Is this the truth of Labour’s disciplinary process under Starmer?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s decision to whitewash the Labour Party’s disciplinary proceedings seems doubly contradictory when one considers the words of one of that process’s victims, below.
I’m aware that what’s described below isn’t directly related to the party’s policy on anti-Semitism, but it does provide revealing information on the treatment that anybody undergoing this Kafkaesque process is facing.
It seems clear that the current disciplinary process is being used as an excuse for the persecution of people who have done nothing wrong at all – the example below is of a woman who gave an interview to an organisation within the Labour Party. A year later, Keir Starmer’s bully boys and girls summarily proscribed that organisation and expelled anybody who had anything to do with it – even though they could not possibly have known that it would be proscribed at the time of their own contact.
It also seems clear that the appeal process against expulsion simply doesn’t work at all – most probably because it is run by factional party members who are bent on removing left-wingers from the formerly left-wing party.
The effect on the former party members targeted by this victimisation – this persecution – is predictable: their political careers have been harmed, possibly fatally; they have been prevented from carrying out any of the good work they had been doing previously; their reputations have suffered and they have been shunned by people who were previously colleagues; and their personal life and well-being has suffered hugely.
This is a calculated, desired result. Keir Starmer wants people like Pamela Fitzpatrick to suffer.
It is now 14 months since I lodged my appeal against my expulsion from the Labour Party. I was a long standing member of the Party and at the time of my expulsion I was Chair of the Harrow Labour Group, the Labour appointed Chair of the Planning Committee, a Labour councillor
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) February 16, 2023
organisation Socialist appeal in May 2020 and in doing so the Party judged me to be in breach of a rule it had created over a year later. I have contacted Labour several times over the past 14 months to ask for an update on my appeal, but I have had no response or acknowledgement
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) February 16, 2023
This is not my desired outcome.
The letter before claim sets out the impact the unlawful treatment by Labour has had on me. It has resulted in my exclusion from any political positions associated with the Party and has had a profoundly damaging impact on my political career.— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) February 16, 2023
members, with a majority of over 100,000. This is a committee that is very close to my heart as I have experienced abuse within the Party and am aware of many other women who have also experienced similar abuse. The position was voluntary and lasted 2 years. I have not been able
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) February 16, 2023
activities. This includes going to the Party Conference, any events that are organised, branch meetings, taking part in canvassing, fundraising events. These activities have taken up the majority of my time for many years, but I am no longer able to attend them.
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) February 16, 2023
It is uncontroversial that such treatment would also have a negative impact on a person’s personal life and wellbeing, as it has had on me. My heartfelt thanks to all those who have supported me. Solidarity really is the most beautiful of words.
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) February 16, 2023
Few rank-and-file party members will be in a position to take the Labour Party to the High Court and seek satisfaction via litigation.
Personally, I think Ms Fitzpatrick should invite other wronged party members to join her, and make it a class action, but that’s a matter for her.
Whatever happens in court, her story serves as an example of StarmerLabour’s authoritarian – if not totalitarian – policy: it is no longer a broad church. Members must service Starmer’s increasingly right-wing demands – or he will harm them.
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she should just join the green party, every socialist should follow her and make the green party the next biggest party in the UK. labour is nothing but a brand the right wing wants to use to trick the electorate! this is the uniparty the Americans have, we are now doing the same. go green Mike.
“I have been shunned by people I previously considered to be colleagues, including other councillors who ignore me now if I meet them” – brainwashed brain-dead inhuman morons!
Who are the EHRC? When were they created? Why are they so powerful and Influential?
The EHRC is a Quango – QUasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation. More details here: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/about-us/who-we-are