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As #BlackLivesMatter protests sweep across the UK we are told that #racism & #PoliceViolence is not as bad here. Well it was only luck that meant the #MetPolice didn't murder 62-y/o #MillardScott in April:
#NoJusticeNoPeace /1
#NoJusticeNoPeace /1
Also in April a #WestMidlandsPolice officer was filmed beating a young black boy to the ground and kicking him - another incident that could have resulted in a death. The #police & the state are institutionally #racist in the UK too. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… /2
And the stench of #racism spreads to the right-wing of @UKLabour too where @Keir_Starmer is blocking action against racist staff, MPs & others like @EmilieOldknow & @IainMcNicol exposed in the #LabourReport. And he has the gall to #TakeAKnee. Sickening. /3
Whilst some people who promote antisemitism falsely claim to be members of the Labour Party, there are others who pretend not to be. I'm now wary of taking resignation announcements at face value as they may be intended to lessen the likelihood of AS misconduct being reported.
Lesley Perrin, a Holocaust denier who was a Torbay CLP officer, said she'd given up her membership in Feb '19 after Labour HQ notified her of an investigation, yet the leaked #LabourReport shows she only received a 'reminder of conduct' at that time and hadn't actually resigned. 
When I blogged about Perrin's Nazi-grade antisemitism in March that year, I therefore did so believing she had already left the party.
For those who think Labour's leaked report does not warrant attention in the midst of pandemic, consider this:
at the height of the December election, the BBC was all over the 'unprecedented' political intervention by the Chief Rabbi (it wasn't unprecedented - he had intervened just weeks before)...
The Chief Rabbi's statement laid the blame for failures in complaints handling squarely with Corbyn...
The leaked #LabourReport has this paragraph about the different factions in the party, including "John McDonnell's Labour Representation Committee". So what has John McDonnell's Labour Representation Committee had to say about antisemitism in the party? /1
Defend the antisemites! /2
Oppose the "confected row about alleged antisemitism" /3
Quick thread on the libel and privacy actions threatened against those who published the leaked #LabourReport. Firstly, libel. Ordinarily, if an organisation publishes arrowy of disciplinary investigations and proceedings, the media would feel safe in publishing it...
This is because they would have a defence of qualified privilege - this protects the media reporting so long as it is a fair, accurate report, on a matter of public interest, published without malice and subject to a right of reply, if requested...
This is a fundamental journalistic defence, it protects our reports of Parliament, of local government and of police press conferences, to name but a few. However, it protects information *published* by these bodies, not leaked...
The #LabourReport makes serious allegations about how it was more of a concern among staff that Labour would win an election than it that would lose in 2017. (1/5)
It makes the revelation that Muslim, Jewish, Black and ethnic minority members as well as women were not only denied justice but also had their concerns and complaints used for *factional* gain. (2/5)
So many of you who are members make immense sacrifices for the Labour Party. You pay your fees, you give up your time, you organise your constituencies and you support your communities. (3/5)
In trying to tackle antisemitism in the Labour Party- it always felt that there was a small group of us on the left trying to wade through the bullshit and make a difference. We faced opposition on the left and the right.
Trying to make the argument that people in the party had behaved atrociously and used Jews as political fodder and that there was a very serious antisemitism problem- both things are true and do not cancel out each other. And the Party couldn’t hide behind excuses.
I could also never really explain why we couldn’t break through and just fix the problem. I can explain individual issues but the #LabourReport gives me some of the bigger picture. I don’t think the report vindicates anyone- just exposes how rotten the whole thing is
