- Did Corbyn though or were his hands tied by party rules? Archived Message
Posted by scrabb
on December 15, 2019, 4:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Je refuse so thanks for doing that work"
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Did Corbyn though or were his hands tied by party rules? Didn't stop Johnson throwing out 40+ (??) of his troublemaker MPs did it? This is one of the beefs I have about people saying (re Williamson, anti-sem smears, back-stabbers like Watson, Smeeth, John Mann etc etc) that Corbyn's "hands were tied" because he didn't defend his friends and cast out his enemies. He was the elected party leader for christ's sake! Did he have no power at all? If Johnson had the balls to get rid of his troublesome lot, why didn't Corbyn? He never defended Jackie Walker, Williamson, his long-standing supporter Ken Livingstone, never stood up for Assange (except the briefest statement he could get away with), never fought back against Watson, Mann, HODGE!! (when she called him a feckin anti-semite to his face). The message he sent out was "You can insult me all you like, I won't retaliate, I'll just suck it up" and the Zionist crowd said, "Thank you very much, here's another pile of horse shit on your plate. And there's more where that came from when you've finished." Corbyn defenders always bleated the excuse that the media would crucify him if he came out fighting and castigated his enemies. HE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED ANY MORE THAN HE WAS, so why hold back? The result was he came across as weak and vacillating and ripe for more insults rather than strong and decisive and in control. In the early days Corbyn won a lot of support because people saw him as a man of principle who would defend his beliefs, no matter how unpopular they were. People respected that. Then he lost all credibility when he wouldn't make a statement without qualifying it ten different ways. If he'd sacked Hilary Benn and all the other back-stabbers it would have sent a clear message to the rest of the traitorous rabble and also to the wider public that he was not a man to be trifled with. No such message came. |