The Egregious Treatment Of Jeremy Corbyn Is An Unmitigated Disgrace
His decision to withhold the parliamentary whip from Jeremy Corbyn is an unprecedented fuck up, be in no doubt of that. This will cost the Labour Party - and that will cost every single one of us needing a progressive Socialist Labour government.
Divided political parties do not win elections.
But let’s talk about Jeremy Corbyn for a moment. Ever since a fiery PLP meeting, 5 years ago, the intention of the British establishment, and their sycophantic supporters in the Labour Party, has been to break Jeremy Corbyn as a man.
Jeremy Corbyn has been a part of the Labour movement for 55 years.
Jeremy Corbyn has won awards for his peace campaigning. The mainstream media don’t care about that sort of thing because peace doesn’t generally sell their shitty tabloids.
Jeremy Corbyn would be in your corner, fighting for you, regardless of faith, or the colour of your skin.
Jeremy Corbyn built the Labour Party into the largest political party in Europe, and wiped out the historical debts accumulated under the McNicol regime.
Jeremy Corbyn is the most smeared Labour Party leader in history, and even to this day, the smearing continues, mostly by people with the morality of a hungry piranha thrown into a tank full of goldfish.
Jeremy Corbyn is a decent, kind, compassionate human being, and has more principle in his toe nails than 80% of the Parliamentary Labour Party can muster up between them. Absolute backstabbers.
Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly finds himself on the right side of history, from apartheid in South Africa to the Blairites illegal slaughtering of Iraqi citizens, based on a dossier of lies. Corbyn. Was. Right.
Jeremy Corbyn has spent his entire political career trying to bring people together. Corbyn himself said something along the lines of ‘all wars begin with words and all wars end with words’. That might not be the exact wording, but you get the idea. Dialogue before destruction. Giving peace a chance really isn’t that radical you know.
Jeremy Corbyn has been a consistent and loyal supporter of the the poorest and most vulnerable people in our communities. The nurse having to use a food bank, the homeless guy asleep at the train station, the disabled person being forced through the indignity of the work capability assessment, which of course, was a creation of New Labour (the original version). Despite what the discredited and dwindling British Press told you, Jeremy Corbyn was the best chance you had for a generation.
Jeremy Corbyn genuinely believed we could demonstrate the same attitude to huge corporations getting to negotiate their own tax rates (that’s you, Google) to the attitude shown by the Tories to a benefit claimant unlucky enough to have been over paid by Fifty Quid. Do you remember the constant attacks on Labour’s “unrealistic borrowing plans”? Did you buy into that nonsense? Have you seen how much Johnson and Sunak managed to find when they realised Coronavirus also kills rich people?
Open your fucking eyes, for the love of god.
See, all of what I have listed above can be debated, that’s the beauty of opinion, and the privilege of freedom of speech that we have become accustomed to.
It seems freedom of speech only applies with Team Starmer if you fail to identify as a socialist, such as paying shocking tributes to the antisemite, Nancy Astor, or rolling out disgraceful “Puppet master” antisemitic tropes.
Why isn’t Starmer attacking Boris Johnson’s ongoing support for Viktor Orban?
Rebecca Long-Bailey called Maxine Peake a diamond and lost her position as Shadow Education Secretary.
Read that last sentence back.
Labour is a fucking cesspit, led by a coward.
Keir Starmer has got this so wrong. Here’s just a few examples.
•Starmer AGREED with Corbyn’s view of the scale on the Andrew Marr show in 2019. Suspend yourself, Keith.
•Starmer BREACHED page 27 of the EHRC report regarding the right to free speech.
•Starmer MISQUOTED Jeremy’s reply to the EHRC report, on live TV.
•Starmer has POLITICALLY INTERFERED in the process - breaching EHRC.
•Starmer BREACHED the EHRC rule not to have an opaque arbitrary disciplinary.
Seriously, would you want this absolute flop representing you in court? Me neither.
These duplicitous inadequates have spent five long years lying and smearing, with the aim of destroying Jeremy Corbyn, and everything that he stands for.
You have not got a hope in hell.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Socialism was around long before any of us, and those before us had to fight for the right to be heard. We’ve already won that right, and believe me, we will be heard, we won’t be going away.
Starmer’s ‘Kinnock moment’ will backfire, with the most devastating effect on Labour’s narrow chances of seriously denting Boris Johnson’s massive majority at the next general election, whether that be in 2024, or before.
The calls for the whip to be rightfully restored to Jeremy Corbyn are growing. Even the Socialist Campaign Group were angry enough to write a letter.
I’m afraid it will take a damn sight more than this. We have to be relentless. Sometimes a polite letter doesn’t quite represent the palpable anger being felt by the many of us that expect more.
Don’t they remember what the other lot did when they first tried to ditch Jeremy as the Party leader?
Activists can vent their spleens until the cows come home, but we need those who we respect to show a degree of leadership, and defend our movement, like so many others have done before them.
Keir Starmer MUST immediately restore the Labour whip to Mr Corbyn. While the damage may be done, we will not stand by while Starmer and his team of utter failures continue to besmirch Corbyn, brief their favoured journalists with lies, and attack our movement.
If it is war they want, it is war that they’ll get.
Rachael.
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I agree Rachael. The behaviour of SirKeir is appalling, and the lack of response from Jeremy's closest allies is even more so. As you say "Stand Up and Write A Letter" is not quite "Stand Up and Fight". But what you do not do here is explain what SirKeir is up to. Yes, he is in the pockets of Zionists who hate Jeremy and yes he is an establishment man through and through. But, he could be both of those things and still not go for Jeremy in quite the way he is. My guess, for what its worth, is that he fully intends to parachute somebody who he knows the left will hate into Islington North, possibly Luciana Berger if she is not working as a "Director" one day a week for £500,000 by 2023. SirKeir's treatment of Jeremy is not merely political however, this now seems highly personal (as it is of course with Margaret H). It seems that SirKeir is genuinely jealous of Jeremy's history, passion and following. Anybody who thinks that they can make Labour a welcoming environment for the left needs to realise that SirKeir only wants sycophants and toadies (or at the least millionaires) and that driving the left out is, in his mind, his Kinnock moment. If he understood history he would also know that having driven the left out of the party Kinnock then went on to lose 2 General Elections, the second of which was eminently winnable if he hadn't been such a prat.
ReplyDeleteAlso worth pointing out that Jeremy Corbyn has an international reputation as an anti-racist and Peace campaigner with two peace prizes.
ReplyDeleteStarmer is a nobody outside of UK.
Jeremy Corbyn is also very good at logically presenting his reasons for any position he takes using facts to back them up. (btw So is Barry Gardiner) - Starmer isn't.
As suggested by Dave Middleton (above) some of this behavior could well be motivated by personal jealousy.
I agree with everything above.
ReplyDeleteI've had a realisation this morning. I think that Starmer may well be a CIA asset.
He is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He threw Assange to the US Wolves. He is close to Ruth Smeeth who has "protected" status from the CIA. Corbyn supports Palestine. He will be viewed as an "Enemy of the US". He is "anti war" which makes him an "arch enemy" of the US Military/Industrial complex. He is a Socialist which to the rulers of the US lead Western Empire is the same as a communist.
Check out these points before you write me off as a "Conspiracy Theorist" (a CIA invented description BTW) with an open mind. Then respond.
When Starmer stood for leader,I had grave doubts that his proclaimed forensic skills would carry over to the parliamentary arena. There's no judge to say, "Answer learned counsel's question, please, Mr Johnson."
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it is now becoming apparent that his forensic skills are grossly overrated. Is he familiar with the concept of expert evidence? In the case of alleged antisemitism in the LP, it's available to him in the excellent scholarly work by Philo et al. Starmer seems actually to be pissed off Corbyn actually cited that work in relation to the negligible level of antisemitism in the party.
Where I have grave reservations, however, is in your acceptance of the concept of the "antisemitic trope". I think this needs serious examination by heavy-duty academics. In my opinion, the easy "Gotcha!" at the expense of a right-wing numpty isn't worth it. How many people know or care that Richard Desmond is a Jew? I didn't know until this kicked off. There is nothing about his name to indicate "Jewishness".
As a life long labour voter. I can barely hold my tongue. Starmer is no labbour politician like Blair I see him as a closet tory. To me jeremy corbyn represented everything
ReplyDeleteI want to see in a labour politician and doing it with dignity. I will probably vote liiberal fof the first time in my life of 78 years. I am disgusted
Labour members who support Jeremy Corbyn, a principled man, should not resign. Time is better spent formulating policies and tactics that put an end to the politicisation of British institutions, a corruption that has energised popularism where trust in politicians has decayed rampantly from a belief that they represent a corrupt elite rather than serving the hopes and prayers of ordinary folk left isolated without accord, collaboration or consonance.
ReplyDeleteAn example is this institutional politicisation is the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) increasingly subject to budget cuts and government, breeding a pattern of silent acquiescence or submissiveness on behalf of the EHRC to government policy.
The Trojan Horse Affair, the Met. discrimination within it’s ranks, the report on the British Labour Party and antisemitism all smell of a pattern of silent assent on behalf of the EHRC to the Establishments deceit. The EHRC’s 130-page report had confirmed the claims of Corbyn’s critics that on his watch the party had become “institutionally antisemitic”. In fact, the watchdog body reached no such conclusion. its report was far more ambiguous. And its findings deeply flawed, intentionally vague, glaringly inconsistent and were nowhere near as dramatic as the MSM (esp. Guardian) headlines suggested.
Paradoxically, the equalities commission’s conclusions gave a similar impression to Jeremy’s statement that the scale of Labour’s antisemitism problem had been “dramatically overstated”.
Rather than a ‘Bonfire of the quangos’ a major UK Establishment RESET is urgently needed certainly to protect free speech, this to include the flames of change directed towards the media, the Conservative Party and the still-dominant “Blairite” wing of Starmer’s Labour.