'Traitorsgate': Memo to Mr Neather

A comment from me earlier, at CoffeeHouse:

Nice try, Mr Neather, but retractions and clarifications never overshadow the original statement. As far as Labour's electoral position is concerned, the facts revealed in your first article will have done them fatal damage.

Labour went ahead with their immigration policy fully aware of what we might call the collateral damage they were doing to British society, quite distracted by their glee at creating 'insuperable' problems for their political opponents. How very Brownian.

They sacrificed the long-term peacefulness and social cohesion of England's cities on the altar of their political dogma. In doing so they betrayed the nation at large and their own core vote in particular.

All the clarifications in the world will not wipe 'Traitorsgate' from the political memory of Labour’s one-time core constituency. You're finished.