In a bid to lose many followers very fast, I will now attempt to explain the implosion of the UK labour party to non-UK people days before a massively insane US election. This will go very well. 1/

So UK Labour had a problem with anti-Semitism claims not being internally investigated effectively enough. Jeremy Corbyn is very pro-Palestinian, and for some Labour members, that meant the leadership effectively supported anti-Semitism as well (wrongly in my view). 2/

The internal investigation of anti-semitism claims was so effed up it resulted in staff turning whistleblowers, contemplating suicide, and finally in a formal EHRC inquiry. The results of that inquiry were published yesterday. 3/

At the same time, the right-wing press used reported instances of antisemitic events within the Labour party to run a massive campaign against Corbyn in the run-up to the election, turning a blind eye to their own party's racism, xenophobia, islamophobia, you name it. 4/

So this is a case of both facts being true:
1. Labour having an antisemitism problem it was dealing with extremely badly, with internal politics at play.
2. The right-wing press in the UK blowing this out of all proportion to bludgeon Corbynism in the polls (successfully). 5/

Most sensible people seem to think yesterdays EHRC report is fair, focused and constructive in indicating the way forward. However, Corbyn chose to be a bit of a combative ass and make his comments about more than this report (i.e. about the right-wing attacks). 6/

Starmer, in turn, decided to weaponise the EHRC report to make some kind of extreme power grab: not only must Labour members not be antisemites (good) and abide by the report's findings (also good) but they cannot "minimize" antisemitism in the Labour party. Sounds good? 7/

Well no, because this means that no one can criticize the right-wing press for blowing it out of proportion. This effectively means taking right-wing talking points, and their escalation, as gospel truth. Think of it as the US Democratic party taking Fox News as ... 8/

their official baseline for how they have to talk about themselves. So Corbyn was an ass because he should have kept his comments to the report and supporting its outcomes. Starmer is an ass because he's using the report to impose right-wing anti-labour narratives. 9/

And once again antisemitism is used as political football within the left, with the centrists using it as an excuse to purge the left-left by accusing them, en masse, of being terrible antisemites, and the left-left rallying behind Corbyn and refusing allegiance to ... 10/

right-wing press talking points as used by Starmer. It's a complete fucking shitshow, especially given that the Tories are:
1) causing migrant families to drown in the Channel, as well as continuing Windrush
2) making children go hungry
3) fucking up covid
11/

4) heading for no-deal brexit and terrible trade "deals" that will turn the entire UK into a petri dish of disaster capitalism, privatisation, pauperisation, precarity, corruption and inequality the world has not seen in a while.
Anyway, that's my take. End/

PS if you disagree please just unfollow me, I might be wrong but I am mostly super tired of these shitty, shitty, counterproductive infighting debates.
Also: antisemitism = bad
Palestinian rights = good
FFS
Cheers, mates.