Trigger ballots to decide if Phillips has to fight to remain an MP
Jess Phillips: It’s time for her to go.
Labour Party members in the Birmingham Yardley constituency are to vote on the future of MP Jess Phillips.
She is facing a ‘trigger’ vote to decide whether she should face a challenge to her right to be their Parliamentary candidate in the next general election.
According to Skwawkbox, “Yardley reportedly only has some five hundred Labour members… Ms Phillips is said to have been working hard trying to cultivate their favour.
“Phillips’ neighbour, Roger Godsiff, was ‘triggered‘ earlier this week, with Barking MP Margaret Hodge suffering the same result the week before.”
Ms Phillips is highly controversial. This Site published an article earlier this week, sympathetic with staff at her office after they were targeted by a man banging on the windows and shouting “fascist”.
He seemed unhappy that she had made a speech about the un-Parliamentary language used by Boris Johnson regarding his aborted prorogation.
But I have little sympathy for Ms Phillips as a person and neither do readers of This Site, as evidenced by comments on that previous article.
“Jess Phillips is a fine one to bemoan the violent language currently being used in Parliament,” stated ‘TimFrom’. “She made an early contribution to the trend in 2015 when, in response to talk of Labour MPs back-stabbing Jeremy Corbyn, she proudly proclaimed she’d oh-so-bravely knife him ‘in the front’.”
Mark C added: “I really have very little time for Jess Phillips and her ‘I’m just a working class woman made good bab’ persona. I found myself in an unimpressed minority in regards to her recent impassioned speech at the fate of those expelled from the Tory party – why so het up about the Tories when many within the Labour party have been expelled on trumped up charges that she has often supported?
“And I feel her ‘I don’t understand parliamentary process’ comment is, at worst a wilful and calculated part of that ‘ordinary woman’ act and, at best, pure unadulterated ignorance at the job she is elected to perform.”
Others have criticised her for supporting Ruth Smeeth at the hearing of Labour’s National Constitutional Committee that led to the entirely inappropriate expulsion of anti-racism campaign Marc Wadsworth on a charge relating to anti-Semitic racism. Ms Smeeth had lied about him.
And This Writer came under fire for calling her “mouthy” – with critics claiming I was using sexist language, even though I and others apply that term freely to men, women and groups.
So, while Ms Phillips’s place as a candidate may now be in doubt, This Writer certainly hopes that members of Yardley CLP remove her from the list in the very near future.
There should be no place in the Parliamentary Labour Party for her.
Source: Phillips facing trigger ballots on Monday | The SKWAWKBOX
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How things have changed under Jeremy Corbyn ! Birmingham Yardley constituency “only has about 500 members!”
A few years ago, any Labour Party constituency would have been delighted to have that many! Now, with over 540,000 Labour members nationwide, it really does sound a low figure.
Let’s never forget the tremendous progress we are making.
Hardly surprising there’s far less members than the average (1200 or so) per constituency in philips’ seat.
Be in no doubt there’d be far more Yardley CLP members it weren’t for the utterly Godawful mouthpiece.
I have it bad enough having angela illeagle representing my constituency but I thank Christ it’s not philips.
PS I’m not a LP member by the way.
How does she feel now the shoes on the other foot hmmm labour nah a good Tory thou
Cheers for the quote, Mike!