The Labour leader has responded to the controversy over the expulsion of Alistair Campbell.
Campbell, Labour’s former Blairite spin doctor, has been expulsed after he avowedly voted for the LibDems during the European elections. The decision by the party has caused an uproar from other Labour senior officials, MPs included, who have voted for a Remain party last Sunday. Just like millions of traditional Labour voters.
It appears that this has pressured Corbyn to backtrack on the decision. Asked by LCD Views on the reasons for it, the 70-year old student politics leader told Campbell’s expulsion would only be temporary: “The national executive committee (NEC) just wanted a laugh after the disastrous election results.”
“Some Marxists in the leadership wanted to tease Campbell for his years in service of the right-wing Blairites in the party. And Kate Hoey, who happened to be there as well, came up with the joke.”
The Labour leader added, tongue-in-cheek, that it was just a case of “English irony”: “Excellent, isn’t it? Scots never get it. Nor our nationalist, er, I mean internationalist, position on Brexit, it seems.”
However, it appears that there is one condition for Campbell being reinstated in the party he served for more than forty years. LCD Views has learned from a NEC insider that the former Downing Street director of communications must first recite The Communist Manifesto in Corbyn’s office with his head confronting the wall.
“We just want him to learn the movement’s history,” said our source.
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