*Thread* Many of you may be blessed enough to know little or nothing about Lindsey German, a key figure in the self-styled Stop the War Coalition (StWC).

But you should have some insight if you want to know just how low Jeremy Corbyn will go. 1/11

Next Friday, Corbyn will speak alongside German at a “Stop the War” event. Entertainingly, the stoppers have used a photo of Corbyn and German leading a march with Ismail Patel to advertise the event. Patel is a notorious Islamist extremist. 2/11
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/events/national-events/3664-internationalism-the-crisis-with-jeremy-corbyn-global-guests

Corbyn and German go way back. Both have been key figures in the StWC since it was established in the aftermath of 9/11. Its goal then, as now, is to reject all Western military interventions and back some of the worst enemies of the West. 3/11

German isn’t even a traditional Labour figure, by the way. She worked with the scurrilous Socialist Workers Party for many years and then joined up with George Galloway’s “Respect”, a vicious rabble best known for rank antisemitism. 4/11

One notably shameful episode will give you a good measure of German and her comrades. In 2012, yet another ritual hate-on-America event was held at the US Embassy in London. Hezbollah banners were duly raised as German, Corbyn and other far-left cranks addressed the crowd. 5/11

Some Iranian exiles raise their own banner – “Free Iran”, it says. The stoppers aren’t having it. They tear the banner down and manhandle the exiles out of the crowd. Corbyn and German support the thuggery on display from the stage. 6/11

Then German comes out with one line that sums the stoppers right up:

“The question of the regime is a matter for the Iranian people. We here in the West have one duty, to oppose our own regime, and that is what we are doing.” 7/11

This is the bottom line for the StWC. Brutal regimes in the Middle East opposed by the United States and its allies must be left untouched. In the case of Iran, oppressed dissidents can go hang. Literally in their long-suffering homeland. 8/11

It is a simplistic, crude and nasty worldview. It serves no one and nothing, apart from the fervour of revolutionary fantasists. It is decidedly not about “peace” - don't be fooled. 9/11

In the 1990s, people prepared to give a weak Tory government a chance ("Ken Clarke is OK") had doubts when they looked at the party’s hinterland. Perceptions of homophobia, racism and callous indifference to the common man pushed the party down the path to electoral ruin. 10/11

Labour needs to attend to its own new hinterland if it is to have a chance to win power. Mindless Marxist opposition to anything Western and support for wicked tyrants in the Middle East is not, well, not exactly what people are looking for in the Red Wall seats, is it? 11/11