Thread by @BaronVonDuncs

@glynbmil @Fruitandvegdon @charliemansell @johnmcdonnellMP @MarkSeddon1962 @David__Osland It is absurd. 2.I.8 states 'No member of the Party shall engage in conduct which in the opinion of the NEC is prejudicial, or in any act which in the opinion of the NEC is grossly detrimental to the Party.' The conduct in this instance is the circulation of the resignation letter

@glynbmil @Fruitandvegdon @charliemansell @johnmcdonnellMP @MarkSeddon1962 @David__Osland The creation of the content of the letter is the conduct of the Chair who resigned. The letter was circulated only to members. Gross means 'very obvious and unacceptable', detriment means 'the state of being harmed or damaged'. Exactly how did the circulation of the letter by>

@glynbmil @Fruitandvegdon @charliemansell @johnmcdonnellMP @MarkSeddon1962 @David__Osland Crispin, only to Party members in his CLP, cause obvious harm or damage to the Party? He is not responsible for the content of the letter. The NEC has a discretion to decide if conduct is grossly detrimental but they are still limited by the need for it to be >

@glynbmil @Fruitandvegdon @charliemansell @johnmcdonnellMP @MarkSeddon1962 @David__Osland subject to honesty, good faith, and genuineness, and the need for the absence of arbitrariness, capriciousness, perversity and irrationality. Evangelou v McNicol [2016]. This suspension appears to breech a number of these criteria and is Wednesbury irrational. The instigator of >

@glynbmil @Fruitandvegdon @charliemansell @johnmcdonnellMP @MarkSeddon1962 @David__Osland This suspension is either so monumentally bias that 'perversity' barely does it justice or they are so incredibly moronically stupid that it is the kind of irrationality which is the equivalent of not hiring a teacher because they have ginger hair. Only a perverse tribunal would>

@glynbmil @Fruitandvegdon @charliemansell @johnmcdonnellMP @MarkSeddon1962 @David__Osland uphold this charge. Unfortunately the NEC Disciplinary Panel does look like the picture, so as absurd as it is justice may never be done here. 😢