Watch This POWERFUL Defence of Corbyn 

I don't think Corbyn would have allowed sewage to be dumped in our rivers.

Starmer has lost my respect forever

Echoing what people are already saying, I would 1000% vote for Corbyn if he ran as independent

I won’t be voting labour

Purge is the right word. Starmer is destroying the LB.

ANTI Zionism IS not ANTI Semitism Free Palistine !!

What I want is Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister!

I Hope Corbyn stands as an independent.. lots of his supporters will door knock for him .. he should stand .

Labour are done as far as I'm concerned.

40 years Corbyn has held Islington North!!

Corbyn was the best prime minister the UK never had. Starmer , Boris, sunak, Blair, are not fit to clean his shoes. How Johnson won the election I will never understand. Corbyn should stand as an independent, join the L.O.V.E party, anything.. The country needs him.

Starmer is like a Tory spy who invaded the Labour party to shut it down from inside

British politics at the moment is just so depressing

I'm still a Labour Party member, but I don't intend to vote Labour unless Corbyn is reinstated or Starmer is removed. I'll continue to work internally on improving the party, but this purge is undemocratic and unacceptable.

Labour Party's a completely lost cause.

How does the BBC presenter get away with saying (2:15) Jeremy Corbyn has refused to apologise? Jeremy did apologise several times, many people have criticised him for not dismissing the nonsense he was being accused of. Just rewriting history.

Starmer is a joke! a bad joke!

We need Jeremy to be a thorn in the side of Starmer simply because Starmer is a political snake and in my own view utterly untrustworthy !

JC still the Man, Starmers Labour Party is dead to me

Labour is not an opposition, we live in a one party state..there is no room in this country for dissent. Labour party and tories have the same bosses, both of them are working for the elite..

You notice how really decent human beings never get into power...

Jeremy Corbyn is the most honourable politician here in the UK.

Life long Labour voter, I'm voting Green in the current local elections and will also vote Green in the next election. Also I'm sorry as I voted for Starmer, which I deeply regret.

Has Starmer apologised for kicking out Jews that don't support Apartheid States in the Labour Party?

Corbyn as been a labour mp for decades what gives starmer the right to say Corbyn can't run for labour' I'll never vote labour again and I Don't think they'll win the next election either.

Someone needs to explain to me how can you, after all that's happened, still vote for Labour and claim to be left wing. Because being marginally left of UKiP does't make you left wing.

The last time Labour went diet Tory in search of votes it pushed the national conversation and the Conservatives further right. We've been living with the fallout of that for over a decade. I hate to think what we'll look like in 10-15 years if the pattern continues.

Starmer can do this only because he is right of center, it does not bother his conscience at all, which is just another Tory trait that he openly portrays. Like deployed 👍

The frustrating thing is that Jeremy Corbyn could kick Starmer out of uk politics at a stroke by standing as an independent in Holborn St Pancras. Even if he didn’t win he could take enough votes to make Starmer lose. Don’t see him doing it but he would be doing the country a massive favour if he did.

The treatment of JC is appalling. I can assure you in Islington North, he will be elected as an independent. People have no idea how respected he is locally not just for his views but because of his work he does in and for his constituents. He is highly visible and a season ticket holder at the Arsenal, a proper fan unlike the supposed fan Starmer. JC also has legendary status amongst the councillors and staff at Islington B.C. 47 Lab, 3 Gns and if it were not for the imposed LTN in N5, it would be 100%Lab councillors. Whilst visible paid up Labour officers may have to toe the line, the rest of the labour party will be out working for JC. At the last GE he polled 64.3% of the turnout and 49% of all those entitled (franchised) to vote. In betting terms he would be odds on to win, 1/3 in my book as an indy v some Starmer blow in!

Barry has really grown in my estimation over the past few years. He’s been pretty damn honourable.

I left the Labour party once Karmer started the purge.

The bottom line is, the Labour party no longer represents the working class. Why people like Lansman think Starmer will take any notice of them, is quite frankly, for the birds. These people should be starting a new party, not helping a Tory lite party get elected!!!

Corbyn should run as an independent

Corbyn was cleared so stop going on about it..he has nothing to appologise for

If corbin stands as an independent candidate the pilgrimage to his constituency to help out will be unprecedented

Bless Barry, he's risking expulsion for even saying this. He can't say it but we can 'stand Jeremy, fk Starmer'

We don’t have a Labour Party since Blair came to power. They need to call themselves something else.

Barry is underrated as a politician and as a human being. I met him and was deeply impressed by his integrity, intelligence, warmth and nous. He should be on the front bench.

Apologise for what?

I’d vote for JC - one of the few honest & decent politicians left in Parliament.

A brilliant interview. We need action though, it’s time for the MP’s, Unions and members to pull their support / finances from Labour. Let’s have a new National social movement political party. For the people, by the people.

Gotta love Barry Gardener, he’s always on the correct side of the argument. Absolute diamond in regards to current Labour mp’s

Barry Gardener has wisdom. Labour should be a broad church. Rules should be followed even by the right. Due process should be followed and as we know from all the released 'right of the party' emails, due process was the last thing on their minds. The 'purges' by their very name are not due process, they are Stalinist.

Starmer is a Red Tory . One to be watched.

Most of the media and the money behind it hate Corbyn, they are much more at home with android i sit on the fence so much my arse stings Starmer.

The labour party really doesn't respect democracy at all. I've been wanting to end my membership since Corbyn's leadership ended and this has spurred me on. Starmer has fought harder against the left than he has the far right. It's ridiculous that he wouldn't even adopt any of Corbyn's manifesto that was so popular. He has no vision and he drops his policies like hot cakes. This is reminiscent of Harriet Harman's leadership when she said that it wasn't labour's place to oppose the tories.

Corbyn should start a new political party. Obviously they won't be as powerful as Labour are but they would still have the ability to hold the Labour Party to account somewhat.

The standards for politics are to the Constituents not the Party. Labour is no longer for the Workers, its for the party. There should be a new " Workers Party " Constituents First!

I love Jeremy

It was nice to see political heavy weight Alex Salmond on lbc say he’d known Jeremy Corbyn for 35 years & had not seen anything that indicated he was anti semetic

As for the anti-Semitism bullshit, how curious that for some reason no one mentions the Forde report

BBC as biased as ever and got JC to this stage.

I would love it if corbyn stands as an independent and I think he'll win..

Why on earth do people not call out the fake antisemitism smears?

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Corbyn won his seat again & Starmer lost his.

Lansman's treatment of momentum members, after his decision to make up his own rules was the same as Starmer's. He said, if you don't like it, leave. We left.

Keir Starmer should be keeping the Labour Party together not splitting them apart or maybe he wants to loos the election Jeremey Corbin has a great pull of people following and to throw that away seems wrong when he needs them to get his votes up but maybe he is throwing the baby out with the bathwater

What's happening to Corbyn, is similar to countries where we see dictators and corrupt governments.

Barry must be retiring soon as Starmer won't tolerate this Bolshevism.😂

You are right !, if a Labour leader can ban another party member, based on personal pathological interest , can destroy the very essence of the party ! Corbin is an alarming example.

Sadly, with this leadership, I can no longer say that I want a labour government. Where I can accept the political outlook being more left or right wing than mine the continued assault on the democratic process by Starmer is a sign we cannot ignore or tolerate in a position of power. This is no longer about political leanings, this is about the nation's descent into dictatorship

So much respect for him.

I love Corbyn. He gave us hope.

I wondered why I didn't like Keir Starmer , he doesn't stand up much against the Tories , I think he'd be better off as a leftist Tory . I hope Jeremey Corbin stands an Independent party , I said many years ago Jeremy was one for the people and they will come at him from all sides to keep him out , this happened and is still happening , I'd vote for Jeremy.

Starmer needs to explain his decision and if party rules weren't followed then he needs to justify that. The General Election needs a Labour Party that has the greatest appeal, purging the party will weaken it not strengthen it. I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support. Tony Benn

Corybyn taking the Ken Livingstone approach would be so weak. It's so weak that any left wing member including MP's and Councillors would opt to stay. A mass resignation would send a message and the party would be put into a massive hole. A new party would have to form off the back of that. If a new left wing party formed in parliament, from the SCG, do we really think the trade unions would stay with Labour anyway? If Jeremy Corbyn experienced a tenth of the solidarity that Gary Lineker received, the left could show they were a united force and actually join together and campaign for something. Right now, staying in the Labour Party and eating bowls of shit is just embarrassing.

expect Starmer will boot him out now

JC deserves better than this. Love the way he says open and democratic party while kicking out good left-wing people. Stand as independent.

Why is Starmer hiding the Ford report?

Anyone who doesn't like infighting is ok with me. So yeah, I’ll take that, he admitted what Starmer has done does more to damage support for the Party, I’m still not voting for Labour til Corbyn is reinstated and Starmer apologises for cancelling him

If Barry becomes Labour leader, we could have a labour government. Until Starmer is kicked out of Labour, please don't vote for him.

I was fascinated with your take on Jeremy Corbin, and the accompanying comment on interviewee responses. I watch Novara Media, assiduously, because your very down to earth commentary & your co-presenters are all worthy of high praise. I don’t necessarily agree with every view - there would be no little room for balanced debate, if we all agreed above or followed what is being said & giving one’s own interpretation. But the Jeremy Corbin issue is quite fascinating - although, not having been a member of the PLP or Leader of the Opposion, I have been a card carrying member of the CLP (Constituency Labour Party) for over fifty years. And yes, I was a member of the same left faction of the party, as well as being Chair of my District Branch. Last year an investigating team finally resurrect an email I wrote in response to one sent ‘o personally’ to me signed by Angela Raynor . This was a flippant remark in response to her exhorting me to sign up for Facebook - which I personally regard as a devious and even disturbing social media platform. I have long ago binned the emails, as they were exchanged in January 2030. Apparently not so, the investigative team of the Executive members of the CLP. As in Jeremy Corbyn’s case, I have been deselected from standing as a Candidate for the upcoming District Council… at the time, there were no other Candidates, who would be competing with me in my own Ward - apart from the Tory Candidate, to whom I narrowly lost in 2019 & would have easily won in May. Alas, it is not to be, needless to say, I shan’t be voting for anybody who is or has replaced me - the CLP are hoping to gain a majority of wards in the May election. However, I have been told by many of those who I know, in the district, that they have rather taken my view that deselection has left them rather unhappy. In an email report, ‘I may be likely to bring the CLP into disrepute’. I quorted Arthur Koestler, in replying that perhaps I should expect a bullet delivered to the back of my head in a cellar. There was no laugh. Or for that matter, a reply.😊

I am appalled by the growing authoritarianism and autocracy in all areas of politics and society, especially in the Labour Party. I never thought much of Keir Starmer but now I am deeply disappointed in him. I thank Barry Gardiner for calling him out and remind his party of essential democratic rules.

Fair play to Gardiner here

This is right we need an open democratic party that's fair for every one

I'm not British but I would have a tough time voting for Keir Starmer.

Good commentary Michael. Appreciated your insights

Barry Gardiner is an absolute hero ! He's a passionate and sincere person 😊

Well said Michael.

I think Jeremy Corbyn would win standing as an Independent Socialist (or whatever label he preferred). He is hugely popular and very well known in Islington North. He is, however, a very rare kind of politician - a genuinely humble, nice guy. Does he have the ego for such a fight? He has the passion and depth of political conviction, for sure, but that's not the same thing. Ken Livingstone is not a good comparison. He DID have the ego, bags of it, arguably too much. I agree, however, that the "Livingstone option" of not dragging others out of the Labour Party would be the way to do it. There's no shortage of left wingers, "the wrong sort of Jews" and other good folks chucked out of the Labour Party in the last couple of years, is there? I'm sure many of them would be delighted to do the leg work of campaigning for Corbyn

Well said Barry. A great response.

Barry is a legend!

The Right constantly mock the Left for not having cohesion - they don't seem to get that disagreement and the ability to disagree is a key ingredient of democracy

I think Barry Gardiner would be a really good Prime Minister.

Good on Ya Barry...always thought you where on a good path, talking sense.

Watching from Canada . If I was in Britain I would be pissed off . If there is no Progressive group inside of new government , who in hell can you vote for . Not good .

they're terrified of anyone with principles

As an American looking in, I've always really liked Corbyn.

Revolution please

Well said Barry.

Barry Gardiner for Prime Minister !One of the few last honest, decent, caring politicians left in English politics. He sets a standard that is dying out. He's really sticking his neck out here to be supportive & I'm sure the new 'democratic' Labour Party will now target him, if they haven't started that process already...Thank you Barry for being you & for being brave enough to go against the grain when you see how unfairly Jeremy Corbyn has been treated.

Keep fighting for the Truth and Human Rights.🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋

A vote to Starmer is a kick in the teath for democracy and an encoragement to race to the botton with tories.

If he ran as an independent, there could be scenario where Labour need his support to form a government.

firstly, I was never a labour supporter until last year. I also never thought the corbyn was the right party leader. He has good ideas, which I would be happy to support, but it almost felt that he had to many different views and policies from what once was, new labour. It is imperative that when you feel the course needs to change, you are patient, and take it step by step. No one benefits from 'extreme' change (look at Truss, that silly cow). Anyhow, I do believe that it is wrong, that any party big wigs, should not be able to oust members, in the way that they intend to do with Corbyn. I have seen this over the decades with the conservatives as well. I find this a strange way of managing a political party. It's almost like runnning a business. Where is the democratic element in this? I agree that you need to be strong and have diversity within (any) a )party. It's the same when MP's are forced to vote in a certain way, when things are controversial. Quite clearly MP's have a concience and should NOT be punished when voting against their own party. Finally, it is outrageous really, that an MP can be dismissed (but has been voted in by the constituents) and you put a new candidate in his/her place.

A group of people with lots of money saw this sweet man step on stage at Glastonbury and promise change. They threw the kitchen sink at him. Look where we are now.

Well said let him stand

I didn't really see that as a hard interview but Barry Gardiner has the experience and intelligence to defend his position and he comes over as an eloquent and passionate politician with integrity. I wish he was in government. The BBC lost a real star when Lewis Goodall left, but him being free of those particular Tory shackles is a good thing for the rest of us.

Love this guy ❤