CHRIS WILLIAMSON – NEC Panel Recommends His Expulsion

The only person who should be expelled is Tom Watson –

If Corbyn Doesn't Speak Out He Will Be Next on the List

I have learnt tonight that Chris Williamson, the Labour MP for Derby North, has been recommended by an NEC panel for expulsion. This outrageous recommendation is nothing but pure maliciousness and vindictiveness against one of the few genuine socialists amongst Labour MPs.

It is also fraudulent. The NEC appointed a previous panel which recommended his reinstatement. Because they got the wrong decision the NEC have appointed another panel!  It’s like being acquitted by a court and the powers that be deciding they didn’t like the decision and trying you over and over again until they obtain the ‘right’ decision.

The attacks on Chris, by the supporters of the Israeli Apartheid state, are based on yet another outrageous and dishonest distortion. Chris was accused of saying that Labour has been too apologetic about anti-Semitism. This is a lie.  He said Labour had been too apologetic about the false allegations of anti-Semitism made against it.  Only a complete moron or someone as politically dishonest as Tom Watson, cannot understand the difference.

What Chris actually said was:

 “I have got to say I think our party's response has been partly responsible for that because in my opinion… we've backed off far too much, we have given too much ground, we've been too apologetic...

“We've done more to actually address the scourge of anti-semitism than any other political party. Any other political party. And yet we are being traduced.”

Momentum’s unelected dictator Jon Lansman has already made it clear that he is at one with the Right in the Labour Party in demanding Chris’s expulsion.  However it is also the case, as a recent poll, by Labour List demonstrated that over 60% of Labour members support Chris.

In other words Lansman and his sycophantic hacks, and we have a few of them here in Brighton Momentum, are in a minority. Any reasonable person can see that nothing Chris said was anti-Semitic.

Tom Watson 'lost sleep thinking about poor old Phil Woolas'

However there are very good grounds for expelling Tom Watson.

Phil Woolas's racist leaflet that Tom Watson backed

i.                 RACISM

a.                         Backing racist Labour MP Phil Woolas who campaigned to ‘make the white folk angry’.  When the High Court removed him for lying about an opponent Watson wrote he had ‘lost sleep over poor Phil.’

b.                        Running a racist campaign in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by election in 2004. As Campaign Manager Watson oversaw the distribution of  leaflets which said “Labour is on your side; the Lib Dems are on the side of failed asylum-seekers.” In an interview  with the New Statesman Watson said. “I wouldn’t write it again, I wanted to defeat the Lib Dems at all costs.”  Which just goes to show that Watson has all the attributes of a syphilitic rattle snake.

2.    Bullying of women

a.     Bullying Yvonne Davies, a local Councillor because she objected to a white racist march supported by the BNP in his constituency of Sandwell. Yvonne, who is now leader of Sandwell Council, organised a photoshot of councillors to send to Jennie Formby as a get well card.  All councillors except the two working for Watson were in the photo!        

b.    Bullying Jennie Formy over the fake anti-Semitism claims knowing full well she is undergoing chemotherapy.

3.    Anti-Semitism

Leon Brittan:         Tom Watson is on record as saying he wouldn’t rest until the last anti-Semite was expelled from the Labour Party.  In which case he should resign his membership!

Moments after the death of the former Jewish Conservative Home Secretary Leon Brittan from cancer, Watson wrote that he was ‘“as close to evil as any human being could get” (which is a remarkably good description of Tom Watson).

Brittan had been accused by Watson’s friend Carl Beech, now serving 18 years for a variety of offences, of being a paedophile. There was no substance to this yet Watson singled out Brittan, a dying man, not any other of Beech’s targets.  The only possible reason for this was because he was Jewish. 

During his political career Brittan had been subject to considerable anti-Semitism in the Tory Party (but of course as this has nothing to do with Israel it was brushed under the carpet). Harold MacMillan quipped that the Thatcher cabinet

“was more old Estonian than old Etonian” — a crack which sped through the bars of the Commons and in Tory clubland as a non-too-subtle way of putting Nigel Lawson, Leon Brittan or Michael Howard in their place.’

This is the tradition Tom Watson has followed in.

4.    Using the abuse of children to further Tom Watson’s Political Career

Tom Watson didn’t merely raise the issue of a possible VIP paedophile ring, he positively encouraged Carl Beech, who has himself been convicted of sexual abuse of children, to make wild and fantastic claims of abuse. Although I hold no brief for Harvey Proctor, who when he was an MP was a member of the far-Right Monday Club and a fellow-traveller of the National Front, the allegations made against him were clearly preposterous and without foundation. Watson abused parliamentary privilege to make these claims. In this sense Proctor is right to call Watson the ‘cheerleader-in-chief’ for Carl Beech.

That is not to say that there haven’t been powerful politicians and celebrities who have used their position to continue their abuse.  The obvious person was Jimmy Saville, who was given a knighthood by Margaret Thatcher.  Likewise Cyril Smith, the Liberal MP was protected by the leader of the Liberals, David Steel despite Steel knowing of the allegations. Peter Morrison, Thatcher’s PPS was another well known paedophile and implicated in the North Wales child abuse scandal. See Paedophile politicians - the ones that got away

Clearly what the NEC should do is to firstly suspend Tom Watson, then form a panel to hear the charges against him and then recommend his expulsion.

In the meantime the case of Chris Williamson should be withdraw from the National Constitutional Committee as there is no case to answer

Tony Greenstein

Once again Corbyn Has Betrayed his Friends & Appeased his Enemies - Today Corbyn’s very leadership is at stake

 It should have been Tom Watson who was suspended not Chris Williamson

Defend Chris Williamson

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Tuesday 9^th July

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It is difficult to work out the thinking behind the resuspension of Chris Williamson. We should be under no doubt that the decision of Jenny Formby was cleared by Corbyn. I am told that John McDonnell also played a part in this abject surrender.

Yvonne Davies objected to a BNP style march and was subject to bullying by Watson

This is not about ‘anti-Semitism’ or any form of racism.  If it was then Tom Watson, a person who supported a racist St George’s Day March in Sandwell, in which BNP members were attending and then bullied a Labour councillor Yvonne Davies who suggested a more family friendly event, should put that nonsense to rest.

If they want to find examples of racism then John Mann's attack on gypsies and travellers is a good example

This is the same Tom Watson who supported ‘our  Phil’ Labour MP Phil Woolas who was removed for election offences by the High Court in 2011, (lying) after running a campaign based on ‘making the white folk angry.’

This is about Israel, the Zionist lobby and more generally support for American foreign policy in the Middle East. This is about the return to traditional bipartisanship in foreign policy and an end to any idea of mass nationalisation of the utilities and an end to austerity.  It is a return to New Labourism that is threatened.

Watson supported racist Labour MP Phil Woolas telling people he had 'lost sleep' over 'poor Phil'

Jeremy Corbyn has handled the accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’  abysmally for the last 3 years.  Instead of apologising he should have called out his accusers.  Instead he apologised, betrayed his supporters, appeased a Zionist lobby which was out for only one thing, his head and last month when the Jewish Labour Movement began grandstanding and threatening to disaffiliate from the Labour Party he begged them to stay!  They rewarded his pathetic pleas with a motion of no confidence.

No one should be under any doubt about this.  Last September when the NEC passed an unamended IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which conflated anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, it should have been clear to even the dumbest of creatures that it was Israel not Jews which was on the agenda.

Racist Labour MP Phil Woolas was defended by the racist MP below

The betrayal by Jon Lansman should make even the stupidest Momentum supporter sit up and take note.  Momentum was set up to support Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.  Today it is hand in glove with Tom Watson and the JLM. Either Lansman is removed, which is impossible given the lack of democracy in Momentum, or an alternative left network needs to be set up in the Labour Party.

The concern of the media for Corbyn's health is touching

The JLM was refounded in 2015 with the specific project of removing Corbyn.  The journalist who first uncovered this, Asa Winstanley has also been suspended from the Labour Party – for anti-Semitism of course! Telling the truth is also anti-Semitic!

The situation today is dangerous.  Tom Watson has gained immeasurably from the resuspension of Chris Williamson.  Corbyn has once again weakened himself by agreeing to this suspension.  The absurdity of 118 MPs writing a letter deploring political interference in the anti-Semitism disciplinary process whilst themselves doing exactly that beggars belief.

The slow-witted viciousness of Marina Hyde of the Guardian

As should be clear even to the most slow-witted journalist, the anti-Semitism campaign has and never has had anything to do with anti-Semitism.  From the very start the JLM had one purpose – to remove Corbyn.  That is why whenever they achieved one target (removal of Ken Livingstone etc.) they moved on to another.  And Jon Lansman has worked with them all the way.

It is no accident that all the papers today lead with stories on Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘unfitness’ to lead  the Labour Party. The problem is that by his continual vacillation and his refusal or inability to call out Tom Watson he has confirmed those attacks.

What can we do?

Well Labour’s NEC is holding its next meeting on Tuesday 9^th July at which Chris Williamson will be discussed.  It is at Southside near Victoria Station.  Anyone who is serious in not wanting to see the Right take back control of the Labour Party should be there.

Tony Greenstein

OPEN LETTER TO TOM WATSON - the Unlikely Anti-Racist who supported May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy and the Windrush deportations

Why is Watson so concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ when he supported Phil Woolas  whose election campaign tried to ‘make White folks angry’?

Dear Tom,

I listened with rapt attention to your conversation with Lee on LBC. You said that you were determined to stop Labour ‘being stained by the stench of racism’ and that you would ‘not resile from driving out anti-Semites from my party.’

You stated that ‘one anti-Semite in the Labour Party is one too many” and expressed your anger that Luciana Berger was ‘bullied out of her own party by racist thugs" I assume you were referring to the Jewish Chair of Wavertree Labour Party Dr Alex Scott-Samuel?

A smug Tom Watson defends himself from a Labour member on LBC

You stated that this was Labour’s "worst day of shame" in its 120 year history. I must confess that I recall a few other days that were even more shameful than when Luciana Berger, fearful that she was going to be deselected, cried ‘anti-Semitism’ and then jumped ship.

When Emily Thornberry refused to vote for 90 days detention without trial, Tom Watson accused her of being a 'traitor' - bullying women is second nature to him

I am referring for example to the (Kenya Asians) Commonwealth Immigration Act decision of the Labour Government in 1968 to remove the right of Asian passport holders to come to this country, despite the promises made to them in 1963 at the time of Kenyan independence. The right of White settlers to enter the UK was preserved. This was passed after a campaign by Duncan Sandys and Enoch Powell. So shocking was this act of naked racism that even Tories such as Iain Macleod, Michael Heseltine and Ian Gilmour voted against it. If this pandering to Powell and the National Front has escaped your mind then I refer you to Mark Latimer’s article in the New Statesman, When Labour played the racist card.

There was however a time when genuine anti-Semitism was rife in the Labour Party but this was amongst the Fabian Right. Sidney Webb, later the Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield, observed that ‘French, German, Russian Socialism is Jew-ridden. We thank heaven, are free.’ His explanation being that ‘there is no money in it.’

What the Webbs said paled in comparison to Clement Attlee who chaired a Cabinet Committee on Jewish Refugees. Government policy was summed up in a telegram to Lord Halifax on 8^th January 1943 expressing concern that Nazi policy might change ‘from the policy of extermination to extrusion.’ Eleven days later Attlee told the Commons that there could be no relaxation in the immigration rules and that ‘efforts to save the Jews cannot be simply British efforts.’ [Auschwitz and the Allies (pp. 110-11) Martin Gilbert]. What he meant was that no effort would be made.

If you really think that the whining plaints of ‘anti-Semitism’ by Blairite Berger was Labour’s worst ever day of shame then it is clear that your resignation is long overdue. The Labour Party has very many things to be ashamed of but the present synthetic ‘anti-Semitism’ is not one of them.

Leaving aside Labour’s shameful record in respect of Jewish refugees from Nazism there is the Attlee government’s super-exploitation of the African colonies and Malaya. There is the decision of Tony Blair to go to war in Iraq in 2003 at the expense of a million Iraqi lives.

If racism is your primary concern then why do have nothing to say about Islamapobia or racism against Black people? How do you explain your decision to abstain on Theresa May’s 2014 Immigration Act which introduced the hostile environment policy?  When an opposition abstains this means it supports the government. There were just 6 Labour MPs who voted against this Act and you were not amongst them. Why does the Windrush scandal not trouble you?

Tom Watson (& Ruth Smeeth) giving succour and comfort to the racists of the Israeli Labor Party

In your exchange with Lee you purported not to understand the connection between the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ narrative and support for the Palestinians. I am happy to explain. Luciana Berger was Director for 3 years of Labour Friends of Israel. You were Vice-President of Trade Union Friends of Israel. If you are having to defend the abominations of the Israeli state, a state that its own Prime Minister says is a state only of its Jewish citizens, then it is easier to accuse its critics of ‘anti-Semitism’ than to have to justify Israel's behaviour.

Last Sunday, Israel’s Ha’aretz published the testimonies of Palestinian children who have been gaoled, 'Endless Trip to Hell'. What happens to Palestinian children never happens to Jewish children. This is a state of affairs usually described as Apartheid. However your voice has never been heard because you spend your time as an apologist for Israel’s Occupation.

Khalil Zaakiq. Meged Gozani

Khalil Zaakiq a 13 year old boy, described his ordeal.

 “Around 2 A.M. someone knocked on the door. I woke up and saw a lot of soldiers in the house. … The commander called Uday, my big brother, told him to get dressed and informed him that he was under arrest. It was the third time they arrested him. My father was also once under arrest. Suddenly they told me to put my shoes on too and go with them. 

“They took us out of the house and tied our hands and covered our eyes. We went like that on foot to the base in Karmei Tzur. There they sat me on the floor with hands tied and eyes covered for around three hours. At about 5 A.M., they moved us to Etzion. On the way there in the jeep they hit us, they slapped me. In Etzion, I was sent to be checked by a doctor. He asked if I had been beaten and I said yes. He didn’t do anything, only checked my blood pressure and said I could stand up to an interrogation. 

“My interrogation started at 8 A.M.. They asked me to tell them which children throw stones. I said I didn’t know, so the interrogator gave me a slap. The interrogation went on for four hours. Afterward, they put me into a dark room for 10 minutes and then took me back to the interrogation room… After an hour, Uday and I were moved to Ofer Prison. I didn’t sign a confession, neither about myself nor about others. 

“I got out after nine days, because I wasn’t guilty of anything…. My little brother, who is 10, has been really afraid ever since. Whenever someone knocks at the door, he wets his pants.”

Palestinian children detained by Israel - stripped and in the sun - this is what Watson and his LFI friends support

Israel’s abuse of Palestinian children was debated in Parliament in January 2016. Introduced by Sarah Champion it was based on a UNICEF Report based on 400 testimonies which found that the ill-treatment of Palestinian children by the Israeli military was ‘widespread, systematic and institutionalized’.

None of this stopped two Labour MPs, Louise Ellman and Ian Austin, repeatedly interrupting other MPs in order to defend Israel’s military. This is why, when you pretend not to understand the connection between anti-Semitism and Palestine it’s difficult to believe you.

I also fail to understand why, when John McDonnell called on you to return half a million pounds from Max Mosley (son of Oswald), a disgraced tycoon and a racist, who called for immigrants to be offered “financial inducements to go home”. you did not return the money?

Some of the donations to Tom Watson - most of them were from Zionists 

Speaking of donations you have received, in the past 3 years, a total of £50,000 from Sir Trevor Chinn, a prominent Zionist and owner of Kwik Fit and £30,000 from Sir David Garrard, a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel and now TIG as well as £4,500 direct from LFI.

Yvonne Davies (left) the woman that Tom Watson bullied

On 13th September 2018, Skwawkbox published a story about Sandwell councillor Yvonne Davies whom you bullied because she didn’t want to continue St George’s Day parades that were being used by the BNP. Yvonne proposed a family-friendly ‘party in the park’ event instead but you went to the newspapers who quoted you as explaining what had happened was just “high spirits.” Yvonne said that your harassment got worse over time and that you were behind attempts to get her deselected as a Sandwell councilor forcing her to move outside your constituency to escape your bullying. How do you reconcile your friendliness to the BNP with your opposition to anti-Semitism?

On 26^th February, the Board of Deputies, a Zionist group, complained that Chris Williamson had booked a room in Parliament for a Jewish Voice for Labour screening of Jackie Walker’s WitchHunt, accusing Williamson of “trolling the Jewish community” even though Jackie is Jewish and JVL are a Jewish group. You reported this to the Chief Whip and General Secretary. Why?

On 27^th February you demanded that Chris Williamson be suspended for claiming that the Labour Party had been 'too apologetic' over false claims of antisemitism. You said “If it was in my gift I would have removed the whip” from Chris Williamson. Nothing Chris said was anti-Semitic and you know it. Why did you try to suppress this film?

On 11^th March, the Spectator revealed that your new 'Future Britain Group' had registered its website on 18^th February, the very same day The Independent Group (TIG) was launched. Was this a coincidence or more evidence that you are coordinating with TIG?

Other relevant facts include the fact that:

Ø   In 2003, you voted in favour of going to war with Iraq and you have consistently voted against an investigation into the war.

Ø   In 2004, despite your apparent concern with racism, you were responsible for putting out a nakedly racist leaflet that said "Labour is on your side – the Lib Dems are on the side of failed asylum seekers"

Ø   In 2009 it was revealed that you had claimed the maximum £4,800 allowance for food in a single year and that between 2005 and 2009, you and Iain Wright claimed over £100,000 for a central London flat you both shared.

Ø   In Oct 2016 you abstained from voting on a Labour Party motion calling for the UK to withdraw support from the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. Why? 

Leon Brittan, Anti-Semitism and allegations of Child Abuse

In October 2012 you made allegations about a paedophile network that had been protected by their Parliamentary connections involving a close aide to a former Prime Minister. Although you refused to mention any names publicly there was one exception to this, Leon Brittan.  Why?

As you know Brittan was continually dogged throughout his career by ‘an undercurrent of anti-Semitism.’ This was summed up by Harold MacMillan who described Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, as being ‘more Old Estonian than Old Etonian.’  Eventually you were forced to apologise for your unsubstantiated allegations and description of Brittan as ‘evil’. What explanation is there, other than the fact that he was Jewish, for your attacks on Brittan?

Phil Woolas

Phil Woolas was a Labour MP and Immigration Minister who was infamous for being an opportunist with no fixed principles. He met his comeuppance after the 2010 election, which he won by 103 votes, for making false allegations that his Lib-Dem opponent supported Islamic terrorism. After the election Elwyn Watkins complained of Woolas’s lies and was quoted as saying:

"Woolas is trying to portray this as me being antisemitic. I'm not antisemitic at all. He has taken something and tried to make it something it's not.’

The BBC reported that a special election court found in November that Woolas had knowingly lied about his Liberal Democrat rival, Elwyn Watkins in the weeks running up to the General Election.

Woolas’s leaflets accused Watkins of pandering to Muslim militants. In an email disclosed during the hearing, Woolas' agent, Joe Fitzpatrick wrote: "If we don't get the white folk angry, he's gone."

The court found that Woolas’s chosen method for achieving this was to suggest there were Muslim extremists who advocated violence against Woolas and that Watkins was attempting to seek their support.

In November 2008 Woolas attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them "playing the system" by taking legal action. You might have expected Tom Watson to have been the first to call for the expulsion of this racist shit. Not a bit of it.

In Tory lies, Lib Dem lies, Phil Woolas and a mystical shaman of truth you described the Court’s decision as one we will all regret’. You stated that:

‘I’ve lost sleep thinking about poor old Phil Woolas and his leaflets.’ He felt ‘like a piano has been dropped on my head. It is the most brutal truth of all – the realisation that you are on your own in politics. When the shit storm hits, you have no allies. Being a member of Parliament is a lonely, solitary, dangerous life….Truth and Lies. They said Phil lied on a leaflet. He lost his job because of it.

It’s hard to believe that this is the same Tom Watson who won’t rest until the last anti-Semite is driven out of the Labour Party! There is only one explanation. Tom Watson is motivated, not by anti-Semitism but a love for Israeli Apartheid!

Tony Greenstein