Re: Oborne: Labour's Forde report is devastating on factional war against Corbyn Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on July 24, 2022, 2:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Oborne: Labour's Forde report is devastating on factional war against Corbyn"
"...rather than attacking your opponent at his weakest point (which would be the logical tactic and plain common sense) you attack him at his strongest. The anti-Corbyn pack such as Hodges and Mann and Watson took that out of the Republican playbook and ran with it -- attacking a man with a lifelong record as an anti-racist (on all fronts) and accusing him of anti-semitism. Brilliant! At the time I remember thinking, This is stupid. They'll never make such a ridiculous charge stick, everybody knows he isn't. What I hadn't reckoned with was the relentless power of the corporate media avalanche, battering the public day after day after day .... and Corbyn's and McDonnell's spineless "defence" which amounted to an admission of guilt and a craven plea of apology and a pledge to "root out" antisemitism within the party..." -Very succinctly put Scrabb: Thanks. The report indeed seems to me to be still selling that kind of false "...faults on both sides..." equivocation. The "Antisemitism" charge was merely a despicable and dishonest relabelling of support for the Palestinian cause within Labour. -The real fault was that they fell for it.
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