Not a subject I'll be very voluble or controversial about given I work for what is essentially an Israeli firm but I do like a good dose of irony and I reckon the Rochdale by-election pretty much redefined it.
So, the Labour Party has had all sorts of problems with anti-semitism (I'm naive; until that popped into view a few years ago I was unfamiliar with the subject from a left-wing perspective) and clearly hasn't rooted the issue out yet based on the comments of their erstwhile candidate. But the Moslem community are clearly a significant bloc in local politics there and Galloway won the seat by, in large part, playing to them. Who knows, maybe there was broad agreement with the Labour candidate's public view?
Whatever the truth of that and whatever other factors may or may not be involved it absolutely needs rooting out wherever it shows its face.
And that's it from me on politics!