Bombshell Report Exposes Labour Right
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🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The long awaited Forde report - investigating revelations about the behaviour of Labour staffers under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership which was exposed by a leaked document - was expected to be a whitewash. It wasn't: it exposed horrendous behaviour on the part of Labour officials. What does it tell us about the behaviour of the Labour Right - and the fate which befell Corbyn's Labour party?
We are joined by former Corbyn staffer and author Alex Nunns, and author and journalist Rachel Shabi.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show. So, over two minutes, ish, late. The left prompt is ever one of our many |
| 0:07.2 | one of our many skills, I would say. I'm any talents being prompt. |
| 0:10.9 | Now, the Ford report, longer-weighted, which was an investigation, I suppose, into what you could call |
| 0:17.6 | pretty grotesque, factional maneuverings within the Labour Party. I think I'm being |
| 0:21.1 | you for mystic care. It followed a leaked report, which many of you may remember in 2020. A leaked |
| 0:27.8 | report written by some very courageous Labour staffers, we will talk about that and pay tribute to |
| 0:32.0 | them, which exposed shocking behaviour by Labour officials under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 0:38.6 | Now, Starmer's leadership was forced to commission a report by QC, or led by QC Martin Ford. |
| 0:46.0 | Now, I have to say, hands up, I was expecting a whitewash. Now, the reason I was expecting a white |
| 0:52.0 | wash is often there is little justice in this world. And in politics in particular, justice is |
| 0:57.5 | often so such as it isn't justice. It's all about the exercise of power. Who's got power who |
| 1:02.8 | doesn't? That's how narratives are formed. That's in terms of how people are, how people, |
| 1:11.9 | it's judged how people can be exiled into outer darkness while people who I don't know commit |
| 1:16.5 | war crimes against the Iraq. They can be glorified whilst others are obviously condemned |
| 1:26.5 | for political reasons, shall we say. It wasn't a whitewash. Now, there aren't any problems with it. |
| 1:31.6 | We'll talk about that. We'll have a new once discussion. But it did expose outrageous, outrageous |
| 1:39.6 | behaviour by Labour officials under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. By outrageous, what do I mean? |
| 1:44.9 | I mean racism, I mean discriminatory attitudes and practice. I mean the wrongful diversion of |
| 1:51.6 | electoral funds, for example, during the 2017 election. Now, there's a lot to say, there's a lot |
| 1:58.2 | to say about this report. And we've got two brilliant guests and we're going to go to detail |
| 2:02.6 | about what the report says, about what it represents. And also, I suppose what it means for the |
| 2:09.3 | Labour Party and its direction under the leadership of Keir Starmer, who it must be said around the |
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