Did they actually drive her out for being Jewish, or was she facing deselection for other reasons and happened to be Jewish too? A subtle but important distinction. My understanding is that her stance on Brexit and Corbyn was at odds with the party membership in the safe seat she'd been parachuted into.
I agree she was bullied/driven out by Marxists because she was a moderate /centrist. Nice try btw at imposing the national labour attitude to Brexit upon her constituency ;-) In short I agree with her being treated unacceptably by the hard left, but where I disagree is that this was because of political differences and not her faith. As a remain supporting centrist she would have received the same treatment regardless of religion.Nice try. The Labour membership is 80% remain. She was driven out because she was Jewish and from the moderate wing of the party - two things the marxists can't stand, they are not overly bothered about brexit (Momentum is pro EU). The hard left cliques that exist in some CLP groups are not representative of the membership at all.
See previous. Agree she was unsupported by the leadership and bullied by the membership. I personally think this has more to do with her trying to destroy corbyn and being at odds politically with her local party than her faith.My understanding is that came into it, her views were at odds with the leadership and the hordes of new members on the left but the rabid mob intensified in trying to deselect her because she called out Corbyn for sitting on his arse during the antisemitism crisis in the party.
Despite the fact they didn’t get on and despite the fact she was critical of him, he had the responsibility to support one of his MPs, who was facing disgusting racial abuse and threats in his name and he didn’t even pick up the phone to her.
See previous. Agree she was unsupported by the leadership and bullied by the membership. I personally think this has more to do with her trying to destroy corbyn and being at odds politically with her local party than her faith.
Yep, this is where it gets difficult - I can't defend/condone that.It definitely started as that, from what I’ve read mate, but then she started receiving horrendous antisemitic abuse and death threats by a small minority of Corbyn’s support because of it, which she read out in parliament and that obviously exasperated the situation from being a political disagreement to something much more serious.
My understanding is that came into it, her views were at odds with the leadership and the hordes of new members on the left but the rabid mob intensified in trying to deselect her because she called out Corbyn for sitting on his arse during the antisemitism crisis in the party.
Despite the fact they didn’t get on and despite the fact she was critical of him, he had the responsibility to support one of his MPs, who was facing disgusting racial abuse and threats in his name and he didn’t even pick up the phone to her.
Agree - and this brings us back round to what Starmer is doing now. Its well overdue that a Political leader addresses the fringe / unacceptable elements within a party (both tories and labour have their issues).
I really like Starmer as an individual but I just can’t stand the conveyor belt of scum that’s in that party.
Its all relative. Our current government is comprised of tory scum, happy to let children go hungry over the summer up until enough people are outraged. We all know that there preference is to let them go hungry - they just couldn't get away with it. With that shit shower in government calling the Labour party a conveyor belt of scum sounds pretty hollow.
So - more trade union reps on the Labour benches than lawyers. More than either come from the voluntary sector (only 5 Tories have worked for charities...) More Labour still from local government background. Bulk of Tories from "business" but their next single highest category of background is "legal profession".Headed that way ever since labour became a party run by lawyers rather than trade unionists. Being a Labour party MP is just a convenient route to power now for lawyers that don't want to lose their guardian reading credentials by joint the ConsMotervatives, and are too ambitious/power hungry to go lib dem.