Unable even to scrape two nominees together – and leaving almost 200 hundred seats uncontested in May’s council elections because it couldn’t find candidates willing to represent Starmer The Labour party last week claimed it has a ‘paid-up’ membership of 382,000. Even if this were true, it would represent a massive fall in membership compared […]
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Starmer’s motion is an attack on democracy Keir Starmer has personally submitted a motion to Labour’s national executive (NEC), which meets tomorrow, to formally bar Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election. The motion is for show, as Starmer’s cronies hold a majority on the NEC and the outcome […]
Former parliamentary staffer says NEC panel told her she couldn’t stand for selection as W Mids mayoral candidate because whistleblowing would ‘bring Labour into disrepute’ On Tuesday, Keir Starmer exploited an appearance with former Spice Girl Mel Brown to – again – trumpet his supposed commitment to tackle violence against women and girls. But just […]
Right’s claim purge of left is to ensure ‘quality’ candidates who can’t embarrass party is a sham Momentum staffer Angus Satow has posted a thread of what he claims is ‘all’ the right-wing candidates that have been allowed to stand for selection by the Labour party despite being ‘scandal-hit’ – which he points out makes […]
Labour invites members to ‘Convention on beating independents and smaller parties’ Despite current polling and the associated bluff and bluster of the Labour right, the party regime appears to be worried that the rise of candidates from ‘independent and smaller parties’ threatens its electoral chances – enough to be organising special ‘convention’ events to try […]