Corbyn Whip Removal - FAKE NEWS

With the Labour Party choosing to settle the legal action brought against it by the so-called Panorama whistleblowers, and presenter John Ware, some in and around our free and fearless press have sensed the opportunity to indulge in a little mischief making. This has manifested itself in some highly creative ways. One such manifestation has been the claim that the party’s new management is going to clear out its predecessors.

Very few people outside journalism may have heard of Adam Cailler, but those on the left are now familiar with his enthusiasm for slinging dead cats on the table - any table. “According to a few Labour sources this morning, it's ‘very possible’ and ‘highly likely’ that Jeremy Corbyn will have the whip removed very soon, as a result of some of the recommendations in the EHRC report” told the Jewish Telegraph man on Wednesday.

This was immediately taken up by the viciously unpleasant David Collier: “If as is being reported, [Labour] are about to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn because of recommendations in the EHRC report. Yes it is 5 years late. But it is a major statement that will underline just how bad things were and how close we came to disaster”.

Collier, believed to be the prime mover behind the Gnasher Jew Twitter feed, will be familiar to Zelo Street regulars as the one who admitted, on camera, that when it came to anti-Semitism in the Tory Party, he had done nothing. Think about that. Selective anti-racism. The very worst kind. Racism, and especially anti-Semitism, should be confronted whenever and wherever it appears. Collier appears not to share that view.

Meanwhile, the Corbyn-bashing tendency was in full flow, typical being failed politician Tom Harris, given a platform by the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph. “Jeremy Corbyn deserves to lose the whip, but it would plunge Labour into its worst civil war yet … Disciplining Corbyn would draw a line over Labour's anti-Semitism struggle, although Keir Starmer is likely to prefer the quiet life”. Out of power and out of touch.

The cynical putting-the-boot-in exercise continued over at the Murdoch Times, where Philip Collins declared “Starmer must finish off Corbyn to show he means business”, going on to pontificate “The real way to show the world that Labour has changed, will be to kick Corbyn out. Take away the whip, expel him from the party, point the way out for his nasty band of facilitators”. That’s a taker of the Murdoch shilling calling “nasty” on others.

But while this slice of hokum convinced some, and allowed others to have a good sneer at the Rotten Lefties™, it did not convince Lee Harpin of the Jewish Chronicle, himself no supporter of Jezza. “Rumours that Corbyn will have whip removed as result of EHRC report greatly exaggerated. Next to no chance it will single out individuals in this way. Instead will focus on evidence of systematic discrimination of Jewish party members”.

Maybe he means “discrimination against Jewish party members”. In any case, it is not in the EHRC remit to tell organisations how to conduct disciplinary measures. That small matter seems to have been missed in the rush to become judgmental and righteous.

It looks like Cailler was fed a fake. And failed to correctly identify it. Must try harder.

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