Watson attacks Corbyn and his ‘Stalinist cabal’

One of the worst kept secrets at Westminster was the antipathy between former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and his then boss Jeremy Corbyn.

But only now, after Labour’s worst defeat since 1935, is Watson revealing quite how much he despised Corbyn.

Accusing the former Labour leader of running a ‘Stalinist operation’, he singles out Corbyn’s powerful communications secretary Seumas Milne, who was educated at Winchester College (fees: £42,000 a year). ‘It always amazed me that an avowed Stalinist-Communist would be a Labour Party member, let alone director of communications for the leader of the Labour Party.’

Speaking on the Last Call podcast, Watson goes on to say the ‘guy that freaked me out most’ was Andrew Murray, who was hired by Milne. Murray was a lifelong Communist until he joined Labour after the election of Corbyn in 2015 as the party leader.

‘He was hardcore Stalinist and at the very heart of decisionmaking in the Labour Party,’ says Watson. ‘That cabal have a lot of responsibility for creating the internal political tensions, but also for the programme that millions of working people in Britain didn’t buy into.’

Watson could, of course, have done the honourable thing and resigned. Instead, he waited until the last election before quitting, and accepted a peerage nomination from Corbyn.

Mercifully, it’s been blocked because of his role in promoting the fantasist Carl Beech, who invented the VIP Westminster paedophile ring.