Astonished that with Johnson's disastrous "response" to COVID and Sunak imposing austerity on public sector workers, Starmer and his General Secretary are putting their energies into closing down free speech in a Labour Party that has shed some 70,000 members since April. 1/4
Thinking of the sacrifice by the London Corresponding Society of the 1790s, imprisoned pamphleteers, the Chartists, the Reform League of the 1860s, the 19th century Trade Unionists, the suffragists + suffragettes, who fought for democracy to give ordinary people a voice. 2/4
Remembering today the wise words of George Lansbury: "All reforms come from those who are ready to break bad laws". I'm not surprised that Labour members are defying David Evans' draconian attempt to muzzle them, and are passing resolutions expressing their collective views. 3/4
How dare he justify this clampdown as protection against "expression of views that undermine the LP’s ability to provide a safe + welcoming space for all members, in particular our Jewish members", as if my non-Jewish party comrades are raving antisemites. Disgusting. 4/4
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