Leaked emails and WhatsApp messages discussed how to smear Corbyn as antisemitic and torpedo the party’s chances of winning an election with him as leader.
Half of the anitsemitism complaints came from one person. Labour centrists were dismayed at his success in the 2017 election and realised they had to do anything to stop him.
I can’t imagine this will lead to much self reflection among those who just went along with the whole Corbyn is a loon / antisemitic thing. I get that it was great ammunition for Zionists and reactionaries but they just shifted the debate so easily. It turned into “Well, Labour is full of antisemites but…” or “Corbyn is fringe left wing loony but…”
Twist is, the phone call was coming from your own house all along.
Some of the Corbyn cult are butthurt? That’s not a shock. The PLP wanted him gone, Corbyn lost two elections and there’s no doubt he would have clung to power if 2019 had been closer.
Yeah, the absolute gall of US opponents of Sanders to use almost exactly the same tactic of smearing their target as antisemitic was breathtaking. It is so easy to do and the media so willingly goes along with it that the fact that it was baseless (in Corbyn’s case) or it was baseless and he’s Jewish for fuck’s sake didn’t really matter.
Are you claiming that Corbyn himself is Jewish? I can find no evidence that Corbyn has ever claimed a religion. He may support terrorism based on religion but I can’t find any claim to support that Corbyn has any religious beliefs.
At best it is further proof, if proof were needed, that Corbyn was a massively divisive figure for the Labour party. Claims of anti-semitism were the least of his problems. Those claims never forced him to project an aura of creepy, dismissive, arrogant, peevishness whenever he was on TV or dither and equivocate like a bell-end whenever he had hard questions to answer about comments and actions made in the past, never forced him to keep the company he kept or the appointments he had made.
In any case the report is not published, the content is not known, the manner of its construction is not known and let’s remember that it was put together by an outgoing leadership with a vested interest in trying to protect the legacy of a failing leader and hopefully continue the project into the future. Look at the names who signed the open letter. For the sake of the Labour party it would need to be transparently non-partisan and would need to look closely at intereference from all factions equally. Hence Starmer is suggesting precisely that, quite right.
Those who are pushing its conclusions strongly are those who want to stop any further purge of Corbynites and their replacement in the ruling bodies. They want to maintain influence. (and how curious that it gets leaked now eh?)
The OP seems predisposed to agree with the report’s conclusion completely. I’m not so trusting of it and given the Corbyn factions behaviours over the previous 5 years this sounds much more like an attempt at salvage and a claim of “not my fault, some big boys did it and ran away”. Corbynites were never going to leave quietly, not their style.
A full and completely independent inquiry will be the best way to find out the facts and that is what the current leadership is saying.
No. I’m saying we dont know what is in it, nor how it was collected, nor whether any agenda sits behind it, nor why it was leaked. I don’t know enough to make a judgement on accuracy one way or the other.
That’s why an independant inquiry that is fully transparent would be the best way to progress. When the findings are then made public we’ll be able to come to a reasonable conclusion and know what went on.
One conspiracy I might believe in is that somehow the UK just happened to have these lunatics in charge of her majesty’s opposition during the exact period of history the UK has just gone through. And the country will pay dearly for it.
The British Labour Party was just an incompetent mess under Jeremy Corbyn. This just looks like further proof of that.
Inaccurate, and not the first time the Labour Party said this. It boils down to saying there’s no anti-semitism because they say there’s no anti-semitism.
This made as much sense as Jeremy Corbyn “supporting” Remain. (Nope: Corbyn office 'sabotaged' EU Remain campaign - sources - BBC News ) Much of the blame goes to his hand-picked communications chief, Seamus Milne, who literally sabotaged the Labour Remain side of the referendum. (I hate using the term “sabotage” because it sounds about as rational as chemtrails, but in this case, that’s actually what happened.) At best Corbyn simply allowed that to happen, but we all know he wasn’t a Remainer.
I’m not seeing any faction within Labour coming out of the last five years looking good. If the Corbynistas keep attacking like this, they will guarantee a second Boris Johnson majority in four or five years.
