Reinstatement of Trevor Phillips shows that post-Corbyn Labour has turned TOWARDS racism
Here’s the message that explains it all:
Trevor Phillips, unrepentant Islamophobe and friend of Peter Mandelson, has had his suspension from the Labour Party overturned without explanation.
Jeremy Corbyn, lifelong anti-racist and Palestinian rights campaigner, is still suspended from the PLP.
You do the maths.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 9, 2021
Ignore the doubletalk coming from Labour HQ; Jeremy Corbyn was removed from the party leadership because he was impeding the party’s descent into racism – not because he was a racist himself.
The reinstatement of Trevor Phillips just confirms it.
Phillips’s Labour Party membership was suspended in March last year, when Jeremy Corbyn was party leader, over comments he made about Muslims:
https://twitter.com/Taj_Ali1/status/1412708208045613057
He also claimed that the centre of gravity of British Muslim opinion was “some distance away from the centre of gravity of everybody else’s” – prompting Labour MP Naz Shah to demand an explanation.
And Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said, “The statements he has made on a number of different things would not be statements that he would make against other communities.”
According to Labour procedures, Phillips’s case should have gone before a committee of the party’s National Executive Committee – but, after a delay of more than a year, that organisation was told last week that the case against him had been summarily dismissed.
Presumably, this means Keir Starmer decided to spit on the rules and made the decision on his own.
Why?
Well… he’s been spending a lot of time around Peter Mandelson lately.
Mandelson was the spin doctor behind Blairism and New Labour, and it could certainly be argued that Islamophobia was behind the decisions to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq during Tony Blair’s leadership of the UK.
He is also a close friend of Trevor Phillips.
Trevor Phillips and Peter Mandelson are both 67 y/o. They've known each other since they were students. They worked together at London Weekend Television. Mandelson was best man at Phillips's 1981 wedding.
Are we supposed to believe Mandelson isn't behind Phillips's readmission?
— 🔻سيد عمار 🇵🇸 (@SayedAmmar_) July 8, 2021
Consider also:
https://twitter.com/PhillipsBarrie/status/1412744335083384839
https://twitter.com/PhillipsBarrie/status/1412744342343651331
https://twitter.com/PhillipsBarrie/status/1412763840819912716
So: close friend of Mandelson; member of the same Labour branch as Starmer. And Mandelson and Starmer are as thick as thieves right now.
It seems Starmer has turned Labour into another old-school-tie network; a club for well-placed people who have personal interconnections. Doesn’t the Conservative Party already operate that kind of elitist, privileged, entitled system?
So much for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, then, and its demand that Labour’s political interference in its disciplinary process be halted. Keir Starmer vowed solemnly that he would follow that advice. Clearly, he lied.
Dear "moderate" Labour MPs,
In quietly ending the suspension of Trevor Phillips, Keir Starmer has not only interfered in the disciplinary process, he's treated the EHRC report with contempt.
And yet, not one of you has the moral integrity to criticise him publicly.
Hypocrites.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 8, 2021
But then, it seems the EHRC has been failing in its duties since it was created. Would you be surprised at this, knowing that its first chairman was… Trevor Phillips?
Trevor Phillips has been welcomed back to @UKLabour. It's a signal to centrist Islamophobes everywhere that Blairism is back.
In this video last year, I explained the proximity between Phillips and New Labour. Perhaps those who were previously dismissive will now pay attention. pic.twitter.com/fcozvT4PhE
— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) July 7, 2021
The links explained by Chris Williamson suggest wide-ranging, institutional corruption.
So-called centrist (in reality, so deeply into the right-wing of politics that they could be Tories) Labour MPs have rushed to defend the decision to reinstate Phillips. But they haven’t done a very good job. In the video below, Jess Phillips (no relation) seems to be suggesting that the Islamophobia accusations were inflated out of proportion in order to gain political advantage. The Prole Star draws an obvious parallel:
Jess Phillips isn't suggesting that claims of Islamophobia against Trevor Phillips were dramatically overstated for political reasons, is she…?
Because if so, @Keir_Starmer would surely have withdrawn the whip, wouldn't he? Wouldn't he? https://t.co/Fa4Re06Rw6— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) July 7, 2021
Note also that she was making her comments on a platform provided by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which has its own questions to answer about political interference – especially in the case of Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn himself worked tirelessly to disentangle the party from the barrage of false accusations of anti-Semitism that it faced under his leadership. We now know (don’t we?) that he was undermined in these efforts by right-wing party officials who wanted to smear him in order to ensure that the Conservatives would beat him in a general election, forcing him out.
https://twitter.com/ArtCrunchy/status/1413121314299260929
His reward was to be suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party by Starmer so he now has to sit as an Independent MP – and now one of the party’s swivel-eyed right-wingers, Neil Coyle, has accused him of failing to declare financial support he received in order to fight the false claims against him.
So we see a huge dichotomy – a contrast between Labour’s attitude to anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and what it is doing now about Islamophobia under Starmer:
Action taken by Jeremy Corbyn in response to concerns about antisemitism in the Labour Party
vs.
Action taken by Keir Starmer in response to concerns about Islamophobia in the Labour Party pic.twitter.com/iaXY8xa99J
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 8, 2021
No wonder Muslims abandoned Labour en masse at the Batley & Spen by-election. The rest of us should do the same because of the outrageous mistreatment of Corbyn.
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Trevor Phillips, the unrepentant Islamophobe and friend of Peter Mandelson, has had his suspension from the Labour Party overturned without explanation. Errr because there both believers in this cult of new Labour 2.0 BS!!!
Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong anti-racist and Palestinian rights campaigner, is still suspended from the PLP.
It stinks and is NOT LABOUR or anything like Socialism! Instead it’s right-wing vile politics BS this is why I left this party it’s lost its ideology, it’s soul and way. My parents brought me up to believe in socialism and they whould be disgusted at me! If I was suckered into supporting and helping these charlatans and con men.