The Labour Party used to be for everyone. It used to be for the industrial worker, the home-maker, the clerical worker and those tasked with providing the country with vital services. It is no longer that. It gives the distinct impression that it has become the party of extremists. It’s positions on immigration, society, culture and the economy are too often extreme and driven by the Left that now dominated much of Labour despite the current leader Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to rein the Left in.

We have sadly come to expect extremists in Labour but Guido Fawkes has discovered one Labour councillor who expressed the desire to fight against the former Afghan government and their allies, which at the time included the United Kingdom and the United States. I must admit that to say that they’d take up arms against the British government does look to me to be a bit of an extreme position. However as Guido said, it’s an extreme position that the mainstream media have mostly ignored.

Guido Fawkes claimed that Peymana Assad, a Labour councillor on Harrow Council in West London, had in 2019 said that she would: “100% take up arms against the government and its allies” if she were an Afghan villager.” As Guido pointed out, when she made this comment one of the allies of the then Afghan government was the United Kingdom, the country that gave her and her family asylum and allowed her to become involved in politics. In effect Ms Assad has told all those Britons who have had members of their families serving in the armed forces in Afghanistan that she is not on their side.

Even if I were to be fair and say that this was unthinking hyperbole on Ms Assad’s part, something all too common on the Left, it’s not a good look for Labour to have a councillor saying such things. It makes the party look anti-armed forces and anti-British.

If Labour want to become electable again and not just be the party that people vote for because there’s no other credible party to vote for to get the Tories out, then they need to get rid of their extremists. It needs to drop its open borders policy, its consistent pandering to minorities and its identification with economic incompetence. Until they do that they will forever be identified with people like Ms Assad and will continue to be seen as the party that hates Britain, its people and those who serve it.