Enough already! “End the attacks on party democracy”
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
This article from LabourList sums up the current state of the purge and the resistance…
JVL obviously endorses the sentiments expressed in the statement and our name, with others, has been added to an extended list of signatories
This article was originally published by LabourList on Thu 17 Dec 2020. Read the original here.
Labour left figures tell party leadership to “end the attacks on party democracy”
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Jeremy has given certain prominent Labour Party members a bit of a problem. I am sure,of course, that this was quite unintentional. By instigating a “movement” for Peace and Justice Jeremy has made it most stress fully difficult for these prominent members to attack his new project.
How will they manage to prove that “Peace and Justice” are in any way antisemitic?
Oh! of course they will bend every sinew and rack every brain cell they might even find some tenuous connection but the hideous desperation will be even more obvious than usual
Growing up in Cambridge as I did between the years 1946 and 1961 (No jokes along the lines of “What makes you think you’re grown up” please) our front room was always a party committee room. Until 1956 Communist and subsequently Labour. I only bring up this history to point out that I have a legitimate attachment to the British labour movement. Good that being clear I have three things to say.
1. Without the connivance and interference of the Israeli Lobby with their anti semite smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn we would probably have a proper socialist PM in England instead of a ‘Blair Clone’ Leader of the opposition.
2. I deplore in equal measure Cambridge University and Cambridge County Councils adoption of the IHRA definition of Anti-semitism.
And 3. At risk of being accused of kicking a man when he’s down, I regret that Jeremy Corbyn didn’t risign in protest when the Labour Party conference adopted the IHRA definition of anti-semitism at the party conference in 2019. I know I said three, but,
4. You’re a good man Jeremy Corbyn, solid in every department, except PR, you are, in my view worth ten of Sir ‘Blair Clone’ Keirb Starmer.
Yours disgusted of Rock Road Cambridge.