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Thread #165754 Message #3980215
Posted By: Steve Shaw
04-Mar-19 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Corbyns second referendum proposal
Subject: RE: Corbyns second referendum proposal
Actually, don't bother. I'll tell you one very noticeable thing about this barrage of attacks on Labour and Corbyn. We rarely, if ever, hear of the precise accusations that are fuelling this spate of sanctimonious nonsense from people whose only goal is to destroy Corbyn. We don't hear much about who said or did what to whom unless it's from idiots on social media who may not even be party members but who pretend to be. We hear about bullying but we don't hear the substance of the accusations and we don't hear about whether the alleged victims might have deliberately engendered situations, as Ruth Smeeth certainly did on the occasion when the Chakrabarti report was published, and let's not forget how John Mann deliberately orchestrated the incident which led to the demonisation of Ken Livingstone, a lifelong supporter of the Jews in the poorer areas of London (I know, because I was there and he was our ally in fighting racism in all its forms). I don't deny that there will be a few antisemites among the ranks of half a million mostly working-class party members. But I want to see substance, not clutching at straws, and I want to see far less reliance on the say-sos of thoroughly discredited and disreputable people like Margaret Hodge (go on, look her up) and her ilk. And it makes me sick when I think of the rampantly racist and Islamophobic Tory party and the almost-half of all the people who vote for them.