Corbyn v Labour: This Is A Fight That We Can Win

 

"Let me be very clear that Jeremy Corbyn will not stand for Labour at the next general election as a Labour candidate." 

Keir Starmer, desperate to keep his elitist donors and supporters happy, has ruled out any chance of Jeremy Corbyn standing for the Labour Party as the candidate for Islington North. 

It wasn’t that long ago that the arrogant and dishonest Keir Starmer thought Mr Corbyn was good enough to be the Labour leader and Prime Minister. But now Jeremy Corbyn isn’t good enough to be a Labour MP? 

And let us be “very clear”. 

Keir Starmer was a key part of the attempted coup of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in 2016 - aptly named the “chicken coup” - when he submitted a letter of resignation. 

The letter was something like, ‘ Dear Jeremy, I’m quitting because everyone else is’. 

That particularly coup failed, but the silent coup to discredit and remove Jeremy Corbyn continued until 2019 under the guise of the People’s Vote campaign and a barrage of frequently exaggerated and often misleading claims of antisemitism under Mr Corbyn’s leadership.

Remember: Corbyn wanted to honour the 2017 referendum result, red wall, and Starmer wanted to shit all over the people that voted to leave, because his type think leave voters are thick and they, the metropolitan elite, always know best.

So, we get to Wednesday morning and the establishment’s useful idiot, Starmer, announces the end of Jeremy Corbyn’s FIVE decades of serving as a Labour MP for the people of Islington. 

We knew it was coming. It was an inevitability, once you realised the Labour Party could find a place for war criminals but no place for award-winning peace activists and lifelong poverty-campaigning champion filmmakers. 

The Labour Party that you knew under Jeremy Corbyn has been evicted from its home, and the right-of-centre squatters finished up measuring for new curtains some time ago. 

Rest in peace democracy, you have been conquered by the puppeteers of the one-party state. 

Your choice at the ballot box is a choice between pain and agony and misery and despair, exactly as the ruling class intended. 

I’ll back Keir Starmer exactly like he backed Jeremy Corbyn. 

I remember a few years back when the centrist liberals at the Guardian put out a bizarre and bemusing piece by Marina Hyde covering Labour’s 2018 party conference. 

Hyde said: 

“If @Rachael_Swindon one day claimed to not really be feeling it as far as Keir Starmer was concerned, would the (then) shadow Brexit secretary swiftly be found in the back of a car somewhere in the weeds? 

Only time will show.” 

Well, I’m really not feeling it as far as that fucking lying fraud Keir Starmer is concerned. He is a political chameleon with no integrity, no principles, less than zero charisma, absolutely no vision, and morality is something he is happy to preach, but rarely practice. 

What time did show was just how ridiculous the media circus was that surrounded Jeremy Corbyn. Even now he is regularly dragged in to Prime Ministers Questions or scapegoated for something or another. 

It’s not just Corbyn they want to destroy, believe me, it’s us they want to flatten - it’s socialism  they want to bury for good  because we got way too close to power in 2017, when we actually had real hope. 

Jeremy’s inevitable loss of the opportunity to defend his Islington north seat under the Labour Party banner isn’t a bad thing for people who care more about socialism and less about centrism. 

And that leads us to the obvious question, will Jeremy Corbyn stand as an independent for the seat that the Labour Party have denied him the opportunity to defend? 

In my own opinion, yes he will, and I’ve had plenty of conversations with people close to Jeremy that completely agree. 

Watch this space and all that jazz. 

While many on the left have urged Jeremy to start a party of his own, I’m not sure that’s a realistic option, at least in the short term, unless someone reading this has ridiculously deep pockets. 

But standing as an independent in the seat Jeremy has held for Labour since 1983 certainly is a realistic option. 

It’s honestly not an exaggeration when I tell you thousands of left-wing socialists will make our way to Islington, by air, land, and sea, and we will knock on every single door, in every single community, to make sure Jeremy Corbyn is returned as the Independent MP for Islington North. 

This is a war that Keir Starmer didn’t need to start. 

Starmer is right to say that Labour has changed. Everything changes, whether it’s for the good or bad is another matter altogether. For me, this particular change is nothing short of a fucking tragedy.

Starmer is focusing an unhealthy amount of his energy on fighting the left. You have to wonder what damage he could inflict upon the Tories if he took the fight to them while they are at their lowest ebb. 

But Starmer is more at ease with fighting socialists because his own ideology sits closer to the Tories than it does to democratic socialism. 

Does the Labour Party still claim to be a democratic socialist party? It would be an odd claim to make after barring Jeremy Corbyn - a socialist- without Islington North CLP getting any say in the matter. 

Is this the unity, transparency and accountability that Keir Starmer promised when he came cap in hand to the left in search of the Corbynite vote? 

Starmer said Jeremy was a friend. The KC certainly isn’t the kind of friend I would want. 

Starmer promised to continue with much of the 2019 manifesto. He also came armed with 10 socialist-sounding pledges. 

We all know what happened next. 

Jeremy Corbyn deserves much better than what the Labour Party has become under the leadership of the establishment favourite Starmer. 

If I was Jeremy Corbyn I would be angry and upset by the way I had been utterly betrayed by Keir Starmer. 

Indeed, if I was Jeremy Corbyn I would pop round to that Rachael Swindon’s house for a cuppa and discuss the possibility of looking into Hyde’s earlier suggestion, because she’s really “not feeling it as far as Keir Starmer is concerned”. 

I look forward to supporting Jeremy Corbyn in his quest to retain his seat as the MP for Islington North. 

The Labour Party may well have the mighty machine, but we have the passion, the energy, and the people to counter whatever they can throw at us. 

I’m ready. Are you?

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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