Thread by @shaunjlawson

I desperately want the Tories out. I've always voted anti-Tory throughout my life and, as long as I have the franchise, always will.

But sorry folks. If you just ignore the treatment of @jeremycorbyn, @LauraPidcock, @helensclegel or @PamelaFitzNWC, there's something wrong.

What did these people do wrong? Believe in socialism, that's what. In an allegedly democratic socialist party which shows every sign of ending up way to the right of New Labour.

Keir Starmer's Labour Party is a bullying, lying, Stalinist, vindictive, top down abomination.

Whether you're young or old, if you care about others, if you want to help the most vulnerable, there's no place for you in the Labour Party.

Which kicks people out for being left wing while rejoicing when Tory MPs join. That's not a 'broad church'. It's just right wing.

And what I cannot get over - and cannot forgive - is the meanness, nastiness and outright cruelty of so many of those around Starmer. So many of those on the NEC too.

That is the last thing on Earth that any so-called 'progressive' party should ever involve. It's disgusting.

Scores of Jewish socialists kicked out for 'antisemitism'. Orwell himself would be astonished at that.

Any semblance of democratic structures or accountability in the party forcibly removed. "You are the little people. Pay us your subs, volunteer for us, and shut up".

Remember all that constant drivel about 'Stalinist purges' when all the members wanted was - shock, horror! - accountability for MPs?

The Stalinist purges have been going on since the moment Starmer became leader and David Evans became his VERY right hand man.

An institutionally anti-semitic party.

An institutionally anti-democratic party.

An institutionally bullying and hostile party.

Which has no ideas, no vision, other than 'more of the same, just done competently'.

We have 8 years, and counting, left to save our species.

Real wages will STILL be below 2008 levels by 2026. An entire generation written off completely.

Student debt is a timebomb which will explode under the nation's finances.

Rents are horribly insecure and deplorably expensive; section 21 is STILL in place. Meaning that tenants are routinely kicked out for nothing.

Also meaning that 20 or 30 years from now, an entire generation will reach retirement age with no assets. What are they going to do?

What's the Labour Party's response to all of this... and to automation wiping out millions and millions of future jobs too?

"Kick out all the lefties and denounce them".

What's the Labour Party's response to young people frantic that they have any kind of future at all?

It is pathetic, disgraceful, despicable.

How can it treat people of talent, compassion, empathy, like this?

How DARE it call itself a left of centre party when it behaves like this?

I know what the below is proof of. Systematic RACISM.

middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour…

Those in charge have made the most monstrously cynical calculation.

It's that those on the left have nowhere else to go - so they'll do nothing about FPTP, the system that causes that, and simply seek the votes of Tories everywhere. That's it. That's their 'vision'.

That is their answer to well over 11 years of a government which has devastated Britain and destroyed its international reputation too.

YOU CANNOT TREAT GOOD PEOPLE LIKE THIS.

And when you do, don't you DARE attack all those who've simply had enough of this serial gaslighting.

My thoughts are with all those who've been treated so abominably. Starting with the former leader himself.

Who by the way, won't be starting any new party - because he's always been far too decent and kind for his own good, amid the absolute cesspit that is British politics.

He'll continue to set the same fine example he always has.

And how he conducts himself will continue to shine a mirror on an absolute shower of contemptible bastards.

#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn