If the Green Party tackles this they can dominate in 2024 elections!

Right, so it’s a fair enough point to raise in my view, especially from those of us who came from Corbyn’s Labour formerly, that with the smear machine ramping up again now against the Green Party, chiefly from the same Labour right wingers who brought the Corbyn project down, that they don’t fall into the same trap of attempting to placate those making baseless accusations, or ignore what is being said in the hope that it will blow over, because having pulled off this scam successfully before, attacks on the left, accusing them of being antisemitic and more, because all of a sudden it’s becoming a lot more prevalent and the reason for that is pretty obvious, Labour, as right wing as they are making it abundantly clear that they are, especially with the admission of hard right Tory Natalie Elphicke into their party are running scared of the Greens and they should be, because for the all the talk of the left and socialists having nowhere to go, whether Labour offer anything to them or not, it simply isn’t true in this day and age and if Starmer wasn’t getting his advice from a Blairite 90s relic like Peter Mandelson, who still believes the left have nowhere to go, he might not be making the painfully avoidable mistakes that he is.
Right, so the Green Party are now the target of Labour Party weaponisers of all things dishonest. We know who they are, we know what they did to destroy the hopes of a changed country, shaped by a socialist vision. There was the sabotage, the smears, the accusations of being a racist and presiding over a racist party, all aided and abetted by an establishment media, owned lock, stock and barrel by billionaire media barons. When Labour had a socialist leader in Jeremy Corbyn, they set out to destroy him, even as he admirably tried to unite the party, bring all parts of the broad church that Labour supposedly is, to realise real transformative change for the benefit of the many and not the few. We know that failed and we know it failed because you cannot placate people who would be a better fit in the Tory Party, when their beliefs in capitalism and privatisation and Thatcherite continuity chime much more closely with that party, and I suppose it’s a combination of not wanting the Tory label and being wedded to what Tony Blair did, turning Labour into a Tory light Party, that would take turns in power with the Tories to preserve the status quo, to ensure the establishment was always protected no matter who was in power. That isn’t a democracy when that is the only outcome we can vote for and that is underlined even further by an electoral system trapping us in that cycle. We need electoral reform, both main parties are dead set against it for the aforementioned reasons. Until that wheel gets broken, this country will become more oppressive, more authoritarian and even less being run in the interests of it’s people.
Where Tony Blair benefited from there being no social media to call him out for what he was doing, where Blair was capable of not giving the game away so obviously, a competent politician if still a completely rancid one, Keir Starmer isn’t. He is to politics what a toddler trying to ram a square block into a round hole on a shape sorter is. He makes his Tory intentions, his pro establishment leanings so obvious and nothing has exposed that more in recent times, than his support for Israel, his continuity Tory policies which are disgusting more and more people, now at the point where workers rights are literally being watered down by the party that is supposed to be for the workers and he’s only gone and underlined that with the equivalent of a big black permanent marker, by admitting a trade union bashing, refugee attacking, social justice opposing, hard right harridan like Natalie Elphicke into the Labour Party, the third Tory he’s opened his arms to, while decent actual Labour MPs, socialist MPs, are ostracised, suspended and purged. What do they care though? Where else will the left go? The mantra of Starmer’s guru Peter Mandelson. You don’t need to offer the left anything and certainly Starmer’s conduct is in line with that, desperately wooing Tories, the admission of Elphicke for little more than a soundbite at PMQs was risible, but equally he’s sending a message saying if we will allow someone as bats**t right wing as this into Labour, all of you who align with her are welcome too. Don’t worry about the rotten lefties, they have nowhere to go. Well it’s just not true and slowly, but surely, certainly following another set of underwhelming local elections, Labour can see where it is bleeding support off to, that it expected would stay with it, no matter how Tory they went, but instead more and more people chose to vote Green.
Now I quite readily confess to being a Green Party member and a Councillor because I’m proud of it, it’s a party where being a socialist doesn’t come with a punishment and to underline just how worried Labour are, all of a sudden Mandelson seems to have changed his tune:
I suppose the first thing I’d want to say to that is thank you Peter Mandelson for such an outstanding advert for joining the Green Party. It is now a place for left wingers, climate change activists and pro Palestine supporters – or a dustbin for them as he calls it - who are clearly not people wanted in Starmer’s Labour, though of course if you want to stay, that’s fine with him, you can be a tassel on Starmer’s Labour. Lucky you. If we were all such disposable material though, why are you running scared of us then?
Mandelson is yesterday’s man, he’s never been with the times and has certainly never been on the side of ordinary working class people, he prefers the company of Russian oligarchs and billionaire sex traffickers, he does love to spend time on the private yachts of the super rich after all. He’s not been the only one on the attack though and as much as Mandy’s smugness is par for the course for him and his right wing of the Labour Party, then others are going for tried and tested methods of attack, such as the Jewish Labour Movement, where you need neither be in Labour of even Jewish to be a member, so it is little better than a pro Starmer, pro Israel lobbying group and it has turned the accusations of antisemitism on the Green Party and they’ve sent a two page statement to the Co-Leaders of the Green Party, Carla Denyer and Adiran Ramsay demanding they act on the antisemitism in their party. I’m not going to into the letter itself, the tweet that accompanied it was enough, which reads:
‘The Green Party have repeatedly failed to take action to stamp out antisemitism in their party & to remove antisemites from their ranks. We first warned the Green Party about this last year. Sadly, we've had to write again. There's nothing progressive about protecting racists.’
Now if a Labour linked body wants to pick on itself over allegations of racism and antisemitism, then that is up to them, we saw that with Corbyn, but as far as going after another Party, especially when you are again giving the Tories a free pass, is just an illustration of antisemitism being used as a political football by Labour figures. That is racist, that is disgusting, and the JLM should apologise. They have nothing to do with the Greens, their processes, their due diligence and they can certainly shut their holes when their party operates a hierarchy of racism where only antisemitism ever seems to matter and indeed the letter itself, is an attack on two Muslim Green Party candidates elected last Thursday, all based on the reporting it would appear of the Jewish Chronicle, a publication that has been rinsed more than any other by it’s regulator IPSO, and IPSO are basically toothless, so that really does say something. Using accusations of racism as a political tool, is itself racist. The JLM should stay in their lane.
But the Jewish Chronicle isn’t the only media outlet also implicated in this apparent campaign against the Green Party and indeed Muslim Green Party candidate, who appear to be being disproportionately targeted.
Another electee last Thursday in Leeds was Mothin Ali, who in celebration of his win, cried Allahu Akbar, God is Great in Arabic, but which has, thanks to media framing largely and unfairly, becoming synonymous with terror attacks. It is a cheer, nothing more nothing less. Mothin Ali is an accountant, who in his spare time runs a gardening blog called My Family Garden. Nevertheless, the claim was soon made in the Torygraph, that Ali was under investigation for what he’d said and it didn’t stop a Tory Councillor taking to Twitter to post the article complaining that Ali was only being investigated when he should be deported instead. Well he was born in Sheffield as I understand it, you prat. At any rate his only crime it appears was having stood on a pro Gaza platform. But he also isn’t under investigation as Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski took to task this Tory Councillor, Iain Gall, when he posted:
‘This is totally inaccurate & wilful misleading reporting. No one is being investigated for shouting God is Great. The only people who take offense to that are the same sort of Tory & Labour councillors that engage with the same sort of Islamophobia as Iain Gall here.’
I think Polanski did exactly what was needed here, pushed back, though Ali still published a written apology for any offence caused. I would like to think he did that of his own volition and not been made to do so, certainly many people are jumping to that conclusion, I personally don’t see that he had anything to apologise for.
There are lessons to be learned by what happened to Corbyn, that the Greens need to take on board now. Clearly, they are the establishments next chosen target. Therefore for anyone wanting to be where the change is clearly coming from in their view – and I agree for a change, though I’m already a member, so I’m biased – so now seems a good time to get on board and join and indeed in light of last weeks local election successes AND the attacks on the Greens that have come since, not that there could possibly be a connection you understand, many people have.
The Greens are the party not just for climate change, something else Mandelson evidently thinks belongs in the dustbin, so there’s Labour again for you, but also for social justice, racial justice and economic justice. Much of what Corbyn put forward in his manifestoes was also in the Greens manifesto and remains there more importantly. The attacks will keep coming though, but they need to be seen for what they are and equally it can be turned back on other parties, so lets flip this back on Labour.
Why are you letting in so many Tories if you are supposed to be the alternative? Why are Tories from the hard right allowed in, but not people from the left? We know you’ll never let Corbyn stand again as a Labour MP, but why is Diane Abbott still suspended after a year, when Tories can walk in the front door to become Labour MPs? Is Peter Mandelson an adviser to Keir Starmer and if so, why would someone with ties to the super rich, to Peter Epstein suitable to be in such a lofty elevated position in his Labour Party? What due diligence did you do on him and should we assume that was about the same as was done on Natalie Elphicke? Why are the Jewish Labour Movement the only representative body acting on behalf of the Labour Party to deal with antisemitism, when their Labour and Jewish links are arbitrary, there are other more solidly Jewish groups there, like Jewish Voice for Labour, why not use them? The Forde Report identified a hierarchy of racism, why have Labour not enacted its recommendations? Why did Starmer ban MPs from talking to Forde afterwards? Why are the JLM still overseeing antisemitism training when Forde found their training to be inadequate? I could go on and on and on. There is no shortage of attack lines, completely legitimate and proven that the Greens should be responding with if this carries on. If they don’t, then they’ll be Corbynated too. There’s a reason the Greens are doing well and attracting new members and that is because the appetite for change is still there, still in demand and it’s no longer on offer in Labour. If Mandelson thinks we won’t go elsewhere, he clearly hasn’t learned that we can and we will and we are.
I went over some more ideas for Green and Indy candidates in light of their victories last week in this video recommendation here so if you enjoyed this video you might like to watch that next and stay with this channel and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.