Post by Amadan on Jul 12, 2024 7:47:17 GMT
Jeremy Corbyn: Scottish Labour have little say on UK party policy
“What I was trying to do in the 2017 election was to take the campaign out on an assertive demand around the country of the kind of social justice offer we were making – by public meetings, rallies, demonstrations And my team were pushing very hard,” he said.
“And what the leaked dossier confirms is that there were senior officials of the Labour Party that didn’t want any of that and spent an awful lot of time undermining it.”
Corbyn added: “And in Scotland, there was a refusal by some of the officials in Scottish Labour to use the slogan “for the many, not the few.”
“Some of them didn’t seem terribly keen on on me being in Scotland. Whereas the reception I got from the public and from some of our candidates was fine. It was wonderful and I felt very much at home there.”
Corbyn added that the “same cultural opposition” to him also existed in the Scottish Labour office.
“I just got the feeling that some of the people in Scottish Labour, not all of them, were simply interested in getting position in place for the future.
“They didn’t understand the message we were putting forward.”
A Scottish labour spokesperson said: “Mr Corbyn is not a member of the Labour Party and is entitled to his own views.
“What I was trying to do in the 2017 election was to take the campaign out on an assertive demand around the country of the kind of social justice offer we were making – by public meetings, rallies, demonstrations And my team were pushing very hard,” he said.
“And what the leaked dossier confirms is that there were senior officials of the Labour Party that didn’t want any of that and spent an awful lot of time undermining it.”
Corbyn added: “And in Scotland, there was a refusal by some of the officials in Scottish Labour to use the slogan “for the many, not the few.”
“Some of them didn’t seem terribly keen on on me being in Scotland. Whereas the reception I got from the public and from some of our candidates was fine. It was wonderful and I felt very much at home there.”
Corbyn added that the “same cultural opposition” to him also existed in the Scottish Labour office.
“I just got the feeling that some of the people in Scottish Labour, not all of them, were simply interested in getting position in place for the future.
“They didn’t understand the message we were putting forward.”
A Scottish labour spokesperson said: “Mr Corbyn is not a member of the Labour Party and is entitled to his own views.
Behind a paywall , but that's the gist of it , and of course nothing we didnt already know , but nice to hear it confirmed from the horses mouth once again.
