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Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?


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  1. 1. Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?



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3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Obviously, the correct thing for him to do is to misappropriate those funds to bail out the party that withdrew the whip from him.

 

 

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What would he know about decent ?

 

 


When the rewards for treachery is to be given a peerage it shows the entire system stinks

News that Ian Botham will receive a peerage is splashed across the broadsheets, why not, Sir Ian Botham is a former England cricket captain he helped raise £10m for leukaemia charities, he was knighted in 2007 by the Queen he played a massive 102 Tests for England from 1974 to 1993. He is politically aware and also happens to be a Brexiter and a Tory.

Sir Ian Botham getting a peerage is what you would expect from a Boris Johnson Tory Government.

But what you do not expect is two former Labour MPs, John Woodcock and Ian Austin both to be honoured for their treachery. 

It’s clear the entire system stinks and its corruption is transparently seen in the rewards former MP’s receive for their dirty deeds. 

The value of patronage power for Prime Ministers and party leaders means that the Lords has increased hugely in size.

Although outside peerage appointments are scrutinised by a weak regulator (the House of Lords Appointments Commission), party nominations of peers seem to be only lightly and inadequately appraised, and HOLAC’s remit is very constrained.

Many citizens and commentators believe that major party donors can still effectively ‘buy’ peerages.

Corruption and misbehaviour allegations against peers highlight the openness to abuse that inevitably follows when legislators are accountable to no one and lack any effective oversight.

Ministers from the Lords are not held accountable to the same degree as their counterparts in the Commons.

 

Traitors to the Party and the People

Woodcock and Austin were both elected by the public, standing on Corbyn’s 2017 manifesto platform.

Austin walked out of the Labour Party in Feb 2019 and was later appointed by the then Prime Minister Theresa May as a trade envoy to Israel.

At Labour’s 2019 Party Conference, he drove along the seafront with a large mobile billboard saying Jeremy Corbyn was unfit for office. Days before the general election, he called for a Tory vote and actively campaigned against the Labour Party.

John Woodcock’s peerage is more shocking. The former MP for Barrow and Furness lost the Labour whip in 2018 following allegations of sexual harassment.

In January 2019, Woodcock abstained in a parliamentary vote of no confidence against May’s government and in November called for a Conservative vote. His peerage also looks like a pay-off from Johnson.

Their betrayal was not only to the Labour Party but to the very voters that made Woodcock and Austin members of parliament in the first place, along with all the hard-working supporters that campaigned to get them elected using Labour Party resources and money. No matter how you dress it up it stinks but more so this practice of rewarding MP’s for betraying their Partys and voters will come back and bite and bite really hard.

Woodcock and Austin are not the first to be rewarded for undermining their own Party and more so Party leader at the time, Jeremy Corbyn.

John Mann the former Labour MP for Bassetlaw was rewarded for his constant attacks on Corbyn and exasperating the narrative that Antisemitism was Labour Party issue while ever Jeremy Corbyn was the leader.

In July 2019, Mann was appointed by outgoing PM Theresa May to head a government inquiry on tackling anti-Semitism. Mann was nominated to the House of Lords in Theresa May’s resignation honour’s list, despite having previously called for the House of Lord to be abolished.

 

Rewarding treachery by peerage is filling the other chamber with characters that do nothing to advance our democracy. They cannot be relied upon to have an unbiased opinion or to work within a Party structure. Have no doubt that the past actions of some MPs now being rewarded with life peerages in this unelected chamber is the reward for ensuring the Labour Party and particularly Jeremy Corbyn did not obtain power. Woodcocks and Austin past actions other than scandal show had little notoriety, they have not been outstanding legislators or represented their constituents in any outstanding way.

 

https://labourheartlands.com/when-the-rewards-for-treachery-is-to-be-given-a-peerage-it-shows-the-entire-system-stinks/

 

 

 

 

 

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https://www.cityam.com/jewish-chronicle-newspaper-to-compensate-expelled-labour-activist-after-false-accusations/

 

Jewish Chronicle newspaper to compensate expelled Labour activist after false accusations

 

A London-based Jewish newspaper has agreed to pay “substantial compensation” to an activist it falsely accused of being involved in a group planning to target Jewish people in the Labour Party.

The Jewish Chronicle apologised to Marc Wadsworth on Thursday after it published an article in the newspaper and on its website in March wrongly alleging he was part of a group of current and ex-Labour members targeting Jewish activists in the party.

Wadsworth was expelled from the Labour Party in 2018 after he challenged Ruth Smeeth MP at a 2016 press conference launching the Chakrabarti report on anti-Semitism.

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The High Court heard that the newspaper article focused on allegations that a group of Labour members – including people said to have been suspended or expelled – were part of a plan to track down Jewish Labour activists at their homes to “take care” of them.

Dominic Garner, representing Wadsworth, said this would include intimidating, threatening or harassing those members into silence.

 

The solicitor said his client, who founded the Anti-Racist Alliance in 1991, was a civil rights campaigner, lecturer and author who had been wrongly associated with the group in the article.

He said: “The article named Wadsworth in this context, as well as featuring a prominent photograph of him in its print edition, stating that Wadsworth had given a speech at a launch event for the group, and in turn, alleging that he was both a member of the group and either involved or complicit in its activities.

“As the defendant has accepted, the allegations in the article about Wadsworth were wholly untrue.

 

“In fact, Wadsworth is not and has never been a member of the group to which the article referred. He neither spoke at nor attended the event in question, and has not been involved whatsoever in the group’s activities.”

Garner said that due to the “false and seriously defamatory” allegations, the Jewish Chronicle published apologies online and in print, and has agreed to pay “substantial compensation” for libel as well as Wadsworth’s legal costs.

 

Adelaide Lopez, representing the newspaper, said: “Jewish Chronicle Media Limited withdraws these false allegations and apologises to Wadsworth.”

Mrs Justice Collins Rice, who oversaw the public apology, said: “This was a serious mistake for the Jewish Chronicle to have made.”

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