To be fair to the Labour Party the post about Luciana Berger isn’t balanced:
“She suffered constant harassment, intimidation, threats of physical violence, which were all brushed under the carpet and ignored by the leader’s office. ”
This would seem to imply that Luciana’s Berger’s treatment was reserved for her as a Labour MP. The reality is that harassment, intolerance, intimidation, threats and an unwillingness to debate on facts in a courteous manner isn’t just reserved for others on the left – it’s also dished out to literally anyone that has a different perspective or fails to say they agree with the “required” position.
At the last but one election our Labour MP made a great deal out of free speech whilst the local activists were spending most of their time abusing and harassing other candidates standing for election.
Their conduct extended to abusing the neighbours of the other candidates, telling the children of one candidate that the parent was a pedophile and screaming abuse at the other candidates as they went canvassing on doorsteps.
In one case residents had a load of momentum activists screaming abuse at the candidate on residents’ doorsteps – the activists were patently unaware of the judgement locals would make on them / their candidate because of their own behaviour.
The intolerance ***of some*** on the left is also clearly deemed acceptable by senior Labour leaders including Sir Kier – as evidenced by his inaction over one of his front bench calling a political opponent “Scum” in the House of Commons – which then resulted in the recipient and his family being called scum by local activists.
If Kier does anything (which seems unlikely based on past form) it should be to restore the norms of courteous discourse to the Labour Party. For a democracy to work well we need ideas to be tested and challenged in the interests of finding the best possible way forward – and part of that is listening to each other without immediately making value judgements and resorting to abuse and intimidation.
