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This is a personal thread relating to antisemitism but with context. Its something I feel is important for all my twitter friends to understand. A bit of context has never been available to you. My focus had to be the fight I was in, but there is a human being here.
I have suffered very deeply from mental health problems. At the age of 28 I finally broke. I was an outpatient at the wonderful facility of the Maudsley in South London. It was my BLESSING I got sick under a Labour government. Tony Blair was PM.
I cannot stress this enough.
I cannot stress this enough.
I had world class treatment, and with a lot of hard graft and painful process I came back to the world of the living. I did my shift but I will never not be grateful I had such good care. It literally saved my life.
This was because he WON an election.
This was because he WON an election.
I joined labour after the 2015 election. I wanted to have my say in the party I'd always voted for, cared for and was desperate to be in government. I felt my story mattered and my main motivation was to fight for a better leader.
Obviously we all know how that went, badly, so i wondered how would this go?
I knew Corbyn would never win an election. What I wasn't aware of was just how awful he was over antisemitism. I did not know he was an antisemite. I can pinpoint the exact moment I realised he was.
I knew Corbyn would never win an election. What I wasn't aware of was just how awful he was over antisemitism. I did not know he was an antisemite. I can pinpoint the exact moment I realised he was.
It was at that point I had to take a breath and understand what I had to do. It was far from easy to fight against him becoming PM at any cost, but i was comforted by the historical FACT nothing good has ever come from an antisemite as a leader.
It was an abhorrent regime.
It was an abhorrent regime.
Antisemitism is the oldest hatred and its indulgence is the sign of a sick regime. These people were not going to be the facilitators of the same government that saved my life.
They needed to be smashed.
I consider everyone who helped with that heroic.
They needed to be smashed.
I consider everyone who helped with that heroic.
I feel no guilt I helped smash them. I just wish it had been quicker, harsher, and over before they inflicted the level of damage they did.
I not only fought them for my Jewish friends, I fought them for myself. I remember what a decent labour government did for me.
I not only fought them for my Jewish friends, I fought them for myself. I remember what a decent labour government did for me.
I fought them for the girl I was when I was under 6 stone and couldn’t walk.
When I couldn’t breathe for thinking I would die.
I fought them because FK me when you come back from that you can pretty much fight anything.
I can never be bowed by them.
When I couldn’t breathe for thinking I would die.
I fought them because FK me when you come back from that you can pretty much fight anything.
I can never be bowed by them.
I also really understood what I was fighting for, and against.
I fought for what was right, I fought for my Jewish friends to stay in the UK and I fought for a future labour government.
Don't let me down @Keir_Starmer. I'm tired, but i won't stop fighting.
#LabourAntisemitism
I fought for what was right, I fought for my Jewish friends to stay in the UK and I fought for a future labour government.
Don't let me down @Keir_Starmer. I'm tired, but i won't stop fighting.
#LabourAntisemitism
You can talk about 'unity' with a load of hateful antisemites, who want a revolution that will achieve nothing but pain, or you can act. Get them out. You sat with them so long the girl who fought back from the brink finds you weak.
Prove her wrong.
Prove her wrong.
