| Topic: | The moral character of Julian Bell: an open letter to the leader | |
| Posted by: | Andrew Farmer | |
| Date/Time: | 19/05/19 14:00:00 |
| Dear Julian Bell, I wrote to you (3.3.19) asking you to apologise for the virulent strain of anti-semitism in the Labour Party. You have failed to respond. You appear to be indifferent to the issue. My neighbours and I are aware that you habitually fail to respond to correspondence that is “difficult” or probing in any way, aware too of the flaccid-principled, fellow-travelling character of the Ealing Labour Party - who could forget the “slobocracy” of the Cudmore days - but this is a matter of fundamental moral significance and I hoped that might shame you into replying. No reply. No shame. “Dumb and indifferent” will not do. To fail to condemn is to condone. It is for the people of Ealing to decide what that makes of you. Your behaviour is now compounded by a matter raised in a recent contribution to the Ealing Today Forum (Gordon Southwell 24/04/19. He drew attention to the fact that, while Ealing Council had expressed sympathy for the Muslims murdered by a white Australian in New Zealand, it did not express sympathy for the Christians murdered by Muslims in Sri Lanka. I can still not find any such statement and therefore find this a shocking demonstration of a religiously discriminatory policy in the way the Council doles out sympathy. I struggle to explain it. Andrew Farmer |