A betrayal to remember

 

The Guardian all but ignored the leaked review showing that Labour's Blairite officials sabotaged Corbyn's chances at the 2017 general election. But it gives front page billing to a new Labour report suggesting that the party needs to swing dramatically rightwards to win in 2024.

Jonathan Cook

 

His rivals know that Corbyn's egalitarian policy proposals could easily resonate with Britons of all races, religions and ethnicities. This is why instead of attacking his ideas and policies, they are attacking him personally

Tony Greenstein

With the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn Northern European social democracy failed to re-establish itself in the UK. I find it rather troubling that Keir Starmer seems more interested in suppressing this report than acting on its alarming findings.

Craig Murray

 

 

I would like to refer you to Craig Murray’s analysis on the Labour Party report on anti-semitism complaints. Yes the report that is being buried by Sir Keir Starmer. This is an abbreviated version.

 

“With the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn Northern European social democracy failed to re-establish itself in the UK. I find it rather troubling that Keir Starmer seems more interested in suppressing this report than acting on its alarming findings. The report conclusively refutes the accusation that delays were occasioned by Jeremy Corbyn or his office, or that his office displayed any sympathy for anti-semitism. In fact, the opposite is the case. Corbyn’s office showed a proper hatred of anti-semitism, but also an alarming willingness to throw good people under the bus on very flimsy allegations of anti-semitism.

"Labour HQ was staffed by right wingers so vehemently anti-Corbyn that they actively wanted the Conservatives to win elections. Senior members of staff were messaging each other opposing any increase in corporation tax and opposing re-nationalisation of the railways as “Trot” policies. 

 

'The case of the very right wing Gen Secretary, John McTernan, is instructive. McTernan had taken to writing articles in the Daily Telegraph praising the Tories and attacking Labour, but the Governance and Legal Unit of Party HQ refused to take action against him. His abusive language on Twitter and elsewhere, included describing Labour MPs who nominated Corbyn as “morons”; tweeting that Corbyn was a “traitor”; describing “Corbynistas” as racist; calling Corbyn a “Putin-hugging, terrorist-loving, Trident-hater”; and writing in the Daily Telegraph that all of Corbyn’s supporters were “online trolls”.

 

'Meanwhile left wingers were being thrown out of the party for having advocated a Green vote years before they joined, or for calling MPs who supported the Iraq war “warmongers”. The report makes an overwhelming case that the Governance and Legal Unit of the Labour Party failed to take action on accusations of anti-semitism because it was devoting all of its energies to a factional effort to remove Corbyn supporters from the party.

'These right wing staff were hoping for Labour electoral defeats in order to get rid of Corbyn. HQ staff set up another organisation based in another building, to divert party funds and secretly channel them to the campaigns of their favoured right wing MPs.
Support for British military attacks abroad appeared to be the touchstone issue for who was “in” and who was “out” with Labour Party HQ staff.

'Corbyn correctly, stated something that had been unsayable in mainstream UK political discourse – that British invasions abroad provoke terrorism at home. Labour Party HQ staff hoped and believed this would sink Corbyn and were actively wishing Labour to fall in the polls.

"The Labour HQ staff had been inherited from the Blair years, and factional loyalty and a history of right wing political activity were much more important in employment decisions than qualifications or competence.

"The Governance and Legal Unit, which handled the complaints of anti-semitism, was staffed by vehemently anti-Corbyn right wingers and was also useless. The report hints throughout that the failure to deal with anti-semitic Labour Party members was a deliberate act by party HQ staff in order to make Corbyn look bad. The report proves conclusively that allegations of unwarranted interference from Corbyn’s office to block anti-semitism action are malicious lies.

"John Ware, a freelance journalist, was hired by the BBC to make the panorama programme “Is Labour Anti-Semitic” despite his history of anti-Muslim, and specifically anti-Palestinian, propaganda.

"Corbyn failed to be sufficiently ruthless in clearing out the quite extraordinarily right wing Blairites that he had inherited as Labour Party HQ staff. Corbyn lacked the ruthlessness required in a leader to spot enemies and be rid of them. But then, his not being a ruthless bastard is why so many people flocked to support Corbyn in the first place.

"Corbyn’s tactic of attempting to appease the media on anti-semitism was never going to work. The right wing press and TV had no genuine interest in anti-racism, other than as a tool to prevent the possible election of a European style social democratic government. Neither the media nor the Blairites were ever going to reconcile to Corbyn.

"We will never know what would have happened if he had come out and denounced the witch-hunt as an attempt to stifle supporters of the Palestinians, and spoken openly of Israel’s move to apartheid. He had the nerve to take on the establishment narrative when he stated that British military invasions cause terrorist blowback at home, and won public support. Whether a firm line on Palestine and calling out the witch-hunt would have had a better result than giving way before unfair attacks, we can never know.”

 

Craig Murray's full report is here:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/04/that-leaked-labour-party-report/

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NOTE:  If only we had more Craig Murrays and Marcus Rashfords. I have known Craig ever since I read "Murder in Samarkand". As a fellow whistleblower, but one who sacrificed much less than he did as a UK Ambassador, I have followed the great work he has done to advance honest politics. I recommend following his work at ...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/