As an active trade-unionist for several decades including being a Branch Secretary for some 12 years or so in the Civil Service trade unions starting with the CPSA and ending with prospect before my illness and retirement I naturally supported the Labour Party. Then along came Corbyn and that became impossible.
Overnight a mixture of the far-left including those who had long drifted out of organisations or simply turned up shouting slogans on demonstrations along with others, inexperienced an young in the main looking for an alternative gained control of the party.
The whole nature of the party changed overnight. In the past like most major political parties Labour was a coalition of differing views, factions and interest groups competing but mostly co-operating in order to achieve a common aim. This was a broad based party with views from democratic socialists, social democrats, trade unionists and others.
There were arguments, there were disagreements. Sometimes they could be sharp. there were always some on the hard left sniping about "sell-outs" and calling for solidarity with dodgy regimes such as Cuba or hanging around with the terrorists of the IRA and sometimes Hamas. For the most part these people were contained rather than expelled. The exception being the parasitic Militant Tendency, a party within the Labour Part and in complete breach of the rules let alone aims.
They were kicked out yet it happened again albeit in a different form. Corbyn and his hard-line followers organised around Momentum and some other smaller factional groupings started a purge of all those that that didn't fit their ideological aims.
It became nasty beyond belief. The rest was history. Vile abuse, misogyny, racism in the form of anti-Semitism and even threats against female MP's in particular. There was never the "Kinder, Gentler, Politics" that their Messiah promised. It was vicious to the core and remains so as the meme from Weaver Vale Labour Party shows above and some group of socialists show below.
The socialist experiment has failed once again, but the battle is far from over. Even though Kier Starmer is likely to win these people are still there. Plotting, planning hating
Corbyn's legacy will be remembered not just as one of failure, anti-Semitism but just a figurehead of a movement of hate.
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