The battle for the heart of and soul of the Labour Party continues. Social media is full of stories of left-wing activists tearing up their membership cards in light of Corbyn's departure. The cult has had it's day even if there is a body of activists openly resisting Kier Starmer and fighting a rear guard action.
Even Momentum has seemingly collapsed with a massive decline in membership as keyboard warriors and disciples grew bored of the top down diktats of Lansman. Many attacked Lansman (himself a Jew) for pointing out that antisemitism was a problem inside Labour enraging the anti-imperialists to whom this was all a lie despite the almost daily evidence being produced to prove the opposite.
The left is prone to splits and gesture politics as it never has had to take actual responsibility for anything. Get behind the leader they shouted until the one they worshipped finally threw in the towel. Now one group of his acolytes has followed suit it would seem... for now but will wait in the wings until opportunity presents itself.
Even Momentum has seemingly collapsed with a massive decline in membership as keyboard warriors and disciples grew bored of the top down diktats of Lansman. Many attacked Lansman (himself a Jew) for pointing out that antisemitism was a problem inside Labour enraging the anti-imperialists to whom this was all a lie despite the almost daily evidence being produced to prove the opposite.
The left is prone to splits and gesture politics as it never has had to take actual responsibility for anything. Get behind the leader they shouted until the one they worshipped finally threw in the towel. Now one group of his acolytes has followed suit it would seem... for now but will wait in the wings until opportunity presents itself.
Another reason why the party needs to permanently break with the hard left.
Statement from members of the Executive Committee of Harwich and North Essex Constituency Labour Party.
21st August 2020
As of today 21st August 2020 the following officers of the Harwich & North Essex CLP resign their positions. All wish to remain members of the Labour Party:
Maison Urwin (Chair)
Solma Ahmed (Vice Chair, Campaigns)
Tobby Glenny (Secretary)
Phil Dunnett (Treasure and Manningtree Branch Secretary)
Will Davis (Assistant Secretary)
Thomas Randall (Political Education)
Frank Belgrove (Diversity)
David Gynn (Digital Officer)
Mike Bailey (TULO)
Matt Cooke (Brightlingsea Branch Chair)
Statement of the above members
It is always a sad moment when it becomes necessary for a Labour member to step aside from a role in the party but the time has come for us all to do just that. As Executive Committee members we have experienced a great feeling of comradeship and unity of purpose as we endeavoured to promote and organise the party in our locality.
Our firm objective has been to promote socialist ideals and to argue unregulated capitalism is incompatible with the values of freedom, equality and solidarity and that these ideals can only be realised through the realisation of a socialist society. We did our best to support and run the CLP through good times and bad. The General Election result of 2019 was indeed a very bad time for us as our candidate selection process was shrouded in controversy but nevertheless, we were able to field a very able candidate and contribute a great deal of time to the campaign.
The growth of membership in our CLP was extraordinary from 2015 to 2019 and the quality and organisation of meetings was of note. We embraced the broad church and represented a wide range of views. It is said all good things must come to and end and now we feel the direction being taken by the leadership towards a neo-liberal stance it is right that the CLP executive baton should be handed over to those who share the direction of the leadership. We will remain supportive members of the Labour Party but it would be doing an injustice to the wonderful membership if we continued our roles halfheartedly. We have very positive intentions for the future and will be pursuing our vision for a socialist world in other ways, so that we can contribute to policy development.
We thank members....etc
The growth of membership in our CLP was extraordinary from 2015 to 2019 and the quality and organisation of meetings was of note. We embraced the broad church and represented a wide range of views. It is said all good things must come to and end and now we feel the direction being taken by the leadership towards a neo-liberal stance it is right that the CLP executive baton should be handed over to those who share the direction of the leadership. We will remain supportive members of the Labour Party but it would be doing an injustice to the wonderful membership if we continued our roles halfheartedly. We have very positive intentions for the future and will be pursuing our vision for a socialist world in other ways, so that we can contribute to policy development.
We thank members....etc
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In other words this group will be shouting from the back benches without taking responsibility for anything something the hard/far left has always been good at.
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