Alastair Campbell: 'Jeremy Corbyn, I no longer wish to be a member of your Labour party'

Rowena Mason
The Guardian
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:30 UTC

Alastair Campbell, the former No 10 director of communications under Tony Blair, has said he no longer wishes to be a Labour member, warning that Jeremy Corbyn is poised to lose the next election against Boris Johnson and destroy the party "as a political force capable of winning power".

Campbell had planned to fight his expulsion from Labour for revealing that he voted Liberal Democrat in the European elections, but he has now written to Corbyn informing him: "With some sadness but absolute certainty, I have reached the conclusion that I no longer wish to stay in the party, even if I should be successful in my appeal or legal challenge."

The former Labour adviser and campaigner for a "people's vote" has written a lengthy missive to Corbyn, part-published in the Guardian and in full in the New European, setting out his view that the party will not win a majority against Johnson, who he says is "embarked on a crash and burn strategy" designed to win a mandate for hard Brexit at the ballot box. Campbell wrote:

"The culture you have helped to create has made the party one that I feel no longer truly represents my values, or the hopes I have for Britain. I see no strategy in place that remotely meets the electoral or policy challenges ahead. On the contrary, in so far as I ascertain a strategy at all, it is one that looks more designed to lose. I fear the country may already have decided that it does not intend to make you prime minister."

Campbell has been appealing against his expulsion since he was ejected under an automatic process designed to deal with those expressing support for another party. It caused mixed reactions at the time, with Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, revealing that he too had opted for the Lib Dems in the European elections because of their pro-remain policy, and Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, saying the move to kick out Campbell was "spiteful".

Others within Labour described the decision to expel Campbell as merely a matter of applying party rules consistently, while Momentum, the grassroots group of Corbyn supporters, celebrated his departure saying that "being kicked out of the party is the least he deserves" for his role in Blair's government and the Iraq war.

In his letter, Campbell said a member of Corbyn's team had more recently suggested there could be two possible routes to him being let back into the party, one of which was a suspension of his auto-exclusion during a review of the party's whole disciplinary system, and the other some kind of public commitment to voting Labour at the next election.

However, he said he felt unable to give a commitment to voting Labour while his concern about Corbyn's stance on Brexit was "still acute".

"I do not know at this stage how I will vote at the next election and I have made this decision after discussing it with nobody apart from family and a small number of close personal friends. This was not part of some bigger plan but a deeply personal decision.

"What I do know is that this is indeed a moment of real peril. To have any chance of stopping Johnson and stopping a hard Brexit, you need to step up now, and signal leadership of the anti-Brexit, anti-populist cause, though it may be that loss of trust in your approach to Brexit means it is too late to win back many former supporters."

Corbyn said at the weekend he was "raring to go" and ready for an election against Johnson, which could come as early as this autumn if the EU is not open to changing the withdrawal agreement and parliament blocks a no-deal Brexit.

Labour has changed its policy to call for a second referendum on any deal and to avoid no deal, but some Labour MPs are still pushing for a more unequivocally pro-remain position in all circumstances to head off the threat of the resurgent Lib Dems and win over anti-Brexit swing voters.

Since Johnson came to power, his government has enjoyed a modest boost in the polls, with some putting the Conservatives neck-and-neck with Labour and others putting the Tories ahead.

Campbell said he did not feel Corbyn's shift towards supporting a second referendum went far enough, arguing:

"Without real change, there will be nothing left to fight for, and that your place in history will be as the leader who destroyed Labour as a serious political force capable of winning power.

"With a government this bad, pursuing a ruinous form of Brexit that will so damage our economy, society and standing in the world, Labour should be poised to win an election. If the public could see that clear, credible and coherent alternative across the despatch box, ably led, we would be. That the country does not see it is, I am afraid, very substantially down to you.

"I hope that one day I will rejoin a party that genuinely appeals to the many not the few, that can win again the kind of majority needed to improve the life chances of those who will be damaged by Brexit. In the meantime, please, for the sake of the party and especially for the sake of the country, think beyond the messenger, and think seriously about the message."

Labour had no comment on Campbell's letter. It comes after Peter Mandelson, another former Labour strategist under Blair, gave an interview over the weekend calling for a new party leader, although he said he would not leave the party. Mandelson told Alain Elkann for La Stampa and other European newspapers:

"We are now in a situation where many people will react with horror against what Johnson plans to do - defying parliament to take Britain out of the EU without a deal to safeguard our trade and jobs - but have no faith in Corbyn's desire or ability to block this. Corbyn is not the leader that Labour needs at this time. He cannot deliver. Even his supporters are realising this. We need an alternative who can stand up to Johnson and lead the country against the disaster which is in the making."

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RBHoughton · 2019-07-31T03:43:37Z

Campbell is precisely the sort of man who must be excluded from the Labour Party. He was deeply involved in lying to the British people to make war on Iraq, even at the expense of the death of Dr David Kelly, for whom he showed no remorse.

He shares responsibility for the war and the death with Blair, another unindicted felon whose day in court is fast approaching. All those closet Tories must be expelled and the purity of the party's commitment to the people restored.

Plane Will · 2019-07-31T13:58:39Z

Don't forget the Maddy McCann involvement.

Guilty by association under war criminal Blair. Bye Allistair, you won't be missed.

mothman777 · 2019-08-02T01:47:15Z

Corbyn is criminally insane, have you seen how Jew Leon Trotsky had millions of white Christians in Russia tortured to death in the most protractedly agonizing ways, even calling for more lengthy and painful methods of torture to the death being devised? And Corbyn led a demand in the Commons, preserved on record by the Daily Telegraph, showing how he and a band of hard-core Bolshevik sympathizers at the top of the Labout Party, including Rifkind, demanded the complete political rehabilitation of Leon Trotsky, the Jewish genocidal mass murderer, mass torturer and mass rapist.

Corbyn and his demented clique of Gentile-hating Bolsheviks belong in Broadmoor top security prison mental hospital at the very least.

An American political envoy was in Russia at the time the Bolsheviks started inflicting that genocide, with Churches used as slaughterhouses (no synagogues were ever touched), people being boiled alive, skinned alive, breasts cut off, babies tossed onto bayonets, disembowelled in the most vile sadistic ways and far far worse.

Corbyn thinks that kind of thing is fully appropriate for Gentiles, no question of it; Hindley, West, and the rest of the infamous British mass-murderers would be like little children at nursery school compared to the utter and complete psychotic Corbyn. Looks normal doesn't he? Other criminally insane leaders around the world that we see today often do. But he passes himself off so nicely doesn't he, posing playing with little Gentile children? He ought to tell us what his hero Trotsky used to do to such little Gentile children.

Google Telegraph; 'Jeremy Corbyn called for ‘complete rehabilitation’ of Leon Trotsky in Parliament'. Corbyn denied the incident, so did his lying and similarly criminally insane party representatives. No one can trust such lying psychopaths. Give them power and you have no idea what could happen, maybe you won't see it in the UK itself, but the usual wars for Israel would continue, as planned, and inflict all that kind of thing via mercenary troops like ISIS in other lands just beyond our immediate purview.

Read the works of Juri Lina and Solzhenitsyn to see true reality, and then understand how utterly insane Corbyn and other top members of the Labour Party really are, there is no doubt about it, simply read what tortures and mass murders the Jew Trotsky ordered to be inflicted on millions of non-Jewish innocents.

And of course, the Jews cover for his political rise and his actually fanatical support of mass genocidal Jewish Communist policy, by deceptively denouncing him as 'anti-semitic', playing on the strategy that secretly anti-Jewish voters will value Corbyn as a man who will hold back the rise of excessive Jewish political influence in the UK. They do the same with Stalin, telling us all lies about how Stalin supposedly persecuted the Jews. He never did, he created a semi-autonomous oblast the size of Switzerland for all Jews to live in safely and do as they wished, he also passed a law to protect Jews stating that Judaism is an essential element of Communism, and that anyone who even criticized the Jews must be made subject to a mandatory death penalty, and that was physically carried out.

After WWII the Kremlin unsuccessfully demanded that that same law be made to be adopted by all other nations in the world, but the rest of the worlds controlled leaders and Jewish agents in foreign governments around the world saw how that would backfire just after WWII, it would all have been a bit too obvious about ruthless Jewish plans for world domination, so they held off on that. But just to speak about how Jewish Bolsheviks had slaughtered millions in Russia was seen as anti-semitic, and made a death penalty offence, that was how to shut people up and stop them telling their neighbours and kids, the knowledge would die very quickly. Such knowledge today is only allowed to be seen as mere 'conspiracy theory' in the largely Jewish-controlled mainstream media.That is where the Jews are taking us now, by one means or another, not firing a shot in the back of the neck anymore, just using GMO, 5G, Noahide Laws, vaccinations that cause cancer and brain damage, fluoride, deliberately instigated and entirely unnecessary wars, all that kind of thing.

Karl Marx, the Jewish hero of Corbyn, published these words; "The chief mission of all other races and peoples, great and small, is to perish in the revolutionary holocaust". That is right, the supposed 'emancipator' of the international working class actually wanted to see the complete enslavement and ultimately the total physical extermination of all non-Jews, entirely in conformity with Jewish teachings, which state that all Gentiles in the world are to be enslaved, then exterminated by God in his wrath, and that their souls are to be sent to hell at the end of the world.

The eminent Rabbi Stephen Wise stated "Some call it Marxism, I call it Judaism". Communism is Judaism, The mass genocides that Communism has inflicted have been entirely by Judaic design, but the Jews have infiltrated most other 'isms' also now to carry on the same genocidal policy in various ways.

See the way the 'anti-semitism' racket is going in the UK and ponder on that. Never mind the 'obvious' pushed down our throats that Corbyn is against the Jews. That is all a Jewish deception, and rest assured, Corbyn would not be where he is today were not that to be the true case. Just as the Jews distance themselves from the genocide that their agent Stalin inflicted by deceptively lying and stating that Stalin actually hated Jews and persecuted them, so they deceptively now say that Corbyn is their enemy.

Joan · 2019-08-02T02:23:03Z

mothman777

That is quite quite the diatribe and the indictment of Corbyn as a lover of communist ideology, loves Russia, is an antisemitic, all the evils of why the UK population should not vote for Corbyn, should another General election be called within the near future.

You are just another stream of haters mostly fuel by the UK media, most notable the BBC.

Did you copy and paste from another site??

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