Labour ditch their Rochdale candidate and the media ’blame’ Corbyn!

Labour’s Rochdale by-election candidate has been suspended, the party citing ’new info’, but the media go and drag Corbyn into it. Right, so things have finally reached a head in Rochdale and Labour have formally dumped their candidate Azhar Ali, giving up the seat in effect. Things got a bit sticky wicket for them over the weekend when Ali went against the official ‘back Israel at any cost no matter what they say, no matter how hard it is to believe’ party line by daring to have an opinion of his own and agreeing with Egypt’s explanation that despite having warned the Netanyahu regime something big was in the offing from Hamas, Israel likely facilitated the events of October 7th to give them the excuse to do what they’ve done in Gaza over the last four months. Yet somehow, some way, media reporting on this has been to blame not Keir Starmer of course, four years into his leadership of the Labour Party, he’s the anointed one to take over the country after all, the establishment choice now. No,