{"id":787794,"date":"2022-09-01T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1619435"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:29:25","slug":"eddie-dempsey-critique-is-fine-but-withdrawing-support-for-workers-over-him-is-telling-on-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/01\/eddie-dempsey-critique-is-fine-but-withdrawing-support-for-workers-over-him-is-telling-on-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Dempsey critique is fine, but withdrawing support for workers over him is telling on yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twitter centrists have finally found a reason to justify why they won’t support something that, in truth, they were never going to support anyway. This time the ‘something’ is organised workers. The reason is the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union’s Eddie Dempsey.<\/p>\n

Footage of Dempsey, who serves as an assistant general secretary in the RMT, was tweeted on Wednesday 31 August. In it, Dempsey laments the takeover of working class institutions (like the Labour party) by liberals:<\/p>\n

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I can tell you what, whatever you think about people that turn out for Tommy Robinson demos or any other march like that, the one thing that unites them people, beyond whatever other bigotry that’s going on, is their hatred of the liberal left.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He continued:<\/p>\n

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And they are right to hate them, they are correct. Because they are the people who’ve seen their industries taken away, who’ve captured their Labour Party, and who are now talking to them like they’re the scum of the earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

‘Blatant fascist’?<\/h2>\n

A group of centrist accounts used the footage to claim Dempsey was himself some sort of Tommy Robinson figure. One even accused him of being a “blatant fascist”:<\/p>\n

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Eddie Dempsey the Putin supporting face of the @RMTunion<\/a> now praising Tommy Robinson!
He's no Tommy Shelby he's a blatant fascist spawn of Mosley.
Another reason Keir Starmer was right.
pic.twitter.com\/8EEnhrtU4f<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dave \"\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa\"\"\ud83c\uddec\"\"\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddee\"\"\ud83c\uddea\" \"\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfe\" (@LutsandDefoe) September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n