by
Les May
Angela Rayner aka Cinderella
LAST
year I attended a Labour party supporting discussion group.
Everyone who attended was aware that the constant barrage of articles
in the press on the squabbling within the Labour party about
anti-semitism, was simply serving to distract attention from Labour’s
policy proposals. One of the people who attended had first hand
experience of the disciplinary procedures within the party because
they had been subjected to an investigation. One outcome of this was
that they had been told they must not discuss any aspect of the
investigation or procedures with third parties. Secret procedures
like this seem to me to have all the hallmarks of a ‘Star Chamber’,
so after the discussion group wound up I approached the person
involved, told them I wrote for NV and asked if they would speak to
me if I gave them an assurance that I would ensure that they could
not be identified, and a veto on the use any articles I wrote about
their experiences.
We
agreed to exchange telephone numbers and e-mail addresses as we lived
some distance apart. I said I would contact the person after they
returned from holiday. When I did the person said they had had
second thoughts because even with my assurances of anonymity and a
final veto, they were still scared that they would be ejected from
the Labour party if it came to light that they had talked to anyone
about what their experiences. It does not seem an exaggeration to
say they had been traumatised by their experience.
Given
the apparent failure of Labour to get its policy message over to the
electorate, which in no small measure was a result of the constant
distraction of trying to deal with the anti-semitism row, one might
have thought that anyone hoping to lead the party would avoid taking
sides about anything which might cause a rift within the party.
Seemingly not!
Rebecca
Long-Bailey, Lisa
Nandy, Angela
Rayner and Emily
Thornberry have all
pledged support to the 12 demands of the Labour
Campaign for Trans
Rights. Keir
Starmer is reported
as having said ‘trans
rights are human rights, that the issue shouldn’t become a
political football,
and that the we
need to dial this down’.
(I’m not surprised at
the first three, but I thought Thornberry had ‘more
oil in her can’,
as we say in Rochdale.
Yesterday
the ‘i’
reported
that a senior Shadow Cabinet member representing a northern
constituency had called it a distraction and said ‘My
constituents don’t give a flying fuck about transsexual issues’.
Debbie
Hayton,
who
refers to herself as ‘trans’,
wrote
in The
Spectator,
‘they
seem
oblivious that the public has little time for extreme transgender
ideology’
and
that ‘Labour
is lurching towards a crisis brought on by transgender campaigners
whose demand for compliance is total’.
It
would appear that Labour has learned nothing from
what
many people still see as a
witch
hunt those who refused to buy into the demands of the Zionist lobby
disguised
as an attack on anti-semitism. It is too late to put the ‘trans’
genie back in the bottle; the damage is already done. Labour
cannot afford to expel members for thinking differently. Tolerance
means accepting that others have a different view to you. It does
not mean that you have to
accept
that someone else is right and you are wrong, just because they say
so.
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I would like to make it clear that I did not put the picture of Angela Rayner at the head of this article. I know nothing about this woman except that she seems to be so eager to become deputy leader of the Labour party that she is willing to sell its soul to the ‘trans’ lobby.
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