shmmeee
Well-Known Member
I don’t want to keep going over 2015-19 but two of those MPs were subject to deselection campaigns and another to a long term antisemitic abuse campaign.
All of this shit is a backlash against those years with a certain type of left wing MP being very happy to pal around with the likes of Jackie Walker.
Removing the idea that Labour are antisemitic was rightly or wrongly Starmers number one concern and Corbyn, Abbott, et al have been very happy to play into that when it really wouldn’t have killed them to just not talk about Jews and do a bit of an apology.
There’s another side here from a left of Labour angle: the left desperately need to stop propping up 1970s throwbacks as their main candidates. Abbott and Corbyn being weekend at Bernie’s’ed around by a mix of decent left wing people and young voters and a cavalcade of Galloway/Williamson/Walker style cranks with some very dodgy views (Diane Abbott blaming Ukraine for their own invasion anyone? Corbyn saying let’s let Russia test the radioactive material?) damages what most left wing supporters as far as I can tell actually care about.
Whether the conspiracy theories around the west are accurate or not (and they’re not mostly, they’re the left equivalent of Truss banging on about the WEF), they are absolute kryptonite to most voters.
Jettisoning them might just finally allow a proper left wing voice to come through. One that cares more about nationalised utilities, lifelong education, fair tax, etc rather than articles in Middle East Eye and slots on RT and Press TV.