Fantasists who have spent years pretending Jeremy Corbyn was an anti-Semite are wailing in protest after a fund was set up to help him fight a legal battle.
The broadcaster John Ware, who was responsible for last year’s risible Panorama ‘documentary’, Is Labour Antisemitic, is suing Corbyn over comments made by the former Labour leader and the official party line on the film at the time.
In response – and after current Labour leader Keir Starmer went against legal advice provided to the party in order to reward former Labour apparatchiks who appeared in the film, Corbyn supporter Carole Morgan has set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding web page that has raised around a quarter of a million pounds at the time of writing.
Starmer has spent around £600,000 of Labour members’ subscription money on court costs and the payout to a group of so-called “whistleblowers” who said they were libelled by the party over their part in the Panorama show. We are told legal advice to the party was that their case would not stand up in court.
Ms Morgan’s hugely-popular crowdfunder has attracted attacks from the usual suspects.
Former Labour Party cuckoo Ian Austin has attacked the initiative, saying that Corbyn should give some of the money back because some of the contributors left anti-Semitic comments.
But this is childish nonsense; it would be poetic justice to use an anti-Semite’s money to protect an anti-racist.
And did Austin complain when £250,000 was raised to help right-wing Labour MPs (as he was at the time) to remove Corbyn from his position as Labour leader?
Don't remember any centrists bleating "They should have given the money to foodbanks instead" when this happened back in 2016.
Funny, that… https://t.co/8jMf9ld5FK— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) July 25, 2020
No he did not.
The hypocrisy is strong in this one…
If ever there was a reason to hit #250000ForCorbyn it’s him.
He was fine with you paying the expenses for a £1,000 TV/DVD, £171 worth of bed linen, a £199 hoover, £1,298 for an M&S sofa & armchair, and if you’re wondering how he sleeps at night – on a £700 bed, with side table. https://t.co/By0tTXCTcU
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 25, 2020
… as it is in the “news” paper that ran the story:
Imagine if the flagshaggers raised a quarter of a million pounds for a new Churchill statue.
The Mail would run a 16 page souvenir pull-out. The Torygraph will demand knighthoods for the organisers. And Big Ben *still* won’t bong 😁#250000ForCorbyn
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 25, 2020
In a related event, Lord John Mann – who used to be a Labour MP but joined the Tories in exchange for a peerage and unlimited opportunities to have a pop at Corbyn – has been attacking the former Labour leader over anti-Semitic tweets by a ‘grime’ performer called Wiley:
The man who is actually tasked with tackling antisemitism – and paid handsomely for it – seems to think it's Jeremy Corbyn's job to police Twitter on the offchance that someone he doesn't know has said something antisemitic…
It's almost like he's just using it to have a pop…— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) July 25, 2020
Anti-Corbyn camp followers took up the cry, attacking Corbyn’s supporters for being silent about it. Most of us had never heard of the person in question:
So let me get this right. Jeremy Corbyn is to be held responsible for the disgusting and unacceptable comments made by someone most of us haven’t even heard of?
No, we’re not having that.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 25, 2020
I tweeted about this myself:
Weird to be accused of silence about some anti-Semitic grime performer's tweets. I'd never heard of Wiley before today. I see @jeremycorbyn is being attacked again for a polite response to a supportive tweet from a – connected? – account; it means nothing. Thin gruel, this.
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) July 25, 2020
It seems I sparked a round of agreement, as others chimed in to admit that they hadn’t heard of this Wiley fellow either:
You went first, so I will now follow. Who is Wiley? https://t.co/DselXuHB6T
— Bill Baker, a Socialist with nowhere to call home (@williamdbaker) July 25, 2020
I had never heard of him either.
— Jezzabeau C. #PalestinianLivesMatter (@JezzabeauC) July 26, 2020
I to never knew who he was had to go and check him out.
— InvisibleMe🎗#StarmerOut #RemoveTheToryGovernment (@carolesmail56) July 25, 2020
And here’s the icing on the cake:
Except the polite response was photoshopped
— 3.5% – "I Daniel Blake" ≥ 🧢 (@Unicorn_999) July 25, 2020
So it seems even Corbyn’s reply wasn’t real and Mann was getting het up over nothing.
Will he apologise?
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