Jeremy Corbyn tried to have Ken Livingstone expelled from the party. The right of the party (note: right of the party, not right wingers) purposefully gave Livingstone a soft punishment so that Corbyn looks bad and to 'create a crisis'.
If they did that in this one instance and it involved a prominent mp like Tom Watson and the wife of another, what else have they done to sabotage Labour's ability to punish proven antisemites?
If they hadn't sabotaged the entire campaign in 2017, would JC be pm?
It's all there in the report if you want o read it. Maybe, just maybe the weirdos on the far left were right about the intentions of the right to do everything in their power to stop a left Labour government.
This sounds like night of the long knives blaming those you disagree with internally for failings.
Let’s just say this is true, for a second, and Blairites DID try and sabotage proceedings for known antisemites, Corbyn has still let them set the tone and hasn’t even controlled the disciplinary procedure, letting his internal rivals oversee it for his old allies.
Of course anyone who did this should be sacked and banished from the party in total shame, it’s almost as bad as the antisemitism itself, purposefully manipulating things in that way.
But that makes Corbyn utterly useless if true and it still means it’s his fault for 2017, let’s remember the Tories were in total crisis themselves with a very weak leader.
Watson is a known contrarian internally for the sake of being so, he was during the Blair years but it means that Corbyn put in a position of power and lost control.
Playing Devil’s advocate the Blairites will say any act of sabotage, if there is any, that they wanted to oust Corbyn to get into a winning position.
The truth is Corbyn had a fair whack in December and got his manifesto, Brexit policy and himself very wrong.