Thread by @shaunjlawson

Margaret Thatcher? Supported Pinochet and Pol Pot; opposed sanctions on apartheid South Africa.

John Major? Met proscribed terrorist groups.

Tony Blair? Met proscribed terrorist groups, launched illegal war, oversaw torture and rendition, takes money from Saudi headchoppers.

https://twitter.com/1679Trevor2/status/1322989983477698560

David Cameron? Wrecked Libya and left it to be overwhelmed by terrorists, left migrants to drown in the sea.

Theresa May? Windrush, hostile environment - both as racist as it gets. And like Cameron, did deals with Saudi headchoppers.

Boris Johnson? A criminal and racist.

And Corbyn's 'interference' amounted to trying to SPEED THE PROCESS UP TO GET RID OF ANTISEMITES.

That same 'interference' was, plainly and obviously, commited by Keir Starmer on Thursday. As the brilliant @alexnunns explains:

https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1322886257215709185

Finally, while Corbyn accepted ALL the report's recommendations and urged their implementation forthwith, the reason he didn't accept all its findings is because:

1. The process was sabotaged by appalling people desperate to remove him: so desperate that they enabled antisemites

2. The problem was, very obviously, wildly, grotesquely exaggerated.

- When the British public think that 34% of Labour members are antisemitic, and the actual number is 0.3% of a membership of over half a million, IT'S BEEN EXAGGERATED.

- When Simon Heffer says of a lifelong anti-racist that "he wants to reopen Auschwitz", IT'S BEING EXAGGERATED QUITE DISGUSTINGLY.

- When the first thing Michael Gove does following the report's publication is to try to score the cheapest points imaginable against Keir Starmer for having served in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, IT'S BEING EXAGGERATED FOR NAKEDLY POLITICAL PURPOSES.

- When the Jewish Chronicle declares that a problem involving 0.3% of a membership of over half a million people (less than 150 people, in other words) is an "existential threat to British Jews", and is punished repeatedly by IPSO for its lies and slander, IT'S BEING EXAGGERATED.

- And when the President of the Board of Deputies for British Jews refuses to condemn Donald Trump - who whipped up neo-Nazis in Charlotteville, and who whipped up the terrorist atrocity which killed 11 Jews in Pittsburgh - IT'S BEING EXAGGERATED FOR NAKEDLY POLITICAL PURPOSES.

No party anywhere, no organisation anywhere, is somehow "institutionally antisemitic" when under one leader, then magically no longer "institutionally antisemitic" the moment a new leader takes over.

And that's because it wasn't to begin with. Period.