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Sep 21 • 12 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Labour says it's just ensuring the “highest standards of behaviour" from MPs in its treatment of Diane Abbott and others, not purging the left.

But if it's about standards, how come the following non-left MPs who have been accused of racism do meet the party's "high standards"?>
Steve Reed sits in Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet despite having had to apologise for calling a Jewish businessman a “puppet master” in 2020.

Despite Starmer’s purported “zero tolerance” of antisemitism, Reed faced no sanction and remained in Keir’s team.
thejc.com/news/uk/labour…
Mike Amesbury was recently promoted to the shadow frontbench by Starmer. He previously shared what was described as an “antisemitic caricature” on social media, for which he apologised in 2019.
thejc.com/news/uk-news/l…
Afzal Khan sits on the shadow frontbench under Starmer. He previously shared a Rothschilds conspiracy on social media, for which he apologised in 2019.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Naz Shah sits on the shadow frontbench under Starmer. She previously shared posts on social media that she herself later described as antisemitic, and for which she apologised in 2016.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Toby Perkins sits on the shadow frontbench under Starmer. In 2020 he apologised for having used “inappropriate” language suggesting Traveller communities are “inherently undesirable.”
travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2020/07/l…
Charlotte Nichols apologised after she posted pictures featuring an anti-traveller leaflet when Starmer’s shadow minister for women and equalities in 2021. Starmer retained her in her role; she later resigned from the frontbench for unrelated reasons.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Neil Coyle had the Labour whip restored to him by Starmer in 2023 despite having been found to have used “abusive language with racial overtones” by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, for which he apologised.
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
Rupa Huq had the Labour whip restored to her by Starmer in 2023 after apologising for calling Kwasi Kwarteng “superficially black.”
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Sarah Champion distanced herself from an article she wrote in 2017 in the Sun saying “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping white girls.” She holds the Labour whip.
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Barry Sheerman apologised for posting a tweet saying there had been a “run on silver shekels” after two Jewish businessmen missed out on peerages in 2020. Starmer did not withdraw the Labour whip.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
What does all this tell us?

The Labour leadership is lying when it cites requiring “the highest standards” for blocking @HackneyAbbott.

Inconsistently applied “standards” are used as a pretext to purge left-wingers.

No self-respecting journalist would let them get away with it

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May 28
It's become a fact that Roger Waters had a pig emblazoned with the Star of David at his gig in Berlin.

It has been used by MPs to call for his shows to be pulled, featured in headlines in the Daily Mail, repeated by the BBC etc.

Except, he didn't. Here is the pig in Berlin: ImageImage
The inflatable pig is a reference to the album cover of Pink Floyd's Animals, which showed a pig flying above Battersea Power Station. That, in turn, was a reference to George Orwell's Animal Farm, which depicted pigs as tyrannical rulers. Image
The inflatable pig has been a feature of Roger Waters' shows for years. Each iteration has different symbols on it. In 2013, the pig featured the Jewish Star of David, the Muslim crescent and star, and the Christian crucifix, presumably in a statement against organised religion.
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Apr 14
"This is Keir Starmer you’re talking here" someone replied to me incredulously after I said he lived it up on expenses as DPP.

So let's look instead at the hospitality he's been enjoying lately: more than £22,000 worth in the last year alone—averaging £1,800 a month in freebies.
Starmer was gifted £1,600 of tickets and hospitality for Spurs vs Arsenal in January by Getir, the rapid delivery company that has just got rid of around 300 UK workers with no notice, leaving the laid off employees "crying and angry." chargedretail.co.uk/2023/03/23/get…
He got Google to buy him dinner—at £190 a head—when he felt peckish while cavorting with the elite in Davos (a place he prefers to Westminster because its full of people he "can see working with in future"). Google, of course, a company with no agenda.
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Mar 16
NEW: Martin Forde, the KC asked by Keir Starmer to write a report on Labour's culture (that Keir ignored), breaks his silence, saying there's a hierarchy of racism under Starmer:

"Anti-black racism, Islamophobia, isn’t taken as seriously as antisemitism."
Forde: “Quite a high proportion of Black and Asian councillors or prospective MPs felt they'd been subjected to disciplinary action which had been deliberately timed to exclude them from qualifying processes or selection.”
The programme says: "In his report published in July 2022, Forde made 165 recommendations. He was surprised to have heard almost nothing from the party since."

Forde: "I had very limited communication."
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Oct 9, 2022
At last some coverage in a mainstream publication of the damning Al Jazeera documentary The Labour Files.

The rest continue to ignore it.

"Members deserve answers about the revelations in Al Jazeera’s documentary—Labour has so far given none"
@MSuhail0
independent.co.uk/voices/labour-…
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..."
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Aug 17, 2022
Saw Keir's "commitment" clip so checked the full thing. Ouch.

@afneil: A pledge is your word...So is it a pledge that these industries will be in your manifesto for nationalisation?

KS: Yes

And tuition fees?

"They're all pledges so the answer is yes..That's why it's a pledge"
Watch to the end for a funny bit.
Those commitments in full:

AN Can you guarantee the 2019 commitment to nationalise water, energy, rail, mail will be in the next Labour manifesto?

KS I've made that commitment.

AN Those 4 industries will be in the Labour manifesto for nationalisation come 2024?

KS They will.
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Jul 17, 2022
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...
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