Reply To: Labour Party Splits
Scroll down for Peter Oborne’s defence of Corbyn against smears.
“Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot For Power, his new book on Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, contains numerous falsehoods. It systematically omits relevant facts in order to portray Corbyn as a ruthless Marxist and anti-semite hell-bent on destroying Western liberal values. The ugly truth is that Bower is not straight with his readers, let alone Corbyn. ‘Again and again he withholds relevant information, with the result that the Labour leader and his colleagues come over in the worst possible light…Bower has made an astonishing number of factual errors – more than I have ever come across in a book from a mainstream publisher…Time after time, Bower makes assertions that are not backed by any evidence…Bower’s book is not just intellectually dishonest, it is a farrago of falsehood and insinuation…British journalists need to ask themselves a question. Is there something rotten in British media discourse which allows someone like Bower to get away with this?…”