Burnham Picks Bombs Over Bins As Labour Dumps Greens For Israel

Right, so Andy Burnham’s Labour is breaking up council partnerships with the Greens over Israel. Eleven English councils caught in a national ultimatum: publicly reject your party’s policy declaring Zionism racist, and call for it to be reconsidered, or Labour ends cooperation. Apparently, keeping a council running now requires passing an ideological entrance exam set in Westminster therefore. Burnham has demanded that said councils choose bombs over bins. And the people who actually live in these places get whatever governing arrangement can be scraped together afterwards as a result. Councillors who disagree nationally had negotiated enough common ground to run things locally. Housing, planning, neighbourhood services. The stuff that still needs doing while politicians argue about everything else. Then Labour’s leadership decided this particular disagreement was worth breaking those arrangements over. Israel First in other words. Well it’s gone so well for Trump over in America today hasn’t it? And yet it is also so self defeating when to continue running said administrations without their Green partners, when you still need the votes belonging to the very people you’re throwing out.