Nick Cohen tar farvel med venstresiden

Den kjente britiske forfatteren og kommentatoren Nick Cohen, som tidligere har marsjert mot Margaret Thatcher og sjelden har hatt et godt ord å si om Tony Blair, har de siste årene blitt mer og mer kritisk til venstresiden. I dag tar han det endelige oppgjøret i det konservative magasinet Spectator. Noen utdrag:

"A few on the British left are beginning to realise what they have done. Feminists were the first to stir from their slumber. They were outraged this week when Corbyn gave all his top jobs to men. I have every sympathy. But really, what did they expect from a man who never challenged the oppression of women in Iran when he was a guest on the state propaganda channel? (...)

Secularists and liberal Muslims will feel a different kind of prejudice. They will no longer get a hearing for their campaigns against forced marriage and sharia law from a Labour party that counts the Muslim Brotherhood among his allies. (...)