"Tony Blair says he wouldn’t want a left-wing Labour party to win an election"
Labour Lord Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn”
Thread 1/22
The Labour party, how we got here and why:
Aug 2016:
"Blairites raise £250,000 War Chest to fight Corbyn"
"Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader, leaked dossier finds"
2/22
Keir Starmer & 171 Lab MPs took part in the anti-Corbyn coup 2016.
"Tony Blair says he wouldn’t want a left-wing Labour party to win an election"
Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn” Feb 2017
Jonathan Ashworth: Dec 2019
@BenJolly9
Jonathan Ashworth explaining how he had advised
the other Corbyn assassins, to wait a bit longer, before they bring down Corbyn.
And how they had gone too early with their failed coup.
From day one of his leadership, this is what Corbyn was up against from many of the PLP.
5/22
Here is Keir Starmer saying in March 2018 that reversing the manifesto commitment to (soft) Brexit, would 'Break Apart' the Labour party.
6 Months later he did just that.
"Keir Starmer: ‘We cannot allow Labour to break apart over Brexit’"
4/22
In 2017 the Centrists were working to lose the general election and in effect cause a Tory Landslide and Hard Brexit.
This demonstrates their priority was not stopping Brexit as they said it was in 2019.
They *used Brexit* to lose to remove Corbyn.
3/22
2017: In spite of Centrist sabotage (see leaked report) and media smears.
"From “Watchdog” to “Attackdog”: Media depictions of Jeremy Corbyn are an affront to democracy" (2016)
Corbyn gives biggest vote increase since 1945:
6/22
Sept 2018:
"Starmer used the second referendum composite vote to make his turning point political speech he stated without party support or policy the party would back a second referendum and a remain stance."
7/22
"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London
"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'
10/22
Starmer's right wing Banker/Corporate backers:
Martin Taylor gave Starmer £95,000 for his leadership bid, Taylor also funded the 2016 anti-Corbyn coup by £80k.
Taylor & other Blairites raised £449,860 to take down Corbyn back in 2016.
11/22
"Tony Blair says he wouldn’t want a left-wing Labour party to win an election"
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"Blairites raise £250,000 war chest to fight Corbyn"
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"Tony Blair to earn £2 Million at JP Morgan"
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16/22
"Why are the Labour Party turning their back on the Green Industrial Revolution?" DIEM 25
"JPMorgan is the largest global financier of fossil fuels"
"Tony Blair to earn £2m at JPMorgan"
"Tony Blair endorses Keir Starmer"
15/22
Here is an example from 2016 of "Centrists" blocking Corbyn's attempts to be anti-war when he was leader:
About 100 Labour MPs were missing or abstained from vote to withdraw support for Saudi dictatorship's War in Yemen.
8/22
Dec 2019: General election:
96% of the seats (52 of 54) that we lost to the Tories in 2019 voted leave.
"Labour is the party of remain, says Keir Starmer" Aug 2019
13/22
"The bank...(which employs) Lord Mandelson, has been the prime adviser to the Government on at least six...bumper state asset sales"
Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn”
12/22
"Tony Blair endorses Keir Starmer" (video)
"Starmer whips MPs to ABSTAIN on Tory bill to legalise crimes, including murder, by intelligence operatives"
19/22
"Leaked report whitewash continues under Starmer."
"The leaked Labour report reveals a shocking level of racism and sexism towards its black MPs"
21/22
Nov 2020:
Statement by the elected Chair of Young Labour Jess Barnard:
"The actions we have seen in recent weeks undermine members’ democratic rights and free expression are a threat to the fabric of our party."
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Dec 2019:
"15 ex-Labour MPs use eve-of-polls advert to urge voters not to back Corbyn"
July 2020:
"When the rewards for treachery is to be given a peerage it shows the entire system stinks"
4/22
In 2017 the Centrists were working to lose the general election and in effect cause a Tory Landslide and Hard Brexit.
This demonstrates their priority was not stopping Brexit as they said it was in 2019.
They used Brexit to lose to remove Corbyn.
1/12
"(U.S.) Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis"
Source: : "The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, covering progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis"
27)
March 2021:
"Sturgeon should resign if she broke ministerial code, says Starmer"
"Sir Keir Starmer has said he doesn’t want to call for Matt Hancock’s resignation after a court ruled he “acted unlawfully”
29)
May 2021:
"Starmer refused to sign letter demanding end to ‘fire and rehire’ abuse of workers"
"Mandelson's return... puts a major corporate lobbyist, who represents union-busting Centrica, at the heart of Labour politics."
5/22
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Here is Keir Starmer saying in March 2018 that reversing the manifesto commitment to (soft) Brexit, would 'Break Apart' the Labour party.
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6 Months later he did just that.
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2/22
Keir Starmer & 171 Lab MPs took part in the anti-Corbyn coup 2016.
"Tony Blair says he wouldn’t want a left-wing Labour party to win an election"
Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn” Feb 2017
Jonathan Ashworth: Dec 2019
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"An influential Labour Party group with close links to Keir Starmer is under investigation by the UK's Electoral Commission after allegedly failing to declare over £800,000 in donations within the time required under law, Insider can reveal."
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25)
Feb 2021:
"Forde Inquiry report (into right wing electoral sabotage, racism & the weaponisation of anti-semitism) delayed indefinitely, chair tells Labour Party"
"Forde Report delayed at ICO’s request? Not a bit of it!"
28)
April 2021:
Keir Starmer is the only Party Leader in the Commons REFUSING to sign this Motion calling out the incessant lies of Boris Johnson.
May 2021:
"Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Labour has “lost the trust of working people” Telegraph.
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Feb 2021:
Starmer, who needs to win back working class, calls in Lord Mandelson who said appealing to working class is waste of time.
March 2021:
"Why is Starmer to the right of the Tories on corporation tax?"
9/22
May 2020: "Starmer has told the Financial Times that his predecessor’s leadership was the ‘number one’ doorstep issue & attacked manifesto spending plans"
Nov 2020: Keir Starmer will ‘order Labour MPs to back Brexit deal to win back North’ The Sun
3/22
2017: (in spite of Centrist sabotage and media smears)
"From “Watchdog” to “Attackdog”: Media depictions of Jeremy Corbyn are an affront to democracy" (2016)
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24)
Dec 2020:
"Now he’s safely in charge, Starmer’s backing Brexit"
"Keir Starmer will whip Labour MPs to support Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal when it comes to parliament next week"
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Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn”
"Peter Mandelson, one of the founder-directors of the main campaigns to stop Brexit..."
"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party" Prof. Christopher Hanretty.
@tomthesocialist
"The result (of capitalism) is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society."
Albert Einstein, 1949
7/22
"An anti-Brexit party would win 150 fewer seats than a Leave party at a general election" Prof. Christopher Hanretty, Head of politics, University of London
"Labour splits erupt as Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn to insist Brexit 'can be stopped'
8/22
Dec 2019: General election:
96% of the seats (52 of 54) that we lost to the Tories in 2019 voted leave.
"Labour is the party of remain, says Keir Starmer" Aug 2019
10/22
Starmer's right wing Banker/Corporate backers:
Martin Taylor gave Starmer £95k for his leadership bid, Taylor also funded the 2016 chicken coup by donating £80k.
"Labour Tomorrow & Saving Labour" invested £449,860 to take down Corbyn back in 2016.
@ThomasJ58805552
Keir Starmer and 74% of the PLP took part in the anti-Corbyn coup 2016.
"Tony Blair says he wouldn’t want a left-wing Labour party to win an election"
Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn” Feb 2017
Jonathan Ashworth: Dec 2019
Aug 2021:
'What he’s doing through expulsions and driving people out is reproducing Blair’s party — a small party where he speaks to the electorate through the media and tries to convince the right-wing press that Labour is no threat to their power.'
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Feb 2020:
"Labour leadership: Starmer backs calls for free social care"
June 2021:
"Labour says calling for free social care would ‘just give Tories a stick to beat us with’"
@CoastKerry
@UKLabour
🧵2017:
"Jeremy Corbyn increased Labour's vote share more than any of the party's leaders since 1945
Socialist achieves bigger swing than Tony Blair"
The first time in --- 20 years --- Labour GAINS MP's (30)
3.5 MILLION more votes than 2015.
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Jan 2020: Leadership election:
"Sir Keir called for the party unify around a radical programme.”
July 2021:
"Keir Starmer has fulfilled his immediate objective during his first year in charge: waging war on the Labour left"
@GregClinker
@Tony_Robinson
July 2022:
"Labour party is ‘sticking two fingers up’ at working people, says Unite boss"
2021: "Why is Starmer to the right of the Tories on corporation tax?"
9/22
May 2020: "Starmer has told the Financial Times that his predecessor’s leadership was the ‘number one’ doorstep issue & attacked manifesto spending plans"
Nov 2020: Keir Starmer will ‘order Labour MPs to back Brexit deal to win back North’ The Sun
May 2021:
"The events of recent months are unlike anything I have witnessed during many years in the Labour Party.
The CLP has been subject to a hostile campaign from the regional officers"
Ken Loach, award-winning film maker.
@jennawray__
🧵2017:
"Jeremy Corbyn increased Labour's vote share more than any of the party's leaders since 1945
Socialist achieves bigger swing than Tony Blair"
The first time in --- 20 years --- Labour GAINS MP's (30)
3.5 MILLION more votes than 2015.
.
Illegal Wars
Privatisation of NHS
Helping the Bankers extract 100's of Billions with PFI
Tuition fees
ATOS
Zero Council House building
Reduced union power
Privatisation of Education
Record High Income Inequality
5 Million Lost Voters
@ToryFibs
@Normanjam671
2022:
"Chuka Umunna now works for JP Morgan and is currently advising a Czech billionaire looking to buy Royal Mail"
2019:
"MPs quit (Corbyn's Labour) to form a new movement in the party’s biggest split in nearly 40 years."
@greg_herriett
@PhillipsBarrie
@Keir_Starmer
"Nine people who won libel or IPSO complaints against the Jewish Chronicle in the past three years have written to the regulator asking it to consider taking the action to tackle what they allege are “systemic” issues."
8/12
"Had the U.S. been genuinely interested in avoiding war, it would have taken every opportunity to de-escalate the situation.
Instead, it did the opposite nearly every step of the way."
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group: New York
@GMCManning
@RevBluesSusie
In December 2016 US Senators Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Amy Klobuchar were in Donbass Ukraine, coercing units of Ukraine's military into breaking Minsk ceasefire agreements to provoke war with Russia.
@chelleryn99
@antisemitism
@rustyrockets
@UKLabour
July 2022: Forde Report:
"The report also confirms that claims of antisemitism against Corbyn were weaponised by his internal enemies in order to create an air of moral panic around the prospect of his leadership"
@mrcraftyg
🧵Tory Collusion:
June 2022:
"Shadow Health Sec Streeting takes large sum from Tory donor with huge private health interests"
July 2022:
"Starmer scraps pledge to end NHS private sector outsourcing."
7/12
American experts on Russia
"George Kennan called expansion of NATO into Central Europe “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era.”
Ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: "Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Push to Expand NATO"
4/12
"We now have confirmation that the CIA was behind Iran's 1953 coup. They hardly stopped there."
"CIA - Ukraine"
"A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine (2014)..."
2018:
"Never mind the Great Depression, we're now experiencing the longest pay squeeze since Napoleon marched across Europe" TUC
Sept 2021:
"Labour MP resigns after Starmer ordered him to argue AGAINST £15/hr min wage"
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@ShieldsNancys
@j59841320
@tomthesocialist
2010:
"Now we know the truth. The (2008) financial meltdown wasn't a mistake – it was a con"
"The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%"
@BebsDotter
@all4allalways
@2pondlife
Thread:
"These are the 184 Labour MPs who didn’t vote against the Tories' cuts"
"Abolishing legally binding child poverty targets"
“The lesson of the World Happiness Report over the years is that social support, generosity to one another, and honesty in government are crucial for well-being,” Jeffrey Sachs
Young people were ignored by
@Keir_Starmer
when we asked him where he stood on the
#GreenNewDeal
in Brighton today.
£85 billion is the minimum we would need to create millions of good green jobs.
But Keir won’t even commit to that?
@williamnhutton
🧵2022 Forde Report:
"Upon seeing exit polls showing Labour had overturned the Tory majority (2017)
one senior Labour official said the result was the “opposite to what I had been working towards for the last couple of years”"
Sept 2021: Conference:
"Starmer did not mention inequality once.
Starmer also failed to mention anything about taxation, public ownership, or social housing."
@GregClinker
@LBC
@mrjamesob
2017:
"Jeremy Corbyn increased Labour's vote share more than any of the party's leaders since 1945
Socialist achieves bigger swing than Tony Blair"
The first time in --- 20 years --- Labour GAINS MP's.
3.5 MILLION more votes than 2015.
.
9/12
Feb 3th 2022:
"After U.S. & NATO reject Russia’s proposals, outlook for Ukraine is grim"
…
"NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex"
Jan 2020:
"Keir called for the party unify around a radical programme.”
Sept 2021:
"Starmer pushes to scrap ‘one member, one vote’ Labour leadership elections
The change would likely lock the left out of the party leadership"
2017:
"Jeremy Corbyn increased Labour's vote share more than any of the party's leaders since 1945"
"By far the most commonly given main reason (28%) for voting Labour was support for the party’s policies or its manifesto."
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Aug 2021:
"Labour left pushes Keir Starmer to oppose cut to triple lock"
Sept 2021:
"Starmer abstains on scrapping pensions ‘triple lock’ – even though it breaks Tory manifesto promise"
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Sept 2021:
"Starmer to allow The Sun to report from Labour conference but not Socialist Appeal"
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"Murdoch media’s climate denial, and Murdoch's oil investments"
"Murdoch backs Bush stance on Iraq war"
@joncstone
New Labour:
Illegal wars, privatisation of nhs, helping the bankers extract 100's of Billions with PFI, tution fees, ATOS, no council house building, reduced union power, privatisation of education, Record High income inequality, 5 Million lost voters.
@Brianchav
@Lowkey0nline
"Just 6 Labour MPs voted against the 2014 Immigration Act that caused the Windrush Scandal – no prizes for guessing who they were"
David Lammy wasn't one of them.
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11/22
"Tony Blair says he wouldn’t want a left-wing Labour party to win an election"
"Blairites raise £250,000 war chest to fight Corbyn"
"Tony Blair to earn £2m at JP Morgan"
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@tiffin1963
"When the United States, the world’s biggest military power, decided that China, the second largest economic power, was a threat to its imperial dominance, two-thirds of US naval forces were transferred to Asia and the Pacific."
#StandDownKeith
Starmer's right wing Corporate backers:
Martin Taylor gave Starmer £95,000 for his leadership bid, Taylor also funded the 2016 anti-Corbyn coup by £80k.
Taylor & other Blairites raised £449,860 to take down Corbyn back in 2016.
War propaganda is deadly.
In 1915, the British media told the public that German soldiers were bayoneting babies in Belgium.
People were outraged and signed up for the army in droves.
More than a million of them did not live to find out it was a lie.
2020:
"People in need of social housing has now hit 3.8 MILLION"
"BLAIR SETS UP COMPANY TO AVOID TAX RISES ON £33 MILLION PROPERTY EMPIRE"
"Starmer refuses to commit to Labour's manifesto housing policies"
@BeckettUnite
2017:
Blairites raise £449,860 to take down Corbyn.
"Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader, leaked dossier finds"
.
Corbyn gives biggest vote % increase since 1945:
🧵Tory Collusion:
June 2022:
"Shadow Health Sec Streeting takes large sum from Tory donor with huge private health interests"
July 2022:
"Starmer scraps pledge to end NHS private sector outsourcing."