Thread by @jrschlosberg

Starmer's self congratulations on the handling of antisemitism within the Labour Party is built on one of the most comprehensive cover ups in modern British politics, and a litany of lies that makes Boris Johnson look like an oracle of truth telling...

the principle lie is that the previous leadership 'interfered' in order to undermine the proper handling of antisemitism complaints. As anyone with the slightest relationship to facts will know, that is not just a lie, it is an Orwellian inversion of the truth...

here's just one of countless examples where the Corbyn leadership was trying to get a hostile, right wing party bureaucracy to act on antisemitism complaints, disclosed long before the EHRC report or even Panorama's widely discredited episode on the topic..

Reams of corroborating evidence has since surfaced, exposed comprehensively by #LeakedLabourReport, #FordeReport, #LabourFiles; evidence to which the Labour right have wilfully blinded themselves in order to say things like this with a straight face...

https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1625799539373363201

Perhaps the most egregious lie is that Starmer has dealt with the problem of antisemitism: on the contrary, it was under Corbyn's leadership that radical changes were introduced once factional warrior Iain McNicol was replaced as general secretary...

This led to rapid improvements in complaints handling which even the EHRC was forced to begrudgingly acknowledge, noting that "The Labour Party has made improvements to its complaints and disciplinary procedures since 2016"...

But here's the really twisted part: under Starmer's leadership the party has actually terrorised Jewish members, many of them elderly, in a factionally motivated purge of the left..

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

They even tried to stop a long-standing member give a talk on Holocaust memorial day about is direct personal experience as a holocaust survivor...

middleeasteye.net/news/labour-ho…

Starmer has also consciously, proactively and even admittedly 'interfered' in disciplinary processes in exactly the way that the EHRC decried...

https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1322886257215709185

It gets worse: he paid off some of the biggest exponents of the myth that Corbyn's leadership was trying to undermine complaints investigations, against the advice of his own lawyers...

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

And after #Fordereport largely corroborated evidence and allegations in the #LeakedLabourReport, exposing racism and misogyny within senior ranks of the Labour right, as well as the myth of Corbyn interference, what did Starmer do?

Nothing other than continue to bleed party funds on an absurd legal action against 5 people the party suspects of leaking the report, barely concealing his unabashed war on truth...

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is the double-sided financial cost of the cover up: millions spent on legal fees in attempt to exonerate those who manipulated the truth on the one hand, whilst hounding those it suspects of telling the truth on the other...

That the wider media and political class remains all but oblivious to this massive institutional cover up is a reflection of just how deeply corrupt British democracy has become.