droodzilla
pfm Member
I don't know but I'm pretty sure they are all on the left or centre left of the party.
Mysteriously, a couple of MPs on the right of the party who recently indulged in anti-Semitic tropes seem to have been spared.
EHRC report into Labour
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Mysteriously, a couple of MPs on the right of the party who recently indulged in anti-Semitic tropes seem to have been spared.
Romulus
pfm Member
Keir Starmer action for me was brave and decisive, considering his personal background and that the suspension of Jermyn Corbyn, he is intending to root out this negative influence in the Labour party. If his action prove a success he will grow as a potential opposition leader to Boris Johnson and even become a viable consideration for general public of UK if Boris Johnson really messes up (Brexit?)...
Enfield boy
pfm Member
I've not been an activist for a while. Got too much abuse on the doorsteps of Buckinghamshire (and had to walk too bl00dy far to get from one to the next)> However I think the timing of this could be a cynical ploy to p!ss off lots of left leaning members in the run up to the NEC election.
misterdog
Not the canine kind
No need for the investigation then..maybe.
misterdog
Not the canine kind
I doubt it, there are currently 63 million people wanting clarity.
I need to be tested.
I want my children to be educated.
I don't want my children to be exposed.
I want my business to be supported, to prevent my bankruptcy and my staff becoming unemployed.
I want my mental health attending to.
I want to visit my parents in the care home.
I want the care home's to be ring fenced.
I want to know our exit strategy from Covid.
Our economy is predicted to perform least well as a result of the current pandemic so I'm sure BJ has far more important things to consider than the anti semitic squabbles of the Labour party.
Besides 4 years of future economic decline and the electorate wont give a shit about anti semitic squabbles now.
I predict a Labour government in 4 years time.
wylton
Naim and Mana member
I agree with all of the above; I do hope you're right and that Labour are up to the task by the time the election comes, because they are not there at this point.
droodzilla
pfm Member
RIP David Graeber. He wrote one of the best articles about this entire shitshow I've read:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-my-life-im-frightened-be-jewish/
His writing is often playful, even as he makes a serious point, but in the above piece Graeber speaks from the heart.
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kendo
Prussian bot
From the BBC website -
"For the Conservatives, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has written to Sir Keir, saying he "seemingly found it much harder to find the moral character and backbone to do what was right" while serving in the shadow cabinet under Mr Corbyn."
...this from an expert on "moral character and backbone"...
CANT*
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"For the Conservatives, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has written to Sir Keir, saying he "seemingly found it much harder to find the moral character and backbone to do what was right" while serving in the shadow cabinet under Mr Corbyn."
...this from an expert on "moral character and backbone"...
CANT*
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Jo Sharp
Pulls on doors marked push
It’s the Popular Front of Kentish Town vs The Islington People’s Front....and the cry goes out “Splitters!”...
Just waiting for Phil Shiner supporter Baroness Chakrabarti of Kennington to do the decent thing and resign her Peerage, granted for her whitewash report that described the events condemned by the EHRC as “an occasionally toxic atmosphere”.
Just waiting for Phil Shiner supporter Baroness Chakrabarti of Kennington to do the decent thing and resign her Peerage, granted for her whitewash report that described the events condemned by the EHRC as “an occasionally toxic atmosphere”.
PsB
Citizen of Nowhere™
Yes, this clearly has to be top of the agenda now.
stephen bennett
Mr Enigma
Corbyn could have nuked the entire Palestinian population and it’d still be called an antisemitic gesture.
I understand why Starmer has done this. Labour is no more antisimetic than any other organisation, but with a leader who hates bullies and racism and highlights Israel’s apartheid, it was always going to be a stick the party was going to be beaten with.
But it stinks.
To hang out a man who has spent his life fighting inequality and racism to effectively placate the right wing press and the pro-Israel lobby groups is pretty disgusting.
Stephen
SteveG
pfm Member
I can't see that he had any choice as Corbyn pretty much committed suicide. Corbyn does really seem to be caught up in his own delusions and seems to think about himself, and in particular his own image, more than the good of the party or the population at large.
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
The two aspects need to separated. Full consideration of the report and what happened yesterday. Corbyn could, I would argue should, have made a statement yesterday announcing that he was going to carefully read the report and respond fully when he had formulated an appropriate response.
Through a hastily prepared and clumsy statement, he gave Starmer a decision to make that any party leader would then have been evicerated for not making. Shades of the RLB comment. Even if you are then ultimately able to fully explain a more nuanced position, the damage is done - it's just so fvcking unnecessary. Amateur hour.