Op-Ed video: Keir Starmer is drawing up a terrifying blueprint for the UK
Political commentators are today expressing shock and bemusement at Keir Starmer's brutal targeting of the Labour left on the eve of a UK general election.
That's because they haven’t been paying attention. It's been obvious for a long time that the Labour leader is in charge of an inhuman, pitiless political machine, says Middle East Eye columnist Peter Oborne.
"Two years ago, Al Jazeera's Labour Files exposed the bleak truth about Starmer's party. The five-part investigation was a staggering feat of reporting, based on the biggest leak of confidential documents in British political history," he said.
It provided a wealth of documentary evidence and personal testimony to show that the Labour machine bullied party members and shamelessly manipulated internal democracy.
More shocking still, Al Jazeera brought to light a hidden story of anti-Black racism and naked Islamophobia inside Labour HQ.
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"Incredibly, the Al Jazeera investigation was ignored by mainstream media. The reason is simple: gullible political journalists swallowed unsceptically the Starmer narrative that the new Labour leader had brought common sense and decency to a party that had descended into a cesspit of bigotry and antisemitism under former leader, Jeremy Corbyn," Oborne said.
"This narrative was almost totally false, the Labour Files proved," Oborne added.
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