Labour's Green Party Threats COLLAPSE - But Burnham's Failure Isn't Over

Right, so Labour’s supposedly terrifying threat to blow up Sheffield’s administration because their Green partners had dared to make party policy something you might have heard a bit about in the news called Zionism Is Racism, called such, because of course it very much is. Well the threats have sputtered out with all the menace of a damp sparkler, and now Andy Burnham’s crew are busy shaking their tiny little fists at their own councillors for the crime of engaging in basic diplomacy. And if you thought the Greens gave away something to bring Labour councillors back to their senses, forget it – they haven’t shredded their Zionism policy just because Labour has had a Zionist tantrum. The policy brands the Greens as officially anti-Zionist, spelling out Zionism as backing an ethnonationalist state that keeps non-Jews on the outside looking in, and calling for one big democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all. Labour’s big idea? Demand that local Green councillors disown this stance, disown their party’s official policy, if they want to keep their council alliances alive, because nothing says running British bin collections like a loyalty oath on Middle Eastern geopolitics. Initially the demand to jump elicited squeaks from Sheffield Labour basically amounting to how high, but the winds of change have very much turned.