Vindication For The Left - Privatisation From The Right
Imagine this for just one moment and you’ll get a rough idea of where I am with the Forde report, now the initial satisfaction of knowing we were right is beginning to wear off.
Anyway, what if…
Senior Labour officials, supportive of Jeremy Corbyn, made disgusting racist remarks towards Margaret Hodge?
The same officials used to ring a bell in the office every time they managed to purge another centrist from the Labour Party for tweeting something controversial like, “I fucking love Coldplay”?
Figures from the Labour left set up a secret account with £135,000 in the kitty to support ‘anti-centrist’ Labour candidates, with enough left over for a jar of Jeremy’s finest plum jam and a cheeky £20 donation to my PayPal?
Senior officials from the left of the Labour Party, found guilty of some of the most repulsive abuse - and mostly criticised by Martin Forde in his report - have been elevated in the Labour Party to positions of internal power?
Of course, none of this ever happened, but if it did you can be absolutely sure the British media would make sure everybody knew about it, before the S*n started a campaign to have Jeremy deported to Rwanda. Tonight.
There was a certain irony in the Forde report being leaked. This was an investigation set up by Keir Starmer to find out how the Labour Leaks happened, and who was behind them.
In case you didn’t witness the timeline of events let me give you a brief but hopefully accurate account of what happened.
On Tuesday afternoon Labour “sources” briefed a few hacks with the news the Forde Report was with Keir Starmer’s office and it would be sent to the NEC the following day for publication approval.
An hour or so later a denial was issued by Starmer’s office. This was a lie.
The problem was simple enough - Starmer’s office hadn’t had enough time to brief journalists with the narrative they wished to set.
A half-hearted attempt was made by the usual Starmer-good-Corbyn-bad suspects, but it was too late.
One Guardian hack put a tweet out for Starmer saying how pleased they were to be cleared of sabotaging Labour’s general election chances, so I simply replied with the findings of the Forde report which quite clearly stated Labour officials ran a covert operation promoting anti-Corbyn candidates, armed with £135,000 for ‘printing costs’.
Does the cream of the establishment media think we are going to allow their bullshit to go without rebuttal?
How dense are these people, churning out easily proven misinformation, for a political wet wipe like Starmer, a ‘leader’ with the charisma of a burnt crumpet - a man that would be out of his depth in a bird bath?
I mean, come on folks, you do realise your support for Keir Starmer and a Labour government is support for further NHS privatisation? He said it, not me.
You cannot claim to have a left wing bone in your body if you support NHS privatisation, or engines of enablement such as the liar Starmer.
The Labour Party leader crossed too many red lines for me long before he declared his leadership ambitions, but what about some of you soft leftists?
If Starmer’s abandonment of anything that resembles democratic socialism, the vitriolic campaign of hatred against the left, and the alarming shift to the right hasn’t crossed your red lines, surely NHS privatisation was the dealbreaker?
Maybe not.
If you’re still clinging on to some sort of hope that Starmer will break free from the establishment chains it’s time to stop clinging on and face up to the reality that stands before you today.
Keir Starmer is a fraudulent liar. Prove me wrong.
Keir Starmer has ditched any pretence of being on the left in favour of aiming for power without principle. Again, prove me wrong.
How long before Martin Forde QC is labelled an antisemite? He was absolutely correct to point out the right-wing faction within the Labour Party weaponised antisemitism, but isn’t this truth bomb to come at a cost to Forde?
Have I mentioned, antisemitism was used against us as a battering ram?
The Forde report essentially confirmed what we said from the start.
Jeremy Corbyn, backed by a massively left-wing democratic socialist membership, and 2 huge mandates, was pitted against right-wing party bureaucracy and a duplicitous Parliamentary Labour Party that were intent on flying the flag of Blairism and maintaining the neoliberal policies that the electorate convincingly rejected in 2010 and 2015.
The Labour party machinery simply wasn’t representative of the party membership. While we went Tory hunting, they went “trot hunting”. That’s what we was up against.
It’s hard not to feel somewhat exasperated by the undeniable fact that while you were handing your money over to the Labour Party - banging on doors, handing out leaflets and having those important conversations with people - the racist Labour Party elite were looking at ways of derailing Jeremy Corbyn and the chance of a Labour government that served in the interests of the many.
You might want to think about asking the Labour Party for a refund, although you probably won’t get anything out of them because Starmer’s unforgivable mismanagement has left the party finances on the brink of oblivion.
This is what happens when you lose 188,000 fee-paying members, Mr Starmer, and let’s be honest, if the Labour Party says it’s 188,000 you can pretty much guarantee it’s a hell of a lot more than that.
Maybe that was the plan all along? Ditch as many lefties as possible and then go cap in hand to the big corporations, pointing out they have cleansed the party of the left, so their donation won’t go towards electing a government that will get the 1% to cough up just a bit more in tax, for the greater good?
Just think, all of those times you have been called a “Tory enabler” by the Starmer fan club, when all along it was they who enabled not just 1, but 2 hard right Conservative governments and a catastrophic Brexit!
It never had to be this way, we didn’t need to suffer Boris Johnson, and we wouldn’t need to suffer the Thatcherite tribute that will eventually take over from the Etonian cyst.
A Labour Party that commits to continuing the outsourcing of public healthcare simply isn’t a Labour Party for me. We’ve already got a Tory government to do that, we need an alternative government-in-waiting, not this pitiful rehashed Blairism.
The next general election could well be a couple of years away yet, and Starmer still isn’t 20 points ahead, despite the brutal shitshow going on within the Conservative party right now.
Can Truss or Sunak do any worse than Johnson’s shambolic 3 years? Probably not. It would take something pretty spectacular to plunge to those depths again.
We still have no idea what Keir Starmer really stands for. He has broken every one of the pledges that got him elected and it appears he will say anything to anyone if it secures a vote.
Very much like Boris Johnson.
The left sees through Starmer, we have done for the last 6 years, and soon enough you can be assured the public will see through him too, because we are fucking sick of politicians lying to us.
Am I really the only one that thinks the socially conservative knight of the realm Sir Keir Starmer would make a better Conservative leader than either Sunak or Truss?
It’s beginning to feel like the next general election will be a battle between the Blairites and the Thatcherites - 2 electorally successful ideologies from days gone by - but this is 2022, and the problems of today require solutions for today.
It’s quite funny really, an ideology from the 1990’s taking on an ideology from the 1980’s, with a few tweaks here and there, but it is the same destructive neoliberalism that has been spoon-fed to vast swathes of the population since birth.
Me? I refuse to fall victim to conformity. The red and blue rosette means absolutely nothing to me. It used to, when there was a meaningful difference, but all I see now are liars, ‘left’, right, and centre.
And to be absolutely honest, I’d still be absolutely delighted going back to the 1970’s with Jeremy Corbyn.
Until next time,
Rachael
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