Labour's efforts to brand critics of its stance on Iran as warmongers is the apex of cynicism

Labour's efforts to brand critics of its stance on Iran as warmongers is the apex of cynicism

Tony Blair’s former speech writer, the journalist and academic used to say that the perfect speech is when “you can’t see the scaffolding”. He meant – one suspects thinking of the good ones he penned – when you can’t see every focus group appeal line, the elephant on the room dodge, the botch welding of two seemingly contradictory positions into one. When you can’t hear the dog whistle, the over blown clarion call, or the deliberately obfuscatin…