The Anna Rothery scandal suggests Labour is a sexist and racist institution under Starmer
Anna Rothery: her socialism is probably the reason she has been dropped as a Liverpool mayoral candidate. But the decision is also sexist and racist – and that is how Keir Starmer’s Labour party should now be described.
How is this an improvement?
Let’s go through the information we have, and please correct any errors.
There will be an election to fill the role of executive Mayor of Liverpool after Joe Anderson retired under a cloud.
The Labour Party held a selection process using an all-female shortlist which produced three candidates, including current Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Anna Rothery.
However, examination of Ms Rothery by party leaders revealed that she is:
- female
- black, and
- socialist.
It seems that these are considered undesirable elements in Labour candidates under Keir Starmer’s leadership.
This may come as a surprise to many, especially as he should have expected a selection process that demanded that all candidates are female to produce candidates who aren’t men.
The selection process has reopened. It seems clear that the aim is to parachute in a candidate who is as neoliberal-blue as Starmer himself – in denial of Liverpool Labour members’ right to a free and democratic selection.
But the fact is that he will have eliminated a black woman to do it.
Therefore it is possible to claim that Starmer’s Labour is prejudiced against women and against people of colour: he and his party are sexist and racist.
I am reminded that his forerunner as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, suffered years of attacks, both in the media and by backstabbing right-wingers within the Parliamentary Labour Party, based on fabricated accusation of anti-Semitism.
So I ask:
How is genuine racism and sexism better than fake anti-Semitism?
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This cult of new Labour 2.0 has again desperately tried to disenfranchise all the people of Liverpool and deny them a first-rate mayoral candidate all because she is what black, a woman or worse a socialist?
This BS needs to stop and this and far too much daily F’ing members and socalists demonstrates that this cult has no honour, no beliefs that reflect Labours heritage and that so many have struggled to progress and these right-wing Tory-lite scum have destroyed anything remaining of the true ideology of the Labour party. For these reasons and hundreds of others I won’t have anything to do with this BS cult..