Action - not words - against Antisemitism starts here!
Obviously not with me, despite me being guilty as hell. But I can’t chop my own head off.
Not with the leadership team, ditto, because, well, they ARE me. Even though we all want Israel destroyed. So ... 1/
Obviously not with me, despite me being guilty as hell. But I can’t chop my own head off.
Not with the leadership team, ditto, because, well, they ARE me. Even though we all want Israel destroyed. So ... 1/
How about the General Secretary, Jennie Formby? She’s hired an antisemite, said some dodgy things but most of all, she’s ‘Len’s representative on Earth’. So can’t touch her, even though she will surely impede progress in antisemitism because 2/
... Len is chief agitator. He and Unite actively promote ‘Jewish Voice for Labour’ an organisation packed with vicious antisemites fronted by people born Jewish in order to undermine the Jewish community in the media. Len bankrolls me! So not him. Well ... 3/
Let’s throw out Ken! Trouble is, Ken has a legal team ready to challenge us in the High Court. Also, if we chuck him out, every senior Labour member - including some on the NEC-who have backed him will become vulnerable. Also, I really don’t want to throw out my mate. So ... 4/
...let’s throw out my friend Jackie Walker! That’s actually possible. She has done a huge amount of damage on our behalf, and her expulsion would guarantee her tons of airtime to repeat what we can no longer say. Only she is a hero to the grassroots ... 5/
... and the loyal Corbynistas that love Jackie - and Ken? My praetorian guard, my base? If I expel the reportedly 5,000 of them who are being reported as antisemites among them I will be chopping off my right hand. I’ll do twenty or so, make a fuss, and quietly stop ... 6/
... ditto a few councillors and party officials. I’ll expel the holocaust deniers and quietly ignore the rest. A sizeable chunk of them are Muslims from Bradford, Blackburn etc and it would be Islamophobic to interfere! So you see ... 7/
... these people ARE the #Labour party now. I CAN’T make more than a few token sacrifices ... 8/
.. Oh, and that goes for the NEC members and also those MPs like Chris Williamson and my staff who all joined me on the Palestine Live Facebook group. Therefore: 9/
I WILL ROLL OUT A PROGRAMME OF EDUCATION FOR ALL PARTY MEMBERS! It will make no difference as my lot will never change, but it will play well in media until the storm passes #JobDone
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