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    Posted by Ian M on February 26, 2023, 7:25 pm, in reply to "Berger rehabilited.Pass the sick bag."

    Starmer:

    "My test for change was whether those who were rightly appalled by how far we had fallen believe this is their party again.

    "I know we've more to do but we're unrecognisable from the party that forced her out."

    He shared letters the pair had exchanged, in which Ms Berger spoke of the "grim journey" from 2015 to 2019 "during which the party fell into the depths of the abyss under Jeremy Corbyn's reign".

    She said she felt she had no choice other than to leave, writing: "I never expected to bear witness to the volume and toxicity of anti-Jewish racism espoused by people who had been allowed to join Labour, and to experience a leadership that treated antisemitism within the party's ranks differently to every other kind of racism - and that by refusing to condemn it, encouraged it.

    "But that is exactly what happened."

    In his letter, Sir Keir said Ms Berger had been "forced out by intimidation, thuggery and racism" and had made a "brave move" - albeit one she "should never have been forced to take".

    "That day will forever be a stain on Labour's history," he added.

    Sir Keir said she had suffered abuse and was left "isolated and exposed", adding the party and British politics were "poorer places" without her.

    More bare-faced double standards from Starmer, who will never admit the pain caused to the people he forced out of the party, many of them anti-zionist Jews. I don't accept Berger's claim anyway - I think she chose to leave as a political stunt to damage Corbyn and pursue her own career ambitions. The party never expelled her the way it did the 'wrong' sort of Jews - though it should have, of course. But there's no justice, common sense or decency in any of this, so it is indeed fitting to have such a rotten individual re-admitted to such a rotten party. F* the lot of them...

    jeers,
    I

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