The final straw for another Labour member
JVL Introduction
Nick Jenkins long term Labour Party member, most recently in Calder Valley has responded to Starmer who said that “if I didn’t like the changes you have made to Labour, “the door is open and you can leave”. Thank you for opening that door – I shall be following hundreds of thousands of decent people through it”.
In his open letter to Starmer he outlines a number of things that could be considered the final straw, all of which have contributed to his painful decision, and above all shame at what the Party has become.
We also learned about a from Kirklees councillor, Ammar Anwar’s tearful resignation ; for him it was Labour’s position on the bombardment of Gaza but there are many other acts of betrayal.
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This article was originally published by An Ordinary Member on Sun 14 Jan 2024. Read the original here.
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A superb letter, Nick. Thank you.
I agree with everything written in the above excellent letter, and have read many similar about him even before he lead the party.
Knighted by David Cameron and somehow achieving an amazing rise to power in a short time put Starmer on the front benches, making him eventually leader of party. Some allege unsurprisingly that he is an establishment cuckoo whose job is to destroy the Labour party, divide it by internecine warfare, leave it mired in debt with court cases and pending actions and to completely wreck its credibility.
The difficulty is, is there ANY way to remove Starmer in the future? How fixed is the AGM in their support for him, and why are those people there?
Very good but vitally important to remain politically active.
Brilliant letter, Nick. Beilliantly structured and so to the point.
Excellent letter but so desperately sad.
an excellent letter that says it all
Fully agree, but I resigned in 2019 when the direction of travel was already clear.
Absolutely all my reasons as a 69 year old Jewish woman who has also been in the Labour Party all her adult life. I resigned a while ago with a letter explaining my many reasons. The party’s response was to send me a form urging me to take out a direct debit!
well said ,comrade…may I just say with vigour “DITTO”. Maybe we will find another party before we are taken above. I do hope so.
Fantastic letter. It’s a clear handbook of everything Starmer has got wrong. Sadly I think he will be unlikely to read it.
But good on you for writing it and I hope as many people as possible get to read it. Then it will have done a great job 🙂
And me — can’t stand the ardent Zionist
Great letter Nick – except for this one sentence – “I hope you feel suitably ashamed”. The man is incapable of anything as decent as feeling shame.
Oh Nick Jenkins, you have been so comprehensive and absolutely right. I only resigned on one of your grounds – the anti semitism purge, but it is all as you say, and leaves us all so without hope, despite knowing Labour will form the next government.
Could I point out that a medical doctor, Paul O’Brien, was expelled last week from the Labour party at Holborn & St Pancras , Keir Starmer’s seat. The offence was calling for Starmer to support a ceasefire in Gaza. Just two days earlier I turned on Parliament TV and saw a LARGE number of Labour MPs asking for exactly the same thing. Are they all going to be expelled as well?
The worst aspect of this expulsion is that it happened after a photo of the ceasefire protest appeared in our great local paper Camden New Journal. So apparatchiks are not only combing through social media but also using photo ID and such to weed out possible dissidents of any kind.
Before Xmas a Petition calling for an immediate ceasefire was signed by large numbers of councillors in Hackney and Islington — but not one name in Camden.
–Very good but vitally important to remain politically active.
Why? Remaining active even locally supporting anyone in Labour is just playing semantics. If you quit Labour or in this case Labour has abandoned any semblance to socialism in any form currently. You are then supporting them and they will lie and lie again to convince you unless you keep on voting for the same idiots that will destroy the country. Something insert excuse will happen and it will be all your fault / The Torys will get back in etc.
What complete BS! Like this gentleman I was a member and proud of Labour my whole life educated by smart caring socialist parents and grandparents that will shun me if I ever betrayed there principles by voting for this Tory lite tribute act.
I thought about one of the smaller parties tried one they didn’t even bother replying to a polite email so forget that. Will I just do nothing no that is giving up I refuse to do that. No way will I ever vote right wing or LibDim. So I guess I will follow so many more socialists and see what the Green party has to offer they at least seam to care about disabled people unlike any other party.
But if like so many of us you have left Labour. Please close the door leaving it open a crack allows them to manipulate you and one they have your vote they can ignore you and carry out vile actions in your name with your continued support. I hope you find a new pollical home…
Starmer’s sense of entitlement is amazing. Starmer joined ‘his’ Labour lately. Starmer cheated to become party leader. Starmer is by rights disqualified. Starmer is clearly a Conservative. Starmer is generally unappealing. Starmer is worse than useless. But, Starmer is amongst a narrow selection of worse than useless establishment politicians who are allowed by the mass media.
After the Second World War in 1945, Labour was elected on a wave of hope. The British economy was dire after six years of war. That didn’t stop Clement Attlee’s ambitious government creating the NHS and a radical, and enviable, welfare state. It’s time you showed some of that ambition.
A perfect comment on the current state of Labour politics!