How short the memories of the treacherous Labour right
The weekend has seen the ugly spectacle of Keir Starmer’s supporters – and an apparent army of bots – being deployed to ‘pile on’ to Labour left-wingers who dare to stand up for the idea of integrity in politics by expecting Keir Starmer to take his own medicine and resign for his breach of lockdown laws last year in Durham.
Respected left figures like Alex Nunns are being told en masse that saying Starmer should be accountable for his actions, particularly if he is fined for breaking the law but even for being investigated as that was the standard he set for the Tories, is to:
- support the Tories
- collude with the hard-right press
- or both
Of course, such an attack means indulging in wilful amnesia about the fact that:
- right-wing Labour MPs and others freely and shamelessly ran to the Tory press with smears at every opportunity specifically to help the Tories defeat Jeremy Corbyn and the chance of real change that he represented – and some of them even campaigned for the Tories during the last general election
- right-wing Labour MPs staged a timed and staggered series of resignations to try to remove Corbyn, deliberately giving easy ammunition to the Tory government and press
- right-wing Labour staff actively worked to prevent a Corbyn win in at least one general election
- Starmer has not only welcomed back but also promoted people who campaigned against Labour in the last general election
- Keir Starmer has betrayed the movement by writing in the same hard-right rags that attack not only Corbyn but the entire Labour movement and working class
- some of his MPs are hiding to avoid having to defend him because they know what’s right and wrong
It would be entirely justified to suggest that if they can’t take their own medicine the spineless right shouldn’t have been first to dish it out and now pretend it never happened. But in the end, demanding integrity and accountability from a treacherous political leader is the right thing to do and the fact it might expediently suit the vile rags that blight our society doe not change what is right – nor turn facts into unfacts.
Nor does the fact that the right has so rigged Labour that Starmer would be replaced with another drone no less treacherous or toxic. Starmer’s excuses do not stand up, he and his minions have already changed their stories and Labour is already on record lying about the ‘beergate’ event, which they would not have felt they needed to do if there had been no breach.
He should go.
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