Labour just shamefully voted through Keir Starmer's anti-democratic nomination-rigging rule change by 53% to 47% (after a mass purge of left-wing delegates in the weeks before conference).

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Starmer's new nomination-rigging rule change means any future Labour leadership candidate will have to get the backing of 20% of the party's inner cabal of MPs.

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The reason Starmer chose 20% is that the socialist campaign group (which tries to keep Labour true to its founding socialist principles) amount to 17% of the party's MPs.

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Starmer's cynical nomination-rigging rule change is a vicious attack on the party left from a leader who had the absolute cheek to present himself as the party's "unity candidate" during the leadership election last year.

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Instead of holding the Tories to account over any of their corruption and chaos (Sunak's tax raid, fuel crisis, dodgy PPE contracts, triple lock betrayal, empty shelves, export collapse, Universal Credit cut ...) Starmer's focused on attacking the left wing of his own party!

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Keir Starmer is disempowering the party membership to concentrate power in the hands of a tiny inner circle of dictatorial elitists.

But what makes it so much worse is the people he's trampling on in his absolute desperation to attack the left.

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Between 2010 and the persent five women have stood in Labour leadership elections. Keir Starmer's new nomination-rigging rule would have excluded four of them from participation!

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Only two people of colour have ever stood in Labour leadership elections. Starmer's new rules would have excluded them both from participation.

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The liberal-capitalist 'centrists' have erupted in joy at this grotesque centralisation of political power.

They're so riddled with anti-socialist hate that they've trampled all over women and people of colour to land a punch on the left.

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So-called 'centrists' love to tell themselves that they're all lovely and progressive, but actions speak louder than words.

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They're such cowards, with so little faith in their own politics that they'll rig democracy to exclude their rivals from the debate.

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And if shutting socialists out of the debate to create a closed ideology echo chamber means shoving women and people of colour down a mineshaft too, the liberal-capitalist 'centrists' will not only do it, they'll wildly celebrate what they've done straight after!

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