Fresh from failing to ask sensible questions of the Foreign Office and getting the name of the country of Belarus wrong, the Labour MP Claudia Webbe has now decided that she will prioritise those of her constituents who have roots in Afghanistan and call for ‘all of them’ to be let into the UK. Ms Webbe’s comment is everything that we’ve come to know, expect and yes, despise about the UK Labour Party. There’s the impression that Labour MP’s have, like Ms Webbe, all the intellect of a can of vegetable soup;  the pandering to one particular ethnic minority constituency, the idiotic obsession with open borders and the failure to ask really important questions.

Claudia Webbe’s latest foray into social media virtue signalling is a cracker. Not just does it show that Ms Webbe doesn’t exactly qualify for a Mensa membership, but it also has the minority pandering, the ‘refugees welcome’ mentalism and yes a distinct failure to ask one very important question, such as why was her constituent in Afghanistan at the time? She also failed to ask whether her constituent was a ‘refugee’ from Afghanistan who inexplicably found it very easy to go back to a country they claimed to be in danger in.

Here’s Claudia Webbe’s Tweet (h/t Old Holborn).

Claudia Webbe’s choice of political hill to die on, a constituent who didn’t have the common sense to stay away from a country that was liable to implode at any minute and where the Americans had long said they were going to withdraw from, is utterly galling. Ms Webbe’s constituency of Leicester East is not exactly short of problems that she could be turning her attention to, such as the massive amounts of modern day slavery that is going on there. Unfortunately she chooses not to bother with problems like these. Instead she concentrates on pandering to her Afghan constituent, who should not have been anywhere near Afghanistan in the circumstances, calling for more Afghans, of dubious probity and maybe potential security risks, to enter the UK and basically making a complete arse of herself.

All political parties contain the occasional scoundrel or moron. For every political titan like Churchill or Atlee there is a Lambton or Driberg wallowing in scandal, allegations of treachery and debauchery. For every highly educated MP well versed in science and logic such as Thatcher, there is a mindless slogan spouting human windbag like Richard Burgon. The trouble with the Labour Party these days is that it is bereft of the sort of talents that the party could once call on.

There’s no-one of the calibre of Healey, Benn, Wilson, Castle or Bevan in the Labour Party any more, I’m sad to say, even though if these people were still alive and in politics they’d be my political opponents, they would be   very respected and honoured ones. Sadly for Labour it’s people like Claudia Webbe all the way down and all the way through. Labour used to offer the UK electorate a choice about how the country is run and did its best to put up credible people who could, if elected, at least try not to screw things up and do their damned best for those who voted for them. Labour today offers us none of these things. Instead Labour presents us with a gruesome collection of Israel haters, Islamopanderers, followers of the far shores of woke ideology, people who are enthusiastic about the prospect of men in women’s lavatories, race baiters along with people like Claudia Webbe and others who most people would not trust to sit the correct way around on a toilet.

I’d like to end this piece by thanking Claudia Webbe for showing the British population why all too many of us do not want to vote for a Labour Party that really doesn’t have our interests at heart. It is all too obvious that Labour is plainly far more interested in those who go on holidays to war zones and offering the moon on a stick to all too many of those who want to enter Britain maybe with less than peaceful intent. Vote Labour? No thanks. I’d rather chow down on some road dirt or invite Jeremy Corbyn to my son’s Bar-mitzvah, than do that.