Corbyn will be ousted as party leader over his handling of the anti-Semitism crisis, a whistle-blower claims

By John Mann, Labour MP

IN normal times, the official opposition would be 30 points ahead in the opinion polls and preparing for power. Today the Labour Party is in turmoil, awaiting the Equality and Human

Rights Commission report into its antisemitism. The only other Party ever investigated was now moribund British National Party.

We all know members who have recently quit the Party, but nobody knows how many have quit as my investigations have shown that even the dead retain their membership. Something is going badly wrong when membership loss is being hidden.

But fiddling membership is small beer, compared to the crises now engulfing the Labour leadership.

Brexit voters are walking away from a Party that is defiantly reversing its election promise to respect the referendum, while arch remainers are quitting because Labour cannot make its mind up. Can you imagine John Smith or Harold Wilson allowing such a shambles, or Tony Blair and Clement Atlee presiding over us being 18 per cent in the polls? All four would have quit to save the Party.

Whilst the activists who run election campaigns continue to quit, a new kind of activist has risen to the surface: the old men of Momentum.

Let me tell you about one of them in my local Party. I first spotted him secretly filming a constituency meeting.

But not for long, because after five minutes he had walked out in protest. Within two hours his film was on the internet alongside a commentary by an MP called Williamson.

At first this new member denied his involvement, but later brazenly added his name and “copy write” to the footage, which was so banal that even wallpaper would fall asleep watching it.

He then wrote a series of emails asking me about antisemitism, asking whether Judaism was a religion, as he as an atheist didn’t know.

A few months later he was listed in a letter to the Guardian newspaper as ‘ a prominent Jew’ in this country.

Just let the psychology behind that sink in, and you see how twisted the Momentum extremism has become.

This week it hit is crescendo as eight brave and loyal Labour Party members spoke out.

But not any members, rather the actual staff employees tasked with disciplinary investigations into the threats, abuse and antisemitism that was bedevilling the Labour Party.

They have blown the lid off what we all suspected, that those at the top of the Labour Party had directly intervened to protect their political friends.

In Germany you will be arrested and prosecuted for denying the holocaust. In the Labour Party we cannot be certain that you will be expelled.

Only 17 people, it now emerges have been expelled out of the huge number of complaints.

Let me tell you about some; threats and sexual abuse directed against women answering the phone.

Threats to punch in the face. Abuse of children and spouses. A relentless onslaught against those who are Jewish and those prepared to stand up for Jewish members.

Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn sits on his hands and refuses to act.

No leadership in removing the anti-Semites.

No challenge to the orthodoxy pervading much of Momentum, where many are now turning their hatred on one of their leaders, who just happens to be Jewish.

And meanwhile the rest of the country looks on in puzzled horror.

It is the last gasp saloon now. For three years we have asked, begged, demanded that Jeremy Corbyn put a stop to this. And the longer it goes on, the more people are saying that if he cannot sort out extremists in your own Party, then how can he sort out the country?

The Jewish vote, historically fiercely and proudly pro Labour is pretty much gone. The clock is running down on whether the issue of antisemitism becomes the defining legacy of Jeremy

Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party.

And to turn this crisis around, Jeremy Corbyn needs now to release all the emails, all the documents to the investigating commission and strike hard this week and root out the anti-Semites, decisively and permanently from our once proud party.

If not, stand aside and let someone else do the job.

I have had threats of violence against me, horrendous abuse of my staff, rape threats against my wife and daughters. A continuous diatribe of anti-Semitic abuse for three years, with people arrested, convicted, disciplined by their employer, but never once expelled by the Labour Party. Enough is enough Mr Corbyn. It is now, or never.

• John Mann has been Labour MP for Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, since 2001.