Concern over Starmer prompts Labour special conference call. Media attack ‘ruthless Corbynites’
It’s ludicrous. But people believe it – and that makes it dangerous too.
Yes, left-wingers in the Labour Party are calling for an emergency party conference – possibly to take place in June alongside the Women’s Conference.
But their reasons are perfectly rational: Keir Starmer’s lurch to the right – appealing to voters by waving the flag, wearing a suit and sporting a pretty haircut – isn’t working.
Poll results make this perfectly clear.
And this Huffington Post report spells it out:
The motion… reads: “Discussion in local Labour Party meetings has been suppressed; motions banned; scores of activists suspended; and anger and disillusionment is exploding across our lay membership across the party.
“Members are leaving in droves and many more are expressing frustration and dissatisfaction at the attack on democracy and free speech. Many members are saying it doesn’t feel like the Labour Party anymore.”
There is also frustration after several ex-officials suspended over the contents of a damning leaked report have been let back into Labour.
Starmer faces criticism from the left over plans, reported in the Sunday Times, to woo businesses ahead of May’s local elections.
The Guardian also last week revealed a strategy document which said Labour was considering refocusing on patriotism, the Union flag and veterans’ causes to win back “Red Wall” seats captured by the Conservatives in 2019.
Reporter Rachel Wearmouth couldn’t resist claiming that Labour had seen a “massive improvement” at the polls – but this is not borne out by any evidence.
And she also claimed that Labour feared a “vaccine bounce” in the polls for the Tories, in the belief that the UK’s rollout of injections is one of the best in the world.
The problem is, the Tories are leaving the job half-done for most people, with only one of the two jabs they must have actually being administered and the second being delayed until up to 12 weeks after the first.
Pfizer, creator of one of the vaccines, has stated categorically that the second injection should happen no later than six weeks after the first. Otherwise there is no point having either.
It all adds up to another attack on the Labour Left – that could be accurately described as victim-blaming.
Left-wingers have been ruthlessly targeted by Starmer and his cronies – the most prominent being his immediate forerunner as party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
And of course no mention is made in the media to the years of backstabbing from centrists when Corbyn was in charge.
Will the call for a recall conference succeed? I doubt it.
The Parliamentary Labour Party is stuffed with “centrists” (read: right-wingers). It was a policy of the Blair/Brown years and Corbyn was unable to reverse it, despite a long-running debate over whether constituency parties should have the power to choose their own candidates rather than having people parachuted in by head office.
With so many “centrists” at the top of the party, it seems extremely unlikely that a poll of the entire membership that may lead to the removal of a “centrist” leader will be allowed.
See if I’m wrong.
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More BS and lies from the cult of new Labour. Oh, the evil socialists want to be shot of the great leader who lied and then turned the socialist party to a Tory-lite clone and has been consistently either useless or attacking socialism. As the reporter here believes it will all be for nothing and I have to agree this we can change 95% of the party and PLP is a fantasy I am sorry to inform them of this reality.
The only way forward it to stop playing by the rules of the cult and set up a socialism Labour party. The so-called socialist’s MP’s will have a choice get a backbone and join or stay with the cult I bet most will sadly stay! This is the only way forwards getting rid of any trace of the right-wing cancer and having true socialist party. But I sadly expect people are to terrified of trying and will stay and repeat this endless fights when a few victories are pointless the right wing cancer will remain…