Labour party is racist and will be until Jeremy Corbyn goes – Hacker

Labour – A HACKER hijacked Labour’s Twitter account tonight to warn the party “is racist and will be until Jeremy Corbyn goes”.

Just as a BBC Panorama about anti-Semitism in the party finished, the Labour Party press account tweeted “There we have it folks, proof if any was needed that the Labour party IS institutionally racist and will be until Corbyn and his cronies go #EnoughIsEnough.”

The post was swiftly removed – but not before users praised the “most honest tweet you’ve made for years.”

A party spokeswoman said: “The account was briefly hacked. It has now been re-secured.”

It came after eight ex-Labour staffers broke restrictive gagging orders to lay bare the sheer scale of alleged racism in the party.

They told BBC Panorama how the party was hit by a flood of cases of Jew-baiting racism after Mr Corbyn became leader in 2015.

The party’s storm over how it deals with anti-Semitism allegations has now been swirling for more than three years – and the Labour boss has been repeatedly accused of not taking the problem seriously enough.

Labour insisted the leader’s team have not intervened on such decisions – and said they would be making a formal complaint to the BBC.

The former staffers claimed recruits brought in by Jennie Formby – the party’s new general secretary and a close Corbyn ally – blocked racists being booted out.

Dan Hogan, a former investigator on Labour’s Disputes Team, said they “overruled us and downgraded what should’ve been a suspension to just an investigation or worse to just a reminder of conduct, effectively a slap on the wrist”.

On one occasion the leader’s office ordered batches of anti-Semitism complaints to be brought to his office to be looked at by his aides, it alleges too.

Former staff told how they were left signed off work by the stress of dealing with anti-Semitism – with former head of disputes Sam Matthews saying he was left “suicidal” by the pressure.

He told the documentary how he once contemplated jumping off Formby’s office balcony over the leadership’s attitude to complaints.

While bombshell leaked emails reveal Ms Formby intervened to handpick who will sit on a disciplinary panel for Jackie Walker, former vice chair of the left-wing campaign group Momentum.

The controversial activist was eventually kicked out after alleged anti-Semitism back in March this year.

In an email on May 5 last year, Ms Formby wrote: “The NCC cannot be allowed to continue in the way that they are at the moment, and I will also be challenging the panel for the Jackie Walker case.”

Mr Corbyn, his chief of staff Karie Murphy and his spin chief Seumas Milne were all copied in.

Ms Formby later wrote to the group about the email, saying: “I’ve permanently deleted all trace of the email. Too many eyes all on my Labour address. Please use my Unite address.”

Mr Milne, the Labour leader’s controversial spin chief, was also dragged into the scandal.

He allegedly laughed at calls for a crack down on anti-Semitism and was said to have suggested the leader’s office should be handed direct control of the disciplinary process.

Mike Creighton, Labour’s former Head of the Labour Disputes team, said he was approached by Seumas Milne for advice in spring 2016.

Mr Creighton said: “[Milne] said, I want to talk to you about anti-Semitism, how we deal with it.

“And I gave him my advice, which as I recall was two things; one was, we should deal with some of the top level anti-Semitic cases much more swiftly and much more robustly.

“Second thing I suggested was that it would be the right time for Jeremy Corbyn as leader, to make a significant speech on the issue of the Middle East, particularly saying that Israel had a right to exist.”

“He actually laughed at me.”

A Labour spokesperson denied Mr Milne laughed at the crisis – saying he has no recollection of the conversation taking place.