Having failed in his plot to stitch up the Labour leadership election process, Keir Starmer is now trying to stitch up the nomination process instead, by doubling the number of MPs needed to back a leadership candidate from 10% to 20% of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
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Starmer and the factionalist ghouls he's surrounded himself with are freely admitting that this rule change is intended to block anyone from outside their Westminster establishment cabal from even standing in a Labour leadership election again, let alone becoming leader.
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Starmer and the Labour-right have basically got so little faith in themselves winning the political argument, that they're rigging the system so that nobody from outside their closed-shop cabal can ever even participate.
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One of the by-products of Starmer's cowardly and cynical hyper-partisan rule change is the way that it doesn't just slam the door on the left, but also on women and minorities too.
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Since 2010 five women have stood in Labour leadership elections, but under these new rules, four of them would have been barred from the contest, including both of the women who stood against Starmer in the 2020 leadership election!
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Only two people of colour have ever stood in Labour leadership elections in the party's entire history.
Both of them would have been excluded from participation under Keir Starmer's hyper-partisan new rule change.
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Both of them would have been excluded from participation under Keir Starmer's hyper-partisan new rule change.
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Imagine being so utterly obsessed with attacking the left that you'd deliberately kick women and people of colour under the bus to just get at them!
That's exactly what Keir Starmer is doing.
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That's exactly what Keir Starmer is doing.
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In little over a year Keir Starmer's gone from pretending to be the party's "unity candidate" to get himself elected, to brutally trampling all over women and people of colour in his absolute desperation to stick it to the Labour Party left!
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If Starmer's new 20% rule had been in place last year, both of his female rivals would have been excluded, and he would have been elected unopposed in a one horse race.
This is exactly the kind of undemocratic closed-shop Starmer and his factional allies want to create.
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This is exactly the kind of undemocratic closed-shop Starmer and his factional allies want to create.
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Having failed to make the Labour leadership election process even less democratic than the Tory one, these hyper-partisan freaks have now decided to rig the nomination process so that all future leadership elections are just coronations for their favoured candidates.
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Keir Starmer and the cabal of right-wing factional weirdos he's surrounded himself with clearly have so little faith in themselves to win the political argument that they're rigging the system so that they never even have to.
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They're wilfully sticking the boot into women and people of colour to achieve their hyper-partisan aims.
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And all of these cynical election rigging antics demonstrate how much contempt Keir Starmer and the absolute dangers he's surrounded himself with have towards the basic principles of democracy.
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One more thing.
If Starmer's hyper-partisan change to the nomination process goes through, it makes Labour the least democratic major political party in Britain:
If Starmer's hyper-partisan change to the nomination process goes through, it makes Labour the least democratic major political party in Britain:
https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1441738091115556864
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