How Starmer's goons wasted £2.4 million

Keir Starmer's factional enforcers wasted £2.4 million on a vindictive lawfare prosecution against former Labour staffers, despite being told there was no evidence to justify their accusations.

In his 2020 Labour leadership bid, Keir Starmer pledged to put an end to factionalism and unify the Labour Party. Just like all of his other "pledges" it was a barefaced lie, and what Starmer has delivered is the most extreme and fanatical Labour Party factionalism in living memory.

Starmer started off by stitching up the leadership nomination process to exclude socialists, women, and people of colour from future leadership election contests, via a huge transfer of power from party members to right-wing Labour MPs, and things have only got worse since.

Labour left-wingers blocked from standing in their own seats over absolutely spurious bollocks; introduction of an incredibly dodgy online voting system that mysteriously favours Labour right-wingers and Starmer nodding dogs; endless Stalinist diktats banning local Labour associations from debating forbidden topics; the biggest ever purge of Jewish Labour Party members; the mass exodus of Muslim Labour politicians over Starmer’s genocide complicity (with Starmer’s allies gleefully describing this as "shaking off the fleas"); the mass stitch up of nominations to parachute elitist Starmer allies into constituencies all over the country; the cruel mistreatment of Diane Abbott; and the use of vindictive "lawfare" against former party staffers.

Starmer’s enforcers wasted years, and at least £2.4 million in members’ donations pursuing five former staffers with evidence-free allegations that they leaked a damning report into the Labour right’s racism, bigotry, and internal sabotage during the Corbyn years.

Starmer’s response to this leaked report was to commission Martin Forde to investigate the contents of the report, and who leaked it.

Forde found that it was impossible to ascertain the source of the leak, but Starmer and his goons ignored Forde’s findings and continued with their vindictive prosecution regardless of the lack of evidence.

Starmer also ignored Forde’s warning that Labour was operating a "hierarchy of racism" and becoming a "hostile environment for people of colour", and binned his recommendations aimed at stamping out factionalism and bigotry in the Labour ranks.

Finally, after dragging the process out for years, Labour has finally abandoned their vindictive prosecution of Karie Murphy, Seumas Milne, Georgie Robertson, Harry Hayball and Laura Murray, but this evidence-free witch hunt has cost the party at least £2.4 million (it could be much higher if Labour covered the legal costs of their former employers in the confidential settlement).

Given that Starmer and his goons are likely to be handed control of the entire country in a matter of weeks, there are some dire implications.

If these awful people are prepared to expend such efforts on prosecuting factional opponents, despite never having had any evidence whatever of their guilt, do we really want these terrifying people running the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice?

And if they’re prepared to waste such a remarkable amount of their own party’s cash on a vindictive prosecution that had absolutely no chance of success due to their total lack of evidence, surely this wastefulness bodes extremely badly for the public finances too?

And if Starmer’s Labour are so obsessed with witch-hunting factional opponents and perceived "enemies" that they’ll misuse party funds to put innocent people through years of legal stress based on literally no evidence, surely there’s a danger that they’ll misuse their new powers over the police, secret services, and other state infrastructure for this kind of vindictive score-settling too?

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