'Corbyn made me a TORY' Maureen Lipman blasts Labour leader at anti-Semitism demonstration
ACTRESS Maureen Lipman has tore into Jeremy Corbyn at an anti-Semitism rally outside the Labour Party’s central London headquarters.
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Ms Lipman attacked the for “doing nothing” to tackle prejudice in his party and accused him of “standing with elements who are against everything that we stand for”.
She told hundreds of protestors she was attending the event ”as a disenfranchised socialist" and said she identified with a placard reading "Corbyn made me a Tory".
The actress slammed the Labour leader for attending a Seder even organised by left-wing Jewish group Jewdas, saying it was "the absolute cherry on the top of Jeremy Corbyn's behaviour".
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He is standing with elements who are against everything that we stand for
Ms Lipman told the crowd: "He is standing with elements who are against everything that we stand for; hardworking, decent Jewish people of whom I am incredibly proud.
"By doing nothing he is telling us the same thing he has been telling us for the last 30 years.
"He wants a Marxist party. Because it's worked so well in the rest of the world."
The crowd, waving British flags and placards, braved the elements for the protest organised by the Campaign Against anti-Semitism.
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Messages on placards read "Zero tolerance for anti-Semitism", "Labour hold Corbyn to account" and "Anti-Semitism is racism".
There were shouts of "Corbyn out", "racists" and "shame", and boos when the Labour leader was named by speakers.
There were also boos for Momentum leader Jon Lansman and Christine Shawcross, the former NEC member who resigned after backing a party member accused of anti-Semitism.
A senior shadow cabinet minister said she has been "frustrated" at the slow pace of steps taken to tackle anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner admitted the implementation of measures outlined in Baroness Chakrabarti's 2016's report into the problem was not moving "as fast as I would have liked to have seen".
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She said: "Jeremy Corbyn has been quite clear there's no place for anti-Semitism in our party but I have been a little frustrated that we haven't moved forward on the Chakrabarti report as fast as I would have liked to have seen.
"But Jennie Formby, our new general secretary, made it her number one priority and we need to make sure that the full Chakrabarti report is implemented and we have absolute zero tolerance.
"It can't be right when people see on social media - and it's not just in the Labour Party but across the board - anti-Semitic rhetoric and they see no action taken or the action is far too slow."