Wow. The Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp ‘banter’ means Labour members are right to feel betrayed. Have you read it?
David Osland has – and gives a summary of the toxicity of Andrew Gwynne’s online club on the Labourhub website:
The messages went heavy on the kind of juvenile racist, sexist and homophobic banter that I haven’t come across since I was a pupil at a 1970s grammar school. Inevitably, the targets of the uncomradely invective were colleagues, activists and constituents.
Angela Rayner was hailed as a blow job queen, because that’s all that working-class women are good for, right? Partially-sighted Battersea MP Marsha de Cordova was mocked for her disability.
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We learn that Diane Abbott’s groundbreaking appearance as the first black politician to respond for the Opposition at prime minister’s questions might better have been handled by a rightwing Tory MP given to blacking up.
A gay councillor was accused of organising Town Hall orgies with “decrepit trade unionists”, because everybody knows what a promiscuous bunch that lot are. And anyone with a Jewish surname surely has to be working for Mossad.
That last revelation is an eye-opener, isn’t it? All those years accusing left-wingers of anti-Semitism, and it seems Keir Starmer was embracing the real Jew-haters all the time, on his wing of the Labour Party.
Oh, but they don’t just hate Jews, women, disabled people, other races and the LGBT+ community – the Trigger gang hate their own party colleagues too – if they’re on the Left:
The Two Minutes Hate is then refocused on activists, dismissed as “marxists loonies” (sic) and “Trots”, as if “we hate our members” were somehow optimal recruitment advertising for a political party.
And why stop there? The word up to a constituent with concerns about bin collections is “f*ck you” and the hope that she gets run over by a refuse truck. A party that harbours a death wish to the electorate might as well harbour a death wish towards itself.
True, that.
The article continues with a warning that this is unlikely to be a “one-off that has been dealt with by a whiff of grapeshot in the shape of subsequent disciplinary sanctions”.
If I know my erstwhile colleagues in the newspapers and mass media, they’ll be all over the social media right now, searching for other Labour Party groups where the same ideas are being expressed.
And I have no doubt that at least some such groups will be found.
It will be a fitting comeuppance for Keir Starmer, if and when they are.
He “laser-focused” his party on what he thought would bring victory – turning it into a carbon-copy of the right-wing politicians and media barons he hoped to supplant and seduce.
And he succeeded. His party – or at least the side of it that supports him – is exactly like those people.
Vile.
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Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp ‘banter’ means Labour members are right to feel betrayed
Wow. The Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp ‘banter’ means Labour members are right to feel betrayed. Have you read it?
David Osland has – and gives a summary of the toxicity of Andrew Gwynne’s online club on the Labourhub website:
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
That last revelation is an eye-opener, isn’t it? All those years accusing left-wingers of anti-Semitism, and it seems Keir Starmer was embracing the real Jew-haters all the time, on his wing of the Labour Party.
Oh, but they don’t just hate Jews, women, disabled people, other races and the LGBT+ community – the Trigger gang hate their own party colleagues too – if they’re on the Left:
True, that.
The article continues with a warning that this is unlikely to be a “one-off that has been dealt with by a whiff of grapeshot in the shape of subsequent disciplinary sanctions”.
If I know my erstwhile colleagues in the newspapers and mass media, they’ll be all over the social media right now, searching for other Labour Party groups where the same ideas are being expressed.
And I have no doubt that at least some such groups will be found.
It will be a fitting comeuppance for Keir Starmer, if and when they are.
He “laser-focused” his party on what he thought would bring victory – turning it into a carbon-copy of the right-wing politicians and media barons he hoped to supplant and seduce.
And he succeeded. His party – or at least the side of it that supports him – is exactly like those people.
Vile.
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