Jeremy Corbyn and the nest of antisemitism in the Labour Party, Frank Field has resigned the whip.
A senior Labour MP has quit the party and accused Jeremy Corbyn of being “a force for antisemitism in British politics”.
Frank Field, who has represented Birkenhead since 1979, said he was resigning the Labour whip after 39 years in over what he described as as the current perception of Labour as a “racist party”.
I guess the only thing I can say about Field is why did it take him so long? Antisemitism and the left is a long-held tradition. Field may be old school Labour but he can’t have missed it. Corbyn, being of the hard left and the creatures he mixes with, such as McDonnell are precisely the kind of people I would expect to harbour this poison. They may put on a kindly face and talk the talk, but they represent a nasty breed of politics, one that likes to blame the Jews for every ill. One that will take the side of a terror organisation such as HAMAS over a democratic nation such as Israel.
In a letter to Labour’s chief whip, Nick Brown, Mr Field said Britain had fought the Second World War to “banish” the type of views expressed by Mr Corbyn, and suggested the Labour leader had been antisemitic in the past.
The MP also said he was quitting because of the “culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation” in the party.
Like I say – meet the hard left. It’s in their DNA. Momentum is merely a new incarnation of the Militant Tendency we saw back in the eighties. The same evil.
…although he said he could rejoin Labour if the party changes.
Leopard, meet spots.
He accused the party of failing to act on “numerous complaints about the thuggish conduct of some members” and suggested
Momentum, meet Militant Tendency. Or, rather, look in the mirror.
One other former Labour MP, John Woodcock, has already quit the party and around a dozen more are believed to be considering following suit.
The move is likely to put pressure on other MPs to follow Mr Field by resigning the party whip and joining an “Independent Labour” grouping.
Mrs May will be overjoyed.
“…why did it take him so long?”
I can sympathise a little when, right or wrong, the Labour party is something that he has dedicated a large proportion of his life to. It must be a really big and wrenching decision and the temptation to procrastinate must be great, trying to convince himself that it isn’t as bad as it seems or that it might get better.
If we had a proper Conservative party I would be overjoyed to see the opposition in such disarray. As it is, I despise the current lot and despair that there is no realistic alternative to vote for. I will certainly not vote for them in their current form, I will either vote for an independent or spoil the ballot.
What is with lefties and Jews anyway? Is the problem that they have a reputation for being self reliant and working hard to be successful?
Yes, I know and I understand. But that procrastination took an awful long time. I got out nearly two decades ago. In fact, I got out twice. I left in the eighties due to Militant Tendency. I rejoined when it looked as if they were coming back to the centre ground and left again when I realised that I was wrong.
The laughable thing about all this is that Field has resigned the party whip because he was about to be deselected by his constituency party not because of any other reason. If he really had any balls/morals he would have resigned as an MP as well to let the voters of Birkenhead have the chance to vote for what they wanted. The fact that he was elected as a Labour man means that the voters have been swindled by him.
Riiight. Field is being deselected for the same reason the decent constituency MPs faced deselection in the eighties. The hard left cannot tolerate a broad church approach to political parties (despite their nasty, terrorist-loving leader defying the whip for much of his disreputable career), so will deselect anyone who might not go along with their nasty polices and replace them with their own place-men. To the hard left, democracy is merely a tool to gaining power.
There is no reason that Field should resign his seat. He was elected as the local constituency MP and can continue to serve as such. If this irritates the scum of Militant Tendency, oh, sorry Momentum, then all the better.
Not since the eighties has Labour had the interests of the working class as its raison d’etre. Even in the 70’s it was wracked with Soviet supporting members, and the TUC weren’t exactly KGB free were they – Jack Jones anyone?
Unfortunately millions of brain dead will still vote for it even if a certain A Hitler were it’s leader on the basis that “my father voted labour and so did me Grandad”. So that’s alright then!
Staunch tory voters are just as brain dead, thinking that the party represents them. It doesn’t.
Not quite true, Scally. I would consider myself a staunch Tory voter (who sprung from solid Labour-voting stock) – but it’s an option I haven’t been able to indulge for several decades as there hasn’t been a Tory party. And there still isn’t.
+1
I’d love a “None of above” box on ballot paper
Delingpole:
Yep
To Owen Jones
Excellent jibe.