The Morning Star flags up Ken Loach's unhappiness at a recent BBC Panorama broadcast on anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party.
THE MORNING STAR
The legendary film director puts forward a motion to condemn the BBC for breaking its own codes at his constituency Labour Party
Ken Loach has put a motion to his constituency Labour Party slamming a Panorama documentary on alleged institutional anti-Semitism in the Labour Party as a “dishonest hatchet job” and condemned the BBC for breaking its own code.
Backlash from the programme’s airing and accusations of “institutional racism” within Labour intensifies with Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) and constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) having expressed concern over the legitimacy of the claims.
JVL said that the documentary heavily featured advocates for Israel, while a number of CLPs including Bath, Cambridge, Liverpool Riverside and Hornsey and Wood Green have backed the leadership over the party’s handling of anti-Semitism claims.
The real scandal documented was the monstering of the whistle blowers who broke their Non-Disclosure Agreement (where have we heard of them before) to reveal how Corbyn's office persistently intervened in disciplinary cases to ensure lighter sanctions against offenders who were from the right-on faction.
ReplyDeleteLabour Party party of workers' rights? Care for a reply, Ken.
Panorama is a good example of political hit pieces masquerading as investigative journalism.
ReplyDeleteSocial media has increasingly given the hit pieces target the platform to counter the BBC’s framing of events (presented as impartiality), although when Republicans were selected for “exposing” back in 2001, IRA taxis delivered a fairly comprehensive rebuttal without recourse to such methods!
More recently, another BBC target made their own (free on YouTube) documentary, called “Panodrama” which among many other things, revealed the flouting of the same editorial guidelines, but the target in this instance had people less famous than Ken Loach willing to defend him.
Anyone who has had to sign an NDA or Compromise Agreement (as I have) knows that this is a way a rotten employer operates to keep its dirty underwear well hidden from the public. The bastards grind you down, gaslight you, make you doubt thereself and eventually you are glad to sign your rights away just for a quiet life only later to discover that the bland reference you are given prevents you for working in that field.
ReplyDeleteSo yes, although those Labour staffers suffered far worse mental health than I did, I do relate to their ordeals. But GMB is on the case and Jezza might find he has a strike on his hands. Perhaps Good Old Ken will make a film about how This Great Movement of Ours is no different from the Philip Greens and Harvey Weinsteins of this world.
"gaslight you"........oh the irony!
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