{"id":185256,"date":"2019-03-16T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185256"},"modified":"2019-03-18T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T07:59:39","slug":"jess-phillips-emerges-as-establishment-pick-to-replace-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185256","title":{"rendered":"Jess Phillips Emerges as Establishment Pick to Replace Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off Guardian March 15, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Interesting trends last weekend show that Jess Phillips MP is now the establishment pick to replace Corbyn as leader of the Labour party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, this interview appeared in The Times<\/em> (registry required) on March 9th: \u201cJess Phillips: \u2018I think I\u2019d be a good prime minister<\/strong><\/span>\u2019\u201d<\/a>. It\u2019s a pretty glowing write-up, considering it appeared in The Times<\/em>, which is essentially the Daily Mail<\/em> with an Oxford scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the interview, Phillips does virtually nothing but criticise her own party. There are passing words about the Tories, but the vast majority of her ire is aimed squarely at the left. She says Momentum is full of people who never have to worry about money, that Marxists are all misogynists and that Corbyn think\u2019s he\u2019s \u201cperfect\u201d because he won\u2019t admit he\u2019s a sexist antisemite.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, she props up an endless line of easy targets and knocks them down with an efficient vulgarity. Insulting Corbyn, Chris Williamson, and the entirety of Liverpool Wavertree CLP in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

She, of course, has nothing but glowing things to say about The Independent Group and Tom Watson. Declaring her love for Luciana Berger, and how she cried when he heard about the \u201cterrible abuse\u201d she had suffered and the \u201cbullying\u201d of Berger\u2019s CLP when they held a vote of no confidence in her.<\/span><\/p>\n

The interview is laced all through with everything wrong with modern politics \u2013 an obsession with gender issues and identity politics, along with a disdain for ideology. All in all, it\u2019s just more of the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this was just the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once the interview was published the \u201cliberals\u201d came out in force to promote the glorified Hello!<\/em> article as if it was some sort of hard-hitting political manifesto.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Freedland, never shy of heaping exultant prose on the mediocre and undeserving, went with this<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this terrific interview, you realise that @jessphillips<\/a> has that quality – really rare in a politician – that engenders genuine public affection and therefore trust. Mo Mowlam had it and Jess Phillips has it by the bucketload. https:\/\/t.co\/fcNAfUNWxb<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jonathan Freedland (@Freedland) March 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n