The ringleader of a pro-Palestine protest mob who surrounded Tobias Ellwood’s household house is a passionate Corbynista who branded Tony Blair ‘inhuman scum’ and stood in opposition to the Tory MP on the final basic election.
Corrie Drew was Labour‘s candidate for Bournemouth East in 2019 and got here second with 16,120 votes to his 24,926. She was a dedicated supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and give up the get together in 2021, the 12 months after Sir Keir Starmer took over.
Ms Drew, who works in social media, claimed she had already been suspended for the ‘crimes’ of describing ‘struggle legal Tony Blair‘ as ‘inhuman scum’ and for calling Sir Keir ‘Keith’.
She mentioned she was ‘ashamed’ to be a member of a celebration which is ‘to the precise of the Tories‘ and ‘works in opposition to the socialist rules it was based on’.
Now 41, she first hit the headlines when operating for Parliament by establishing on-line fundraisers to assist her spend extra time campaigning. She mentioned that she was working part-time as a cleaner however wanted cash for lease, payments and meals.
Corrie Drew was Labour’s candidate for Bournemouth East in 2019 and got here second with 16,120 votes to his 24,926
Ms Drew is a passionate supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and has shared many pictures of her alongside him
Ms Drew was one of many protagonists of the protest outdoors Mr Ellwood’s residence yesterday
‘I nonetheless can not proceed to provide so many hours to Labour, although, with out your assist,’ she wrote on JustGiving.
Her web page continued: ‘Corrie is fiercely dedicated to constructing a rustic that works for everybody with not considered one of us neglected.
‘She dedicates a lot of her time to campaigning and coaching while nonetheless making an attempt to carry down a job.
‘Running a marketing campaign which is reliant on native volunteers, while being on a low earnings herself, signifies that Corrie actually struggles to juggle paying for her personal lease and payments.’
Ms Drew has a first-class diploma in horology – the research of time and the artwork of measuring it – from Birmingham City University.
In a web-based profile she claims to be working class and mentioned she grew up on a council property within the West Midlands.
She says she began to marketing campaign ‘on the evils of poverty, local weather change and animal cruelty’ from age six, ‘to the bewilderment of college mates and household’.
Ms Drew mentioned Mr Corbyn’s appointment as Labour chief ‘knocked me sideways’ and from that time she started campaigning for him.
She moved to Bournemouth aged 18, and on the peak of the BLM protests in 2020, led a marketing campaign to take away a statue of Lord Baden-Powell from Poole Harbour.
‘His beginning of the scouting motion might be no excuse for his documented homophobia, racism and enthusiastic help of Hitler,’ she mentioned.
She additionally tweeted: ‘I’d wish to state, within the strongest phrases attainable: If you are white, I do not give a sh** about your points with the BlackLivesMatter protest or motion.
‘We have not endured lifelong abuse & discrimination due to our pores and skin color. Support or shut up.’
Last 12 months she railed in opposition to JK Rowling, accusing the Harry Potter writer of sharing ‘vile transphobia‘.
The campaigner unsuccessfully stood in opposition to Mr Ellwood for the Bournemouth East seat in 2019
She appealed for cash to assist pay her lease and payments whereas she campaigned within the election
In current months she has posted on Facebook pictures of herself attending dozens of pro-Palestine marches.
The campaigner is a fierce Corbyn supporter and has posted many photos of the Labour chief on her social media accounts.
She has even been snapped in a T-shirt emblazoned along with his face whereas different photos present her sporting Corbyn badges.
She tweeted: ‘I’ve had whole, unwavering confidence in Jeremy Corbyn since I joined Labour in 2015. When I first noticed him communicate and examine his work I felt actual hope.’
She mentioned whereas operating for a neighborhood seat: ‘I actually fell in love with Bournemouth, and by working with among the city’s most susceptible I turned extraordinarily involved concerning the inequalities and struggles confronted by folks making an attempt to make a dwelling in some of the costly elements of the nation.
‘Bournemouth elections have historically been fought by folks with private cash.
‘I do not need something, not to mention an individual’s socio-economic background, to face in the best way of true democracy and Bournemouth being a spot the place all folks have the prospect to be pleased, wholesome and affluent with nobody neglected.
Last night time she joined dozens of individuals from the Palestine Solidarity Movement waved Palestinian flags and bellowed chants of ‘ceasefire’ and ‘free Palestine’ utilizing a megaphone.
On a video posted on social media they could possibly be heard shouting: ‘Tobias Ellwood you may’t disguise, you signed up for genocide.’
One sinister wanting placard had Mr Ellwood’s face on it, whereas one other mentioned ‘occupation, apartheid, genocide’.
Ms Drew has described her ‘whole, unwavering confidence’ in Mr Corbyn
One protester later posted on Twitter that the Bournemouth East MP was a ‘complicit in struggle crimes‘ as they demanded a direct ceasefire in Gaza.
Mr Ellwood and his household – he’s married with two sons – are usually not believed to have been residence on the time.
Ms Drew later posted on social media: ‘Tonight, outdoors Tobias Ellwood’s home 100 of us gathered for an emergency protest after the Israeli assaults on Rafah.’
She then posted the calls for the demonstrators made on the British authorities over Israel.
Sarah Ward later posted on X: ‘We’re right here outdoors the home of struggle legal @Tobias-Ellwood calling for a ceasefire and accusing him of complicity in struggle crimes! #FreePalestine.’
On its Facebook web page the Palestine Solidarity Movement BCP department said: ‘EMERGENCY DEMO NOW. Today, Tobias Ellwood (the previous under-secretary of State for the Middle East) went on TV to say that Netanyahu was uncontrolled, has no strategic-plan and is inflicting chaos.
‘While we welcome his sudden change of stance, he ignored us for MONTHS and is complicit within the genocide in Gaza. Protest begins NOW.’
A Dorset Police spokesperson mentioned: ‘Officers attended the scene and liaised with the organisers to make sure folks may train their proper to protest legally and safely with out inflicting vital or ongoing severe public dysfunction, severe injury or severe disruption to the neighborhood.’
The writer then added: ‘Bring placards, noise makers and snacks.
‘YOU WILL NEED A CAR or some type of transport, to get to this location. Please communicate with the neighborhood in our WhatsApp group to rearrange lifts & pickups.
‘We want a BIG turnout for this to have the impression we’d like.
‘We are a neighborhood, and we will likely be heard.
‘Save Rafah, Save Gaza!’
A Dorset Police spokesperson mentioned: ‘Officers attended the scene and liaised with the organisers to make sure folks may train their proper to protest legally and safely with out inflicting vital or ongoing severe public dysfunction, severe injury or severe disruption to the neighborhood.
‘We respect folks’s proper to lawful protest. However, we have now an obligation to make sure these concerned act throughout the legislation and guarantee the local people can go about their lawful actions.
‘The group left the realm by round 8.50pm and no arrests have been made.’