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Angus Satow
@AngusSatow
Eco.socialist // head of comms @PeoplesMomentum // co-founded @LabGND // sometime writer // my views only EN / FR / DE
Sep 1, 2024 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Slum landlord Jas Athwal - the biggest landlord in Parliament - has hit the headlines for his atrocious treatment of his tenants.

But how did he become an MP in the first place? A 🧵on a major case of Labour corruption. The sitting Labour MP in Ilford South was @SamTarry, an SCG member & trade unionist sacked as a shadow minister by Starmer for the crime of going on a picket line.

But Jas Athwal - the leader of Redbridge council & close ally of Labour Right pug Wes Streeting - wanted the seat.
Aug 8, 2024 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
With Lauren Edwards' racist tweets emerging, now feels like a good time to recap the corrupt farce that was Labour's Parliamentary selections process.

A thread of threads on how Starmer's team rigged selections, destroyed democracy & entrenched an unpopular right-wing elite 🧵 From the beginning of Labour's Parliamentary selections in summer 2022, Starmer's henchmen went about purging left-wingers en masse, under the guise of 'due diligence'.

In doing so, they overrode the rights of trade unions & local parties / members.
Jun 3, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Two more major scandals today around Labour candidate & Starmer ally Darren Rodwell.

Starmer has justified purging the Left as about securing 'high quality candidates'.

So let's look at the extensive scandals surrounding this right-wing white man protected by Team Starmer 🧵 Last week, Starmer's NEC suspended & blocked SCG member @lloyd_rm over a historic complaint dating back 7 years.

A sexual harassment complaint against Rodwell was made on *Friday*. But even though Labour has begun an investigation, no sign of the same.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
May 29, 2024 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Keir Starmer is trying to force Diane Abbott out of Parliament.

Diane has long said she doesn't expect fair treatment from Labour as a Black, socialist woman.

So let's compare how Team Starmer have treated Diane, a left-wing Black woman, with right-wing white loyalists. A 🧵 Let's start with the whopper: Neil Coyle.

Coyle is on the hard-right of Labour - and is a friend of Keir Starmer.

Coyle was suspended from the Comms after a Parliamentary Investigation found he racially harrassed a journalist and abused a junior staffer.
news.sky.com/story/neil-coy…
May 27, 2024 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
I see Starmer is *still* persisting with the absurd claim that he's broken all his promises because 'we can't afford them', Ukraine / covid / mini-budget etc.

A 🧵 disproving Lyin' Keir's false claims.. So for starters, within months of becoming leader Starmer was breaking pledges that had nothing to do with money.

Like his commitment to fight to defend freedom of movement 🔽 Image
May 1, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Labour's New Deal for Working People has been constantly eroded since it was first announced by Andy McDonald & Angela Rayner in 2021.

A quick 🧵of every dropped policy. Starting with the most significant: Labour's commitment to a single tier status of worker is now largely gone, replaced with a consultation on simplifying the current system.

@karl_fh explained why this is so significant in this @tribunemagazine piece 👇
tribunemag.co.uk/2023/08/labour…
Apr 10, 2024 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Wilma Brown was until today Labour's Parliamentary candidate in Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy.

She's now been suspended for racist tweets.

But Labour's Leadership claim to have a 'robust due diligence' system in place to ensure 'high quality candidates'.

So what went wrong? A🧵 For two years, left-wingers have been blocked from Labour selections en masse, not even allowed to compete.

Some reasons cited:
- protesting the Iraq war
- calling on Labour to be bolder in its economic policy
- liking a Nicola Sturgeon tweet re testing -ve for covid
Mar 28, 2024 • 24 tweets • 7 min read
Labour-affiliated unions are today sounding the alarm on Labour's online voting system, Anonyvoter.

It follows a jaw-dropping Telegraph investigation into alleged vote-rigging in Labour's Parliamentary selections.

But what is Anonyvoter, and how is it being abused? A 🧵 Image Anonyvoter is a piece of software used to conduct online votes.

It's owned & run by Mark & Maddie Henson, via Henson IT Solutions Ltd.

The Hensons are Labour councillors in Croydon, naturally on the Right of the Party.

And that's not all.. Image
Sep 12, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Plenty strong in Rayner's speech, plainly a significant step forward from the Tories' anti-worker policies.

However, it remains the case that we are seeing a weakening of Labour's New Deal for Working People agenda, and key questions remain unanswered. A 🧵 Firstly, as has been widely reported, the Labour Leadership looks to be backtracking on its plans for a single status of worker, per the FT out of concern for its big business charm offensive.

ft.com/content/30a8a3…
Jun 21, 2023 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Labour want to appoint a diversity tsar to encourage under-represented groups to run as MPs.

A thread of all the working-class socialists, women and socialists of colour blocked from Parliamentary selections by Starmer's authoritarian Labour machine 🧵
theguardian.com/politics/2023/… First up, Maya Evans, the deputy leader of Hastings Council, the first woman of colour on Hastings Borough Council, & the first person of colour to reach a senior leadership position.

Maya is also a long-time peace & veteran activist. Blocked by Starmer. labourhub.org.uk/2022/06/21/sta…
Jan 4, 2023 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
This article is doing the rounds.

So it's worth interrogating its dubious claims on the supposed radicalism of Starmer's Labour. A thread 🧵
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Let's start with the first & biggest commitment cited: Labour's £28bn climate annual investment pledge.

It is indeed a sizeable commitment, not to be sniffed at. But its depiction as larger than the Corbyn proposals is wrong on multiple fronts 👇
Nov 7, 2022 • 31 tweets • 10 min read
What's going on with Labour's Parliamentary Selections?

A 🧵 on Starmer's purge and the implications for Britain's democracy...
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Labour is in the process of selecting its Prospective Parliamentary Candidates for the next General Election, with the NEC signing off batches of seats.

Per Michael Crick's useful blog, only ONE out of the firsty FORTY can be classified as left-wing. Why?
Nov 10, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Policy detail isn't the clearest, so here's a little thread of the policy commitments dropped or watered down in Labour's green recovery plan...

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… *Decarbonisation target*

In effect the report abandons the 2030 decarbonisation target mandated by Conference (unmentioned). In several places it embraces the net-zero 2050 target or policies in line with it. The level of ambition is majorly reduced from Labour's 2019 manifesto.