A threatening legal letter over antisemitism just makes me wonder what the Labour Party has got to hide

Carter-Ruck is not a name you readily associate with the Labour movement. This fancy firm of solicitors is, rather, the letterhead of choice for the rich and famous who wish to protect themselves and their reputation from the likes of Private Eye. For whatever reason.

A letter from Carter-Ruck usually has a chilling effect on the recipient. With a fierce reputation nurtured over many decades, a strongly worded missive from Carter-Ruck, replete with legalese and dire warnings is a signal of intent that their client is bigger than you are. So shut your trap.

(I would love to know, by the way, how much of its members’ money the Labour Party has spaffed on Carter-Ruck fees. An obscene amount, perhaps?).

As Tom Watson says, "using expensive media lawyers in [an] attempt to silence staff members is as futile as it is stupid”. And yet it is exactly what is being done by the Labour Party in enforcing non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with its ex-staff.

Some would call them whistle-blowers, and their stories are being told by BBC Panorama. NDAs are, in reality, barely enforceable in many cases, and are easily trumped by the various clauses in the Human Rights Act 1998 (a New Labour achievement) about freedom of speech. Plus there is a public interest defence in publication. Carter-Ruck will have advised its unusual client accordingly about the upsides and downsides of threatening litigation. They are excellent lawyers, to be fair. The decision to press on will be Labour’s alone.


https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-party-antisemitism-carter-ruck-lawyers-brexit-jeremy-corbyn-a8994696.html

If anyone wants to understand how bad the antisemitism is by the Corbynites, simple have a read of what his supporters say on Twitter. This first tweet has to go down, as just about the most aburd and hateful. As imagine saying this about any other minority group?

https://twitter.com/mirabarhillel/status/1147625180279259136