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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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18 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Okay, I’m done. You clearly are, and to say you’re not isn’t true. I don’t want be called disingenuous for recognising the truth. 

I clearly am what?

 

I rightly called you disingenuous for the dishonest way you pretended that my response to your specific claims was an attempt to summarise the report. 

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12 minutes ago, House of Dirk said:

 

 

This is my stance. Never got any straight answers at local or national level (radio silence and a few social media blocks). 

 

This may be difficult for people to comprehend, as I have mentioned before, I live in North Bucks. Former speaker constituency but basically Tory when Bercow started and is now again a Tory seat. so I dont matter to the the Labour management because a thundercunt in a blue rosette will walk away with the seat here. I am a low level rabble rouser when asking what the fuck is going on. I am aware of more prominent Labour supporters in Liverpool and Manchester who have been censured for less. Geography, innit.

 

So, when this all spikes up, there are people, like me, who are genuinely puzzled as to where this has come from. We didnt get a card with our membership packs to be an antisemite.  There never seemed to be a feeling that this was a thing. We joined because we wanted better. We deserve better.  Corbyn struck me as someone who could facilitate this.  From how I recount it, since the comments or liking the picture of that mural, which everybody in the world should have known was antisemtic.

 

Here is the thing. I didnt make any direct link. I am no expert on Jewish culture and I am certainly no art critic. I like what I like and this certainly isnt gonna be hanging on any wall here because its a grotesque. Any symbolism I could see was that the worlds wealth is held by a few undefined individuals propped up by the rest of the world, a significant number of which is in poverty.  But lack of awareness then translates as antisemitism. Then you are on dangerous ground, because other elements then get bracketed which ultimately trivialises what antisemtism is.

 

The media coverage was then a shitshow. You couldnt disseminate truth from smear.  Attempts to do so (Labour files) are met with lukewarm response. In life, vindication usually happens well after the event and impact is limited because everyone has moved on. I am not saying Corbyn didnt help himself in situations, but by then it really didnt matter what he did. The broadside of it then serves the narrative that 'Labour are antisemitic' and this could be levelled at everybody.

 

One of my most moving experiences in life was a visit to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, in 2008. Me and my friend were just leaving after a few hours on the site, taking in the horror and magnitude of the suffering that unfolded. A coachload of Israeli teens had disembarked as we were exiting. ABout 16-18 years old, all in tears as they were approaching the site, carrying flags and no doubt the memories of relatives they never got to meet. My friend, who has a very stoic demeanour, was choked, he rarely gives anything away from an emotional perspective. This stays with me, so when I am deemed antisemetic becuase of a party I was a member of, I take great exception. 

 

I have rambled now and I need to do some work. I am trying to put some emphasis on the frustration of not quite getting the situation.

 

What picture of what mural?

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7 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I clearly am what?

 

I rightly called you disingenuous for the dishonest way you pretended that my response to your specific claims was an attempt to summarise the report. 


Yeah, you’ve called me a prick, a twerp, and disingenuous twice, lazy, and gullible. You can call me whatever you want, no skin off my nose. I just can’t be bothered with it. The report is clear regarding the issues, it was clear in the measures it required to be put in place, and the record of extensive measures used to correct the issues is there and available to all. Insulting comments isn’t going to change those things. That’s all that’s relevant to what I actually said. 
 

You’re a guy who joined Labour because of Corbyn and have defended him ever since. I’ve got no issue with that. I just happen to have said something easily verifiably true and you start the insults because Corbyn is involved. That’s up to you, but I don’t want any part of that with you, so I’m done. 

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17 minutes ago, House of Dirk said:

I am not here to change views, because that is impossible, especially here. 

anyone with half a brain knows he hasnt got an anti semitic bone in his body.

sadly there are a huge number of people in this country who read how much of a racist he is in the daily mail,but dont have the capacity to ask for actual evidence of the claim. 

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12 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

anyone with half a brain knows he hasnt got an anti semitic bone in his body.

sadly there are a huge number of people in this country who read how much of a racist he is in the daily mail,but dont have the capacity to ask for actual evidence of the claim. 

 

I suspect many who know full well he isn't anti-semitic or racist still bang the drum (or slyly implicate) because... well it suits their agenda

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10 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

anyone with half a brain knows he hasnt got an anti semitic bone in his body.

sadly there are a huge number of people in this country who read how much of a racist he is in the daily mail,but dont have the capacity to ask for actual evidence of the claim. 


Ironic that the Mail should ever call anybody else racist. 

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7 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:


Ironic that the Mail should ever call anybody else racist. 

said it before..its borderline surreal

a home secretary who dreams of deporting immigrants and its corbyn and the left who are massive racists.

The country is a fucking basket case.

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30 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:


Yeah, you’ve called me a prick, a twerp, and disingenuous twice, lazy, and gullible. You can call me whatever you want, no skin off my nose. I just can’t be bothered with it. The report is clear regarding the issues, it was clear in the measures it required to be put in place, and the record of extensive measures used to correct the issues is there and available to all. Insulting comments isn’t going to change those things. That’s all that’s relevant to what I actually said. 
 

You’re a guy who joined Labour because of Corbyn and have defended him ever since. I’ve got no issue with that. I just happen to have said something easily verifiably true and you start the insults because Corbyn is involved. That’s up to you, but I don’t want any part of that with you, so I’m done. 

What a load of nonsense. That litany of stuff I've said is badly cherry-picked for a man who claims to abhor cherry-picking.

 

I said you were being disingenuous and pointed out the specific example of it. It's there in black and white.

 

I didn't call you lazy and gullible; I said it's surprising that you are acting lazy and gullible in this instance. There's a difference.

 

The report is clear. It's also clearly being misrepresented by the Corbyn-obsessives in the media, the Tory Party and the Labour leadership. It's lazy and gullible to parrot their line, rather than what the report actually says.

 

Like hundreds of thousands of people, I joined the Labour Party when it looked like moving towards the politics I believe in; that would have happened whoever was leader. I haven't "defended him ever since" in the way you imply. I do, however, have a general contempt for the tactic of repeating lies until they assume the patina of truth; it's a tactic that's been used relentlessly against the left wing of the Labour Party since 2015. The idea that you're posting the obvious truth and I'm flinging insults because I'm in love with some old geezer is laughable.

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14 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

said it before..its borderline surreal

a home secretary who dreams of deporting immigrants and its corbyn and the left who are massive racists.

The country is a fucking basket case.

 

Well it's the Labour leadership who's kicking him out, not the country. 

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5 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

What a load of nonsense. That litany of stuff I've said is badly cherry-picked for a man who claims to abhor cherry-picking.

 

I said you were being disingenuous and pointed out the specific example of it. It's there in black and white.

 

I didn't call you lazy and gullible; I said it's surprising that you are acting lazy and gullible in this instance. There's a difference.

 

The report is clear. It's also clearly being misrepresented by the Corbyn-obsessives in the media, the Tory Party and the Labour leadership. It's lazy and gullible to parrot their line, rather than what the report actually says.

 

Like hundreds of thousands of people, I joined the Labour Party when it looked like moving towards the politics I believe in; that would have happened whoever was leader. I haven't "defended him ever since" in the way you imply. I do, however, have a general contempt for the tactic of repeating lies until they assume the patina of truth; it's a tactic that's been used relentlessly against the left wing of the Labour Party since 2015. The idea that you're posting the obvious truth and I'm flinging insults because I'm in love with some old geezer is laughable.


You find it laughable, I find it an obvious truth. Not much more to do really. Most of that doesn’t have anything to do with anything I said. 

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3 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:


You find it laughable, I find it an obvious truth. Not much more to do really. Most of that doesn’t have anything to do with anything I said. 

It's all about what you have posted here, in the last couple of pages. You can't honestly deny what's right in front of you.

 

Anyway, which recommendations were ignored?

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1 minute ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It's all about what you have posted here, in the last couple of pages. You can't honestly deny what's right in front of you.

 

Anyway, which recommendations were ignored?


I’m not denying what’s right in front of me, I’m saying look what I’ve actually written. Not headlines, which have nothing to do with me, I’m not the Tory party or the right of the Labour Party. I said a thing, which was that I’m glad Starmer has fixed what was broken under Corbyn. That’s not even mentioning antisemitism, it’s not lies that are repeated, it’s just verifiably true. It was broken, it was picked up by the report, and it has been fixed by Starmer. The rest is waffle. 
 

As for recommendations that have been ignored, I’m referring to this from page 6 of the EHRC report:

 

The issue of antisemitism within the Labour Party has been the subject of much scrutiny, most formally with three investigations in 2016, conducted by Baroness Chakrabarti, Baroness Royall and the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC). Since then, the Party has failed to implement the recommendations made in these reports fully, or to take effective measures to stop antisemitic conduct from taking place. It is regrettable that many of the concerns we raise here were first raised in these reports over four years ago.

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Whilst it's good to see him standing up for himself and fighting his corner at last, I think this is a mistake.

 

IMHO it would be better for all involved if the members in his local CLP have a quiet word with him and advise him to step aside. By saying he'll stand for Labour when there's a chance the NEC could leave him off the list he's opening himself up to a massive egg on face moment, not to mention leaving himself open to the usual wankers who'll accuse him of everything from trying to derail labour's election bid to running the trains into Birkenau (hello Rachel you twat!).

 

He should either stand as an independent and tell Labour to stick their party membership up their arse, or preferably keep his Labour membership and gracefully step aside.

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6 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Yet another Alexie example here. I'd like to drop this cunt.

 

 

 

 

That's the kind of shit a manager at my old company came out with a few years back. She took it back quickly when some of the least bolshy and political people I've ever worked with told her they would be working their notice in that case.

 

It was one of my favourite climbdowns as she was and I presume still is a nasty stuck up right wing glaswegian bitch! She'd fit right in with Keirs Labour.

 

A pox on you Carolyn if you're reading this, you fucking gobshite!

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4 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Whilst it's good to see him standing up for himself and fighting his corner at last, I think this is a mistake.

 

IMHO it would be better for all involved if the members in his local CLP have a quiet word with him and advise him to step aside. By saying he'll stand for Labour when there's a chance the NEC could leave him off the list he's opening himself up to a massive egg on face moment, not to mention leaving himself open to the usual wankers who'll accuse him of everything from trying to derail labour's election bid to running the trains into Birkenau (hello Rachel you twat!).

 

He should either stand as an independent and tell Labour to stick their party membership up their arse, or preferably keep his Labour membership and gracefully step aside.


Far be it from this block of cheese to respond, but long listing by NEC and then short listing by NEC, CLP and/or a regional body only happens when there’s a defection and l/or retirement. So Corbyn might be within his rights to stand there. Though with him not being in the PLP, I’m not sure if that’s even in the rules, such is the weirdness of the situation. Obviously if he stands against Labour he will have his membership automatically revoked. I guess that’d be seen as defection. 
 

What a mess. For me, he has been an MP there for 40 years. He deserves to carry on. On the other hand, I can see why, from a strategic perspective, they don’t want him near the party anymore.

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11 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Whilst it's good to see him standing up for himself and fighting his corner at last, I think this is a mistake.

 

IMHO it would be better for all involved if the members in his local CLP have a quiet word with him and advise him to step aside. By saying he'll stand for Labour when there's a chance the NEC could leave him off the list he's opening himself up to a massive egg on face moment, not to mention leaving himself open to the usual wankers who'll accuse him of everything from trying to derail labour's election bid to running the trains into Birkenau (hello Rachel you twat!).

 

He should either stand as an independent and tell Labour to stick their party membership up their arse, or preferably keep his Labour membership and gracefully step aside.

yep

if his constituents want him then stand as an independent.

why stand for a party when the leadership doesnt want you? 

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