Let’s teach Labour a lesson in grassroots politics
Thursday, 13th April 2023

Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail
• YOU may have seen me in Oh Jeremy Corbyn – The Big Lie, the film you reviewed in your pages, (What lies beneath? Review, March 30).
I was the woman in the wheelchair who when asked what she thought of the Labour Party, said: “Ungrateful bastards.” It was after they sacked me for the terrible crime of wishing good luck to former Labour MP Chris Williamson.
I hope I serve as a kind of reminder in the film that it’s not only Jeremy Corbyn who has been punished in the searing witch-hunt that has engulfed the party, but uncounted numbers of his supporters like me, too.
We’ve been expelled, suspended, passed over for office, generally maligned and persecuted in every way you can imagine – all part of Sir Keir Starmer’s campaign to purify his party of Corbynism.
Well, now we’re fighting back – and the best way to do that, in the first place anyway, I think, is for us to tell the world about the injustice and dirty tricks we’ve suffered. For that reason, the follow-up film to Oh Jeremy Corbyn… is going to feature cases studies of Labour’s victims.
Send me your stories, on video, in text, however you want to do it, so we can compile a living dossier of the misdeeds Starmer and his cronies have committed in their ruthless pursuit of power. My email is christinetongue@aol.com
Let’s teach Labour an important lesson in grassroots politics. I tell you now, they won’t thank us for it – ungrateful bastards.
CHRISTINE TONGUE, WC1