Dear All
Having been expelled from the Labour Party,
former party spin doctor Alastair Campbell who previous said that the
secrets of colleagues are “safe” with him has said Jeremy Corbyn’s closest
colleagues think he is “bonkers” on Brexit. He then reeled off a list of names
which include Keir Starmer, John McDonnell, Shami Chakrabarti, Tom Watson and Emily
Thornberry.
For a man who wants to overturn being
expelled, his timing on attacking Jeremy Corbyn rather stinks. Jeremy Corbyn
has given muted support for another referendum but although many people think
the Brexit Party is a fad, it could end up running all the way to the
Westminster 2022 election. If you listened to Newsnight last night you may have
caught the slot where Conservatives and ordinary people spoke at length. The
message to me seems crystal clear, deliver Brexit, because there is a lot of
angry people who feel betrayed.
I think the best course of action is that
on 31 October, we simply let the clock run out and leave the EU, earlier would
be better but the Conservatives are in a real pickle. They stand to lose
Westminster seats which could end up putting the country into hung parliament territory.
What Conservative Simon Clarke said last night about being unable to hold his
seat has the ring of truth about it, in
a leave area, the people will vote Brexit Party.
The Labour Party had an awful campaign
sitting on the fence, now, it seems the anti Corbyn faction wants to push him
to a position where he has backed a people’s vote, which is another wrong
decision.
If you cannot support democracy the first
time round, why should anyone have any faith you will do it the second time?
If the Leave vote wins again, what happens
next, General Election in 2020 after another referendum?
The people’s vote really does solve
nothing, but it re-enforces the concept that we, the British people who won the
previous referendum have been cheated. The new polling puts the Lib Dems and
the Brexit Party ahead in the polls for Westminster. This polling doesn’t
address the Scottish dimension but it certainly makes for interesting reading.
The Labour Party whether it likes it or not must come down on the side of
leaving the EU.
The country is polarized on this issue,
totally polarized, it will go on until we leave the EU.
Funnily using Labour’s “for the many not
the few” slogan, Campbell said Corbyn needs to listen to why his party had been
“virtually annihilated” in last week’s election.
The reason was that the Labour Party didn’t
back Brexit, but also some people who were Remainers turn their votes towards
the Green Party even in Scotland but thankfully no Scottish Green was elected.
Scotland didn’t elect the shrill that is
Maggie Chapman.
As well as offering bad advice to Corbyn,
Campbell turned to the issue of his expulsion, he said there was “no
justification” and he added:
“The reason there is no justification for
this expulsion is because, as Shami Chakrabarti said yesterday, a tactical
vote is not a reason for expulsion. The
only evidence provided to me were three cuttings covering what I’d said after
the event, after the polls had closed, after the results had come in”.
Basically, if you are in the Labour Party,
you cannot campaign for another party, this is pretty much standard across the
board, if you feel you must campaign, the honourable thing is to resign your
membership. When you resign your membership, you are an ordinary member of the
public and free to do what you want and say what you want. Given the current
state of the Labour Party particularly in Scotland after this election, they
have gone from second to fifth in the polling and no MEPs. The Scottish Labour
Party needs as much help as possible to recover from a massive defeat which
must make the party wonder how they turn this around.
Campaigning for a second referendum isn’t
it.
Finally, if you think back to 2016, I was
one of the three key people in Glasgow who started the Brexit stall in the City
Centre. It was such a success which didn’t go un-noticed, it help poll 80,000
votes in Glasgow, compared to the Remain vote which had every party against us.
They took 168,000 votes.
Scotland produced a million votes; we
helped carry the win over the line. When we didn’t leave the EU on 29 March,
the only vehicle was the Brexit Party. I was head hunted by a serious member of
Leave.EU to do the campaign for the Brexit Party. I didn’t join the Brexit
Party as a registered supporter but, I became the face of the Party in Glasgow.
Due to the work that the Glasgow group did in travelling around, they played
their part in getting the first ever Brexit Party MEP in Scotland, and for the
second place polling in Scotland.
The Labour Party must support Brexit.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
2 comments:
Jeremy Corbyn got elected leader, it's up to him if he wants to give Britain a Labour party or surrender to anti-Corbyn, Blairite filth remainers. He either agrees with democracy and excepts that leave won, or not! His choice.
Corbyn, Thornberry, Abbott need I say any more. Oh yes wait what’s that guy called that bounces when he talks. Labour are dead in Scotland. In Westminster they’ve flip flopped that much that no one knows their position, even the front bench are confused. It’s a shame because we need a Labour Party, we need an effective Labour Party. Whilst we have Momentum/Labour and that annoying arsehole Owen Jones spouting his crap I’m afraid I won’t support them.
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