The Purge of the Labour Party

Labour gave the impression they were more concerned about criminals than their victims, really, in what way? I think we did give that impression. And some of it was about how the party at that point was talking about. There was too much trying to understand what had led an offender into offending - which sounded like excusing their behaviour. Not enough talking about how we supported victims,. understood victims, understood the need, the human need for retribution and rehabilitation so the offender doesn't commit crimes again. That's where we always should have been. The Labour Party was formed by working people to represent working people. It took a rather unfortunate detour for a few years, but now it's squarely back