22 million tweets can't be wrong, according to Labour

Labour's paedo attack ad puts the Scottish Government in the same dock as the Tories.

The Twitter left is aghast as Sir Keir Starmer's de-wokification of the Labour party. He's expelled his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn; junked his left agenda; accepted Brexit unconditionally; refused to allow Shadow Cabinet members to join picket lines; turned almost JK Rowling on transgender;and even allowed spokesmen, like the Shadow Health Secretary to criticise the NHS. But it gets worse. Labour's recent attack ads, designed to show that Labour is tougher on crime than the Tories has caused shock and horror in Sir Keir's Islington backyard where it is an article of faith on the left that jails are bad and criminals aren't to blame, society is. Yet here is their leader, a former Director of Public Prosecutions no less, claiming that Rishi Sunak is a liberal cream puff who doesn't think paedophiles should be jailed. Lock 'em up and throw away the key, says Robokeir.

The Labour MP, Claudia Webbe, has called it a capitulation to the Tories' “disgusting, racist dog-whistle politics”, or whatever. But Keir central is over the moon with the success of the attack ads. The one claiming Rishi Sunak is soft on paedos got 22 million views on Twitter, said Labour spokespeople. “It's the most views of any Twitter post in Labour history”, said Labour insiders quoted in the Times.

Well, 22 million Twitter tweets can't be wrong I suppose. But the shifting politics of Labour has placed the SNP and the Scottish Government in a very odd place. This is because they have been proudly proclaiming that they are the leading edge of progressive penal policy - or at any rate, they were proud of it until they discovered that child rapists were being kept out of clink. In the shifting sands of post-woke politics, it is becoming difficult to know what is left and what is right when it comes to crime and punishment. Let me explain.