Starmer Versus The Left: A Very Uncivil War

Three days later and you’re still fuming, aren’t you? Has the sadness of the situation been replaced by anger at the grave injustice of the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn? 

You have every right to be absolutely fuming, because Starmer has well and truly declared war on the left of the Labour Party. Of course, Labour should be a broad church, but the pews still need to be positioned to the left.

The response to the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the left has been patchy at best - and this is one of the reasons why we have lost too many battles. 

The response has been a bit, “well we need to sit down and talk” - exactly what we did when 80% of the PLP piled in on Jeremy for 4 years. 

We cannot and must not think a right-wing General Secretary, a right dominated NEC, and a PLP stretching from soft Tory to soft left, will just sit down and talk. They want Jeremy gone, and they want socialism flushed out of the party. That’s the only talking they’ll be doing. 

The idea is to fight fire with fire. The suspension of Corbyn was their fire. Our fire was a sheet of A4 paper with a note attached asking if they fancy a chat because suspending Jeremy wasn’t a very nice thing to do. It’s not enough. 

If those with power and influence on the left demonstrated the same passion and commitment to the movement as I’ve seen from some of the left-wing activists, we wouldn’t be here now. 

Starmer did a tour of the media studios on Friday morning, insisting he doesn’t want a civil war. This is what is technically known as fucking nonsense. 

This war has been planned out for 2 years. Once Starmer realised pushing Labour into a Second Referendum position was a guaranteed vote loser, he literally went off script, against Labour policy, and drove a wedge through the party, from the very top downwards. 

Why would you orchestrate the suspension of the still-popular former leader of the party if you didn’t want to keep forcing that wedge through the membership? 

Why would you allow a purge of left-leaning Labour members, whose membership money is absolutely vital? Unless you have already secured financial backing from lobbyists, who will expect a return on their investment, of course. 

Jeremy Corbyn took the Labour Party from financial misery to financial stability, and he did this because he turned Labour into the largest political party in Europe. He never gets much credit for this, but the facts are out there. 

Corbyn wouldn’t allow the Labour Party to become a policy vehicle for big corporations and their lobbyists. Starmer was taking the money of big business owners before he was even elected leader of the party. 

Do you remember the furores surrounding his personal donors during the never-ending leadership election campaign? He didn’t want you knowing who was funding his campaign before you placed your vote. How very Tory. 

The exodus of Labour Party members isn’t difficult to notice. I have seen countless examples from people that I honestly thought wouldn’t ever leave the Party, but they are, and you can sense the heartbreak, and the disappointment. But most of all you can see their fury with Sir Keir Starmer. 

Some of them actually gave him a chance to prove he wasn’t simply an establishment lickspittle. They wanted to see if he could live up to his ten pledges, where he promised to put forward the “moral case for socialism”. 

Like the Spycops abstention? Coward. 

The Labour Party leadership suspended Jeremy Corbyn because of his reaction to the EHRC report, so we are told. Did the leadership read the bit of the report which discusses the right to free speech as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights?

Have they even bothered reading it?

Page 27 of the EHRC report says, quite clearly, that article 10 of the convention - 

“will protect Labour party members who.. express their opinions on internal party matters, such as the scale of antisemitism within the party, based on their own experience”. 

Now tell me it was right to suspend Jeremy Corbyn on the basis of his response to the EHRC report. You can’t. 

Remember the costly and controversial compensation payouts awarded to former Labour Party staff? It was reported back in July that other ex-party staff were willing to drop their lawsuits against the Party, thought to be worth some £3 million, providing the Labour Party expel Jeremy Corbyn. 

Is this where we are now, Sir Keir? 

I cannot see any reasonable justification for this blatantly factional suspension, and I urge Starmer and Evans to reinstate Jeremy Corbyn immediately. 

If you *really* aren’t looking for a civil war your actions are proving otherwise. Anyway, you dedicated years and years to demonising one of the most decent Parliamentarians we have ever seen. Who the hell are you to tell the left how they should or shouldn’t behave? Get stuffed. 

Right now, we should all be turning our collective anger on the Tories, look at the bloody state we are in. But you haven’t got any chance of getting the Tories out until you get the Tories out of your own Party. 

Get Jeremy reinstated, or this thoroughly uncivil war will destroy Labour, and any realistic chance they have of removing Boris Johnson will be gone. 

The electorate will not elect a divided Party. 

We will oppose this unjust suspension every single day until Jeremy Corbyn is reinstated. We won’t be going away, we won’t be quiet. 

if it’s war they want, it’s war they will get, and although it really doesn’t have to be this way, it looks like it will be the only way.

Have a lovely day. 

Rachael

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