I mean, I assume it’s a hit piece, but it just makes me rate the guy more highly for being willing to work with people he has differences with for the greater good to sideline fucking liabilities.
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Kate Osamor has become the latest Labour MP to be ‘triggered’ by party members, after branches in Edmonton Labour voted against automatic reselection of their current representative and in favour of holding a full selection contest.
The MP for Edmonton, who is largely considered to be on the left of the party and supportive of the leadership though also a vocal anti-Brexit campaigner, will be a candidate in the ensuing selection contest with an all-women shortlist.
As in South Shields, where Emma Lewell-Buck is set to face a full selection process, the divisions in Edmonton cannot be accurately described as running along traditional factional lines. Instead, it is widely agreed that the result is attributable to specific local dynamics.
Also not true. Every sitting Labour MP faces a trigger ballot before each election, male or female, black or white. This is just the usual practice. It's not the mandatory open selections that Momentum wants.The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:15 pmIt surely can't be a coincidence that the MPs to be triggered are all women or BAME.
So Labour being in debt can be directly tied to (a) Corbyn letting down all those record numbers of members who joined thinking he wouldn’t just be an arrogant, inflexible bigot enabler, (b) the nepotism where his mates and their relatives get cushy jobs they are unqualified for, and (c) his need for an annual ego-striking session where he preaches to a crowd of the faithful.The fears are fuelled by the party’s worsening finances. Figures revealed this week showed that Labour made a loss of £655,000 last year, compared to a profit of £1.45m the year before, as a result of a fall in membership, rising staffing costs and losses incurred by last summer’s Labour Live event.
Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) has drawn up longlists for parliamentary selections taking place across the country – and many local members in those seats are not happy. Complaints have been raised in almost every local party that will soon be picking a candidate, and there have been widespread grievances raised about “stitch ups”.
On Monday, LabourList reported on concerns among members in: Ealing North, where local councillors Lewis Cox, Bassam Mahfouz and Chris Summers were left off the longlist; Liverpool West Derby, where councillor Nick Crofts who had strong union backing was excluded; and Poplar and Limehouse, where councillor Rachel Blake was cut out apparently to favour Momentum’s Apsana Begum.
Who's surprised Jez's appointees pissed away the coffers? They make it so easy for the Tories; 'Corbyn can't even manage his own party in profit. Do you want him looking after your money?' Very effective because voters know its true. Len has the Unite piggy bank to bail Corbyn out. Like King Ludwig of Bavaria who bankrupted the state to feed his infatuation with Wagner and his operas.crabcakes_windermere wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:21 amSo Labour being in debt can be directly tied to (a) Corbyn letting down all those record numbers of members who joined thinking he wouldn’t just be an arrogant, inflexible bigot enabler, (b) the nepotism where his mates and their relatives get cushy jobs they are unqualified for, and (c) his need for an annual ego-striking session where he preaches to a crowd of the faithful.The fears are fuelled by the party’s worsening finances. Figures revealed this week showed that Labour made a loss of £655,000 last year, compared to a profit of £1.45m the year before, as a result of a fall in membership, rising staffing costs and losses incurred by last summer’s Labour Live event.
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