Whatever your opinon of the issue
Labours legal team expected to win the libel case, so why settle? It can only be out of personal choice especially as the other independant internal report on these staffers proved they were openly mysoginistic, racist, elitist acting to undemine certain MPs and briefing against certain parts of the party in most aspects of their daily duties, the full story should have come out regarding what went on not this hush up and weak attempt at trying to put the whole thing to bed.
It should have gone to court and the truth be out either way.
Also once again when the tories are on the ropes of another scandal, Starmer decides to take a stand or actions that shove their ineptitude and bastardly ways off the headlines for another negative for his own party.
On delivering hammer blows and tiiming he is pretty fucking idiotic, but then that has been labours problem for over a decade no matter who is in charge, finding ways to turn moments the tories are weak into oportunities for them to get away with it
Its gobsmacking the lengths Starmer is going to rid the Labour party of the left. His calls for party unity are something out of the Johnson playbook, a barefaced lie.
And as you say instead of winning the case in court the party will now use members money to pay the cunts off.
Its fucking disgraceful that people who were openly racist towards Diane Abbot will get members money, but the Blairite dreamers will be happy.
Expect more of this
Jack Straw - As home secretary he stripped welfare from refugees and made them use food vouchers
Harriet Harman- Cut welfare for single mums
Caroline Flint- Planned to strip the unemployed of their homes
Tony Blair- Boasted he would have the strictest anti-trade Union laws in the world
David Blunkett- Introduced bill to stop asylum seekers sending there kids to state schools
Charles Clarke - Unveiled policy designed to shame kids with ASBOs
Jacqui Smith - Banned unskilled immigrants from outside the EU
John Reid - complained there was a culture in the NHS against privatising the service
Hazel Blears- Said Muslims should accept the reality that people of Islamic appearance would be stopped and searched
Alan Milburn- Wanted the NHS to be set up for profit with an American insurance system
John Reid- Whipped up anger at immigrants who come to the UK to "steal" welfare
Liam Byrne - Made employers check job applicants passports
Tony Blair- wanted to sell off social housing
Charles Clarke- Didnt want the state to fund Uni subjects like history and saw Uni as enablers for the economy
Jack Straw - was against Muslim women wearing veils
Tony Blair - Sacked Jack Straw for saying he wouldnt nuke Iran
Tony Blair- welcomed 11 private companies into the NHS
David Blunkett - brought in a bill to cut welfare for asylum seekers and then take their children off them if they became destitute
Tony Blair - Blamed murders on black culture and that Black people lacked discipline
Tony Blair - Backed a ban on hoodies and baseball caps in shopping centres, demonising kids
Ruth Kelly - Told councils to stop translation services
Tony Blair- Set a target to reduce asylum seekers by 50%
David Blunkett - Told Asians to speak English in their own home
David Blunkett - banned asylum seekers from working
David Blunkett - planned to send all asylum seekers to offshore processing centres
Tony Blair- introduced curfew powers on under 16s
James Purnell - Forced single mums of kids as young as 1 to seek work
Liam Byrne - retrospectively changed asylum rules to deport skilled migrants
David Blunkett - said asylum seekers from Kosovo should go home
Tony Blair - Wanted the UK to review its obligations to the ECHR
David Blunkett - wanted all asylum seekers electronically tagged
Gordon Brown - wanted to further deregulate the banks
Phil Woolas - removed fromParliament by the high court for racist leaflet calling for white folk to be angry at muslims, dozens of Blairite MPs threatened a mutiny if he wasnt reinstated into the party
Tony Blair- Said single mothers were cause of many social problems
Margaret Hodge - wanted indigineous Brits to be given priority for housing.
Jack Straw- removed the right to trial by jury for many crimes
Phil Woolas- attacked charities who helped refugees
Alastair Darling- cut disability welfare, saying it was the right thing to do.
James Purnell - cut housing welfare
Tony Blair- rejected progressive taxation
David Blunkett - Introduced the citizen test and oath to Britain
Tony Blair - introduced fitness for work tests for disabled people
The party had an 82 year old holocaust survivor arrested under terror legislation for heckling Jack Straw
Downing Street - WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Downing Street - David Kelly
Downing Street - IRAQ WAR
No wonder the Tories are happy and comfortable with a party like this, they are worse than the tories.