basis. Also a Scottish Nationalist Party that's thrown its toys out of the pram because it didn't have its day in the limelight during a useless debate that achieves nothing and pushes for another debate while already having been offered one.

Sunak bigs up a recent humanitarian drop to Gaza, while simultaneously providing Netanyahu's murderous regime with the very weapons it uses to kill said civilians and children in Gaza. Although not in the top 3 countries exporting arms to Israel, the UK exports military technology comprising components for F-35 fighter jets, helicopters, drones, grenades, bombs, armoured vehicles and tanks, small arms and ammunition.