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Thread #161452   Message #3849206
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
07-Apr-17 - 03:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
You people need to remember that the accusations against Livingstone and others come from Labour not Mudcat.
We are just the messengers.

Huff Post yesterday,
"One of Labour's most senior former officials has urged Jeremy Corbyn to step aside in the wake of the decision not to expel Ken Livingstone.
Mike Creighton, Labour's Director of Audit and Risk Management until last month, said that it was "incomprehensible" that the former Mayor of London had been given "a slap on the wrist" despite being found guilty of bringing the party into disrepute.
Creighton, who effectively ran the party's legal, governance and disciplinary compliance team, said that it was time for Corbyn to consider "retirement" following the decision to suspend Livingstone for another year for his remarks about Hitler and Zionism."

"The former staffer, who has never before urged Corbyn to step aside, also claimed that he had advised the Labour leader to make a strong speech condemning anti-semitism last year at the height of the row, but was ignored."

"Creighton's remarks came amid strong condemnation by deputy leader Tom Watson and other Shadow Cabinet ministers of the ruling on Tuesday night by the party's disciplinary panel, the National Constitutional Committee (NCC).
With fresh calls for a re-think, HuffPost UK understands that both Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham will also criticise the decision."

"Deputy leader Watson said he felt "ashamed" by the NCC decision, declaring "my party is not living up to its commitment to have a zero tolerance approach to anti-semitism".
MPs including Shadow Cabinet ministers Keir Starmer and Barry Gardiner, Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy and Wes Streeting all united
to criticise the failure to expel the former Mayor."

""All charges brought against the odious Livingstone were found proven.
And yet, unaccountably, the punishment didn't even fit the least of these charges…"

"He said that the failure to expel Livingstone meant that "anti-Semitism has air to breathe in the Labour Party".
"And the Jew-haters and Jew-baters pretending that they are merely criticising the actions of the Israeli government have gained ground today."


"it gives carte blanche to the anti-Semites of the left and right – and mainly the Trotskyite left – to raise their evil standards on the parapets of the Labour Party. Apparently with Jeremy Corbyn's calm indifference."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ken-livingstone-jeremy-corbyn-should-go-says-mike-creighton-former-labour-head-of-risk-management-tom-watson-anti-semitism-claims_uk_58e4b71fe4b0d0b7e1663303