Alastair Campbell expelled from the Labour Party

After honestly admitting that he could not vote Labour in last week’s EU elections, voting instead for the pro Europe Liberal Democrats, Tony Blair’s former spokesman Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party. Presumably, with the full support of Jeremy Corbyn’s chief spin doctor and actual Stalinist Seumas Milne and the aristocratic communist Andrew Drummond-Murray. Fair enough, you might say. So, what should Labour’s hard left NEC do about this bloke?

Ah, but that’s different. You see Magic Grandpa was normally a loyal backbencher. So loyal that he has only voted against the Labour Party on just over 500 occasions, going against the whip on a mere 428 occasions. And he voted with the Tories on just the seven occasions, usually against government attempts to prevent terrorism.

Campbell could easily have lied in order to ensure he wasn’t booted out of the Labour Party, but he didn’t. His work in helping bringing about three Labour government means nothing to the comrades. Presumably, they’d rather lose.

I’m assuming Corbyn’s pal, the luvvy film maker Ken Loach, is glancing anxiously over his shoulder. After all, Loach didn’t so much vote against Labour in recent years. He helped form a political party to campaign against it. But perhaps he won’t need to glance at all. Corbyn is his pal.

The comrades are doing what the comrades always do; they’re getting rid of the opposition. Every day, one by one, the opposition, as the comrades perceive them to be, the voices of the mainstream and more moderate Labour Party are being booted out. Campbell will have known this was coming. He won’t be the last.

They’re coming from you if you won’t follow the party line. If you don’t agree with Seumas Milne, you’ve had it and that probably goes for Corbyn, too. And when you remember Corbyn supporting a nasty piece of work like Galloway, the game’s really up.