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What's going on with Labour's Parliamentary Selections?
A 🧵 on Starmer's purge and the implications for Britain's democracy...
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Slum landlord Jas Athwal - the biggest landlord in Parliament - has hit the headlines for his atrocious treatment of his tenants.
But how did he become an MP in the first place? A 🧵on a major case of Labour corruption.
Labour got rid of the previous MP for Ilford South because he stood on a picket line with striking workers and replaced him with someone who rents out flats with black mould and ant infestations.
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EXCLUSIVE: I've been given a sneak peek at Morgan McSweeney's plan to save the Labour Government
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This would be the Nye Bevan who resigned from the Cabinet over the introduction of dental charges within the NHS.
As Shadow Health Secretary, Streeting has scrapped Labour's commitment to free dental check-ups.
Second time seeing Nye at the
@NTLive
.
Beautifully written and performed. A timely reminder of the power of politics as a force for good and the art of principled pragmatism to achieve real transformation.
As Bevan said: “It must always be changing, growing and improving.”
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Keir Starmer is trying to force Diane Abbott out of Parliament.
Diane has long said she doesn't expect fair treatment from Labour as a Black, socialist woman.
So let's compare how Team Starmer have treated Diane, a left-wing Black woman, with right-wing white loyalists. A 🧵
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Labour want to appoint a diversity tsar to encourage under-represented groups to run as MPs.
A thread of all the working-class socialists, women and socialists of colour blocked from Parliamentary selections by Starmer's authoritarian Labour machine 🧵
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With Lauren Edwards' racist tweets emerging, now feels like a good time to recap the corrupt farce that was Labour's Parliamentary selections process.
A thread of threads on how Starmer's team rigged selections, destroyed democracy & entrenched an unpopular right-wing elite 🧵
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Two more major scandals today around Labour candidate & Starmer ally Darren Rodwell.
Starmer has justified purging the Left as about securing 'high quality candidates'.
So let's look at the extensive scandals surrounding this right-wing white man protected by Team Starmer 🧵
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As Starmer's left-wing selections purge gets even more brazen, some more shameless figures on the Labour Right are trying to pretend this is about 'due diligence'.
So to end this argument once & for all, here's a thread of every scandal-hit right-winger they've let through 🧵
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A quick 🧵 of graduates of the Bernie Grant Leadership Programme blocked from Labour's Parliamentary selections because they were, like Bernie, committed socialists and anti-racists.
Today marks the anniversary of my predecessor Bernie Grant’s passing. A stalwart of Tottenham and a tireless advocate for racial justice, he empowered a whole new generation of black politicians and paved the way for minorities across the country. His legacy continues to inspire.
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Labour-affiliated unions are today sounding the alarm on Labour's online voting system, Anonyvoter.
It follows a jaw-dropping Telegraph investigation into alleged vote-rigging in Labour's Parliamentary selections.
But what is Anonyvoter, and how is it being abused? A 🧵
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This article is doing the rounds.
So it's worth interrogating its dubious claims on the supposed radicalism of Starmer's Labour. A thread 🧵
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I see Starmer is *still* persisting with the absurd claim that he's broken all his promises because 'we can't afford them', Ukraine / covid / mini-budget etc.
A 🧵 disproving Lyin' Keir's false claims..
Beth Rigby, "You could raise taxes on the top 5%"
Keir Starmer, "It's important to stand up and say I can't afford to do what I said I would do before"
Beth Rigby, "Why can't you afford to raise taxes on the top 5% of earners?"
Keir Starmer, "To simply stick with something
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We shouldn't welcome rail nationalisation plans without demanding Labour also: 1) invest in the rail network; 2) cap fares; 3) nationalise the rolling stock.
Ditto plans for public control of buses - without *funding*, there is no reversing the Tories' thousands of cut routes.
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So ends the tale of how Jas Athwal became the Labour candidate.
He went on to lose 25% of the Labour vote at the election.
No, this was never about 'high quality candidates'. It was about purging the Left and making Labour safe again for the Establishment & its slum landlords.
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Once again Keir is pressed on his duplicity and his fraudulent leadership campaign.
His weak response: oh well covid... Ukraine... mini-budget have changed the financial situation. Here's why this argument is totally bogus 🧵
robust questioning by
@amolrajan
asking Keir Starmer why he dumped most of his leadership pledges from 3 years ago:
"what I've had to do is obviously adapt to the circumstances we find since I ran for leader....Covid...Ukraine...."
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I don't understand how this didn't get more media scrutiny...
Starmer said members "really liked" his missions, when he'd literally only just announced them. No one had heard of them before!
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The sitting Labour MP in Ilford South was
@SamTarry
, an SCG member & trade unionist sacked as a shadow minister by Starmer for the crime of going on a picket line.
But Jas Athwal - the leader of Redbridge council & close ally of Labour Right pug Wes Streeting - wanted the seat.
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Wilma Brown was until today Labour's Parliamentary candidate in Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy.
She's now been suspended for racist tweets.
But Labour's Leadership claim to have a 'robust due diligence' system in place to ensure 'high quality candidates'.
So what went wrong? A🧵
Here she is spreading conspiracy theories about aid money being sent to Gaza, claiming it’s for Hamas and that it’s the reason his family got out safely, downright disgusting lies and misinformation, solely because Humza Yousaf is a Muslim
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So in sum:
❌ promises broken
❌ rights of trade unions disregarded
❌ local members & parties disrespected
❌ failing on anti-racism
❌ anti-democratic stitch-ups
This is Keir Starmer's Labour Party.
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The first step was to 'trigger' Tarry for deselection.
The process was stacked with irregularities and wrongdoing, documented by Tarry in a dossier.
This included voter fraud. Incredibly, Labour recognised this had occurred... but refused to intervene 🤡
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In sum:
- the sitting socialist MP excluded despite overwhelming support
- an NEC shortlist, cutting out the local party
- online only = no chance to make disquiet known
A microcosm of Starmer's Labour. They never could win in a fair fight - so they lied, cheated & rigged it.
NEW: I’m hearing that Labour’s Islington North selection process will see the shortlist drawn up by the NEC – it seems not chosen by local selections committee – and both the hustings and votes are online
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All this is the polar opposite of what Starmer promised in 2020.
The media shouldn't have any hesitation in saying this: Starmer lied to get elected.
He did so because this strategy is wholly out of touch with the mood in the Party and the country.
The selections for Labour candidates needs to be more democratic and we should end NEC impositions of candidates. Local Party members should select their candidates for every election.
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Tldr; every Left candidate likely to win is being blocked before the race even starts. So far:
- Doina Cornell in Stroud
-
@cllr_maya
in Hastings
-
@LisaForbes_
in Peterborough
-
@mowords
in Camberwell & Peckham
-
@LaurenJTownsend
in MK North
-
@emmadentcoad
in Kensington
& more
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There are some truly laughable examples of what this evidence consists of.
- Once having liked a Caroline Lucas tweet
- Liking a tweet by Nicola Sturgeon about testing negative for covid
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Meanwhile, in Kensington, the ex-MP,
@emmadentcoad
, the only person to ever win the seat for Labour, and a passionate advocate for a community scarred by Grenfell was blocked.
Locally there was widespread disgust at the decision.
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Last week, Starmer's NEC suspended & blocked SCG member
@lloyd_rm
over a historic complaint dating back 7 years.
A sexual harassment complaint against Rodwell was made on *Friday*. But even though Labour has begun an investigation, no sign of the same.
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Other allegations included evidence clearly showing Athwal breaking rules against negative campaigning; and widespread reports of voter impersonation.
Starmer's handpicked General Secretary David Evans ignored them all.
My statement following the conclusion of Ilford South CLP's reselection process 🌹
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But the Lyin' Keir of 2020 onwards had no such scruples - as long it was the Left being targeted.
So Team Starmer gave the green light to deselect Tarry, with the (extraordinary) public backing of Wes Streeting. Here's what Wes himself had said.
.
@wesstreeting
"real Labour ppl, don't spend their time trying to deselect MPs, they spend their time getting them elected"
#LFRally
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Hell is empty and all the devils are Labour Parliamentary candidates
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Hardly surprising given Labour's wider failings on sexual harassment under Starmer.
He readmitted Neil Coyle and let him run as a Labour candidate despite having an upheld sexual harassment complaint against him (not mentioning the racist abuse findings).
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In Milton Keynes North, Lauren Townsend, a trade unionist who came to the labour movement by organising her workplace as a waitress, was blocked.
The Leadership's supposed heir is a pollster.
This is the Starmerite counterrevolution to put working-class interests back in a box.
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A brief side note: despite Britain's privatised water system being a sewage-filled disaster, Labour's leadership refuses to advocate public ownership.
That's despite huge public support - they are ideologically committed to the interests of shareholders, against all logic.
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Then earlier this year, a major scandal broke.
The Telegraph published a detailed report suggesting that Labour's Parliamentary selections had been systematically rigged using the Anonyvoter system.
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But Rodwell's sexual harassment allegations are just the tip of the iceberg.
It started over 18 months ago, when Rodwell was caught making 'racist' jokes
But somehow Starmer's much-vaunted 'due diligence' operation had failed to catch it.
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Equally, there are some truly disturbing examples of 'evidence' which is grounds for blocking:
- having mentioned Palestinian refugees (a blatant act of anti-Palestinian racism)
- Liking a tweet calling on Labour to be bolder in its economic policy
- a 'history of protest'
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2017 Keir Starmer was strongly opposed to deselecting MPs: "we have a government that is in crisis, that.. is on the ropes.., is clearly in-fighting itself. In those circumstances Labour should be dignified, it should be united and it should rise above"
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Britain's leading Black newspaper - The Voice - has sounded the alarm on a crisis of anti-black racism within Labour.
All this within the context of Forde and criticism from Black MPs.
Yet the Voice has been *ignored* by the Labour Party.
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Significantly, the report revealed massive discrepancies between Athwal and Tarry's vote tallies online v in-person.
In sum, Tarry was well ahead with in-person votes (not riggable).
But the electronic votes (riggable) bucked this trend and broke for Athwal. Highly suspicious.
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First up, Maya Evans, the deputy leader of Hastings Council, the first woman of colour on Hastings Borough Council, & the first person of colour to reach a senior leadership position.
Maya is also a long-time peace & veteran activist. Blocked by Starmer.
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Tarry questioned the result and asked the party to be transparent and disclose details of who had voted & by what method, amid evidence of 'ghost voters'..
He also raised questions around the Anonyvoter system used for the selection (more on this later).
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Tarry now submitted a formal complaint of vote-rigging to the party.
The methods & evidence he detailed were eerily similar to the membership tampering seen in Croydon Labour, which the Met police cyber-crimes unit ended up investigating.
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The Labour Party Leadership are clear about this - they are ensuring that loyalists are selected, figures from the Labour Right who will never cause any problems.
They're stitching it up.
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Yet once again the Labour Party bureaucracy - elsewhere engaging in a mass purge of socialists - refused to even investigate.
Tarry continued to raise complaints.
I was also asked about the selection process in Ilford South.
I’m formally challenging the integrity of the result and asking that the result in Ilford be set aside.
I fully intend to stand as a Labour candidate in the next election.
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It's not hard to disprove the Leadership's half-baked claim that this is about 'quality control'.
For example, here's the Leadership's 'heir' for Milton Keynes North doing the exact same thing as Lauren Townsend.
Left: the Nicola Sturgeon tweet on a negative covid test liked by Lauren Townsend, used to block her for 'supporting other parties'.
Right: a tweet by Tory mayor Andy Street, liked by the Leadership's 'heir' for the same seat.
This isn't due diligence. It's a purge.
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LOTO and the Labour machine - working in tandem - are intervening at the Longlisting stage, where they have control.
This is when they're blocking candidates from even being considered or voted on by members - even council leaders, senior council figures and ex-MPs!
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Nor is it only left-wingers being blocked.
From Bella Sankey in Hastings to Jack Hemingway in Wakefield, even soft left figures are being blocked.
As Momentum put it, anyone to the Left of Tony Blair faces attack.
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So, onto the full selection. Team Tarry briefed their confidence off the back of member canvassing data. It's extremely rare for Labour members to deselect their own MP, irregardless of factional allegaince.
Yet the official results showed Athwal 'won' comfortably...
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You can read the full details of the Anonyvoter scandal in the thread below.
Anonyvoter was used in both Tarry's trigger and the full selection. Team Tarry requests for independent tellers & independent verification were rejected by Labour.
Labour-affiliated unions are today sounding the alarm on Labour's online voting system, Anonyvoter.
It follows a jaw-dropping Telegraph investigation into alleged vote-rigging in Labour's Parliamentary selections.
But what is Anonyvoter, and how is it being abused? A 🧵
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It gets worse.
In Camberwell & Peckham,
@mowords
, a prominent anti-racist activist and working-class black man, was blocked. No black man has been elected as a Labour MP since 2011
Meanwhile, Rodwell was let through, despite his 'black man' remarks.
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But they face a problem:
Under a rule agreed by Starmer's NEC, trade union-backed candidates are *automatically longlisted*.
Every left-winger blocked has enjoyed trade union backing, often from Unite and the CWU.
In
@LaurenJTownsend
's case from 6 unions inc Unite AND Unison.
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Under pressure in the press, Starmer loyalist NEC members investigated Rodwell.
Not to worry - they cleared him despite Rodwell admitting to comments which would have seen a left-winger purged faster than you can say 'stitch up'.
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Re the Diane Abbott saga, not enough is made of her resistance to Starmer.
No meek submission, no cowed backing of regressive Labour policies.
She held firm, kept speaking out against Starmerism, mobilised thousands to her cause - and won.
A masterclass in socialist politics.
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That's a wrap! After a whirlwind 2.5 years, I left my role as Momentum's Head of Communications last month 🤟🏻
Grateful to have met & worked with many excellent comrades and to have helped provide a strong Left opposition to Starmerism, exposing its corruption. Some highlights 🧵
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Jamie Driscoll was blocked for speaking with a celebrated filmmaker about a film set in the North East.
I don't know who should be more embarrassed, the party officials who stitched up the selection, or the journalists who gave it credence while ignoring this actual racism 🤔
Kim McGuinness, Labour’s candidate for North East mayor, apologised over what she admits was an “offensive” remark made on Twitter 13 years ago.
She wrote “f*** off! I am not a gypsy!” in a since-deleted tweet from February 2011.
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Indeed, when the Party blocked the *deputy leader of the council* in favour of two people who live outside the constituency, the entire Wakefield CLP Executive resigned.
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GBE is Starmerism in a nutshell: an utterly inadequate response to the huge social & climate emergencies we confront... but nonetheless an extremely mild improvement on the Tories, dressed up as visionary by cheerleaders in the liberal press.
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And polling also shows that from a higher minimum wage to public ownership, people want left-wing economic policies!
But whether it's deselecting SCG members or blocking left-wingers, Starmer is intent on wiping these ideas out of the public sphere.
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But we shouldn't be surprised. The man in charge of investigating all of this is a) very right-wing; b) handpicked by Starmer to oversee the purge of the Left c) literally connected to the people involved.
A tale in three parts.
Part One:
- Croydon Labour veteran David Evans handpicked as party General Secretary & Starmer's right hand man
- awards Labour selections contract to Anonyvoter, company owned by two Croydon Labour associates, allegedly without tender, per
@InsideCroydon
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As
@FisherAndrew79
has remarked, this obsessive purge is also draining Labour's activist base.
With members disempowered and local councillors and even ex-MPs blocked, why would anyone go out and knock doors? The disrespect is palpable.
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Here's just a few of the women Keir Starmer's cronies have blocked from standing for election as MPs:
- Maya Evans
- Lauren Townsend
- Doina Cornell
- Emma Dent-Coad
- Lisa Forbes
- Louise Atkinson
- Rosie Newbigging
Women are welcome, just not if they're independent-minded
When women are elected, they change the course of history.
The next generation of women should experience less inequality those who came before them.
But there’s still a long way to go. If you know someone who would be a great representative,
#AskHerToStand
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The strategy for this was brazenly revealed to
@siennamarla
just before Conference: the Heir and the Spare.
They block all left-wingers from the start, and ensure any candidate offered to members is 'friendly'.
This is no democratic choice at all.
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With days to go before the cut-off, Rodwell remains a Labour candidate.
He is living, breathing proof that Labour has no 'high standards' for candidates. There's only one standard: loyalism to Starmer & his anti-democratic project.
Right-wingers will be shielded until the last.
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Tarry certainly thought so. He now said explicitly that the vote had been rigged against him in favour of Athwal - quite a thing for a sitting MP to say.
Since October 2022 I have stayed silent, seeking to right the wrong done to me and the people of Ilford. I want to be absolutely clear - the Anonyvoter system was used to deselect me, rigged to change the result against the wishes of my local Labour Party.
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In Barking, Labour Right NEC members first ignored, then swept under the carpet evidence of Blue Labour figure Darren Rodwell engaging in what have been termed racist jokes.
He was let off and won the selection. 'Quality control' ?
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Yet again Labour appeared to stonewall.
They even ignored their own affiliated unions when they demanded transparency.
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Starmer is refusing to reinstate Diane Abbott.
A reminder of two Labour MPs / candidates caught up in racism scandals he has let off. They are white men on the Right of Labour.
No, this has never been about anti-racism. It's about hounding out a Black woman on the Left.
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Let's start with the whopper: Neil Coyle.
Coyle is on the hard-right of Labour - and is a friend of Keir Starmer.
Coyle was suspended from the Comms after a Parliamentary Investigation found he racially harrassed a journalist and abused a junior staffer.
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So they come up with a workaround: 'due diligence'.
A 'dossier' is compiled of 'concerning evidence' which has 'come to light in the course of routine due diligence' checks on social media.
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Labour's New Deal for Working People has been constantly eroded since it was first announced by Andy McDonald & Angela Rayner in 2021.
A quick 🧵of every dropped policy.
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party is set to unveil a weakened package of workers’ rights in the coming weeks in its latest softening of radical policies ahead of the upcoming general election, the Financial Times has learnt
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2017 Keir Starmer on deselections:
"we have a government that is in crisis, that.. is on the ropes on a daily basis, is clearly in-fighting itself. In those circumstances the Labour party should be dignified, it should be united and it should rise above"
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Labour is in the process of selecting its Prospective Parliamentary Candidates for the next General Election, with the NEC signing off batches of seats.
Per Michael Crick's useful blog, only ONE out of the firsty FORTY can be classified as left-wing. Why?
Sarah Sackman's selection in Finchley yesterday means Labour's now picked 40 cands for winnable seats (not including by-elections). Of these 40:
19 women;
5 ethnic minority;
31 cllrs or ex-cllrs;
13 council or group leaders or deps, or fmr;
1 firmly left;
1 working class job.
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That's not all. Coyle also had an allegation of sexual harassment at Labour Conference upheld against him.
But despite all this, he had the whip restored by Starmer's chief whip and is seemingly being allowed to run as the Labour candidate.
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Upon receiving the dossier, the candidate is then invited to a meeting at one day's notice, with the outcome all but certain: blocking.
These amount to nothing less than show trials.
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The reasons cited by the Party included Maya's 'history of protest' re the Iraq War.
Never mind that Keir Starmer marched against the Iraq War.
People of colour who protested the illegal, deadly invasion of Iraq are not welcome as Labour MPs? Really?
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Instead, as reported by
@patrickkmaguire
, it is a tight coterie of Starmer staffers on the hard-right of the Party leading this purge.
Their desire to reshape the PLP with Starmerite automatons trumps all else, from trade unions to local parties.
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Let's start with the big one.
Darren Rodwell made multiple national headlines with his dodgy comments on race at a Black History Month.
Despite this, the Labour Right ignored all complaints & let him through to the shortlist. Rodwell remains the PPC.
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You might wonder - will the trade unions tolerate this blatant abuse of process, blocking their candidates?
The answer is no - earlier this year, trade unions agreed with the NEC a clarification of 'due diligence' that it could only be used for e.g. serious financial wrongdoing.
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& crucially, there will be no nationalised energy system, despite the catastrophic failure of the private sector.
There has never been a better time for public ownership. Yet Starmer & co have rejected this popular solution, despite its democratic support in the labour movement.
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Public sector delivery = more control, easier and public money going solely to the public good, not private profits.
Instead, Reeves' proposals will see huge quantities going to the private sector. That £28bn will go a lot less far than under McDonnell's proposals.
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But Starmer's allies on the Labour NEC protected him, saying he'd apologised and that was the end of it (full story below).
Diane apologised immediately - and was then suspended for 13 months. One rule for them.
Abdi was the Labour to Win NEC member on Darren Rodwell's selection panel, the white guy who made national headlines for joking about having "the worst tan for a black man".
Rodwell, on the Labour Right, was eventually selected.
Here's what went down 🧵
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Coyle then claimed expenses for the anti-racism training course he was forced to complete.
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But this agreement has been ignored, time and again.
Candidates backed by unions across the board - from USDAW to Unite, UNISON to the CWU - have been blocked on spurious grounds.
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And in *another* scandal today, Darren Rodwell is revealed to have publicly admitted to abusing his office to silence criticism, in a bizarre episode.
But "Labour is not commenting".
EXCL: A Labour candidate said he asked police not to respond if they were contacted by a resident he was planning to confront at their home.
Darren Rodwell claimed he used official systems to find the address of the person who had threatened him online.
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How can they do this?
Well according to Labour's own rules - they can't. But....
There are three stages to selections: longlisting, shortlisting & the selection.
Longlisting: NEC Majority, w trade union input
Shortlisting: Local Party & TU reps
Selection: Labour members
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But there are more damaging effects still. As
@MichaelLCrick
reports, very few candidates are working-class.
Instead, they are from the professional political classes.
Sarah Sackman's selection in Finchley yesterday means Labour's now picked 40 cands for winnable seats (not including by-elections). Of these 40:
19 women;
5 ethnic minority;
31 cllrs or ex-cllrs;
13 council or group leaders or deps, or fmr;
1 firmly left;
1 working class job.
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Daily reminder that Neil Coyle - a right-wing white man - had the whip restored despite having allegations of racial and sexual harrassment upheld.
Meanwhile, the first Black woman MP faces a kangaroo court.
The idea that this Labour Leadership cares about racism is laughable.
As a Black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, I have unfortunately been forced to reach the conclusion that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.
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You can read the full story on that episode - and how Starmer's NEC contrived to protect Rodwell - here.
He had, after all, apologised (a privilege not extended to the likes of Faiza Shaheen).
Abdi was the Labour to Win NEC member on Darren Rodwell's selection panel, the white guy who made national headlines for joking about having "the worst tan for a black man".
Rodwell, on the Labour Right, was eventually selected.
Here's what went down 🧵
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It's out of step with the country, because people want their MPs to be local, but from Wakefield to Stroud, the Leadership are happy to exclude popular local champions in favour of loyalist parachutes.
Back to the bad old days.
And if polls are to believed, voters will change their minds again in 2024. Now that party ties are looser, how do people choose their politicians?
Surprisingly, it turns out being from the same area is almost as important as having the same political viewpoint!
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We should never mistake an attempt to stabilise British capitalism (spoiler alert: it won't) with a progressive electoral politics which actually shifts power & wealth to the many.
Don't mistake the crumbs for the loaf.
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In Camberwell & Peckham, respected anti-racist activist
@mowords
was blocked for 'due diligence' such as... once liking a Caroline Lucas tweet.
There are next to no black male MPs who grew up like Maurice, directly experiencing racist policing. But he's a socialist, so 🤔
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... it turns out that apology was a load of crock, as the BBC's Joe Pike revealed last week, with Rodwell deriding a 'smear campaign'
Surely that changes things? No, says Labour: they'd dealt with the matter at the time (on the basis of a phoney apology)
EXCL: A white Labour candidate who publicly apologised after saying he had the “worst tan possible for a black man” at a Black History Month event privately dismissed criticism as being “part of a smear campaign” against him.
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Firstly, Labour's 2019 pledge for 10 years of green investment at £25bn/year would now, with inflation, be more like £29.5bn. So, lower.
But it's also different from the 2019 programme in another crucial way: this is capital investment, going to the private sector.
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Incredibly, when Labour took out Faiza Shaheen, gifting Ian Duncan Smith his seat back, the reasons cited included:
Faiza *talking about her own experiences of Islamophobia in Labour*.
Institutional racism, ignored by the press.
Shocking that neither the Guardian nor the BBC mention Faiza's assertion that her talking about Islamophobia within Labour, as a Muslim woman, was cited in the case against her.
By any metric major news. But despite a comment from *the Labour Muslim Network*, goes unmentioned.
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Meanwhile, in Milton Keynes, socialist trade unionist
@LaurenJTownsend
was blocked for 'crimes' such as... liking a Nicola Sturgeon tweet about testing negative for covid.
Her opponent - a white male pollster & leadership favourite - liked a Tory's tweet... but wasn't blocked.
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From the beginning of Labour's Parliamentary selections in summer 2022, Starmer's henchmen went about purging left-wingers en masse, under the guise of 'due diligence'.
In doing so, they overrode the rights of trade unions & local parties / members.
What's going on with Labour's Parliamentary Selections?
A 🧵 on Starmer's purge and the implications for Britain's democracy...
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Notice something about the list of MPs let off above?
They're all white. And all but one of them is a man.
Far from standing up to instituional racism and sexism, Starmer's Labour is furthering it. Shame.
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Just weeks earlier, another prominent Labour leader in local government and woman of colour, Doina Cornell, was blocked despite major union backing.
The blocking of this popular local figure went on to cost the Party control of Stroud council.
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