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This is a personal thread relating to antisemitism but with context. Its something I feel is important for all my twitter friends to understand. A bit of context has never been available to you. My focus had to be the fight I was in, but there is a human being here.
I have suffered very deeply from mental health problems. At the age of 28 I finally broke. I was an outpatient at the wonderful facility of the Maudsley in South London. It was my BLESSING I got sick under a Labour government. Tony Blair was PM.
I cannot stress this enough.
I cannot stress this enough.
I had world class treatment, and with a lot of hard graft and painful process I came back to the world of the living. I did my shift but I will never not be grateful I had such good care. It literally saved my life.
This was because he WON an election.
This was because he WON an election.
I joined labour after the 2015 election. I wanted to have my say in the party I& #39;d always voted for, cared for and was desperate to be in government. I felt my story mattered and my main motivation was to fight for a better leader.
Obviously we all know how that went, badly, so i wondered how would this go?
I knew Corbyn would never win an election. What I wasn& #39;t aware of was just how awful he was over antisemitism. I did not know he was an antisemite. I can pinpoint the exact moment I realised he was.
I knew Corbyn would never win an election. What I wasn& #39;t aware of was just how awful he was over antisemitism. I did not know he was an antisemite. I can pinpoint the exact moment I realised he was.
It was at that point I had to take a breath and understand what I had to do. It was far from easy to fight against him becoming PM at any cost, but i was comforted by the historical FACT nothing good has ever come from an antisemite as a leader.
It was an abhorrent regime.
It was an abhorrent regime.
Antisemitism is the oldest hatred and its indulgence is the sign of a sick regime. These people were not going to be the facilitators of the same government that saved my life.
They needed to be smashed.
I consider everyone who helped with that heroic.
They needed to be smashed.
I consider everyone who helped with that heroic.
I feel no guilt I helped smash them. I just wish it had been quicker, harsher, and over before they inflicted the level of damage they did.
I not only fought them for my Jewish friends, I fought them for myself. I remember what a decent labour government did for me.
I not only fought them for my Jewish friends, I fought them for myself. I remember what a decent labour government did for me.
I fought them for the girl I was when I was under 6 stone and couldn’t walk.
When I couldn’t breathe for thinking I would die.
I fought them because FK me when you come back from that you can pretty much fight anything.
I can never be bowed by them.
When I couldn’t breathe for thinking I would die.
I fought them because FK me when you come back from that you can pretty much fight anything.
I can never be bowed by them.
I also really understood what I was fighting for, and against.
I fought for what was right, I fought for my Jewish friends to stay in the UK and I fought for a future labour government.
Don& #39;t let me down @Keir_Starmer. I& #39;m tired, but i won& #39;t stop fighting.
#LabourAntisemitism
I fought for what was right, I fought for my Jewish friends to stay in the UK and I fought for a future labour government.
Don& #39;t let me down @Keir_Starmer. I& #39;m tired, but i won& #39;t stop fighting.
#LabourAntisemitism
