Like any political leader, Corbyn had his flaws. But the greatest threat to the established order is that history will remember him as a fundamentally decent, honest and principled leader who stood, and almost won, on a moderate platform of economic justice and climate renewal...
So long as that essential truth remains even on the margins of public discourse, so does the possibility of social democracy in Britain. That is why it must be relentlessly twisted, maligned and buried...
and why any mainstream journalist or columnist will be rewarded for dishing out 'insider gossip' based on the accounts of sources with obvious agendas...
and why they will risk their job - as @OborneTweets did - if they dare to interrogate the real questions or examine the real evidence.. of how a political and media class spectacularly closed ranks to avert the threat of genuine progressive social change...
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Why the Corbyn left is sliding into political relevance and what can be done about it.. a long 🧵
Prior to the July election, I was one of the co-founders of a new organisation called Collective - aiming to unite various groups and factions of the left and establish the first mass party of the working class in Britain outside of the Labour Party...we-are-collective.org
A number of initiatives and new parties on the left had sprout up in the years following Corbyn’s leadership. But none of them had succeeded in attracting a critical mass of support without Corbyn’s endorsement...
One of the great untold stories of this election is that Labour's polling has dropped even more steeply than the Tories' since the campaigns got underway...1/
The reason why this story has been ignored by everyone from the Guardian to the Murdoch press is because it calls into question the singular dominant narrative that the only alternative to the status quo is Farage and the far right... 2/
The real story of course is that Labour voters are turning away from the pro-genocide, pro-austerity and fundamentally anti-change agenda that the party now embodies even more than Tory voters are flocking to reform... 3/
20 years ago the US and UK governments launched an illegal war which claimed the lives of nearly a million innocent civilians. They did so on a pack of lies which served to cover up the oil profiteering and conspiracy leading up to the invasion..
Those lies were the culmination of a political culture that became closely associated with Tony Blair's New Labour government and the incestuous ties that were cemented with the Murdoch media empire...
Blair came to power off the back of nearly two decades of Tory rule and a previous election defeat that went against all polling and pundit predictions, and which became infamously associated with last minute dire warnings on the front page of the Sun newspaper...
Starmer's self congratulations on the handling of antisemitism within the Labour Party is built on one of the most comprehensive cover ups in modern British politics, and a litany of lies that makes Boris Johnson look like an oracle of truth telling...
the principle lie is that the previous leadership 'interfered' in order to undermine the proper handling of antisemitism complaints. As anyone with the slightest relationship to facts will know, that is not just a lie, it is an Orwellian inversion of the truth...
here's just one of countless examples where the Corbyn leadership was trying to get a hostile, right wing party bureaucracy to act on antisemitism complaints, disclosed long before the EHRC report or even Panorama's widely discredited episode on the topic..
John Ware claims he declined to sue me because I have a "young family". I'd love to believe such an act of benevolence. But I wonder why, in that case, he has steadfastly refused to answer the sort of questions I've been putting to him for 2 years:
In the above article Ware laments that his rebuttals have been 'ignored'. I have a similar frustration, beginning more or less when he refused to address my pre-publication questions for this article in 2020:
In particular, the article revealed that in spite of the BBC's repeated claims that it offered a 'full right of reply' to Labour, aspects of that reply - which spoke directly to key sequences in the programme - were ignored...
He repeats that an interview with @schneiderhome forms the basis of the ‘central allegation’ made against him. Yet, somewhat incredulously, again avoids any mention of the main thrust of that interview..
which is quite clearly concerned with the way in which his programme appeared to carefully select 2 phrases/10 words from an email by Seumas Milne that was querying Jewish Labour members being ‘more than occasionally’ the subject of disciplinary action over antisemitism...