Betrayal comes in many forms: David Lammy's Judas kiss
Channel: Labour Heartlands
Date: 29/12/2021

Betrayal comes in many forms: David Lammy says I regret nominating Corbyn for leadership.
Speaking at this year’s Limmud festival, a Jewish event, the shadow foreign secretary said he “never believed” Corbyn would become leader and that his nomination was “a mistake”.

“I regret nominating Jeremy Corbyn and if I knew what I do now, I never would have nominated him,” Lammy told an online audience of about 300, in comments first reported in Jewish News.

“I never believed he would become leader. That was a mistake and I am sorry for that.”

The MP for Tottenham, whose constituency is home to part of the large North London Charedi community, told viewers at the Limmud online event, “It was a mistake and I’m very sorry for that mistake”.

He said, “If I knew how I feel now, I’d never have nominated him.”

Mr Lammy explained that he had not supported Mr Corbyn but had nominated him to enable more debate in the leadership campaign at the time when there was talk that the other candidates were “all a bit samey”.

But he said he had never believed Mr Corbyn would be elected leader and that he had already begun to regret nominating him before taking part in the Enough is Enough protest against antisemitism outside Parliament in 2018, which he described as “a very emotional experience”.

Of course, David Lammy is a politician and like most politicians, his treachery comes easily. As the Labour party move more and more to the right, becoming indistinguishable from the Tories, we are seeing more and more distance between the PLP and its members. Members who in the main belong to the mass influx created by Jeremy Corbyn. Members who joined at a time when the Labour Party offered the country an alternative, not just an alternative Tory Party.

David Lammy is a man of firsts, he was the first black Briton to attend Harvard Law School; there he studied for a Master of Laws degree and graduated in 1997.

In March 2016, he was also the first politician fined for authorising nuisance calls. Slapped with a fine of £5,000 for instigating 35,629 automatic phone calls urging people to back his mayoral campaign without gaining permission to contact the party members concerned. Lammy apologised “unreservedly” for breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations.

Sometimes a short Tweet can say it all: Fascinating Lammy apology… from a man who lobbied regularly to be brought into JC’s shadow cabinet… called him “a man of immense integrity”… introduced his final speech as leader with “I can’t wait for every single sentence”… yet can’t bring himself to say sorry for Iraq.- Alex Nunns
Read more...
https://labourheartlands.com/the-labour-party-is-synonymous-with-the-word-treachery-lammys-denial-of-his-former-leader-is-just-par-for-the-course/