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.
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 • 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 🧵
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..
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.
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.
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?
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.
