Jeremy Corbyn’s sons have paid a glowing tribute to their dad and to his constituents in Islington North who overwhelmingly re-elected him last Thursday – and have condemned the ‘relentless’ and desperate smear campaign against him by the Labour right, those who think they have a right to rule and privilege and the complicit ‘mainstream’ media.
In a statement published on Seb Corbyn’s Instagram account, they said:
There is no British political leader that has been subjected to more smears, sabotage or systematic media attacks during our lifetimes than, our dad, Jeremy Corbyn.
He has been relentlessly targeted by those with whom power and wealth is concentrated and by the establishment politicians that represent them. The reason for those attacks is that he has spent his life campaigning to redistribute that wealth and power more equally. Doing so has meant challenging the cosy political consensus that protects it.
He is one of the few leading politicians to never waver in standing alongside the oppressed across the world nor in standing up to their oppressors. This is why he has always stood with the Palestinian people and always will.
On Thursday night The Labour Party – which has supported the Israeli war crimes in Gaza and is now backed by Tory billionaires as well as The S*n newspaper- attempted to take his Parliamentary seat away from him.
Despite our dad having dedicated the last 41 years to loyally representing Islington North, the Party prevented it’s own local members from being able select him as their candidate. A multi-million pound private health care director was instead imposed as their intended replacement.
Labour demeaned themselves in the campaign they ran. Their candidate, on record as saying “privatisation of healthcare is very, very important”, refused to turn up to a single debate, commit to a single meaningful policy pledge and conducted only one interview in which he refused to name the person he was trying to unseat. At the same time, the Party continued to use their spokespeople on the national media to smear our dad.
The Party spent vast resources on trying to unseat our MP as well as sending former leaders and other figures in an attempt to do so.
In contrast, our dad’s campaign was built on the thousands of volunteers that travelled from all over the world to support him, the loyalty of his constituents, and the efforts of an incredibly talented team.
We’re beyond proud that our community of Islington North stood by him. As we always will.
Corbyn received almost fifty percent more votes than his right-wing Labour rival, health privateer Praful Nargund – a huge contrast with Keir Starmer in neighbouring Holborn and St Pancras, who lost almost half of his vote from 2019, when he stood under Corbyn’s leadership.
Labour’s ‘landslide’ last week was entirely generated by the fascist Reform party splitting the Tories’ vote. Starmer’s hollowed-out shell of what used to be Labour received significantly fewer votes nationally than under Corbyn in 2019, a result falsely portrayed as the ‘worst general election performance since 1939’ – and massively fewer than the party’s 2017 performance, before the Labour right’s and the media’s sustained sabotage and smears, and Starmer’s ‘second referendum’ betrayal, bit.
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Well done to Corbyn.
His victory was one of several highlights of the election. The only candidate that I donated to who actually won although there was the near miss in Ilford North.
I hope he will continue to speak out for peace and justice throughout the world.
WELL DONE to Seb Corbyn speaking up on behalf of his brothers! I hope he and they take every opportunity to speak to the GENERAL electorate and rebut the slurry of lies in which Sir Keith Starmer slithers!!
THIS IS CRUCIAL if we are to make EFFECTIVE deep and wide PROGRESS!!!
🌟🎉🥇🌟🎉🥇🌟🎉🥇
Channel 4 news has labelled it The ‘Loveless Landslide’
Farage pointed out the Fuhrer had to check his notes 200 times in his speech outside No10
Further proof that he is just a glove puppet for the Kleptocracy, it was enough to send a Glass Eye to sleep
Unfortunately for the Red Tories, it’s going to get real very quickly
I didn’t think Jezza would win, glad he did.
A heartfelt and fitting response and a well-deserved win. Less welcome is the SW addendum that comes straight out of the ‘defending a terrible night of results by grasping at straws’ playbook. Leaving aside that the election referred to was in 1935, invoking Edgerton’s piece to contest the Labour performance in 2019 as anything other than a disaster is a big ask. The inequities of FPTP did Corbyn no favours (and were so egregious in 2024 that PR has to moved up the political agenda
(truncated from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election)
Votes per seat by party —
Labour 9,731,363 412 23,620
Sinn Féin 210,891 7 30,127
DUP 172,058 5 34,412
SDLP 86,861 2 43,431
Plaid Cymru 194,811 4 48,703
Lib Dems 3,519,163 72 48,877
Conservative 6,827,112 121 56,422
SNP 724,758 9 80,529
UUP 94,779 1 94,779
Alliance 117,191 1 117,191
Others 842,013 7 120,288
Green 1,943,258 4 485,815
Reform UK 4,106,661 5 821,332
but to entirely discount the metric by which a party is deemed to have won or lost an election ie seats won is akin to clutching the Fair Play Award in lieu of the Cup. Starmer is dangerous because he gamed the current system so effectively (and seems unlikely to wish to change it) – to cling to a belief that it was a qualified victory and that 2019 was not a complete loss is to perpetuate a narrative that does more harm than good.
“Starmer is dangerous because he gamed the current system so effectively (and seems unlikely to wish to change it)…”
Yes, – but he did not do it alone, did he Tim? Starmer is not simply a ‘servant of the security state’, he is its Agent. He’s its entryist whose task is to disable and destroy the Labour brand as a democratic socialist force in British politics. In that sense he is “Blair, mark. 2” and is the powers-that-be’s effort to remove the Corbyn-recovery from the Blair-destroyed Labour party.
I am glad I left the Labour party pretty soon after Starmer was supposedly ‘elected’ Party leader.
Starmer’s premiership is a re-run of Blair and the new-labor fiasco. It is a g*d-given opportunity for Blairmark 2 to fail and for a Corbynmark 2 to happen – this time outside of the Starmer-destroyed Labour party.
I would like to see, if not the destruction, then the curtailing of both Labour and Conservative brands in the course of increasing plurality of elected voices arising from a rejection of FPTP
Off topic:
Ethan Shone details an investigation by openDemocracy into the secretive lobbying of Starmer’s Labour prior to the election.
Lovebombed by lobbyists: How Labour became the party of Big Business
Twelve months before seizing power in last week’s historic election victory, Keir Starmer and the Labour Party welcomed with open arms an unprecedented lobbying campaign by the UK’s most powerful corporations.
Weapons manufacturers implicated in human rights abuses in Gaza bent the ears of would-be defence secretaries. Incoming climate change ministers met with oil companies. Labour ministers who will now be responsible for curbing the excesses of the City of London were wined and dined by financial services executives. Public affairs firms representing asset managers, the tobacco industry, gig economy firms and tax-avoiding mega corporations secured meeting after meeting after meeting with future ministers.
In a high-voltage campaign that was simultaneously secretive yet enacted in plain sight, lobbyists worked hard to ensure the policies of the UK’s first ostensibly progressive government in 14 years reflected the interests of their influential clients. And Labour was only too happy to engage…
Experts warn the consequences of the party effectively outsourcing its policy-making to private corporations will be far-reaching for British society. Labour has pledged to build new towns, to increase green investment, to reform health and social care and to launch major infrastructure projects. Mick McAteer, a former director of the UK’s financial services regulator has warned that the much-vaunted partnership with private finance which lies at the heart of all these plans “will result in a massive transfer of wealth from local communities to the City of London and global financial institutions over the next decade”.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/lovebombed-by-lobbyists-how-starmer-labour-became-the-party-of-big-business/
Sometimes, PW, your ‘off topic’ posts are very pertinent. Thanks.
Starmer’s lobby-ed corruption is in plain sight. It’s un-hidden and so open it beggars belief. Now, we simply have to witness and quietly publicise the fact(s) daily.
For Starmer. from here, the only way is down. Let’s enjoy his long, awkward administration.
Let’s endure his long, awkward administration.
Fixed. 👍
More on the creature who has inherited [for those who remember Steve Bell’s cartoons of the period] John Major’s gray underpants:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/10/who-exactly-sir-keir-starmer-george-smiley-being-jointly-run-by-israel-and-us/
“The number of cases of him covering up scandals and any flak coming the way of intelligence bosses is too many to dismiss. Starmer is certainly part of this family and his proximity to Israel as well only leads the humble journalist to wonder whether he is Israel’s creation which the U.S. backs, or in fact he is a product of years of Langley searching for a left-wing stooge who would finally rise to the ranks of Prime minister. Expect a lot of fake news about Israel and Gaza surrounded by smoke and mirrors for the dim-witted Westminster press pack who haven’t even picked up how he delayed an ICC judgment being carried out against a former Israeli minister while she visited London, when he was CPS boss – given her just enough time to leave the country unscathed.”
Iain Davis managed a good take on His Majesty’s new Britannic Gov and its atrocious front-man:
“Likened to a dish rag, and not without good reason, Keir Starmer now commands the government with a whopping 170+ seat majority after nearly 80% of the British electorate didn’t vote for either him or the Labour party.
“This all makes sense because people imagine that representative democracy has something to do with democracy, which it doesn’t. Still, who cares!
“Government is a shit idea anyway so if we are going to be ruled by anyone, why not the man who went out of his way not to prosecute Britain’s worst ever paedophile, necrophiliac pimp and was still listed as a “former” member of the Trilateral Commission in 2022 with their little explanatory note: “former members in public service.”
“He’s not an active member of the Trilateral Commission. Honest, he’s not!….”
The rest is on Off-Guardian Dave and well-worth reading, if only for the BTL comments.
Jonathan Cook…..
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-the-news-medias-job-is-to-groom?
…..provides a cogent insight into one of the key drivers producing “people imagining that representative democracy has something to do with democracy”
“As readers, we don’t, as we imagine, “consume” news. Rather, the news consumes us. Or put another way, the media uses the news to groom us, its audience. Properly understood, the relationship is one of abuser and abused.”
Sunday July 14, Editorial
Will MPs follow Corbyn’s democratic example or Lord Walney’s politics of fear?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/will-mps-follow-corbyns-democratic-example-or-lord-walneys-politics-fear
Ennobled John Woodcock is asking Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to launch a probe which will no doubt allow him to recommend yet more measures to insulate the Labour MPs from contact with ordinary people for whom Labour’s support of Israeli genocide in Gaza and occupied West Bank is disgusting.