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Martin Forde, commissioned by Labour to investigate factionalism and racism in the party speaks publicly for the first time about what he calls the party's hierarchy of racism:
"Anti-black racism, islamophobia, isn't taken as seriously as antisemitism"
"In his report published in July 2022 Forde made 165 recommendations; he was surprised to have heard almost nothing from the party since"
"The issue of AS - and the belief that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn harboured anti-Jewish racists - dominated the British media for the 4 yrs of Corbyn's leadership. It contributed to his defeat in the 2019 GE but the British media has shown almost no interest in the Forde Report"
Martin Forde: "I think I was approached by one [media outlet] on the day of publication but they candidly accepted that they hadn't actually read the report, and I suggested they might want to do that first, and they didn't come back to me!"
This latest edition of the #LabourFiles on the #FordeReport gives important context (authoritative - straight from the horses mouth) and adds to the undeniable conclusion about the "Labour antisemitism crisis": #ItWasAScam
MPs who voted against making landlords ensure housing is fit for human habitation
Division # 162 12 Jan 2016
Housing and Planning Bill — New Clause 52 — Implied term of fitness for human habitation in residential lettings
Nigel Adams Conservative
Adam Afriyie Conservative
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Peter Aldous Conservative
Lucy Allan Conservative
Heidi Allen Conservative
Sir David Amess Conservative
Stuart Andrew Conservative
Caroline Ansell Conservative
Edward Argar Conservative
Victoria Atkins Conservative
Richard Bacon Conservative
Steven Baker Conservative
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Harriett Baldwin Conservative
Steve Barclay Conservative
Gavin Barwell Conservative
Guto Bebb Conservative
Henry Bellingham Conservative
Paul Beresford Conservative
Jake Berry Conservative
James Berry Conservative
Andrew Bingham Conservative
Bob Blackman Conservative
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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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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 1/n 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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Here are the images used in Labour's regional organiser ads Tweeted by Angela Raynor before and after de-Corbynisation. 'Thank you [Jeremy Corbyn] for being our leader' changed to 'Labour'
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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