Jeremy Corbyn addressed a large crowd in Sunderland in August 2016. It was just one of many that took place across the country. He used his rally there to announce that if he became PM, his government would create a ‘Bank of the North’ with sufficient investment to unlock 100,000 jobs.
Of course this was never going to happen. Theresa May was Prime Minister at the time and told Corbyn to his face that “we will never let you rule.” Her ‘we’ included the whole of the UK Establishment who then set about destroying Corbyn, along with former London mayor, Ken Livingstone. They were labelled as ‘racists’ and ‘anti-semitic’, a campaign abetted by the corporate media.
This ‘pogram’ was aimed at removing not only Corbyn, but those that remained of the Left in the Labour party. This included a large number of anti-zionist Jews.
Now with Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader, the door has been opened to violent racism and the spectre of fascism.
With racists rampaging the streets of Sunderland and other cities, and that Corbyn rally a distant memory, Keir Starmer is off on holiday.
A personal note. I am alive today because my brain surgeon was Nigerian and my heart surgeon Egyptian.
