• BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I’m still convinced he’s an MI5 asset that was activated to contain socialists in the Labour Party: https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/04/19/keir-starmers-links-with-an-intelligence-chief-add-to-his-controversies-as-dpp/

    (Which is in agreement with you as MI5 is capital, but nonetheless - call me paranoid, but I do honestly think there was a coordinated intervention against Corbynism by capital, the state and the media).

    • die_livster@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      hes a member of the trilateral commission, his actions whether or not he's an intelligence asset would be the same

      there was certainly the collusion against corbyn you talk about but corbyn himself was also quite incompetent. i think even mcdonnell would've beaten may in that election (unless he would've prompted a larger response)

      • BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        Agreed that Jez was incompetent, as much as I carry a soft spot for him. And yeah - I wonder about that situation, where someone more competent was leading. I think the response would have been larger - and potentially to the point where it’d backfire.

        I need to go back and rewatch A Very British Coup….the thought of Prime Minister McDonnell joining the Belt and Road Initiative as a means to improve the economy post-Brexit feels very Harry Perkins party-sicko

        • die_livster@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          i watch it every year, seeing it for the first time after reading about the coup against wilson was definitely an inflection point in my radicalisation

          cricket symbolises the class war, and to aid identification both sides dress in white