Watson’s hypocrisy: He complained about campaign for his resignation but plotted to remove Corbyn – claim
A more topical shot of Mr Watson would be one of him with his back to the camera, because he does his best to ignore legitimate criticism of his activities.
If only we could ask Mr Watson for his side of the story – but he blocks anyone who contacts him on the social media with tricky questions like that.
The following tweets will seem highly repetitive but the point needs to be made: Talk radio station LBC has alleged that Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, attended a secret barbecue hosted by Peter “I try to undermine Jeremy Corbyn every single day” Mandelson, at which they and other hard-right Labour MPs discussed ways to “save” the party from its current leader.
This is the same Tom Watson who complained bitterly about a campaign calling for his own resignation after one of his recent high-profile attempts to stab his party leader in the back.
The apparent hypocrisy should be obvious to everybody.
Tom Watson was reportedly among the 10 moderate Labour MPs attending a secret barbecue hosted by Lord Mandelson, where they discussed how to save the party from Jeremy Corbyn. @MaajidNawaz asks: do we need a new centrist party? pic.twitter.com/ITMT9OmVNn
— LBC (@LBC) August 26, 2018
name them, report them to the NEC. plotting and planning to try and overthrow the elected leader by progress which is a very minority group of MPs in Labour is despeicable.. we should DEMAND the NEC deal with this immediately.. every one of those who attended should be suspended https://t.co/DV8V2kzZSH
— Isobel_Waby we NEED a COALITION (@Isobel_waby) August 26, 2018
LBC reports that Tom Watson was among the 10 Blairites who attended Peter Mandelson’s secret barbecue where they plotted to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn
The same Tom Watson who complained when Labour Party members and supporters recently held a Twitter storm calling for him to resign pic.twitter.com/QP2NhK3ikU
— Socialist Voice (@SocialistVoice) August 26, 2018
I remember several MPs and prominent activists criticised the successful #ResignWatson Twitter Storm. I’ll make it clear again: the demand for Watson to stand down had *nothing* to do with anti-Semitism and *everything* to do with undermining Jeremy Corbyn for 3 years. https://t.co/pHJToJthvD
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) August 26, 2018
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Why don’t they join another Party instead of Labour if they don’t believe in Socialism, why be a member of a Political Party that you don’t agree with, why join Labour if you’re not a Socialist?
In order to prevent socialism succeeding?
They joined when the money and cushy jobs were flowing in, as they rode on Blair’s coattails. They had no interest in Labour as a movement, just in what they could get out of being an MP in these ‘revolving door’ times. Prior to Kinnock and Blair they would have joined the Conservative party, with whom they had more in common, as Burnham, Cooper and in particular Kendall’s, ‘leadership manifesto’s’ showed. I remember at the time thinking, ‘I just cannot vote for any of these candidates’ as none of them represented any Labour values at all. All the talk was of ‘scroungers’, ‘Austerity’, ‘Welfare , Education and Health ‘reform” and none of it was positive, just negative, ‘appeal to floating conservative voters’ stuff. New Labour failed to recognise that the floating conservative voter had already gone back to their natural place – voting Tory. With a Tory party back in ascendency, with New Labours alienating of Labour voters by 2005, this meant they could never win back power. They still don’t understand that simple fact.