Don’t leave, organise!
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
More and more people are leaving the Labour Party.
We appreciate the arguments in this letter from a number of disaffected members of the Great Yarmouth Labour Party who make their case well.
But we’re not convinced, and continue to urge members to remain and organise.
As of 7th December 80 CLPs had expressed opposition at the direction and organisational regime installed by David Evans and Keir Starmer.
Stay in and join them and us in the fightback!
This article was originally published by Medium on Tue 8 Dec 2020. Read the original here.
Dear Great Yarmouth CLP Secretary
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Because the Labour party is not a public body a member has no redress under section 10 Human Rights Act if the General Secretary decides debate on a particular subject is not competent business, however bad it appears to Labour members and non Labour members. On the other hand this does not apply to Labour controlled Councils which are public bodies and must conform to article 10 of the Human Rights Act, also any misapplication of the IHRA description see my comments here.. https://jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/article/no-need-to-worry-about-the-ihra-definition-it-cant-possibly-be-abused/ I can see the Labour party tying themselves into legal knots in the coming months.
This article almost exactly expresses my own reasons for recently leaving the Labour party. The only difference is that I left before the dictatorial suppression of free-speech was imposed, after Starmer handed over a large amount of sorely needed Labour party funds to the very people who deliberately undermined the party before the 2017 and 2019 elections.
They want you to resign, stay and vote to affiliate with JVL
Wait for Union elections, legal and leadership challenges
if you are going to leave at least let’s all go down together
Solidarity with Gt Yarmouth CLP.
To be honest, I do wish that Starmer would expel Jeremy. I’ll explain why. . I don’t think Jeremy will ever resign of his own accord. Starmer knows that, and he has Jeremy exactly where he wants him: safe and gagged within the party. We do need a new movement, and Jeremy, with his large following in the country is by far the best person to start that. But only if he is not shackled by the present Labour leadership and its iron rules on what he can and cannot say. Free Jeremy…..
In some ways I understand why people are leaving. What some of those who are doing so need to understand is that leaving will not shame Starmer, Evans, Raynor et al into mending their ways. Far from it: they will be whooping with joy, and hoping to provoke many more into leaving, relinquishing the space to a Blair style rump.
Stay, I implore you. Even if you do or say nothing, just being there provides a potential for change. When the moments come to let your voice be heard, what purpose can be served if you’re not there to shout your continued presence.
They also serve, who only sit and wait?
I agree with Eveline. I feel that a new Party is the only way to go and Jeremy is a bit younger than the man who has just been elected President of the U.S. It is not just the “iron rules” that makes certain factions in the Party unfit for leadership however. A recent comment by “Doug” on another subject outlined precisely WHY these people will never uphold Labour Party values. He stated what I have long suspected, that uncritical support for Israel is NOT a support for Jews but is purely a support for the state of Israel as a political suppository for Western interests in the middle East. This information must be wisely disseminated. It explains exactly why even legitimate criticism of Israel is not permitted. It explains exactly why some in the Party are so inexplicably enthused about Israel to the exclusion of other countries.
It would appear that the present leadership have no real commitment to the Labour Party their commitment is to old fashioned imperialism!
I agree with Doug. Much as I’m sick of the antics of the last few years, and would feel some relief at being detached from it, I can’t bear to let them win so easily. They want us to leave, it’s all provocation to get us to leave and we must stay and fight back. If Starmer expels Jeremy, of course, we’ll have to rethink our position.
I wonder what sort of ‘support’ a new party with Jeremy at the helm would get from the MSM et al Eveline! Needless to say, Jeremy and its members would just be smeared and demonised from the get-go. When you own and/or control the MSM you control the narrative and, as such, can create ‘reality’, and the fact that respondents of a poll conducted for the authors of Bad News For Labour believed, on average, that a third (34%) of LP members had been reported (to the LP) for anti-semitism is testament to their power and effectiveness. Yes, the PTB got a shock in 2017 when Jeremy came so close to winning the GE, and that’s why they then trebled down on their smears and demonisation in the follwing months and years.
ALL of the ‘episodes’ involving Jeremy directly happened AFTER the 2017 GE – ie the ‘Mural’ episode, the ‘English Irony’ episode, the ‘Wreath Laying’ episode, the ‘Book Foreword’ episode etc, and I have no doubt whatsoever that these ‘episodes’ didn’t just happen to come to light – one by one – in the couple of years or so AFTER the 2017 GE, and I have little doubt that they were ‘unearthed’ within weeks of Jeremy being elected leader (and quite possibly BEFORE then), and the reason his enemies didn’t use them until they DID use them is because their main objective was to smear and demonise the WHOLE of the left membership – ie Jeremy’s supporters – as anti-semites (and bullies and thugs and homophobes – think ‘Angela Eagle’ – etc), and when the Tories were twenty points plus ahead of the LP – and Theresa May and Co called a snap election – they thought they had done enough damage to the left and Jeremy’s reputation to finish him off as leader. But when – during the course of the campaign – the LP increasingly closed the gap, his enemies couldn’t very well start ‘utilising’ one or more of said episodes, as it would have looked too glaringly obvious to many people that it – or they – should just happen to come to light at such a time.
What about JC standing for Mayor of London
Alan Howard“s comment on episodes that “proved” Corbyn`s “antisemitism” did most certainly not “just come to light” Corbyn`s detractors were using a tried and tested method of political attack!
In one of his books Barrack Obama describes that when he was running for President he created a team whose only function was to research his (Obama`s) own life. Obama`s purpose was that knowing his opponents would be doing exactly the same in an effort to unearth any information about Obama`s life that could be used to discredit him. Obama felt that it would be useful to be aware ,in advance, of info that could be used against him. This precisely what was done with Corbyn. Any information that could possibly be twisted an misrepresented was diligently dug out.
All the “instances of A.S.” that have been presented so triumphantly can be dismissed with even a small amount of thought!
And of course Corbyn is antisemitic! I heard him in a bakers saying that he “Didn`t like bagels”. The man is a fiend!!
None of this is specifically about anti semitism. It is a poorly veiled attempt to turn the Labour Party back into an arm of the Establishment and a cash cow for the MPs as it was during the Blair years. At least now the iron fist has lost its velvet glove. What makes it difficult to remain in the Party is that, as yet, there seems to be no coordinated effective fight back fron the Left.