Showing posts with label Diane Abbott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diane Abbott. Show all posts

4 June 2024

Loyal Russell-Moyle, Praises Starmer Despite Being Removed as MP for Brighton Kemptown

As Pastor Niemoller Observed, When You Allow Them to Pick off Everyone Else Then There is Noone Left ‘To speak out for me’

Getting to Know Starmer

No-one was happier than me when, in June 2017, Lloyd Russell-Moyle gained Brighton Kemptown for Labour with a majority of nearly 10,000.

In happier times

I had canvassed and delivered leaflets for Moyle throughout the campaign despite the fact that in March 2016, I had been suspended from the Labour Party as part of the ‘anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt. It was despite the fact that Moyle had secretly written to the Labour Party’s witchhunters urging that my expulsion be sped up. And not withstanding the fact that the local Labour Party, which Moyle chaired, had urged my reinstatement.

When I received evidence, via a Subject Access Request, that Moyle had been writing to the Labour Party nationally, secretly and without telling anyone he wrote back on 23 August 2016 informing me that:

I am of a firm belief that one should say things publicly which are kind, and if you are unable to say that then one must be quite [sic] and say nothing on blogs and social media, esp about members. This is relevant when it comes to other members. I believe that attacking other members for taking (what you might believe is the wrong view) publicly brings the party into disrepute and it is an attempt to intimidate people from not saying anything. 

Admirable sentiments to be sure, but not quite at one with his subsequent actions! Nonetheless I accepted his ‘half apology’. I later discovered that Lloyd had posted abusive comments about me on Facebook! 


UK Lawyers 4 Israel Attacking a Barrister's Right to Free Speech

I was the first Jewish member of the Labour Party to be suspended and then expelled as part of the false‘anti-Semitism’ campaign orchestrated by the genocide supporters of the Jewish Labour Movement. Although I was the first Jewish member to be expelled I was by no means the last. Today if you are Jewish you are 5+ times more likely to be expelled for ‘anti-Semitism’ from the Labour Party than if you are not Jewish.

Lloyd’s suspension as a candidate clearly came as a surprise to him. Just last week he wrote to me, as one of his constituents, saying that now the election has been called he ‘will become the Labour and Co‑operative Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven.’ But it was not to be.

The claims by Starmer’s apparatchiks that Lloyd was suspended because of an 8 year old complaint are risible. If the complaint has taken so long to be submitted it clearly must be suspect. There was nothing to stop the Labour Party allowing Lloyd to stand whilst at the same time investigating this complaint.


50 people turned up to a rally in support of  LRM

Yet what was Moyle’s reaction to his removal as Parliamentary Candidate?  Unbelievably he issued a statement in which he said:

I wish Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, and the Labour team the best of luck and hope to be celebrating Labour wins across Sussex and beyond on election night.

One can imagine Moyle advising his executioner about how best to chop off his head and at the same time suggesting he put in for a payrise. Uriah Heep has nothing on Moyle.

Of course when it comes to members of the Labour Right Starmer has been extremely tolerant. Only this week Elaine Cohen, a Jewish member in Birmingham, resigned because Starmer had allowed Khalid Mahmood to be a member of the Shadow Cabinet despite him having covered for his lover and office manager’s sadistic abuse of domestic violence victims.

The evidence of domestic violence and abuse was not challenged at Cohen’s employment tribunal case against Mahmood. Starmer also had no difficult in allowing two Shadow Cabinet members to remain in post despite allegations of sexual harassment against them.

Former Black Councillor on Starmer Labour Racism

Starmer had even less difficulty reinstating Neil Coyle MP who was suspended by Parliament for racial abuse of a British-Chinese journalist Henry Dyer, as well as genuinely anti-Semitic comments and bullying.

Clearly if Moyle had been a genuine racist as opposed to an ‘anti-Semite’, then he would have been waived through the selection process given that Starmer has a fondness for genuine racists like Coyle. The problem for Moyle was that he came from the left and then spent his parliamentary career in  a headlong retreat from socialism.


Moyle’s last radical speeches – Labour Party Conference 2021

What probably did for Moyle’s parliamentary career was the last radical speech which he made, at the 2021 Labour Party Conference in Brighton when he declared that Starmer wasn’t fit to be leader of the Labour Party and his facial approval of his audience’s disdain, when he said that Starmer was a ‘nice man’.

Inexplicably Starmer's chief genocidaire blocked me!

Yet, as I wrote, no sooner had Moyle apologised for supporting the purge of socialists from the Labour Party than he recanted! With Moyle it was a case of one step forward and a gallop backwards.

In 2020 the JLM attacked Moyle for comments he made in 2009, when he chaired the Woodcraft Folk, remarking that Zionism was a ‘dangerous nationalist idea.’  A perfectly innocuous remark you might think but the Labour left, including Corbyn and McDonnell, refused to recognise that Zionism was not some form of fluffy Jewish identity. It was an ideology and movement of ethnic cleansing and now genocide.

In response to the attack by the JLM, Moyle declared:

“I am completely and unreservedly committed to supporting [Labour leader] Keir Starmer and [deputy leader] Angela Rayner’s pledge to rid the party of antisemitism. I have met previously with the Jewish Labour Movement and will be reaching out to them again now,” 

It was on Palestine that Moyle capitulated. In 2018 he attended a solidarity party intended as a send off to the heroes of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. It included Divina Levrini, a principled Swedish musician - the complete opposite of Moyle. Despite being seriously ill Divina took part in the flotilla, being savagely beaten and deprived of her medicines by the sadists who form the backbone of Israel’s military police state. Soon after Divina died.

In subsequent years Moyle rowed back on his previous support for the Palestinians, denying that Israel was an apartheid state, opposing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as well as supporting Starmer’s ‘antisemitism’ witchhunt of which he too is now a victim.

Irish MP Speech

I mention all of this because a friend in Brighton PSC, David Rogers, wrote to Moyle in June 2020 after being suspended from the Labour Party, asking for his support. In response his secretary wrote on 17 June telling David that

‘Lloyd believes that anti-semitism has no place in the Labour Party and is pleased to see Keir acting so proactively to demonstrate this.’

The implication being that David was anti-Semitic. David responded on 21st June telling Moyle that he found his response

‘chilling and sadly confirmatory of my fears that ambition and career advancement have overtaken principle and ethics.’

It was an abject surrender to the false and defamatory 'antisemitism' charge that he is now a victim of. Lloyd had long since abandoned all principles and ethics in a vain attempt to mollify Starmer and his cronies. All to no avail.

On 5 January 2024 Moyle’s PA, Chloe Farrant, wrote to David expressing Moyle's opposition to the Boycott of Israel.

Lloyd is opposed to a policy of adopting BDS against individual nations and always have been. It wrongly singles out nations and is counterproductive to the prospect of peace.

There is a difference between applying consistent ethical principles in legitimate criticism of foreign governments and what, in recent years, some individuals and organisations have tried to do: seek to target Israel alone; hold it to different standards from other countries; question its right to exist; and equate the actions of the Israeli Government to Jewish people and in doing so, create hate and hostility against Jewish people here in the UK. That is completely wrong.


Presumably Moyle would have opposed sanctions against Apartheid South Africa for similar reasons and 90 years ago he would have opposed the Boycott of Nazi Germany alongside the Tories.

Note how Moyle equated sanctions against Israel with ‘hate and hostility against Jewish people here in the UK.’ Some would say equating British Jews with Israeli apartheid was anti-Semitic! But Moyle denied that Israel was an apartheid state despite copious evidence including reports from 3 human rights organisation – Amnesty International, B’tselem and Human Rights Watch.

When Netanyahu declared that Israel was “not a state of all its citizens” but solely its Jewish citizens, after the 2018 Jewish Nation State Law was passed, he was declaring that officially Israel was an apartheid state. Moyle however was having none of it.

Those miserable politicians who, despite all the evidence, refuse to call out Israel for what it is, deserve our contempt. Moyle was one such creature. He refused to accept that Israel was an Apartheid and now genocidal state, because it didn’t suit his career. A state where different laws apply to different ethnic groups is the quintessential definition of apartheid.

In the course of 7 years as an MP I have posted a number of blogs in respect of Moyle (see below). But despite this I would, albeit reluctantly, have supported his bid for re-election if he had stood as a socialist independent, because in my eyes a defeat for Starmer is the most important task in this election. The Tories are sunk but a hung parliament would be the best result of all. Yet such has been Moyle’s retreat that he is incapable of breaking free of his embrace of Starmer.

The issue on which I broke with Moyle and when I told him that I would not vote for him was over Julian Assange whom he refused to support. Although he refused to provide any reasons it is clear that they were related to the false allegations of rape that had been made.

A statement from the former candidate for Brighton Kemptown, Nancy Platts, who was given an online interview in a bid to replace Moyle, revealed that during her interview Michael Crick tweeted that Chris Ward, a former adviser to Starmer, had already been selected by an NEC panel.

Clearly the whole ‘selection’ process, from which Kemptown members were excluded, was a charade. Platts had agreed to take on all Moyle’s employees thus avoiding redundancies. Starmer had other ideas.

Step forward Chris Ward of Hanbury Strategy, a group that lobbies for the gambling and fossil fuel industries. Ward was parachuted in as candidate over the objections of local members. This is the contempt that Starmer has for members. Before becoming leader Liar Starmer pledged to respect local democracy but like the rest of his pledges they have gone with the wind.


Faiza Shaheen

The other shock was the decision of Starmer’s Stormtroopers to deselect Faiza Shaheen in Chingford and Woodgreen. Unlike Moyle she has made it clear that she is  prepared to stand independently and she has gone onto the political offensive, unlike Moyle. Contrast Moyle with Faiza. She has resigned from the Labour Party.

Also unlike Moyle it is clear that Faiza was dropped because of her support for Palestine. Her ‘crimes’ were based on 15 tweets from 2014.

One of the more recent posts she liked, and which was flagged by the NEC, was from 12 May 2024, where Philip Lemoine, a PhD candidate and writer at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), said:

"Every time you say something even mildly critical of Israel, you're immediately assailed by scores of hysterical people who explain to you why you're completely wrong, how you’re biased against Israel.”


Faiza poured her heart out in no uncertain terms and made it clear how callous and cruel was the decision to move her and the way it was done, whilst she was out canvassing.

However Faiza is no anti-Zionist. She is on the soft left. When confronted with ‘liking’ a tweet by a US academic who referred to the “Israel lobby” in a sketch on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show Shaheen’s “like” prompted a complaint from the JLM.


When asked whether she could see why the tweet was offensive, she said: “It plays into a trope and I absolutely don’t agree with that and I’m sorry about that.” What she should have said was that the Israel Lobby was a fact and there’s nothing wrong in pointing out facts.

When news broke on February 27 2019  that the staunch Palestinian supporter and opponent of the witch-hunt, Chris Williamson MP, had been suspended by the Labour Party Shaheen tweeted “*sigh of relief*”. One can only hope that now she has been subject to a similar injustice that she disowns that tweet and recognises what this minute scrutiny of social media for any disloyalty to Israel is really about.

Diane Abbott

A word should also be said about Dianne Abbott. She has been treated abysmally by Starmer but she has done herself no favours for demeaning herself. Abbot is not the heroine that many make out.  Politically she has rarely said anything about Palestine. I can remember a conversation with her at the beginning of her parliamentary career when she was extremely cagy about supporting their struggle.

Granted she is ill but the way to respond to Starmer’s racist treatment of her was to go tell him to go screw himself. Instead she begged and pleaded to be readmitted to the PLP. She even went on the JLM’s ‘anti-Semitism training’ which is nothing more than a course designed to equate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Diane should have refused on principle to go on a Zionist ‘training course’.

It would have been all to the good for Diane to have stood as a socialist independent and defeated the imposed Labour candidate.

Dianne Abbott has never recognised Zionism for what it is. A racist ideology in which ethnic cleansing is integral to its desire for a racially pure ‘Jewish’ state. Unfortunately her friend Jeremy Corbyn has also never bothered to understand what Zionism is about.

The Morning Star is right to call for the unions to call a halt to the purge. They have the numbers on the National Executive Committee but with racist scabs like Sharon Graham of Unite and Gary Smith of the GMB to say nothing of UNISON’s Blairite General Secretary Christine McAnea, this is highly unlikely. We need to replace the utterly useless scabs and war mongers in charge of our trade unions.

Owen Jones on Faiza Shaheen’s Defenestration

At this stage it is impossible to guess how this general election is going to turn out, other than the fact that Tories are unlikely to be returning to government.

My own guess is that there is going to be a very low turnout and I also suspect that Labour’s lead is going to shrink considerably. In a bid between the genuine Tories and the wannabee Tories the former will always have the advantage, despite their very low poll ratings at the moment. One thing I am sure of is that the projections at the moment of over 400 Labour seats may be wild overestimates.

Previous blogs on Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Lloyd Russell-Moyle is a Synonym for Lies, Deception, Treachery and Back Stabbing

No one Better Represents the Opportunism and Lack of Principle of the Campaign Group of MPs than Brighton Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Lloyd Russell-Moyle – the Double Barrelled Hypocrite who was imposed as Chair of Brighton & Hove Labour Party


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11 February 2019

In Office But Not in Power – Jeremy Corbyn seems to have become Tom Watson’s Understudy

Luciana Berger is not a victim of abuse – she is a racist Zionist and a manipulator Corbyn should Stop Appeasing his Enemies and start Defending his Friends

In a report Rebel Labour MPs set to quit party and form centre group in the Guardian on February 2nd we learnt that
‘three of the MPs widely rumoured to be involved in the plans for an initial breakaway – Angela Smith, Chris Leslie and Luciana Berger – refused to be drawn into talk of a split, and insisted they were focused on opposing Brexit. But they did not deny that moves could be made by the spring or early summer.’
Unsurprisingly, given that she was unable to bring herself to say that she supported the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister and given that her name has been repeatedly associated with talk of a split, coupled with her refusal to deny these allegations, members of Wavertree Labour Party decided that they would go about initiating the process of finding a socialist to become their next MP.
Two members of Wavertree therefore decided to submit motions of no confidence in an MP who prefers Theresa May to Jeremy Corbyn.
Luciana Berger despite having been Director of Labour Friends of Israel for 3 years prior to becoming an MP and who is currently Parliamentary Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, which is the ‘sister party’ of the racist Israeli Labour Party, working closely with the Israeli Embassy, she has managed to portray herself as the victim of abuse and anti-Semitism.
Berger has been the recipient of three verifiable anti-Semitic attacks on social media, the perpetrators of which have been gaoled. Most anti-fascists to say nothing of Black and Asian people find themselves on the receiving end of far worse fascist and racist abuse without being portrayed as media heroes or receiving police protection.
What Tom Watson is saying is that someone threatening to split the Labour Party should be immune from criticism - and Corbyn doesn't have the bottle to slap Watson down
Any anti-Semitic abuse is to be condemned but it is noticeable that the Labour MP who has been on the receiving end of thousands of racially abusive messages, Diane Abbott, is also the target of media vilification and abuse, such as that which she received from Fiona Bruce on Question Time.
Given Berger’s inability to demonstrate an ounce of loyalty to him, Corbyn’s support for her is a remarkably stupid and self-defeating act of cowardice. According to the Guardian ‘A no-confidence motion in Berger was withdrawn following pressure from an evidently panicked leader’s office.’ Hapless and hopeless are just some of the adjectives that come to mind. The most obvious question to ask is whether or not Corbyn wants to be Prime Minister?
Luciana Berger has spent her lifetime playing the victim card.  She resigned from the National Union of Students Executive in 2005 ‘because of a continued apathy within the National Union of Students to Jewish student suffering.’ One thing is clear.  Unlike her victims Luciana Berger has never suffered anything.
All this was the cue for Tom Watson to call for the suspension of Liverpool Wavertree CLP. He alleged that Berger ‘was being “bullied” and that local members were “bringing our party into disrepute". Since when is a party exercising its democratic rights ‘bullying’?  According to Watson, despite Jennie Formby saying that ‘there was no constitutional basis’ for such a suspension, Watson told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that individuals were being investigated and that there were "grounds for suspension".
What is the crime that is being alleged. A party member ‘branded Ms Berger a "disruptive Zionist".’ How is that anti-Semitic? The Labour Friends of Israel and JLM are overtly Zionist groups.  Can anyone seriously deny that Ms Berger is disruptive and disloyal to the Labour Party?  Where is the offence in telling the truth?
Naturally the right-wing in the PLP gathered round Berger like flies around a honey pot. Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth told Sky News that “I’m such a big fan of Luciana Berger," Given her rank disloyalty to Corbyn the obvious question is why Ashworth hasn’t been given responsibility for garbage disposal since he clearly has a considerable amount of his own to get rid of.
According to Ashworth “She’s stood up against anti-Semitism her whole political life, she’s got my full support.’ That is precisely what she has not done.  She has stood up for Israel all her life.  Not once has she condemned any aspect of Israel’s harsh rule over the Palestinians.  Not one word of criticism was uttered when last summer Israeli snipers casually dispatched hundreds of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators to their deaths. The woman is a racist warmonger.
Luciana Berger is an obnoxious, whinging, self-pitying narcissist who should have been removed from the Labour Party years ago.
‘Luciana Berger is an obnoxious, whinging, self-pitying narcissist’
Naturally war criminal, Tony Blair, leapt to her defence, describing Berger’s treatment as “shameful”. Blair declared that “I think what Tom’s saying is absolutely right, I back him 100% on it,”. Which is proof that Corbyn should have slapped Watson down.
All of this is happening because Corbyn didn’t stand up to the false allegations of anti-Semitism when they were first made. Many of them were made against himself.  Instead, thanks to the useless advice of his Stalinist advisors, in particular Seamus Milne, Corbyn has repeatedly apologised thus adding fuel to the Zionist fire.
The first rule in politics is that the best form of defence is attack. Instead of attacking the shameful record of support for Israel of his detractors he allowed them to get the upper hand. Every time he apologised they came back for more.
To make matters worse Corbyn played ‘me too’ when Theresa May adopted the IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism. That too came back to bite him when he had bothered to actually read the thing. Instead of seeking to strengthen the Left in the PLP Corbyn has surrounded himself with rattlesnakes like Watson who should have been challenged for the Deputy Leadership last year.
Berger has been one of the main proponents of the false anti-Semitism smears which led to my expulsion and that of other Jewish anti-Zionists.  To them ‘anti-Semitism’ is support for the Palestinians and opposition to the world’s most racist state.
According to Berger ‘"My values remain the same as they did when I was first elected.’ That is precisely the problem. Her values are no different from the Tories.
In Labour investigates Liverpool members over 'bullying' of Luciana Berger Tom Watson told the Andrew Marr show that Corbyn had “made it clear these things are not done in his name” and they “are not helping him, they are harming the reputation of the Labour party”. If true then it is almost as if Corbyn has a death wish.
It was an article of faith when the Labour Left was led by Tony Benn that constituency parties should have the right to deselect their MPs.  This retreat from basic principles, following his opposition to Open Selection at the last conference are part of a disastrous policy of appeasement.
Unfortunately instead of learning the lesson that most antisemitism allegations are fake and abusive Owen Jones engages in a pathetic bout of  special pleading
Owen Jones is bitten by the very same dogs he set on others
The irony is that Owen Jones, who has falsely accused others of 'anti-Semitism' was himself falsely accused by Rachel Riley - McCarthyist witchhunts have a habit of devouring their own
Naturally Owen Jones, ever the opportunist, joined in. Writing in the Guardian this super ego opined that ‘Whatever Luciana Berger’s politics, Labour members must stand with her against antisemitism’. Luciana Berger isn’t under attack because she is Jewish but because she is a reactionary, racist member of the JLM and a paid up member of the Israel lobby. According to this media tart, Berger ‘not only deserves solidarity, but requires it’. In other words this peripatetic member of the Left believes Berger should be given a free pass to attack Corbyn and help split the Labour Party.
Idiot Rachel Riley, the latest expert on 'antisemitism' says 'I don't look like a typical Jew'!! One wonders what a typical Jew looks like?  Big nose? Fagin? Antisemitism has always been the reverse side of the coin of Zionism. 
The irony is that Owen Jones, who has disgracefully attacked people like Jackie Walker, the recipient of vile racist abuse, has in turn been accused of anti-Semitism by Rachel Riley.  Protesting his innocence he pointed to how he himself had made false accusations rather than drawing the conclusion that if he was falsely accused then so have others. Why is Owen Jones helping to subvert Corbyn?
Naturally Jon Lansman, Momentum’s fuhrer, tweeted his “solidarity” with Berger, saying: “Whether you agree with her politics or not, whether you think she is the best possible MP for her constituency or not, she’s suffered appalling abuse. Must we always agree with people to show solidarity?” Nearly all this so-called abuse is from people outraged at her support for the real abuse that Palestinians suffer at the hands of her Israeli friends. But since Lansman is a Zionist that is of no concern to him either.
Corbyn’s Days Are Numbered
It is becoming increasingly difficult to see Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister.  He seems determined to destroy his own position, lurching from crisis to crisis. Instead of using his advantages such as the 2017 election gains, to turn the tables on the Right he has defended them at every turn.  Even today, when as implacable enemy as Luciana Berger is being held to account by her own party, instead of defending their democratic right to do so Corbyn’s unnamed advisers (Milne, Fisher) urge the party to pull back. 
Coupled with his hopeless position on Brexit when it is clear that the majority of Labour Party members want a second referendum and when it is equally clear that Brexit will be an economic and political disaster, Corbyn acts like a sullen child, digs his feet in whilst refusing to articulate any coherent position.  Trapped as he is by the legacy of the British Communist  Party’s socialism in one country i.e. economic nationalism.
To paraphrase John Donne’ ‘don’t ask for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee’. It is the lack of any criticism by Corbyn supporters, many of whom believe adulation in itself will enable him to set foot in Number. 10 that is driving Labour into a cul-de-sac which will lead to Corbyn’s resignation and a Tory victory at the polls.  The time to change direction is becoming shorter and shorter.
Tony Greenstein
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