the labour movement has always had a racist core. It's also been in the vanguard at confronting it in others, but it has never managed to eliminate it in its own ranks.
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Lexiters (Blue Labour) were the worst Brexiters. Gaslighting and betraying the people they claim to represent.
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indeed. My own MP at the time, DUP with a red rosette now Baroness Hoey was one.
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I remember back in the 70's Labour voters were more likely to vote for the NF than the Tories. And now they're all voting Reform.
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By many accounts, the civil war in Labour hq under Corbyn was between anti-Semites on the one side and anti-black racists on the other. Starmer has backed the latter side.
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I knew Frank Crichlow, of the Mangrove, back in the '80s: he told me he could never support Labour/the unions. On arriving in the UK in 1952, he turned up to work on the railways with his appointment letter. Was told, 'Lads need to vote if they want to work with a d....."
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