After the Labour leaks report, it was tempting to think the centrists' game was up - the cat was out of the bag, their lies and viciousness had finally been exposed. But they have the media and the establishment on their side - truth counts for little
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scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2004…
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scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2004…
We need to keep reminding ourselves what happened. They knew it was all lies but if the media repeated them constantly, they would become the truth
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BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis retweeted a thread that all but described Corbyn as a Nazi:
"Goodbye Jeremy Corbyn. They said you don’t have an antisemitic bone in your body. That may be true, but your brain is full of it...[etc.]"
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"Goodbye Jeremy Corbyn. They said you don’t have an antisemitic bone in your body. That may be true, but your brain is full of it...[etc.]"
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The report showed that Emilie Oldknow, a senior Labour staffer, boasted that she had orchestrated that deputy leader Tom Watson delay the expulsion of Ken Livingston. This was with the deliberate intention of embarrassing Corbyn
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"The party’s resources – paid for by party members – were often utilised to further the interests of one faction and in some cases were used to undermine the party’s objectives."
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When a YouGov poll showed Labour’s rating going up during the campaign, Francis Grove-White, the party’s international policy officer, said:
‘I actually felt quite sick when I saw that YouGov poll last night.’
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‘I actually felt quite sick when I saw that YouGov poll last night.’
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On election night, after the exit poll revealed that Labour had overturned the Conservative majority, Tracey Allen, the general secretary’s office manager, said that the result was the:
‘opposite to what I had been working towards for the last couple of years.’
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‘opposite to what I had been working towards for the last couple of years.’
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"Senior Labour figures essentially conspired to prevent a Corbyn-led government, and ... would have actually preferred the re-election of an extreme-right Tory government."
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The report proved the smears were lies orchestrated by Labour officials guilty of what they were accusing Corbyn of. But the media spun the report as being the left smearing whistleblowers. It's now become an expulsion offense in Lab to defend the truth exposed by the report
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There is much more information that what was in the #LabourLeaks report, such as this from @JoeRRyle's blog with some of his submissions to the #FordeReport.... which has recently been indefinitely withheld from publication - I wonder why?!?!
There is much more information that what was in the #LabourLeaks report, such as this from @JoeRRyle's blog with some of his submissions to the #FordeReport.... which has recently been indefinitely withheld from publication - I wonder why?!?!
https://twitter.com/troovus/status/1365742893420466177?s=20
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