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Keir Starmer has committed his leadership to ridding the Labour Party of antisemitism which frankly given how deeply this pernicious form of racism embedded itself under Jeremy Corbyn isn't going to be an easy task and will cause ructions, resignations and expulsions. Angela Rayner has made clear the latter is more than just an option.
In the current climate the former supporters of the Corbyn tendency are having quite an apoplectic fit about their failures. A huge number of these people came into the Labour Party to purge those they did not agree with. Mark Serwotka the vainglorious General Secretary of the PCS union made it quite clear that he joined to "help deselect" MPs.
Then there were all the attacks on "Red Tories", Blue labour" "Centrists" and of course Zionists all lumped together as the "right-wing". Bullying, intimidation misogyny and of course antisemitism. As far as the latter goes there were always a handful of these types in Labour's ranks along with the same in other political parties.
However the influx of the self proclaimed anti-imperialists brought with them a very toxic form of "anti-Zionism that has morphed into clear antisemitism which the hard core don't even care about and campaign to claim these are false interpretations of their bigotry which would never be aimed at any other ethnic minority. Jews simply don't count in their blinkered world view.
That takes us to Lancashire where lancs.live reports
In the current climate the former supporters of the Corbyn tendency are having quite an apoplectic fit about their failures. A huge number of these people came into the Labour Party to purge those they did not agree with. Mark Serwotka the vainglorious General Secretary of the PCS union made it quite clear that he joined to "help deselect" MPs.
Then there were all the attacks on "Red Tories", Blue labour" "Centrists" and of course Zionists all lumped together as the "right-wing". Bullying, intimidation misogyny and of course antisemitism. As far as the latter goes there were always a handful of these types in Labour's ranks along with the same in other political parties.
However the influx of the self proclaimed anti-imperialists brought with them a very toxic form of "anti-Zionism that has morphed into clear antisemitism which the hard core don't even care about and campaign to claim these are false interpretations of their bigotry which would never be aimed at any other ethnic minority. Jews simply don't count in their blinkered world view.
That takes us to Lancashire where lancs.live reports
A Rossendale councillor expelled by Labour earlier this year claimed this week she was the victim of 'a smear campaign' after she was named in a human rights report into antisemitism in the party.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report found that Whitewell ward councillor Pam Bromley ‘used antisemitic tropes’ in social media posts, which amounted to unlawful harassment.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report found that Whitewell ward councillor Pam Bromley ‘used antisemitic tropes’ in social media posts, which amounted to unlawful harassment.
It comes as no surprise that the Corbynistas continue their departure. Five Councillors in Lancaster have declared that:
"Humanity faces a future of spiralling inequality and climate catastrophe. The world needs strong socialist movements to fundamentally challenge the capitalist system that is destroying our planet.
"For a brief time, a ‘moment’, the Labour Party offered hope to millions, to the many not the few. Today under Starmer, it is offering a return to ‘business as usual’. The country and the world doesn’t have time for this. The climate extinction clock is ticking. So, we cannot in good conscience remain as representatives of this Labour Party with which we now hold so little in common.”
How they think five councillors sitting now under the name of an Eco-Socialist" group isolated from mainstream politics will achieve anything is a mystery. They'll just end up like the Socialist Workers party and their ilk becoming an irrelevance to all and everyone around them.
"Humanity faces a future of spiralling inequality and climate catastrophe. The world needs strong socialist movements to fundamentally challenge the capitalist system that is destroying our planet.
"For a brief time, a ‘moment’, the Labour Party offered hope to millions, to the many not the few. Today under Starmer, it is offering a return to ‘business as usual’. The country and the world doesn’t have time for this. The climate extinction clock is ticking. So, we cannot in good conscience remain as representatives of this Labour Party with which we now hold so little in common.”
How they think five councillors sitting now under the name of an Eco-Socialist" group isolated from mainstream politics will achieve anything is a mystery. They'll just end up like the Socialist Workers party and their ilk becoming an irrelevance to all and everyone around them.
One wonders what they had in common with the Labour Party in the first place.....
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