Factionalism Has To Go, Along With Keir Starmer

 

“Factionalism has to go”. 

These are the words currently being used to highlight the utter hypocrisy of Keir Starmer, for it is he, Keir Starmer, that said these words while lying through his teeth to ensure he landed the top job. 

I have covered Stamer’s false prospectus plenty of times. We had the infamous ten pledges, we had “the moral case for socialism”, we had the entirely dishonest calls for unity, and anyone with just a microdot of common sense has realised Starmer is absolutely full of shit. 

My last blog was on Sunday - not that long ago in the grand scheme of things - and Starmer has gone from bad, to worse, to mind-blowingly diabolical. 

Over the last few days -

#WeSupportCorbyn went viral on Sunday night. More than 110,000 tweets offering solidarity to the former Labour leader were registered in the space of hours. Many of these tweets called for the removal of Starmer, following his ongoing behaviour. Starmer is losing the membership. 

Labour Chief Whip, Nick Brown, wrote to Mr Corbyn earlier this week, demanding apologies. You can read that here if you wish. 

The reason for the change of tack from Team Starmer is easily explained, but not widely known. I spoke with a very senior Labour Party source this morning, as well as other sources during the week who have confirmed what Brown’s letter was all about. 

Essentially, Brown, on behalf of Starmer, was trying to put a new agreement in front of Jeremy Corbyn. The agreement had two main purposes. 

1. Humiliate and discredit Jeremy Corbyn to a degree that satisfies Team Starmer, and his corporate sponsors. 

2. Cancel the previous agreement that saw the return of Jeremy Corbyn to the party, before Starmer removed the whip, entirely against the agreement that was put in place between Starner’s key aide and representatives of Mr Corbyn. 

The previous agreement has enough to sink Starmer, in my humble opinion, as it documents political interference on behalf of Team Starmer. The key aide was daft enough to carry out negotiations via WhatsApp. Will they ever learn? 

So if Corbyn agrees to the demands, the previous agreement gets quietly shredded, and Starmer saves his job, because there will be no need for Mr Corbyn to take Starmer to Court, and the evidence of political interference magically disappears. Didn’t the EHRC report have something to say about political interference? 

Starmer’s own duplicity has put him in this position. His factionalism. His behaviour.

He suspended Mr Corbyn, without reason, agreed to allow him back in (it was all pre-agreed), then removed the whip again when some foul-mouthed MP - famous for shady tax affairs, trying to close a Jewish cemetery and care homes in Islington - threatened to leave the Labour Party if Starmer restored the whip to Mr Corbyn. What a wasted opportunity. 

So it’s Starmer’s own lack of integrity and authority that has landed him in this unenviable and entirely avoidable position. Nobody else is to be blamed but Starmer himself. 

It is Starmer who should be apologising to Mr Corbyn, let’s be absolutely clear about that.

In the meantime, Labour CLP’s and Branches continue to issue motions, supporting Jeremy Corbyn, demanding the restoration of the party whip, calling no confidence in general secretary, David Evans, and crucially, no confidence motions in Keir Starmer. This is happening despite Blairite Evans demanding censorship from the very people who pay his wages.

The grassroots are up in arms. They are furious. And they’re not all ‘Corbynistas’ - I have spoken with and seen people who voted for Keir Starmer who feel betrayed, angry, and somewhat embarrassed they ever got sucked in by the Barrister’s bullshit. 

The new Labour NEC met on Tuesday, and first up was selecting the new NEC chair. The process is simple enough: the incumbent vice-chair gets promoted to the top job, and that’s that. 

But after another Starmer intervention, the vice-chair, Ian Murray (of the Fire Brigade Union - not the hard right Labour MP), was pushed to one side to make way for Margaret Beckett - Starmer’s choice. 

“Factionalism has to go” - Sir Keir Starmer. 

This disgraceful move from Starmer led to an angry walkout by 13 left-leaning NEC members, including newly-elected Laura Pidcock and Unite ‘big beast’, Howard Beckett. 

A damning letter to Evans followed: 

Dear David

As proud members of the NEC we find ourselves unable to stay in today’s meeting. As you will be aware we recently wrote to you to request that you admonish the Leader or Labour, Sir Keir Starmer, for his decision to undermine the role of the NEC by withdrawing the whip from Jeremy Corbyn MP.

The withdrawal of the whip directly undermined the legitimacy of the NEC decision to reinstate Jeremy Corbyn’s membership. It was made worse by Keir Starmer subsequently permitting his shadow cabinet members to make commentary on media that was clearly intended to undermine the legitimacy of the NEC process.

At today’s NEC the agenda item of election of the Chair and Vice Chair of the NEC appears. It is a matter of disagreement as to whether these agenda items can be heard absent the officers agreeing the agenda. But regardless it has become apparent that the longstanding protocol of the Vice Chair being elected as Chair is not to be followed.

Instead the leadership has lobbied for Dame Margaret Beckett to be Chair. The public reason for such lobbying is to be given as Dame Margaret being the longest serving member of the NEC. This is not protocol and is another example of the Leader promoting factional division within Labour. We believe the true reason for the Leader lobbying for Dame Margaret, and indeed the reason that had been given by senior party MPs in private, is because the Vice Chair, Ian Murray, was a signature to the previous correspondence sent to you seeking admonishment of the Leader: The Leader’s decision to again promote factionalism comes at a time when the historic relationship with Trade Unions is under tremendous strain.

Already we know that the Bakers’ Union are balloting their membership as to affiliation and the decision of the Leader to lobby and brief against the President of the FBU taking the Chair, as would be protocol, must be seen in this context.

As the General Secretary of the Labour Party you should be stepping in to uphold the Rulebook, maintain protocol, remind the Leader that he is an officer of the NEC and prevent factionalism. We have decided not to remain in the NEC meeting today in order to show very clearly how factional the decisions of the current Labour Leader have become. We will be returning to future NEC meetings to be the legitimate voice of the membership and to continue to demand that the party unite and reject the current factional approach of the leader.

In solidarity

Howard Beckett

Jayne Taylor

Andi Fox

Pauline McCarthy

Mick Whelan

Ian Murray

Andy Kerr

Yasmine Dar

Lara McNeill

Laura Pidcock

Mish Rahman

Gemma Bolton

Nadia Jama

This is seriously extraordinary. A full frontal attack on the leadership.

Once again, Starmer is sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong, and once again, it is another disastrous factional move that will only deepen the divisions and come back to bite Starmer on the backside. 

The Labour Party is in a deep civil war. This isn’t just a few cross words. The media coverage has been there in patches, but has been largely overshadowed by the end of lockdown and Covid-19 kindly agreeing to take a few days off over the Christmas period. 

Next in line for the Starmer/Evans bullying was, quite astonishingly, Young Labour. 

In an unprecedented move, Young Labour voted on and passed a statement supporting Jeremy Corbyn. Democratically. 

The Labour Party leadership went potty, and ordered the chair of Young Labour to remove their statement of support for Mr Corbyn, immediately. The control freaks at Labour HQ went further, accusing Young Labour of misusing Labour branding to provide commentary on factional support. 

The chair of Young Labour, Jess Barnard, hit back with a blistering statement that went down like a cup of cold sick back at Labour HQ. 

“Factionalism has to go” - Sir Keir Starmer. 

But the Labour hierarchy hadn’t finished yet. 

Next up for Keir Stalin and not-very-useful-idiot Evans was the chair and co-secretary of Bristol West CLP. They have been suspended for allowing a motion in support of Jeremy Corbyn, which also condemned the suspension of the former Party leader. 

The motion stated that Mr Corbyn’s suspension is “a politically motivated attack against the left of Labour by the leadership” and that the CLP resolves to demand his reinstatement.

The suspensions came after Labour’s south west regional director Phil Gaskin and general secretary David Evans advised that motions should not be heard. 

In other words, Bristol West CLP, told Starmer, Evans, and Gaskin, where to shove their censorship. 

But this did not go without further punishment. 

Labour South West Regional Office have suspended the AGM which was taking place tomorrow, and suspended all of the CLP meetings until February. 

They are effectively censoring one of the largest, if not *the* largest CLP in the country. There will be consequences for the leadership. 

“Factionalism has to go” - Sir Keir Starmer. 

As regular readers will know - both of you - I have previously covered Sir Keir Starmer’s shameful turn as a Daily Mail columnist, and how his first media article as leader of the Labour Party was behind a paywall, for a Rupert Murdoch publication. It doesn’t get much more disgraceful than that. 

Unless of course, your advisers are briefing toxic lying tabloid rag, the S*n, about your plans to vote for whatever dogs breakfast of a deal Boris Johnson puts in front of them. 

Yep, that’s how low Mr Remain has stooped. The man that destroyed our chances of winning an election in 2019, because of his desperation to stay in the EU, is now quietly telling S*n readers that he is a Brexit champion after all. 

I don’t think even S*n readers will get sucked in by this nonsense, because they still think Johnson is their Churchill. 

And you ain’t no Clem Attlee, Sir Keir. 

I ended my last blog saying it was going to be an interesting few days for the Labour Party, and that was something of an understatement. The sources came good.

The next few days could well be explosive, if some of what *could* happen, *does* happen. 

Mr Corbyn’s people have now commenced with legal proceedings. Political interference isn’t a good look. 

Watch this space.

This war will intensify. We’re not backing down.

Starmer said he didn’t want a war with the left. He was clearly lying. 

Starmer said he would be the leader that unified the Labour Party. He was clearly lying. 

Starmer said himself, “Factionalism has to go”. Again, he was clearly lying, because his factionalism is there on display for all to see. 

I say this without any reservation whatsoever. Factionalism will go when Keir Starmer has gone. No ifs, no buts. 

Sir Keir Starmer has to go.

Take care folks, and thank you for taking the time to read my blog. 

Rachael

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