I really thought I could stick with it, but I can no longer resist the urge to resign from the Labour Party. After 40 years’ of continuous membership, and having personally benefited so much from it, I can no longer stay in a party led by a serial liar. The straw that has broken the camel’s back is his and his faction’s treatment of Diane Abbott. I can’t say I was ever a fan of hers, in fact I found her a bit irritating. But she has a thousand more reasons to be accepted as a Labour candidate in this general election than, say Natalie Elphick being welcomed into the party. Starmer knew the so-called ‘investigation’ into Abbott had been completed months ago, yet only in the last few days he was repeating the lie that it was an ongoing process. How can someone who brazenly lies be trusted about anything? From every one of his porous promises to gain the leadership he has set a pattern of disingenuous retreat, reversal and outright denial, aped by those who cluster around him. He says he has changed the Labour Party. He certainly has—for the worse. I cannot subscribe any longer to this cynical mountebank’s vision even though to get rid of the Tories it will still be necessary in many places to vote Labour. But where there is a decent alternative (Islington North comes to mind) others should be supported. All I can say about the next likely party in power is that of the two, Labour is the least worst option. It’s an exceedingly low bar.
I wonder if I have moved leftwards in recent years, and perhaps it’s me that’s changed, not the Labour Party. I think I may always have considered myself ‘soft left,’ but even that appellation would be unacceptable to the Starmeroids, compelled as they are to root out any breeding ground for internal opposition, lest a Corbyn re-emerge. I regret that such a big part of my life has to end this way, but I would regret it all the more living in a pretend world of fealty to a second rate despot (first rate despots needn’t apply). There are lots of good people in the party who deserve better. I think a lot of them are biting their tongues. The desire to be rid of the Tories cannot be underestimated, but nor should that desire be manipulated for the benefit of a leader who serves only as an establishment buggins’ turn puppet and is now working hard to fill his parliamentary ranks with rubber stamps.
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6/6/2024 20:22:45
Well said young man I have left for the same reasons after well my first election I helped in was in 1945 but I can see the Labour Party was taken over by the establishment in 1997
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Chris Mckenzie
6/6/2024 21:56:36
Well said... there is no decency left in labour, its being firmly strangled and no way back for the left.
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Jan Brooker
6/6/2024 22:10:25
Small world, eh? Wrote the Mem & Arts for OCISA, and now for Andrew Feinstein's campaign [from my vantage point of Liverpool!]. On a personal note, sadly Lynda died last but one Good Friday; Batley lass that she was.
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Miss C J Reeve
7/6/2024 01:08:26
This has to be one of the best takedowns I have read. So much respect for you for saying what so many of us know. Don't let this be the final words, you've so much to say and people need you to keep speaking up. Solidarity. Clare.
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Stacey Collins
7/6/2024 07:06:52
Please come and join the Green Party.
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Richard Wells
7/6/2024 19:26:36
Took you a while :-) I resigned my membership within 6 weeks of Starmer's elevation to leadership. He was and is an obvious lying Tory with a red rosette.
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