Ok. I’m going in. Re the Chief Rabbi’s intervention. It isn’t just the AS that’s a problem. It’s how those who speak up are: bullied, hounded, targeted, told to get out. It’s the way any mention of AS is: shouted down, derided, rubbished. If a party does this to own members, if

It fails to listen to concerns or hear opposing points of view, what will it do with power? How will it work well with others, deal with groups who raise their issues which may not be important to the party, handle disagreement both within and without? So the dealing of AS is as

Big a problem as the AS itself because it throws doubt at ability of party to govern and lead. I have, in the last week alone, cried three times at the treatment I got when I raised AS in the party (for various reasons not just randomly) so I know how bad it is. I’ve never

Experienced anything like it and can’t stress enough how pervasive, insidious and threatening the bullying and harassment is in the party, so I don’t see how I can support that culture and those perpetuating it, into government. #theend