#Marr#Peston - in a week when a far-right extremist was convicted of murdering a Muslim, injuring several others, and announced in court his intention was to kill Corbyn & that if he could kill Sadiq Khan too, it would be "winning the lottery", you run with "members abuse"?
It has really got well beyond @ggreenwald 's stage 7 and is entering into the arena of total panic melt-down. Any old crap at all will do to ensure there is no anti-austerity government in No. 10. theintercept.com/2016/01/21/the…
Clare Kober makes unsubstantiated allegations, says it's been going on for 2 years, & didn't report it to the NEC which is controlled by the Left, yet the NEC has only been under Left-wing control for 10 days, and gets a free pass to smear anyone she chooses.
The Stop HDV movement in Haringey is made up of people from all political parties and none. If she has evidence that it was Labour members making threats or abusive remarks, and not some other random member of the public, she needs to provide evidence.
OTOH, there is ample evidence that she has intimidated and mistreated other members of the council, excluded them from the decision-making process, created files about people - including fellow councillors - which she distributed to colleagues to influence recruitment,
In short, there is no doubt that there has been Stalinist shenanigans going on in Haringey. The big problem is, all the evidence points to Kober being the instigator of it. And when democracy kicks in, she runs to the media crying "victim"? And you give her the megaphone.
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@Femi_Sorry@BarryGardiner No. I told you why, on the day all your Tory Rebel heroes stabbed you in the back. You are so damned arrogant, Femi, to assume you have all the answers. If the Tories won't even support their own motion, how in hell do you think they will support a People's Vote? 1/
@Femi_Sorry@BarryGardiner 2/ And even if they did, what do you think Remaining would be like if the Tories were still running the shop til 2022? You might, like me, come from a cushy background, so it won't affect your life. Meanwhile 20% of the population is living in poverty while we are still in the EU
@Femi_Sorry@BarryGardiner 3/ The EU has done nothing to stop oligarchs asset-stripping our country and impoverishing our citizens. It will do nothing to stop them continuing to do so, either. There's only one criminally selfish political careerist I can see in this conversation. And that's you.
@davidschneider I'm going to say something you won't like, but someone needs to say it. I am a 56 yr old professional woman who has fought racism all her adult life. And the abuse I and thousands like me have had, just for being Labour members, has been obscene. 1/
@davidschneider 2/ I've had someone email my workplace saying they should think about employing me because I am a "supporter of the antisemite Ken Livingstone" (which I'm not, now). I have seen every effort I have made to try and reason and build bridges thrown back in my face.
@davidschneider 3/ Day after day there is a barrage of lies and half-truths spun to make us all out to be raging antisemites when nothing could be further from the truth. It bloody hurts. The plan is to make us feel too ashamed to be a Corbyn supporter. And I admit at one stage I doubted myself.
1. Well there's interesting. The self-defined representatives of the Jewish community absolutely silent on twitter about the Tories' MEP voting against censuring Orban yesterday. The BoD? Nowt
(in fact they were schmoozing with Brokenshire and Grant)
2. The CST? Nowt. (but they were meeting with David Morris MP, you know the Tory who was shouting across the floor of Parliament that Labour were racist in PMQs yesterday)
3. The JLC? Nowt
Although they, too, were meeting with Morris yesterday it seems.
1. A little story for #SocialistSunday. In 2015, Portugal had a general election. The party with the largest number of elected officials and, thus, under their electoral system, would form the government was the Socialist Party headed up by António Luís Santos da Costa.
2. The EU weren't happy about this at all. Costa was elected on an anti-EU ticket, Portugal's finances were in total disarray after years of austerity, and they were so terrified of a Socialist government that they tried to stop him becoming PM: telegraph.co.uk/finance/econom…
1. I will caveat my thread, like I always do on this subject, with my personal view that there is evidence of antisemitism in the Labour Party and it must be stamped out. I will now show a few things I have discovered over the past few days.
2. I discovered, first of all, just how easy it is to make fake facebook statuses and tweets, download them and present them as a screen-shot. They're very convincing. (Crafted by my own fair hand!)
3. Then we had the issue of @angelaormerod, self-proclaimed Labour member, who has tweeted 152,000 times since Sept. I worked out that was >500 tweets a day. She suddenly popped up with an antisemitic tweet on Friday or Saturday. Here's Chris
1. Time for another thread (stop yawning at the back). The latest accusations of what is being described variously as Corbyn being a "f***ing antisemite and a racist!" and "institutional racism" in Labour stem from the fact that Labour have not adopted an IHRA document verbatim.
2. Allegations are made that Labour have not adopted the "definition of antisemitism" contained in the document. This is untrue. The working defintion is set out, in the IHRA document, thus: holocaustremembrance.com/working-defini…
3. The Labour Code of Conduct contains the defintion of antisemitism which is, word for word, exactly the same as the IHRA working definition. (Downloadable from here: thejc.com/comment/analys…)