People don’t like politicians who are overtly two-faced. This may go very badly indeed for Starmer.
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Jeremy Corbyn: we should forgive him if he takes a moment of quiet pride in the support he has received from his fellow Islington North Labour members, constituents, trade unionists, and both party members and voters across the UK.
There will be voices that support the Labour NEC decision to bar Jeremy Corbyn from seeking re-election as a party candidate in Islington North – but it seems clear that they are in the minority.
And they’re also irrelevant when one considers the response from the only group that really matters: Islington North Constituency Labour Party.
Islington North CLP statement: "We believe in the democratic right of all constituency parties to choose their candidrae. Therefore, we reject the NEC’s undue interference in Islington North, which undermines our goal of defeating the Conservatives."
— Islington Friends of Jeremy Corbyn (@Islington4JC) March 28, 2023
Did you mark the comment that the constituency is “Corbyn country”?
It seems this is one place where the person has eclipsed the party, and won’t be easily unseated by a drone parachuted in by Head Office.
That’s not the limit of the Labour leadership’s troubles, though:
That's my direct debit to the Labour Party cancelled and if unite the union doesn't stop funding that undemocratic shitshow of a party I'll be cancelling my direct debit to them as well
I and other socialist officers of @unitetheunion advocate our union's disaffiliation from @UKLabour. Today our case is even stronger. Join us in July at conference to exert our power to break this link once and for all. I stand with @jeremycorbyn. Forward to a new workers' party: pic.twitter.com/z6FMQG8KDq
If Starmer manages to foil Islington North’s apparent plan to select Mr Corbyn anyway, people are already lining up to help him seek election as an independent:
The disgusting Labour NEC has voted to prevent Corbyn standing as Islington North Labour representative.
This is undemocratic & Stalinist. Jeremy must stand as an independent & form a new socialist Party.#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
I’ve been in the Labour Party for 29 years. I joined when John Smith was leader. But if #JeremyCorbyn has to stand as an independent, I’ll be honoured to knock on doors to support his campaign.
Dear @jeremycorbyn if you choose to stand as an independent. I'm a quick train ride from Highbury and Islington. I have years of experience canvassing and organising and I'm available for volunteering Friday-Sunday.
I live a little way away and transport would be difficult, but I’d love to do a bit with the Absolute Boy.
And it goes on. It seems people are resigning from CLP executives…
I've just resigned from the Executive Committee of my local party – there are a number of reasons why, but today's overreach by the Leadership and NEC to restrict local party democracy is the final straw. pic.twitter.com/VSe5qBYlPD
Looking at the resignation letter above, it seems the treatment of Mr Corbyn isn’t the only bone of contention with the party leadership and there may be much that is being kept from us (unlike during the years when he was leader, and the right-wing media insisted on examining every piece of rubbish in the bins, looking for scandal).
If this snowballs, Keir Starmer will only have himself to blame – but don’t expect to hear about it from the right-wing media that support him!
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Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn: this image is from a time when Starmer wasn’t overtly trying to stab his former party leader in the back (or, indeed, in the front).
In response to the headline, this should give you a fairly good idea of the situation:
Don’t believe the MSM, Jeremy Corbyn will stand as an independent in Islington North.
It’s a response to a unilateral declaration by current Labour leader Keir Starmer that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not be allowed to stand as a candidate for the party in the next general election.
Starmer should not have the ability to make such a statement, as any decision over who represents an individual constituency should be up to its local Labour members, and Mr Corbyn has not done anything to disqualify him from standing – we have a decision by the party’s ruling NEC that says so.
The announcement has generated a large amount of opposition:
So the cards are finally on the table. Starmer's got a fight on his hands now, and I for one am going to make damn sure it's a fight that's fought right out in the open. Gloves are off.#ItWasAScamhttps://t.co/Fwf5XgvYVd
So Starmer has now said that Corbyn won’t be allowed to stand as a Labour MP at the next election, despite calling him a friend in 2020, praising him to the hilt & promising to keep the policies from the 2019 manifesto.
And, as mentioned above, there is concern that Starmer had not right to make the announcement he did:
Have the rules in the PLP SO been followed? Do they grant authority to the Party leader to unilaterally remove the whip? for how long? on the basis of an expression of opinion not conduct?
And there’s the personal element – that Starmer and his supporters are trying to bully Mr Corbyn out of the party whose aims he used to represent so well but which they have perverted into what might well be described as a right-wing Tory/Establishment front:
This 👇👇👇 institutional abuse and of us! We should all be calling starmer and his little right wing zealots out – Corbyn's telling us we should in his final words of statement – I'm going to help him campaign if can https://t.co/AXuaqMRG7u
“Ever since I was elected as a Labour MP 40 years ago, I have fought on behalf of my community for a more equal, caring and peaceful society. Day in, day out, I am focused on the most important issues facing people in Islington North: poverty, rising rents, the healthcare crisis, the safety of refugees, and the fate of our planet.
“Keir Starmer’s statement about my future is a flagrant attack on the democratic rights of Islington North Labour Party members. It is up to them – not party leaders – to decide who their candidate should be. Any attempt to block my candidacy is a denial of due process, and should be opposed by anybody who believes in the value of democracy.
“At a time when the government is overseeing the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation, this is a divisive distraction from our overriding goal: to defeat the Conservative Party at the next General Election.
“I am proud to represent the labour movement in Parliament through my constituency. I am focused on standing up for workers on the picket line, the marginalised, and all those worried about their futures. That is what I’ll continue to do. I suggest the Labour Party does the same.”
So in Mr Corbyn’s view, Starmer is divisive, flagrantly undemocratic and flouts due process.
I can see a challenge coming down the line – possibly in the courts.
And even if Starmer wins, I can see Mr Corbyn finally accepting that the Labour Party has abandoned him, and standing as an independent – which is what Starmer should fear more than anything else.
His people do:
Labour party officials are said to be looking for a strong candidate in the constituency, which Corbyn has held since 1983. “The local party is likely to be difficult and the campaign will be very tough if Jeremy stands as an independent,” a source told the Guardian.
Bring it on, then. If Starmer succeeds on blocking Mr Corbyn out of Labour, he won’t block him out of Islington North – and he will create a much bigger problem for himself than he has already.
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