Why did Starmer settle out of court Give a grovelling apology and pay out six figure sum?

I did say Corbyn would bring about the death of the Labour
Party.

Furret in regard to your post @07:08 today, Starmer has not drawn a line under the anti-semitism allegations against the Labour party. In that, there are still two reports to be published on the matter, and they will result in prosecutions and claims that will cost the party upward of seven million pounds.

The foregoing will in all probability bring about the insistence of huge economies and the restructuring of the Parliamentary party by the broader Labour movement in the country.

That, I believe, will see the closure of the Labour Party Central Office, and the merger of the General Secretaries Office to within the TUC headquarters returning the Parliamentary Labour Party once more as an integral part on the wider Labour movement.

If Starmer wishes to have a party to lead then within the next twelve months the acceptance of the above may well be his only option.

Starmer has dealt with this as he saw fit. The man had to make a difficult choice and he made it. While I think that Corbyn is a good and genuine man, he lacked the ability to lead and unite his party.

In Brexit he shilly-shallied. Even with an idiot like Boris lying his way to victory, he failed.

Starmer has shown himself to be a capable of showing Boris up as the blustering buffoon he really is at PMQs and has drawn a line under the anti-semitism row, showing some in the party that he will act swiftly and decisively.

So well done on both fronts.

It is possible that Jeremy Corbyn was disliked by the majority of voters because of his prevarication over Brexit and because the party's manifesto, which he said was "fantastic", was so long and had so many promises that it was regarded as undeliverable.

Now we can argue that people were wrong to take this view of Jeremy Corbyn or of the manifesto but that is what happened and that IMHO is why Labour lost.

As for Keir Starmer, he won a handsome majority in the leadership election and the candidate favoured by Corbyn and his supporters did badly. Voters in that election also wanted a change!

As to whether there should or should not have been a payment to the whistleblowers no-one can judge until we know more about what really went on.

It's a shame that the Equalities and Human Rights Commission report was not ready to be published before this legal case came to court but hopefully it will shed light on what happened and who is telling the truth.

Why Corbyn "is disliked by the majority of voters" is interesting, possibly because it was virtually impossible to find a story in the media that didn't castigate him.
The payment made by Keir Starmer indicates amongst other things a distrust of the legal system (what would have happened if they were found to be at fault?) and a belief that he has the power to give away party money whenever he likes. Perhaps it suited him more to pretend there was a case, rather than have to admit Corbyn was stitched up. Anyway it looks like he believes he is the Labour Party and not its members.
John Ware has a history of producing programmes with bias. The BBC had to pay substantial libel charges because he made false claims about a Muslim charity.

You could well be right Grandad; but the fact remains that Corbyn was, and still is, disliked by the majority of voters. It's impossible to get beyond that because what matters is getting that all important X on the ballot paper, and he just couldn't do it.

It is Starmer's right-wing of the Labour party that has brought the organisation to the brink of bankruptcy. He will now have to turn to the traditional left in the broader Labour movement to salvage the Parliamentary party or he will have no organised party to lead.

All who worship the virtues of "SIR" Kier Starmer should think on that.

Of course, he could always sale the Party to the Bankers and Rupert Murdock as Blair did, but I think we can all remember what that action brought about.

The GoFundMe page now stands at £253.700 and rising.

That may be so Grany but it doesn't mean a thing does it? Because if Corbyn's "supporters" had been in the majority, then he'd be sat in 10 Downing Street by now. But he isn't. Because not enough people believed in him and put an X on a ballot paper. And it wasn't the nasty bunch of Blairites wot did it; it was Corbyn himself, who seemed to think he was some kind of latter day Che Guevara. Whereas Starmer sees himself as a leader of the Labour Party and future Prime Minister. Corbyn could have had it all.... But he blew it.

Iam64 in regard to your above post @22:16 today, there has been factional infighting and "turmoil" in the Parliamentary Labour party for more than twelve years. In that, there is a widespread view in the broader Labour Movement that such factionalism has to be brought to an end.

I believe that for the broader Labour movement to "salvage" the party from its self-inflicted oncoming bankruptcy will be the insistence on the closure of the Parliamentary Party Central Office and the PLP moving much closer to the Broader Labour movement in the country.

Should it be that Steve Taylor is elected as General Secretary of the Unite Union, which now seems highly likely, the leadership for such reforms will come from him in that office.

What on earth does it matter how much the gofund page is.

Being a lawyer he knows far more about the law than Corbyn

Being a lawyer he should have let the legal process proceed Labour had a strong case. Also the investigation into the leaked report and outcome may be compromised.

And what a vicious nasty bunch of Blairites they are working to stopping a Labour government So they are to blame very much so.

The GoFundMe page now stands at £253.700 and rising.

Agree Iam

Starmer made the right decision, again.

Corbyn never supported the Party leader when he was a back bencher.. No change now he’s a back bencher again, undermining the democratically elected leader.
His supporters are vitriolic in their criticism of Starmer. They call for unity but clearly don’t want a United L
P. I don’t believe many of them want a Labour government. They don’t care about the poverty they condemned so many traditional labour voters to
Why?,

This somewhat unexpected apology is only the beginning az two further extensive reports and actions that are two follow.

The Race and Equalities commission are still to produce their report on antisemitism in the Labour Party from which prosecutions of the party will undoubtedly follow.

There is also still to come the internal report in regard to the allegations that employees at the Labour Party Central Office continually acted against Jeremy Corbyn even to the extent of working against the Parliamentary Labour Party winning the 2018 general election.

It matters little in financial terms whether those employees carried out those actions or not as their names where contained in the leaked report which was in breach of the Data Protection Act and Employers Duty of Care under the Health & Safety at Work Act.

The above is expected to accrue a cost to the Parliamentary Party of at least seven million pounds in prosecutions and claims which is funding the Party does simply not possess at this time.

The only positive thing that has come about this week in regard to the Labour Party was that Steve Turner won a close fought nomination from Unite Left as their candidate to replace the retiring Len McCluskey as General Secretary of the Unite Union. Unite are the Largest donors to the Labour party with Turner being in support of maintaining the political levy subscription to the Labour Party provided there are wholesale reforms and also a large reduction in the bureaucratic structure of the Parliamentary party.

Starmer has rightly drawn a line under it - he could not take his party forward with this negativity still clinging on.

There are a few more saying this offering their legal services for free.

Howard Beckett

Was proud to lead the legal team that defended Jeremy Corbyn’s right to be on the ballot in 2016.

I make this promise today. When the need arises, I offer my legal services pro bono to Jeremy Corbyn & we will win that fight. Money cannot be allowed to stand in the way of truth.

Here's to all those who know the difference between criticisism of the Israeli government and criticism of the Jewish people.

This is going well isn't it?

They were not a bunch of journalists, they were employed by
the party . They gave interviews to a Panorama programme on
anti semetism in the Labour Party

And don’t tell me to read the links.
I’ve tried and they are barely comprehensible to an outsider.

Grany instead of copying and pasting from various blogs and articles, could you please explain what you’re talking about?
Preferably in words of one syllable?
I’m sure I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what you’re on about.

There was no grovelling apology, it was a very much long overdue apology.

The Labour supporters have helped Jeremy Corbyn him shown support against all the unfairness accusations from the trouble makers

The Jeremy Corbyn who couldn't keep a united party? Who couldn't win an election even when his opponent was Boris? Who was the puppet of Jon Lansman who, incidentally, has apologised for joining Labour’s attack on the whistleblowers? That Jeremy Corbyn?

Maybe he just wants this debacle over so the Labour party can move on? That would be understandable.

Agree with all you said Ilovecheese