I am very much used to the mainstream media in this country being able to give,
anyone a free pass as long as their politics does not threaten their material interests.
That's standard these days.
If someone told them "I think we've got a big story going on in labor HQ,
we're top members of staff are trying to throw an election" they'd say:
"that's not very interesting is it? Why would I write about that?"
Then you've got a right-wing MP who messages them and says:
"Corbyn is an idiot and someone on Twitter said this to me." Front page news.
Political editors they don't chase stories because they're not interested in the truth,
What they do is they repeat WhatsApp messages they've received.
There's no better example of the media's tendency to just repeat what people say,
if they're ideologically aligned with them than in the 2019 election,
when Matt Hancock visits Leeds hospital.
His adviser messages the country's political editors that,
an adviser has been punched and they just repeat this verbatim.
It turns out he was not punched, remotely, it did not happen. It was a lie.
These people have devastated out country.
I pointed my hand out, you walked into it.
But that was broadcast to the whole country by Laura Kuenssberg, Robert Peston,
by Tom Newton-Dunn at the Sun by Paul Brand at ITV.
All of their country's main political journalists were happy to repeat this verbatim.
Now what you've got is this report which shows in black and white.
The kind of toxic, abusive, dishonest behaviour,
that was going on at the very top of the Labour Party.
Not a peep! These people have not tweeted about it.
Tumbleweed sound, blowing in the wind.
Now, you've got to imagine what kind of story this would be,
if the people saying these things weren't the Labour right,
but it was Jeremy Corbyn and his allies. You can bet that would be a big news story.
It would be another reason to say these people were scum,
they should be condemned to the dustbin of history.
How many times was it said about Jeremy Corbyn:
"our problem is the culture, our problem is the bullies in that movement"
And yes on Twitter you have some assholes saying horrible things from every side.
But these people were senior members of staff laughing about,
black members of staff who was subject to racist and sexist abuse.
Senior members of staff have who were joking,
about members with mental difficulties dying in fires.
You've got to compare this to how the media 2 years ago reported comments,
in a Facebook group by people who had no jobs in the Labour Party,
people who potentially weren't even Labour Party members. It was front page news.
Give me a break saying the problem with the left is the culture and the bullying.
These people are sociopaths.
These people are not moderates, these are extremists.
This report mainly pertains to staff in the Labour Party,
but we've seen it from politicians as well.
You've seen the documentary, you've seen Stephen Kinnock's face,
when that exit poll comes out.
There were so many members of the parliamentary Labour Party,
who did not want the Labour Party to win.
Now they blame Jeremy Corbyn. "Jeremy Corbyn, he loses elections."
Well, one of the reasons he lost elections is because you actively work to undermine him,
and to make sure that Labour could not win an election when they had a left-wing leader.
For a great many of your MPs it's about your performance, they talk about,
a chaotic performance, they say that you're simply incompetent as a leader.
How unkind of them.
What's most tragic about reading this document is when I think of,
the hundreds of thousands of people who joined the Labour Party,
when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.
Not because they wanted power,
not because they wanted to get top jobs in the Labour Party,
but because they wanted to fight for a better world.
And how did the party who they were paying good money to reward that?
By demonising them, by saying I want to get rid of all these Trots,
half of these people have never heard of Trotsky.
I don't think I've actually heard of him.
Is he a writer?
I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter. I've never heard of that in my life.
So the people who come off worst in this, the people who clearly believe in nothing,
who are there just to protect their careers,
who have a visceral hatred,
for people who are trying to make the world a better place.
They were the people who rose to the top of the Labour Party,
when it was not a mass organisation.
These people don't represent ordinary people who want to fight for a better world.
These people rely on having a small party with little participation, with no accountability.
They hated Labour being a mass membership party,
and more than anything, they hated democracy.
So, you stay in the party because that's what they don't want you to do.
And don't just make sure you stay in the party,
get involved and demand justice,
because unless there is some accountability here,
then this can happen again.
What this report has shown is that the mainstream media,
are not interested in covering the truth,
they haven't been over the last five years and they still aren't now.
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