Morning RFM
Finally got around to the Duffield Long Read --
Many staunch Labour members and supporters have now left the party – hounded out by unfounded allegations of antisemitism, disappointed with the prospect of more Blairite “red-Toryism” under Starmer – but also thoroughly disillusioned about the person we campaigned for in 2017 – the “brand” that had been presented to us all in Canterbury as Rosie Duffield.
Meanwhile left wingers were being thrown out of the party for having advocated a Green vote years before they joined, or for calling MPs who supported the Iraq war “warmonger”. The report makes an overwhelming case that the Governance and Legal Unit of the Labour Party failed to take action on accusations of anti-semitism because it was devoting all of its energies to a factional effort to remove Corbyn supporters from the party.
These right wing staff were hoping for Labour electoral defeats in order to get rid of Corbyn. Senior Labour staff were actually hoping Labour would lose its seat in the Manchester Gorton by-election.