More Labour shenanigans – Democracy torpedoed in Kensington
JVL Introduction
The grip of Labour’s hard right on the Party machine is being relentlessly tightened.
Kensington was won for Labour by Emma Dent Coad in the 2017 General Election and then lost, by a whisker, in 2019.
Since then local party democracy has been subverted in numerous ways, starting off with the refusal to allow Dent Coad to stand again as the local candidate.
Here Tom Charles brings the story up to date with a report on the latest shenanigans.
If you find the twists and turns hard to follow you are not alone, but the use of unfounded antisemitic allegations is particularly worrying.
This article was originally published by Urban Dandy on Mon 9 Jan 2023. Read the original here.
Labour’s Kensington Intervention: What We Know
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Labour under Keir Starmer is not a party worth voting for. Since Britain has secret ballots, if you are a Labour member and do not want to join one of Britain’s two genuinely left-wing parties, the Greens or SNP (available to Scottish voters only), keep your Labour Party membership but vote Green/SNP at the next election.
If Labour lose the next election, you may even stand a chance of getting your party back as the Labour right (MPs and bureaucrats) faces retribution from its members.
Only two possible ways to deal with right-wing Labour MPs who attack democracy and free speech in the Labour Party…
Unite to build a new party… and in the meantime, urge votes against them in their own constituencies in the next general election.
Throw as many of them as possible out of Parliament and rob them of their stranglehold over the party.
In response to James Dickins. I have no idea if you live in Scotland but those of us who do will regard your assertion that the SNP is to the left of Labour with astonishment. They are consistent promoters of cuts to local council budgets, unapologetic centralisers of power to the Scottish Government, authors of a drive for independence that will impoverish working class people for generations – I.e. “New Labour in a kilt”
They pander to lowest common denominator anti English racism based on populist support for nationalism. By all means criticise the Westminster Tories but don’t pretend that the answer lies in a constitutional argument that divides working class communities either side of the border.
I have just looked at Luke Akhurst and his ‘We believe in Israel’ organisation and his profile on Wikibooks. I AM APPALLED at the premise of this organisation and explains a lot about the NEC and what’s happening to the Labour Party.