Spotted: serial saboteur and Corbyn back-stabber Tom Watson out on the doorsteps. In his local constituency? Don’t be ridiculous. The shameless rightwing opportunist has been out and about in Islington North, of course:
👀 Tom Watson joins the campaign to oust Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North.
As leader, Corbyn launched an abortive plan to abolish Watson’s role as deputy leader
Here is Watson supporting Labour’s candidate Praful Nargund a few minutes ago… pic.twitter.com/mkyvMySKwP
— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) July 4, 2024
Naturally, Watson is backing Labour’s private healthcare profiteer Praful Nargund in the former Labour leader’s constituency. As a person on X pointed out, the pair of exploitative corporate capitalists make perfect bedfellows:
Guy who made money off of gambling firms helping the guy who made money off of peoples’ infertility. Match made in heaven
— Wonton Goodsoup (@Wonton_Goodsoup) July 4, 2024
Just hours earlier, the Canary reported how Labour has been pushing vast numbers of activists into Islington North on election day. So of course Watson would flock to be among them.
According to a person on X, Labour’s legion of Starmerite sell-outs have been up to the same old tricks. Specifically, the problem with people thinking Corbyn is still the Labour candidate is rearing it’s head. And Labour candidates are apparently playing on this. The poster suggested the presence of the Lord of ‘Trotskyist entryism’ conspiracists could explain the dodgy tactics going on:
Easy to see Tom Watson has turned up.
They’re telling people Corbyn is the Labour candidate and to vote Labour, apparently. https://t.co/GELCDlYkSQ— Brenda Gough 🌱🤝 (@BelfastBre) July 4, 2024
After all, it wouldn’t be the first time the former Corbyn deputy-turned-traitor and his right-wing chums employed unscrupulous means to rig things.
Weasel Tom Watson spotted in Islington North
A couple of people on X highlighted that it’s going to be a close call in Watson’s home constituency:
Tom Watson is from my constituency (Wyre Forest). Labour have a chance here for the first time since 1997. He thinks his time is best spent campaigning against Corbyn in Islington North https://t.co/VRqHJ2yEk5
— Cozza 💙 NHS 💚 (@corinnebailey) July 4, 2024
Polling for the constituency Tom Watson lives in https://t.co/zKp8aabQg1 pic.twitter.com/JKGSO1ExGX
— bear of bear hall (@ABearOnABike) July 4, 2024
Guardian columnist Owen Jones echoed this point. He raised how there are countless Tory seats Labour is on the cusp of securing that Watson could have gone to. Instead, he’s once again baying for Corbyn’s political defeat:
If you’re choosing today to campaign to unseat Jeremy Corbyn, rather than an endless list of Tory MPs, then you are driven entirely by spite. https://t.co/VWlDlklpI3
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) July 4, 2024
As another person pointed out, ousting left-wing voices is Starmer’s Labour writ large:
Labour Spent this election Throwing everything but the Kitchen sink at Bristol & Islington North & Concentrating on fighting progressives, while Leaving right wing battles high & dry, & completely aborting a positive campaign in Clacton. Absolute fucking Scum Party. https://t.co/95HmuCRq7V
— Michael Walsh (@thatbloodyMikey) July 4, 2024
From one Thatcherite Tory fanboy to another, he’s right at home:
That Tom Watson has more respect for aged groupie Nadine Dorries, and dodgy multi-personality Grant Shapps, than he does for lifelong peace activist Jeremy Corbyn encapsulates everything that is wrong with Westminster. https://t.co/AyUYwwNeoR
— Helen the Zen 🏴 💙 🍉 (@helenmallam) July 4, 2024
With friends like these…
With Labour Friends of Israel, who needs enemies. Unless, like with warmongering Watson, there’s a socialist threatening to hold your political donors to account for a literal genocide:
Tom Watson another labour parasite who was sponsored by zionists https://t.co/kbTySSvMPc pic.twitter.com/e726Uhv7M5
— Are We All Asleep ? ▄▀▄▀▄∆▄▀▄▀▄ (@demindblower) July 4, 2024
Labour friends of Israeli war criminals pic.twitter.com/pbfXYwntJf
— Bikey McBikeface (@BikeyMcBikeface) July 4, 2024
Unsurprisingly then, Watson was among some despicable friends-in-high places:
The man in the glasses next to Tom Watson is Patrick Heneghan. As a party executive director Heneghan sneered that a black Lab MP who’d been receiving racist abuse was crying in the loos, & then boasted he’d leaked her location to a journalist. And don’t forget the wink emoji. https://t.co/6FP7LFQ05f pic.twitter.com/TOoAzClj7c
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) July 4, 2024
Its Patrick Fucking Heneghan! This is the guy who called Katie Murphy a “bitch face cow” in texts to the Ergon House group, and who ‘tipped off’ Michael Crick about Diane Abbott crying in the toilets. https://t.co/RJ121qX9EV pic.twitter.com/D96IJPKl5E
— Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies (@CeilNoyle) July 4, 2024
Moreover, now Labour appears to be swiftly U-turning on abolishing the House of Lords, it’s perhaps no wonder the careerist has crawled out of the woodwork:
Tom Watson. Another scab who got rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords for sabotaging any hope of progressive change. The Lords is full of them – vermin in Ermine. https://t.co/BXrx2OF9TL
— JezM #FreePalestine (@jezm) July 4, 2024
Corbyn to win? Watson not betting on that
Fortunately, the good people of Islington North know a sleaze-bag when they see it. So as the Canary’s Rachel Swindon said, Watson swanning in can only be a good thing for Corbyn:
Huge boost for the Corbyn campaign as Tom Watson is spotted campaigning for @prafulnargund in #IslingtonNorth https://t.co/wlYnqdrman
— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) July 4, 2024
And if the bookies are anything to go by, Corbyn’s people-powered campaign just might leave Labour in its dust:
Bookies also massively cutting Corbyn’s odds. They think he has won. pic.twitter.com/h2VeDqtJlT
— Jacob Bard-Rosenberg (@Prolapsarian) July 4, 2024
One thing’s for sure, the independent politician has given Labour – and betting firm adviser Watson – a heck more of a fight than they gambled on.
Featured image via the Canary
