The piece summarises some of the film's findings, especially on the "current of anti-Black racism and Islamophobia in the party under Starmer," and demands:
"Those responsible for wrongdoing must be held to account, and anyone who participated in racist WhatsApp chats must face consequences. Next, the Forde Report’s recommendations must be implemented in full..."
"The abuse of Labour’s disciplinary system to wage political battles needs to end and factionally-tainted suspensions and expulsions overturned, starting with the restoration of the whip to Jeremy Corbyn and action taken to support Apsana Begum..."
"More broadly, we need an end to the hierarchy of racism Forde has laid out, something which can only be achieved by implementation of Labour’s promise to create democratic BAME structures."
Here are all 4 episodes of Al Jazeera's #LabourFiles
Part 1 👇 The Purge
Part 2 👇 The Crisis
Part 3 👇The Hierarchy
Part 4 👇The Spying Game
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Update on Keir's honour & integrity. He's now fibbing about previous fibs.
He told @AndrewMarr9 his broken pledges were overridden by a promise of a "laser-like" focus on winning which he made in his closing speeches at leadership hustings.
Turns out that's not true either! >>
It's daft to claim he was elected on the basis of one point he made at hustings events rather than on his campaign pledges, but anyway, he didn't even make it!
I've checked his closing speeches from six of the 2020 hustings and in none of them does he say what he now claims.
Here's what Keir said to Marr:
"About those pledges... we went through the hustings [in 2020]... everybody at every hustings had a closing speech and my closing speech was the same every single time which was: if we don't win, all the things that all the candidates are saying...
It's fair enough that people are unclear why this is significant.
It's not the breach, it's the hypocrisy.
To accept Keir's denial that he didn't break lockdown rules you have to believe he went back to work after his curry & beer, otherwise he was just socialising after work.>
If Labour had any evidence of work after 10pm on a Friday night, believe me they wouldn't have sat through a week of bad front pages and excruciating interviews without producing it. If there were zoom calls there would be emails arranging them. And then there's the ops note...
Now the ops note - the visit plan - has been leaked. It shows no work scheduled after the meal. Of course, it's possible Keir did do some extra unplanned work, but there is apparently no evidence of it.
In his Guardian interview today, Keir Starmer says nationalisation isn't something "I’ve ever thought is right."
Yet when he wanted Labour members' votes in 2020, he promised to nationalise water and electricity not in some private meeting, but on national TV, on BBC Newsnight.
He wasn't just asked if he generally liked nationalisation, he was asked specifically if it would be in Labour's next manifesto. "When you go into the next election, would you have any of these in your manifesto," he was asked, "renationalising water and electricity?"
In the same leadership election, he put his name to a pledge saying "I commit to replacing the privatised transmission and distribution companies with publicly owned nationals and regional companies which are democratically run and accountable to the public."
For anyone (including Keir) who says common ownership is different from nationalisation, try to tell us what common ownership means, and why Keir himself thought they were interchangeable when he was trying to get elected.
Corbyn: "Nobody who was in a front bench position...would be allowed to take a second job...I made that very clear to everybody including him [Starmer]."
“He’s saying there was no such request made.”
“There was an absolutely clear request and decision made.”
To recap, Starmer's assertions about this second job business have now been flatly contradicted by Jeremy Corbyn on the record, by three then-members of the shadow cabinet, and by email and text evidence from the time.
Why he chose to dig this hole I do not know.
People have responded who cares? He didn't take the job (thanks to JC) & Tory corruption is on a different scale. Of course it is—so why not tell the truth? Presumably it's because the fact he wanted to take the job does undermine his position now.