Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine.
Looks like Labour is doing what they can to make sure UK politics remains completely fucked even after the end of the Tory rule.
I was making my own post about this, but I’ll just post what I was going to write here instead of having two posts about the same thing.
Labour deselects left-wing candidates
Two Corbynist have been barred from standing by Labour party, with a third suspected to be also soon be barred.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle, MP for Brighton Kemptown, has had what he described as a ‘politically motivated’ complaint made about his behaviour eight years ago. He notes that the complaint being made so close to the election that there isn’t time for him to clear his name before then.
Meanwhile, Faiza Shaheen, candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green, announced on Newsnight that she had been deselected over a collection posts and likes she made on Twitter. She says one of the tweets brought up is one describing her experiences of Islamophobia within the Labour Party.
One that she apologised directly for is this tweet of a John Steward sketch captioned with “every time you say something even mildly critical of Israel, you’re immediately assailed by scores of hysterical people”.
Leaked Whatsapp messages have revealed that Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum has had a complaint made to the NEC about her by her CLP calling for a selection vote, supposedly from friends of her abusive ex-husband.
These announcements come on that back of Starmer allies being parachuted into seats, including director of think tank Labour Together Josh Simons, and NEC member and director of Labour First and We Believe in Israel Luke Akehurst.
Much more informative than my post - thank you for the write-up, sorry for jumping the line!
Has “people of colour” caught on over here now? It always sounded uncomfortably close to “coloured people” as a kind-of-offensive term for all non-whites.
ge2024: basically just trading the blue tories for the red tories.
Tories leave massive open goal for Labour. Labour: what if we were the Tories too!
Labour love’s a good purge.
You know who didn’t engage in a purge, but definitely fucking should have? Jeremy Corbyn
Not his style.
Corby’s biggest weakness is that he was too nice, when he should have been making Stalin look like a libdem
Now those are two words I never thought I’d see in the same sentence
He didn’t need to do anything other than push open selection. The PLP was the powerbase of the right wing. It could have neutralised that imbalance rapidly.
He ended up purged himself, and is now running as an independent.
Good times.
