A letter that didn't make it past the Guardian editorial team this week (sent by email on 15 June 2017)
Dear Editor
Printing a Labour peer’s letter of veiled insult to Jeremy Corbyn is, in my view, conduct unbecoming of the Guardian editorial team. The attack comes in the form of a pretend compliment: “the strength of Jeremy [first name used] is his energy [good luck to a politician without energy] and being a nice person [could the insult be worse than this? Nice?] coupled with his ability to take the occasional insult [occasional!] and turn the other cheek [how Christian. Bless.]”
Come on the Guardian. Please don’t become an echo chamber of the sulking centre left and right. Go back to your roots.
Yours etc.
Alison Hackett
Dear Editor
Printing a Labour peer’s letter of veiled insult to Jeremy Corbyn is, in my view, conduct unbecoming of the Guardian editorial team. The attack comes in the form of a pretend compliment: “the strength of Jeremy [first name used] is his energy [good luck to a politician without energy] and being a nice person [could the insult be worse than this? Nice?] coupled with his ability to take the occasional insult [occasional!] and turn the other cheek [how Christian. Bless.]”
Come on the Guardian. Please don’t become an echo chamber of the sulking centre left and right. Go back to your roots.
Yours etc.
Alison Hackett
The letter I am referring to was published online here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/14/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-must-talk-to-him