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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
If people really stop supporting Labour over this, they weren't Labour voters anyway, they were Corbyn voters.
Even before the suspension he was unlikely to ever be a big player in politics again, so really ... Why does it matter?
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Labour has been here before, although not with the antisemitism issue.
In the main, it appears the stronger left of Labour remain in the party eventually.
Despite the trauma.
Neil Kinnock survived his reforming of the party.
The left remained in the party overall.
It's usually the more right of the party that run away and whinge on.
As you say, Jeremy was now on the backbenches and possibly even likely to stand down at the next election too anyway.
I still like the policies he put in place, they needed streamlining as there were just too many to be done too soon.
However I hope that is where Labour stands with the people who would have benefited from most of those policies Corbyn put in place.
He was misguided to just not say something like, the inquiry has been completed, its findings need to be addressed and recommendations implemented.
Adding nothing else, he would have not been suspended.
He'll get his chance to put his own case.
I don't think Starmer could have made it clearer however.
No one will be tolerated who would still try to deny the findings of the inquiry or that anti-Semitism had become a problem in Labour.
Yet Jeremy chose to even dismiss the findings in part.
That's not acceptable.
We owe a lot to Jewish MPs and members over decade after decade.
This has to be eradicated fully from the party membership.
For me, Starmer has done right..
We may lose members who aren't happy with what happened with Corbyn.
I'm not happy, no one wants a former leader suspended from the party.
By the same token, we can't have former leaders dismissing an inquiry's findings such as this inquiry has.
That is more divisive and wrong than anything Starmer has so far done and is trying to do too.