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Thank you,

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J. Comrades and

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friends. Hillary Ben's history was so

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deficient, Lindsay. I'm not sure that

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£20 worth of history books will do

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it, he told the House of Commons,

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looking across at the Conservative

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benches into the lobby with whom he was

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about to try and lead as many Labor

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members as possible and he reminded them

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that the whole house had stood against

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Hitler and Mussolini.

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That's not the history I recall. As it

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happens, the

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appeasers of Hitler and Mussolini were

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there in profusion on the conservative

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benches and many many of them including

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some in the palace itself look forward

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to a victory for Hitlerism.

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He prayed and aid the international

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brigade as somehow being a labor

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achievement. But labor was against the

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international brigades. The

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international brigades were communists

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and troskists and leftists and trade

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union leaders like Jack Jones.

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The official labor policy was for

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non-intervention in the Spanish Civil

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War. And above all, he imagined that we

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had forgotten his own personal history.

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As a man who voted for and went around

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the country and the TV studios arguing

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for the invasion of Iraq and its

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subsequent occupation, which produced

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ISIS in the first place, as even Tony

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Blair now, at least partly

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acknowledges. He imagined that we'd

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forgotten that he had supported the NATO

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bombardment of Libya, which destroyed

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Libya and put ISIS in power in those

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parts of the country that al-Qaeda are

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not in power in. destroying Libya as a

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state, destroying Iraq as a state, a

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kind of corpse that can be picked over

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by ISIS, by the Turkish government,

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which as an earlier speaker John Ree, I

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think, uh, mentioned, has now been

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invaded today by the Turkish military

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and a new axis of confrontation now

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exists between Iraq and Turkey, who are

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we going to back in those

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circumstances, the regime in Iraq that

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we put into power on the point of our

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day with our invasion and occupation or

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our NATO ally about whom more in a

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minute Turkey. So we might be about to

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have a war between Iraq and Turkey, a

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war between half the world and Syria and

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the other half of the world standing by

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Syria's side, as John put it, bringing

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us into the very real danger of a

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confrontation that could escalate into a

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world war. Don't underestimate it. No

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one imagined when the pistol shots ran

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out in SVO that that would lead to a

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cataclysm of four bloody years in which

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an ocean of blood flowed in the First

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World War. Another piece of history Mr.

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Ben could usefully have been reminded

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of. I don't have much time. So I only

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have time to deal with a point which has

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been referred to before but I'm in a

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position uh a personal uh position to

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comment uh I hope tellingly on it. As I

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was coming in here it was on the

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BBC news that Simon Danchuk the Labour

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MP

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for

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Rodale had been sent a death threat.

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John mentioned the horror stories of

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several Twitter feeds. I've been sent

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more death threats than any political

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figure in the whole of Britain. And I

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reported

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them and I've reported them to the

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Metropolitan

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Police. And never once did they make the

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BBC

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news. Never once was anybody arrested.

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In fact, the police tell me that they

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can't arrest anybody because Twitter

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won't give them. Who thought we would

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lived in a police state? Twitter won't

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give them the identity of the holders of

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Twitter accounts. So I I took that a

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little bit painfully to be honest that

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Danuk made the BBC news but it's it's

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what he said

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next without contradiction by the BBC

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and he's repeating it on social media

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now. He blamed Jeremy Corbin for the

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fact that he got a death threat. I mean

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what have you got to do to get expelled

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out the Labor Party? I really don't

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know. standards. Standards must be so

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[Applause]

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standards. As many speakers have pointed

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out, they're trying to intimidate us,

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not the other way around.

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MPs who vote for

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war have the cheek to complain about I

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rate

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emails or angry

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constituents. They've obviously never

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faced an angry foreman in a workplace if

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they think that

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being subjected to postup notes on your

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office window constitutes bullying and

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intimidation. It's us that they are

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trying to

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intimidate and in part it has worked in

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Waltham. The

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gigantic conspiracy not just a lie. A

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picture is produced on a Facebook page

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opened by somebody who lives in Kent but

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was posting from

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leads. Shows a picture just before it's

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closed down just hours after it was

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open.

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a picture of apparently angry Muslims

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outside the local MP's

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home, terrifying her

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children. She has no children. It wasn't

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her home. The Muslims weren't angry.

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They were going into the mosque. The

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picture was of the local mosque, Queens

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Road Mosque in Waltham Stone.

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Now, that's I'm not a conspiracy

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theorist, but I want to know who that

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guy was that opened that Facebook

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account and put that picture up. Because

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that

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lie, that lie went around the world

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before the truth had got its boots on.

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But the truth boots are coming on

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now. And more of that later. I've only

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got one minute left. I just want to

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therefore close with this. If we allow

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ourselves to be

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intimidated out of doing our democratic

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duty, we will have

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betrayed, as John put it, the levelers,

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the chartists, the tall martyrs, the

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pioneers, the suffragettes, the people

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who did fight for Spain, the people who

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agitated

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for confrontation with Hitler and

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Mussolini. We would be betraying them if

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we did not continue our work.

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They are

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trying They are trying as part of their

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regime change

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project to separate Jeremy Corbin from

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the stop the war movement to separate

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Jeremy Corbin from Ken Livingstone from

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John Macdonald from Momentum so that

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he'll cut his roots and cut the senus of

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those of us who love him and wish him

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Well, so that when they come for him,

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there's nobody left to protest. We are

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the protesters and we are going on and

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on and on until the end.

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[Applause]