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[–] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's past time for these cynical conservatives that seized control of the labour party be themselves purged, all of them, as they purged the left under false allegations often blatantly manufactured ad wrong on their face. They used bigotry allegations against jews as an excuse to purge the left, and reformers, in the process removing a higher percentage of Jewish members than were in the party. Think about that, they accused a higher percent of jewish people than others of being bigoted against Jewish people. Got away with that, and other outrageous false allegations, and were rewarded for it.

It's harmful to fighting bigotry to make bad faith bigotry allegations, and we need to start doggedly attacking them for it. They are responsible for attacks on those groups because of those bad faith attacks. They win because they are bullies, it's time to not cave and fight back.

It's incredible, as their other allegations were, documented in the labour files, by al jazeera from leaked internatl correspondance in the party with the Starmer faction, that still controlled the party enforcement mechanism.

Corbyn wasn't the right guy, he didn't purge the party, or take control of it. We need leaders that can build and run a political machine, and that realize the conservatives that seized our political parties see us as the enemy, not fascism, not fascists fixing elections, which they are planning on doing. Preventing popular reform that would upset the license the rich have granted themselves for the last half century is their reason for being. Protecting the rich, including from epstein.

This is just the latest outrage. How can the reform minded factions take control of the party, and the enforcement mechanism to purge these bad faith conservatives from the party? That is the question we should be asking, right now, and finding the leaders willing to nail these guys to the wall doing it, now, before they appoint Mandleson's protege as the new labour leader, or some weak kneed alternative. If they are on the list of possible leaders by the party officials, they aren't the leader that is needed.