Another day, another Blairite tantrum courtesy of New Labour relic and Progress chairman Richard Angell. Only this time he has reached a new low.
In a heated argument on Twitter over Blairite-run Haringey Council’s Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV), which is basically a plan to sell off £2billion worth of social housing and is strongly opposed by local residents and Momentum activists, Richard Angell protested against Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) intervention after it told Haringey Council not to progress with its HDV project.
TRANSLATION: Progress support Claire Kober's policy to privatise £2bn worth of public property in Haringey to a giant corporation. Make no mistake, this tweet is clear proof that Progress support Neo-Liberal economics and are not Centre-Left as they claim. https://t.co/rXYnKiZvnx
— Shlomo Alt-Cyclist (@hapoel2018) January 28, 2018
Richard Angell then attacked the Labour NEC and Momentum by accusing the so-called “hard-left” – a phrase he often uses to describe Momentum, Jeremy Corbyn and his allies – of doing nothing when Baby P tragically died in Haringey in August 2007.
Firstly, the Labour NEC was Blairite-run in 2007. Secondly, Blairite-run New Labour was in government – so Angell’s accusation that the hard-left “did nothing” when Baby P died is absolute nonsense.
Absolutely disgusting that New Labour relic and Progress chairman @RichardAngell is using the tragic death of Baby P to attack the so-called ‘hard-left’ for opposing Blairite-run Haringey Council’s plan to sell off £2bn of local housing as part of its unpopular HDV project pic.twitter.com/jOGVQNxkkw
— Socialist Voice #JC9 (@SocialistVoice) January 28, 2018
For the record, the Labour NEC was run by Blairites when Baby P died – but we won’t let the facts get in the way of @RichardAngell’s vile tweet
The death of Baby P should not be used as a weapon to attack the so-called hard-left
You, Richard Angell, are absolutely shameless
— Socialist Voice #JC9 (@SocialistVoice) January 28, 2018
Angell spends a great deal of his time slagging off Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum, but he has reached a new low by weaponising the tragic death of Baby P to attack Momentum. Several people have already reported Angell’s vile tweet to Labour’s General Secretary Iain McNicol and it may lead his suspension – and hopefully expulsion.
Angell is one of many Blairites who has weaponised antisemitism in their crusade against Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum, and now he has weaponised the death of Baby P for the same purpose.
Coming from an antisemite. I shall take no lectures. Glad you are out of Labour
— (((Richard Angell))) (@RichardAngell) January 28, 2018
I will certainly not be lectured by a New Labour relic who defends Tony Blair’s mass-murder of millions of Iraqi civilians and weaponises dead children in his crusade against the so-called hard-left.
