Labour lawyers block sending internal antisemitism report to human rights watchdog. Keir Starmer: Who is Labour’s next leader? They almost exclusively belonged to one wing of the party. Second, the contents and wider culture and practices referred to in the report. The fact they would use the antisemitic issue falsely shows they have no regard for the issue whatever. The report also suggests that some senior staff “used language that was considerably more abusive and inappropriate” than the language it used as “justification” to suspend many pro-Corbyn members. In 2017, Corbyn’s office chased the staffers in the Labour Party for action on a number of high profile antisemitism cases, including that of Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London, who was suspended from the party in 2016 in a row over claims of Nazi-Zionist collaboration. Another person said: “Did she not accuse the (Labour Party) and its staff of being racist this week? Now, more than ever, we need a vibrant, independent media that holds the government to account and calls it out when it puts vested economic interests above human lives. The accusations stand in need of answer. Both also claim that a directive ‘poured’ party resources into: seats with large Labour majorities which were never under threat. The report’s conclusions clash with complaints of whistleblowers, formerly working for Labour, who told BBC Panorama last year there had been political interference in the process from the top of the party under Corbyn. This is how bureaucracies function. It’s a fallacy that you need a bureaucratic hierarchy to operate a big organisation. It indicates that similar comments were also made about pro-Corbyn MPs and members. the “report was put into the public domain”. pic.twitter.com/o2anrRr1ZL, — Socialist Campaign Group (@socialistcam) April 13, 2020. Senior figures within the party, Seamus Milne, Karie Murphy and Andrew Murray, the latter of whom was seconded to the party from Unite, all provided information, evidence and emails that related to the allegations of anti-Semitism to aid research for the submission, but did not help to write this report. A staffer said any Labour MP “who nominates Corbyn 'to widen the debate' deserves to be taken out and shot” and discussed “hanging and burning” the party leader. “Tap tap tapping away will make us look v busy,” one said. In one case a senior Labour staffer had sent themselves their entire WhatsApp conversation history – which included group chats of colleagues at Labour HQ discussing their opinions about Corbyn and Labour’s performance at the 2017 general election. Despite disagreement among members, Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) gave Formby approval to manage and not share details of the EHRC submission - of which this report was a part. “Many of its revelations”, they note, “are truly shocking”. Driscoll claims that Starmer’s response doesn’t go far enough. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. The internal Labour Party report which concluded Jeremy Corbyn’s attempts to tackle antisemitism were hampered by factional hostility was commissioned by the party's General Secretary Jennie Formby, ITV News can reveal. What’s Donald Trump’s favourite kind of goat? PMQs was a waste of 12 minutes, until the SNP stepped in. It also includes material from what seems to be a cache of WhatsApp messages and emails from former senior Labour staff members. In a matter of hours, it has transformed the struggle inside the party. It also notes that this is crucial to understanding how the “disciplinary process functioned” and Corbyn’s actual role in those processes. Had they been fully behind Corbyn in 2017, which is what they were paid for, May might have been out of power. The SCG, which includes former shadow cabinet members Diane Abbott and John McDonnell, also makes a similar point, saying that there may be “cases to answer on bullying, harassment, sexism and racism” within the document. I’d say these conspiring minds are still in control of the Party as Canary published accounts just recently of long standing Labour members who found their Labour membership revoked. The research for the report granted the writers access to staff members' emails and they looked at approximately 100,000 while compiling the report. Today, I repeated once again the apology I made as soon as I was elected leader. The coronavirus pandemic is changing our world, fast. We would have won in 2017 without all the sabotage. In short, the internal politicking of the Labour party reinforced a hierarchy of racism nationwide, in which Muslims and black people were placed squarely at the bottom. Eight whistleblowers told the BBC’s Panorama last year how they felt undermined by senior Labour bosses in their attempts to tackle antisemitism. © Middle East Eye 2020 - all rights reserved. © Canary Media Limited 2015-19. Because he stood for the kind of democratic workplace which bureaucrats loathe. This is not the Bullingdon Club, it is what runs through the messages revealed in the leaked document. that Starmer’s response doesn’t go far enough. Some of the conversations included “abusive and inappropriate language about the leader, MPs, Labour members and about other staff”, the report claims. “In the meantime, we ask everyone concerned to refrain from drawing conclusions before the investigation is complete and we will be asking the general secretary to put measures in place to protect the welfare of party members and party staff who are concerned or affected by this report.". Why didn’t they exert control in Corbyn’s favour? the role of Labour Party factionalism”. hanging and burning” the party leader and calling him a “lying little toerag”. The report said it might not seem immediately clear why this is relevant but “many staff, including GLU [governance and legal unit] staff and senior staff with responsibility for managing and overseeing GLU, were bitterly opposed to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and seem to have been demotivated, or largely interested in work that could advance a factional agenda”. A statement from SCG members Jon Trickett and Ian Lavery, meanwhile, summarises the leaked report.

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