Can’t see the tweet anymore.
Looks like diver was chatting shit
Rayner & Starmer cleared no FPN
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Good.
Still won’t be voting Labour at the next opportunity (or Tory either)
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Complete meltdown over on the Daily Mail. Durham police are all communists and it’s a coup by Remainers apparently.
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Well they also failed to prosecute Cummings.
However, they did prosecute a load of people for much less, so I imagine that Mail journos will be contacting people in Durham who did get fined.
No FPN but deserves a fucking good kicking for being a lying devious cunt.
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So the long awaited Forde Inquiry commissioned by Starmer when he became leader, and sat upon until he saw an opportune moment to release it, has today been cynically released during the Tory Leadership shenanigans in the hope that nobody would notice. I’m not surprised! It lays bare the hypocritical double dealings of the anti-Corbyn senior Labour officials during Corbyn’s tenure, and their furious attempts to undermine him every step of the way. Evidence of ‘straightforward attempts’ to hinder the Labour leadership. Anti-Corbyn senior Labour staff diverting 2017 election resources to candidates hostile to the leadership and away from “winnable seats”, setting up a parallel operation to “covertly divert money and personnel” to their favoured candidates. Whatsapp transcripts showing staffers panicking as Labour climbed in the polls during the election campaign despite their efforts. One election night chat log showed that upon seeing exit polls showing Labour had overturned the Tory majority, one senior official said the result was the “opposite to what I had been working towards for the last couple of years”, describing themselves and their allies as “silent and grey-faced” and in need of counselling.
This report finds that staff “covertly” diverted money and personnel “without authority”, spending approx £135,000 on campaigns supportive of sitting anti-Corbyn MPs, and away from pro-Corbyn candidates in potentially winnable seats.
The report goes on to say that a “toxic atmosphere” prevailed in the Party, stating that “Jeremy Corbyn’s election was seen as so out of step with the predominant political view of most of the permanent staff”, meaning that “conflict reached a level not previously seen”.
The inquiry also found “undoubted overt and underlying racism and sexism in some of the content of the whatsapp messages between the party’s most senior staff”. The report also describes the “weaponising” of anti-semitism by opponents of Corbyn. It’s all pretty shocking, no wonder Starmer has been resisting the inquiry’s publication, Martin Forde will be off Starmer’s Christmas card list that’s for sure!
It’s a damning indictment of Starmer and the right wing of the Labour party’s efforts to destroy Corbyn’s leadership from within. And succeeding. Corbyn tried to deal with these enemies within by being decent and inclusive, and thinking, naively as it turned out, that he was dealing with honourable people, not a bunch of dishonourable backstabbing shitehawks, who saw his decency as a weakness. Throughout all of this, the lies and smears, the slandering and villfication, Jeremy Corbyn has conducted himself with restraint, honesty and integrity. What a contrast with the moral cesspit he was up against.
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The report is referring to toxicity from both sides - I am not sure anyone came out of it well
How’s that then? Did Corbyn’s wing of the party go around accusing other people of being raging racists of a specific form?
If the claims were weaponised, then surely one side comes out worse, using one of the greatest human tragedies to constantly smear the man and his supporters.
I think you’ll need to shop for your “six of one & half a dozen of the other” elsewhere.
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Part of Labours problem?
13% of Labour MPs joined parliament from a working-class occupation
Should it be more or are they part of Labour’s problem?
Compared with ten percent of Conservative voters.
It both comes down to the same thing. A fair degree of centralised selection.
Actually there was one 1% of Tories Mp from working class jobs - but then again they have never said they are the working class party
Starmer having his fortune told by a pensioner in Liverpool today. She’s giving him a right good bollocking, and he’s sitting there squirming with a helpless expression on his face, like a guilty schoolboy. He really is pathetic, an absolute waste of space as an opposition leader.
Good on you Audrey, well said. You should be up for the Freedom of the City!
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This is a right rollicking read.
The whole notion of the “Labour right” is such a strange contradiction in terms. There’s no “Tory left”. There isn’t an expectation that a certain percentage of the Green Party will be pro-forest fire.
Joining one of the country’s only nominally left-wing parties as a right winger is like going to your town’s only vegan restaurant and trying to order a Big Mac.
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“The right immediately stopped pretending to care about Jewish people five minutes after Corbyn was out the door”. This - absolutely this. It’s so true.
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