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27 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Whenever you see people on the Labour right saying the left has to support Starmer, remember this:

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27 Feb
Below are excerpts from (ex adviser to @johnmcdonnellMP) @JoeRRyle's blog with some of his submissions to the #FordeReport.
As with the #LabourLeaks report, it's hard to reconcile its contents with the media's characterisation of events
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Full article:
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
From the off Corbyn had suspicions [about how helpful party officials would be] but the extent of the plots against him went beyond anything that could be expected
It was Lab HQ's job to set up LOTO's and McDonnell's offices, but in Corbyn and McDonnell’s offices there were:
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* No handover notes
* Computers had gone missing
* Only ancient computers prone to crashing left, some without screens
* Offices not properly set up
* Desks without chairs

A lot more went on than was revealed in the #LabourLeaks report
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26 Feb
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…
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
2/n
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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16 May 20
From The Telegraph 12 May

A Covid cardiologist at a top London hospital (friendly to Boris) has been so incensed by the daily charade of bogus omniscience that he vented his spleen in an email to me on Sunday night. It is a poignant indictment, so I pass along a few snippets
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Basically, every mistake that could have been made, was made. He likened the care home policy to the Siege of Caffa in 1346, that grim chapter of the Black Death when a Mongol army catapulted plague-ridden bodies over the walls.
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“Our policy was to let the virus rip and then ‘cocoon the elderly’,” he wrote. “You don’t know whether to laugh or cry when you contrast that with what we actually did. We discharged known, suspected, and unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared, with no...
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18 Feb 19
What do #TIG stand for? Here are #theindependentgroup's values:
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Pretty bland - what does this mean? But having "Strong Defence" as their #1 value positions them squarely in the Conservative camp
1/11
"Well-regulated private enterprise" - straight out of Tony Blair's phrasebook. Again pretty bland, but I don't think nationalisation of the railways and utilities will be on their wishlist...
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