Seven MPs leave the U.K.’s Labour party, citing anti-Semitism – ThinkProgress

As the once United Kingdom country walks the plank the British Labor Party has been hobbled by incompetence, narrow-mindedness, and now antisemitism.  Like much of the American white working class, the English working class has been hobbled by the racism ingrained by their years of serving the empire from which they gained table scraps. - gwc
Seven MPs leave the U.K.’s Labour party, citing anti-Semitism – ThinkProgress

Seven members of the United Kingdom’s left-wing Labour party have announced that they are leaving the party, owing, they said, to widespread anti-Semitic sentiment within the party.

One of the departing MPs, Luciana Berger, told reporters that she could not “remain in the party that I have today come to the sickening conclusion is institutionally anti-Semitic.”

The septet of MPs — which in addition to Berger include Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey — have stated their intention to form an independent party, and have called upon other members of the Labour Party to join them.

In recent years, the Labour Party has had to to undergo something of a gut check as the party had continued to be dogged by claims of anti-Semitism within its ranks. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has himself been called to task on this repeatedly. It’s unclear what, if anything, has been done to root out these elements from the party.