If councillors were to bend to pressure from campaigners on behalf of the casualties of all ongoing armed conflict on the planet, to debate what demands to make of the combatants, they would have insufficient time left at council meetings to conduct actual council business.
The MP for Ashfield is sometimes in error, but neither he nor his supporters should be cast into outer darkness.
How long until Starmer is demanding an immediate ceasefire? How long until another Labour MP or candidate is suspended for saying something appalling? And what will this mean for the party overwhelmingly likely to form the next government?
Voters in the town are not just worried about Gaza: they also feel no one in authority has taken responsibility for the grooming scandals.
I believe it shows that over the last 18 years, the Forum has helped to build much better links between the Muslim and Jewish communities of Greater Manchester.
Slowly but surely, British people from all faiths and backgrounds are being confronted by a minority who hate the liberal democratic west of which their country is an integral part and to which it has contributed so much.
First, Islamist extremism will use woke like a human shield. Then, once it has exhausted its purpose, it will cast aside, like that LGBT flag last Saturday.
But the Prime Minister also upheld with steely determination “Israel’s right to defend itself in line with international humanitarian law”.
Hamas’ supporters or the authorities? Sunak needs to show that offenders will be prosecuted – and, if the situation deteriorates, to push for march bans, shuffle his Cabinet and show an all-party front with Starmer.
Politicians urge zero tolerance – but there’s a gap between law and enforcement. If the Met can arrest 155 anti-lockdown protestors, why can’t it do the same to pro-Hamas ringleaders?
During the half century since the Yom Kippur war took place, conflict abroad has increasingly meant consequences here.
As two thirds of people in Britain agreed, the monarchy might seem a strange system in this day and age, but it works.
The confidence to walk the streets safely, the right to interface directly with our elected representatives, the ability to speak our minds freely – these fruits of peaceable British toleration are being eroded by an extremist tendency that has grown unchecked for far too long.