My wilfully perverse hot take I promised not to bother you with yesterday: The Labour Party made a mistake in suspending Corbyn for his remarks, and I suspect this decision, while it'll give Labour a short-term poll boost, will come to cost it. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-ready-to-fight-suspension-in-the-courts-qd8gn656m

If the outcome's anything from a ruling there was a procedural failing—you can buy a lot of nitpicking with a £300K legal fund—to a declaration that the suspension was an abuse of party rules, permitting Corbyn to cut a deal for his departure, then he becomes a righteous martyr.

But there is a much more fundamental point here: For Labour to deal with this problem properly, it has to punish people for *actual antisemitism*, not for quibbling about its scale within the party relative to some straw-man perception of antisemitism.

The Labour Party has to clean the shit out of the stables; not get into an argument with the pigs about how dirty their pens are. We all know where you end up when you wrestle pigs. That's where Labour is heading now.

Party HQ should have taken as long as necessary to get every last one of their ducks in a row for a perfect by-the-book expulsion. (There's no way they had the time to do that yesterday). Take it from an ex-union rep: It's procedure that bites your arse. https://twitter.com/Misanfrog/status/1322246137412259843

BONUS: If they had waited, that would have given Corbz even more time to dig himself an even deeper hole and more time for his supporters to join him in it. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

So that covers stables, pig pens, and holes-in-the-ground. The great thing about Twitter threads is that you can use a different metaphor in each tweet, while having an apt linking theme of animals and dirt run through the whole thing.