Labour could 'bust apart and disappear', warns Owen Smith.
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| Owen Smith |
Last
night, (3rd August 2016), on the Sky News Paper Review at 10:30, and
at the same time on BBC News Channel, this article by Rowena Mason,
was one of the items selected for comment. On the BBC, Clive Myrie,
the BBC "presenter" of the biased viewpoint and patronising
manor, was joined by Kate Devlin (of the Herald) and Tony Evans,(of
the London Evening Standard) two instantly forgettable "journalists",
no doubt selected by the BBC to fill this slot probably more for
their political persuasion than for any balance that they may offer
in their reviews.
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| Clive Myrie |
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On Sky News it was a broadly similar set up, where
Ian Dale the LBC presenter, was joined on the sofa by Jacqui Smith,
former Home Secretary in Gordon Brown's government with the giggly
Anna Botting providing leading comments and tenuous links between
stories, to set the scene for the reviewers to launch into their
"take" on the next item.
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| Anna Botting |
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With
the Rowena Mason story, (the Guardian Deputy Political editor, with
whom I have taken issue on numerous occasions), both Sky News and BBC
News Channel had a common demeanour, where both reviewers and
presenters were able within a few short sentences, to convert an
article predominately about Owen Smith's fears of a Labour Part
split, into an all out attack on Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership.
It
seems that the present turmoil within the Labour party is, according
to this assembled group of experts, entirely the fault of Jeremy
Corbyn. The divisions within the party and between factions of the
Parliamentary Labour Party, the PLP, and the party membership has
been brought about by Corbyn's intransigence and his refusal to stand
down from the leadership, (in the face of threat and intimidation
from elements within the PLP. Perhaps not the phraseology that the
reviewers would have chosen, but which never the less is exactly what
has and is, still happening.)
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There
was no mention of the coup and the synchronised mass resignations,
which are in themselves divisive, nor of the vote of confidence,
intended to drive wedges between members and between elements of the
PLP and designed to isolate Corbyn and any support within MP's that
he may hold. There was no mention of the constant daily drip of smear
or rumour in the media orchestrated and emanating from the
conspirators within the PLP and the effect that this subversive
activity is having upon the unity of the Labour party.
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No.
Everything and they were very emphatic about it being everything, was
Jeremy Corbyn's fault and only Owen Smith, at least according to the
former Home Secretary, would be able to hold the party together and
she stated her full support for Smith in his campaign for the
leadership, which hardly came as a surprise.
There
is something quite sinister in the way in which media and selected
guests are able to perpetuate such hostility and unfounded
allegations against a man who attracted almost 250,000 votes in the
leadership ballot of less than 12 months ago and at this stage seems
likely to win this current leadership ballot also.
It
is not Jeremy Corbyn who is likely to split the Labour party despite
what the BBC New Channel and Sky News would have us believe. It is
the continuing campaign of the 172 plotters who refuse to accept a
democratic decision and have a misguided and arrogant view that it is
only they who know the real situation and that everyone else should
bow to their superior position, who will bring about a split greater
than that of the 1980's.
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