Women staff reject punitive confidentiality contract and party pursues them legally
Labour tried to force two women staff to sign secrecy contracts to protect a ‘senior official’ they accused of sexually harassing them – and pursued them legally after they refused.
Laura Murray and Georgie Robertson complained formally to the party just before Keir Starmer became leader and the official was briefly suspended but then reinstated after denying the allegations, with Labour officials pressuring Robertson and Murray to withdraw their complaints.
The party, which had promised the pair to keep their complaints confidential because they feared retaliation, promptly informed the official in question and the pair felt forced to leave the party to avoid retaliation and further harassment.
Ms Robertson told the BBC that:
It was months of very intimidating and aggressive conduct from the party. It felt like a slap in the face and just being completely thrown under the bus.
Ms Murray said she had felt powerless to take further action despite further intimidation by the reinstated official, which included falsely telling others in the office that Ms Robertson was sleeping with a married colleague:
When he came back to work, I felt like he was just trying to get revenge against me, and I felt completely disempowered to do anything about it.
The pair eventually lodged formal complaints despite their misgivings about Labour’s seriousness in dealing with the issue and tried to agree an exit route with the party, but resigned after Labour lawyers tried to force them to sign the secrecy contracts, because it
could encourage the party to use those agreements in future with other women who’d been harassed.
Their lawyer Mark Stephens told the BBC that the contracts violated equality laws and the party’s own policies, adding that they would also have imposed liability for any legal costs the party incurred over the leaked Labour report on misconduct by right-wing staffers, which it is accusing them of leaking despite a wide range of people having access to it. He added:
No person in their right mind would trust them not to treat that indemnity as a means of oppression. As a consequence of that, I think we’ve seen an attempt at abuse by the Labour Party in the way that they have dealt with this.
Labour claimed it takes all complaints of sexual harassment ‘extremely seriously’. Both women have now left politics completely.
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Laura Murray and Georgie Robertson made sexual harassment claims against one of STARMER ‘led’ SENIOR party officials.
True to form, Starmer & gang tried to gag Laura Murray and Georgie Robertson with NDAs to hush up their serious complaints with a secret financial settlement.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission recommended AGAINST
Non-disclosure agreements.
MOREOVER, Labour’s own policies are against NDAs. Jeremy and Dianne rightly CONDEMNED NDAs. I agree with them. In my opinion, NDAs block change / TRUE justice and TRUTH.
Well done AGAIN to LAURA MURRAY and GEORGIE ROBERTSON for rejecting going quietly / backroom agreements which ALWAYS EXCLUDE us “The Many”.
The attempt to have them stitched up and silenced is being well and truly whacked back to Starmer Evans Mandelson WMD Blair and the other parasitic gang. The dishonest lot must be exposed at every opportunity, everyday and everywhere.
🌍🌸🏓 🌍🌸🏓🌍🌸🏓
Vile behaviour by Labour towards these 2 women of a kind documented in the leaked report.
Speaking of vile behaviour, this has surfaced on twitter after Wes Streeting deleted 4708 tweets.
It seems Streeting doesn’t like animals, another deleted tweet is about wanting to kick a dog in the face.
https://twitter.com/hepcatsector/status/1509111051547455491?s=20&t=YjJC95UxjmGvkmBTS9uTNA
Just when you think Wes Streeting can sink no lower………..
When did these incidents of sexual harassment actually take place?
Sometime before March 2020 when the two staff officiated their complaint
qwertboi – Pre March 2020. So it was actually one of Corbyn’s senior party officials that they have accused of harassment..
“Pre March 2020. So it was actually one of Corbyn’s senior party officials that they have accused of harassment”
It happened during the wonderful man’s interregnum, probaby. The leaked report probably names the reprobate (in a different context with a different offence, of course).
p.s. posted earlier at 19:15
Always remember Starmer WMD Blair Mandelson Hodge Lammy Straw Blunkett etc OPENLY boasted that they were “WORKING NIGHT and DAY to UNDERMINE CORBYN”.
We must NEVER forget that. Starmer’s gang are NOT us.
🆚❌✏️🆚❌✏️🆚❌✏️
qwertboi 04/04/2022 at 7:52 am
“It happened during the wonderful man’s interregnum, probaby. The leaked report probably names the reprobate (in a different context with a different offence, of course)”.
An example of what Corbyn’s staff had to put up with and a submission to the Forde Inquiry. If you add sexual harassment to this, life in Southside must have been unbearable for the staff, who were genuinely working for a Labour government.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/i-saw-inside-how-labour-staff-worked-prevent-labour-government/?utm_source=tw
Ann Blacks latest NEC update indicates that the Forde Report “might come to the NEC in May” adding “I assure members, again, that these are not in possession of the general secretary, the leader, or anyone else. If they were they would immediately have been leaked, same as every other “confidential” document”.
Anybody holding their breath?
Look what YouTube thought I might be interested in.
“He is detestable and arrogant”.
23:13 a 74 year old man just described a detestable and arrogant person accurately. as evidenced by eg:
” I don’t have to answer to the likes of you▫️”
as Keith (SIR) slimed at the Bath pub landlord.
SIR Keith “Starmer is detestable and arrogant”.
SP🔴T 🔴N 🔴
What search words resulted in that (probably deflectatory) result goldbach?
(George Orwell’s quote “Who controls the past controls the future” rightly identified that who ever wrote the history (the “elite”) does so to protect themselves and their interests/class in the future. Google’s algorthyms is the same with bells on it and steroids)
No search words. When you access YouTube a whole range of videos appear on the screen before a search. My guess is that , since I’d been reading lots of stuff on the internet about Ukraine, it appeared simply because it concerned Ukraine.
I want to hear more about this case and is it onwardgoing or his that it theyve had enough of the rigged labour party and the whole stinking pile of Rot from the mouths of anti labour anti working class labour party.?
German generals talking up war with his comments We “will have very soon have isolated Russia from the Baltic to black sea” in allied armaments “this is only a mear seventy years ago that the Nazis were defeated in europe and somones let the dogs out.The German war machine is talking spending billions more to make them the largest war machine in the West excluding the USA.Purchasing of “ready made missile systems from either Israel or the USA is top of the list…..RT…I don’t know if you are allowed now or the China morning post in English..You are more isolated than I am and I live in a jungle sorounded by mountains and shrouded by mist this morning with the heaviest rainfalls I have seen in the nearly ten years coming to Cambodia…I wonder what the rainy season will be like if this is the dry season.?…more rice thanks !
It may have already been posted, apologies if so:
Keir Starmer Never Had Any Plans to Make Peace With the Left by Oliver Eagleton
Keir Starmer’s latest round of attacks on the Left should come as no surprise. He has made his career as a lackey for American imperialism and an opponent of socialists, inside and outside of the Labour Party.
Whoops! Forgot the link:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/04/keir-starmer-labour-left-purges-nato-russia
PW, That’s a really frightening read. Starmer is an authoritarian and will take this totalitarian mindset into government if Labour get elected.
I noticed in the NEC update sent by Ann Black she talks of –
“Members stressed that messaging around crime had to resonate with all communities, and should include
positive policies for rebuilding youth services and activities for young people, as well as better streetlighting
and CCTV coverage and more police hubs”. Police hubs, better CCTV coverage, for that I read surveilance.
The rest of the update is similarly surreal, it bears no resemblence of what’s happening in the party. Further proscriptions are certainly on the cards and that ties in with your linked piece above.
https://mcusercontent.com/dc7f8647f4657f9acc0b63457/files/c764d5fd-92e2-6fc5-21ab-335a481d4251/NEC_29Mar2022_Ann_Black.pdf
Not just BlueKeef, but ALL the Neo-Labour Party TORIES, they all have this mindset, they are after all Blair’s New-Labour Party TORIES, only with an accumulation of 4y3m Socialist, UK Labour Party, Leftists Hate-Steroids!
First They Came For…….
Reported by RT and other MSM, according to Trump…
“The greatest threat to the US isn’t Russia, China or any other foreign state, but the “radical left” politicians now running America, former US President Donald Trump said during a Republican rally in Washington Township, Michigan on Sunday.”
What we have to understand about this is that he labels Biden and Admin as Radical Left, that is the equivalent as saying Starmer, Trudeau, Macron, etc, etc, etc are Radical Left! It only demonstrates how Far Right MSM and Thatcher/Reagan’s flavour of Neoliberalism has dragged the Right and traditionally Centre Left, as they in turn consider/label the Actual Centre Left Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, Apsana Begum, etc as Radical Left!
Absolutely Frightening!
Sometimes I wish that the Radical Left would stir, but we all know what would mean!
The rot in Labour is beyond politics and political opinion. It is about truly despicable human beings who managed to integrate themselves in the structure and will obstruct anyone with decency while giving a free pass / promote other despicable human beings. Forget political opinion and class struggle: it is about a core of bullies and abusers treating the Labour Party as their personal possession.
Been, compare and contrast the qualities of independent thought and integrity of the two party leaders. Max Headroom and Imran Khan.
Ben missed la pointe Abusers and bullies go hand in hand with the upper classes and I have spent nearly fifty years fighting barstwerds like that….dont try undermining the Class struggle especially when you and every other ordinary person will soon be on the end of a establishment inspired catastrophe that will be entirely at the door of the upper classes and elites.and the burden as per usual on the Working class.
Good one. Every Socialist should recognise the class war in all events. The immediate quality of life will slide and with the new phones, the horrifying conditions of the whole country will be exposed. Behind every cloud?
Do we know if Laura Murray and Georgie Robertson have taken David Evans before an Industrial Tribunal claiming Constructive Dismissal?
I hope that both have documented the sexual harassment and the fact that the Party attempted to force them to sign a NDA would add to their claim.
However I don’t understand why Robertson gave an interview while the matter could still under consideration by an Employment Tribunal.
You can say what you like unlees it is an ACTIVE court case.
Joe Robson that is entirely my point. Have both these women taken a case of constructive dismissal to an Employment Tribunal? If not why no?
What was Georgie Robertson attempting to achieve by giving an interview to the BBC? If they have filed a case with an Employment Tribunal Robertson’s interview can only harm their case.
I simply fail to understand Robertson’s strategy here.
Pre March 2020. So it was actually one of Corbyn’s senior party officials that they have accused of harassment..
Entirely predictable…And of course, entirely unsubstantiated.
Let’s see now…wasnt keef one of Corbyn’s senior party officials…?
And you expect people to believe that if it had been a Corbynist official, that keef and fat Dave would’ve instructed the lawyers to gag the two women?
Or, do the lawyers work entirely independently of keef and the helmet?
“Entirely predictable…And of course, entirely unsubstantiated.”
Is it in dispute that the accused ‘senior official’ was employed by the Labour Party during Corbyn’s tenure?
“Let’s see now…wasn’t [Keir] one of Corbyn’s senior party officials…?”
No! I would have thought that was obvious to everyone, even you.
“And you expect people to believe that if it had been a Corbynist official, that [Keir] and fat Dave would’ve instructed the lawyers to gag the two women?”
Do you have any evidence to support your rather confused ‘assertions’?
Or, do the lawyers work entirely independently of [Keir] and the helmet?
They do now that Keir has made fundamental changes to the discredited procedures that were in place for offences of this nature.
Does anybody know whether the accused ‘senior official’ is still employed by the Labour Party?
I’m surprised that we haven’t been given one already but it would also be helpful if we could have a timeline showing on what dates the key events in this case occurred.
Strange company we keep these days
Episode 27
Victor Orban
500,000 refugees taken in from Ukraine
Refuses to send arms to the Nazis in Ukraine
Calls for Peace and continues to trade with Russia
What should have been the EU position in this war with American interests
I still remember those huge lines of Hungarian refugees in 1956. Many HUngarians do too!
Weird times indeed. India standing apart from the west and Russia but still real proponents of the QUAD.
Or, do the lawyers work entirely independently of [Keir] and the helmet?
They do now that Keir has made fundamental changes to the discredited procedures that were in place for offences of this nature.
Oh, they do operate autonomously , do they? 🤔
£600,000+ says otherwise, soft ollies.
And nobody disputes that the offences happened under Corbyn’s tenure.
But the alleged gagging clauses were *ahem* ‘proffered’ under keef’s
That’s also not up for debate.
So you may as well desist from continuing with your increasingly tedious method of trying to stretch THE most tenuous of connections to fit Corbyn, and mark them down as his personal responsibility – (Especially when the matter in question lies squarely on blockhead & fat Dave’s toes).
Because it’s just not working, is it, bellend?
No, go away quickly.
Toffee – As I said above it would be useful if we could have a timeline of the key dates. It would also be helpful if we knew who made the key decisions on how this case was dealt with and whether these officials are still employed by the party.
Could you explain how the £600k is relevant to this case.
ps – There is usually a reason why people withhold pertinent information
Ask your dear leader who’s withholding pertinent information you godawful piss-poor excuse for a human.
Read all about it here soft shite…And take not of the key sentences highlighted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60940971
After months of uncertainty about their jobs, Ms Murray and Ms Robertson took out formal grievances and tried to negotiate their exit.
By this time, Sir Keir Starmer was the new Labour leader, and they say the party failed to properly investigate their complaints.
The BBC understands Labour did not subsequently raise these formal grievances with the senior official, who had previously denied the allegations.
“It was months of very intimidating and aggressive conduct from the party,” Ms Robertson told the BBC.
“It felt like a slap in the face and just being completely thrown under the bus.”
The pair then resigned after Labour party lawyers asked them to sign a settlement agreement with a broad confidentiality clause, seen by BBC News.
As for your tiresome bullshit about ‘timelines’ – I’m in very little doubt this happened prior to- or around the same time as keef ordering the solicitors to pay out to the panorama twunts.
As the article skwawbox has provided states: Laura Murray and Georgie Robertson complained formally to the party just before Keir Starmer became leader and the official was briefly suspended but then reinstated after denying the allegations, with Labour officials pressuring Robertson and Murray to withdraw their complaints.
ICYMI: Laura Murray and Georgie Robertson complained formally to the party just before Keir Starmer became leader
Which means KEEF would’ve been leader when the gagging orders were ,i>proffered’ (For want of a better term)
….And keef personally ordered the panorama payout. So, if indeed these gagging orders were FOLLOWING the panorama shithousery, WHO sanctioned them?
Because it WASN’T Corbyn. He was in NO position to do so.
Toffee – I can’t see how you can conflate two completely unrelated issues.
Theres usually a reason why people withold pertinent information “You said it mr H and it stinks across the whole filthy swamp that is the
Labour party..Steve H in the usual “mouth before brain” fashion condems himself and his masters dirty deals and corruption.This knight really is a “peice of work” and a nasty one at that.Ps I see the Guardian are doing a job on the blustering knight and his disgusting NDA blackmail.?
Joseph – I was rather hoping that the Guardian might have printed a copy of the NDA that these two ladies refused to sign.
No point in explaining to the div, Joseph.
It just won’t register. You can’t educate pork.
Toffee – I see you’ve resorted to playground insults again.
White helmet?
SteveH04/04/2022 AT 4:14 PM
Toffee – I can’t see how you can conflate two completely unrelated issues.
There’s definitely something – or rather someone relating the two issues – isn’t there?
It’s called keef
Toffee – Is there? I’ve yet to see any evidence that Keir Starmer had any involvement in this case. Perhaps you could post a link to the evidence you are relying on.
*Sighs*
Was keef leader when Labour did not subsequently raise these formal grievances with the senior official, who had previously denied the allegations.?
Yes
Was keef leader of the party when these gagging clauses were ‘proffered’
Yes.
Did keef personally instruct the solicitors – despite being advised labour would win their case – to pay out to the panorama shysters?
Yes.
No ifs, no buts, no equivocation….And most certainly NO conflating any issue. Keef overseen both of these events. The buck stops with him.
(Just like it did with letting savile off the hook.)
Toffee – So are we to take it that you don’t have any actual evidence that Keir was in any way involved in these cases?
“Was [Keith] leader when Labour did not subsequently raise these formal grievances with the senior official, who had previously denied the allegations.?”
So what the Labour Party’s rules forbid political interference by the leadership in disciplinary cases.
Was [Keith] leader of the party when these gagging clauses were ‘proffered’
So what the Labour Party’s rules forbid any political interference by the leadership in disciplinary cases.
“Did [Keith] personally instruct the solicitors – despite being advised labour would win their case – to pay out to the panorama shysters?”
Well what actually happened is that the solicitors that Corbyn consulted didn’t give the advise that you claim they did (please feel free to quote the advise that was actually given) + in light of the time passed and the findings of the EHRC the Labour party prudently sought the advise of 2 QCs who advised Labour to settle. We also shouldn’t forget who’s incompetence created the liability in the first place.
“No ifs, no buts, no equivocation….And most certainly NO conflating any issue. [Keith] overseen both of these events. The buck stops with him.”
REALLY?
So on the one hand we have a disciplinary case that the leadership is specifically excluded from being involved in and that you have no evidence whatsoever that he was involved in and on the other we have a legal case that came about because Corbyn issued an official Labour Party statement without bothering to get it checked by the party’s legal team first and that Labour settled on the advise of 2 QCs.
I’m still struggling to see the connection between a disciplinary case that Keir wasn’t involved in and Keir accepting the legal advise that a case against Labour should be settled.
SteveH
Findings of EHRC
They found sfa
Advice of 2 QC’s
Give us a link to their advice
If anyone wants to know how the LP performs when it comes to taking legal advice, then take a listen
goldbach
Would you like to point out to SteveH, Red Tories have their house trained QC’s on speed dial at our expense, financially and democratically
We are back to that special place in hell
It’s the same the whole world over, it’s the poor what get the blame
It’s the rich what get the pleasure
Ain’t it all a bleedin shame
That is such a good video and perfectly demonstrates the levels The Neo-Labour Party would sink to, in order to prevent any form of Socialism from coming into that Tory Party! The International, USA, UK, Israel, GetCorbyn Bill must be astronomical!
It’s a bit like this muppet losing the plot over Corbyn and spilling the beans, I swear, if that was The Godfather, the next scene would’ve been the boot of a black limo popping at the docks/wharf! https://archive.org/details/1209812847200485376-p-80c-nf-iah-q-xc-vn-g
Yes indeed, Dougal. Sweet Fanny Adams.
That leave the onus on YOU, wee gobshite. Back up your claim. Show us all the advice* of these 2 QCs…if you can, or if it even exists
Anytime today….😙🎶
*With a ‘c’ not an ‘s’.
Toffee
He’s a Red Conservative with a small c
So what the Labour Party’s rules forbid any political interference by the leadership in disciplinary cases.
Boot on the other foot, is it?
It’s NEVER stopped you from a single fucking instance of blaming Corbyn for things that weren’t under his remit regarding disciplinary processes.
Fucking hypocrite.
The GLARING differences here being
A/ Kukluxkeef was leader of the party at the time of the complaint about a SENIOR OFFICIAL (So NO claiming he wasn’t in the loop) and WASNT investigated properly.
B/ Keef is leader when the gagging clauses are attempted to be issued. In all probability it WAS him instructed for that, because….
C/ Keef personally instructed the solicitors to pay out the panorama twunts in July 2020 – Right at the time these complaints were already knew about and ought to have been dealt with in an appropriate manner.
But, like the panorama payout – they weren’t dealt with appropriately, were they?
No.
Too much of a coincidence for it NOT to have keefs’ pawprints on the gagging clauses.
Wee fella seems to know an awful lot about the advise (sic) Corbyn was given, but refuses to provide us with the advise (sic) that Kukluxkeef decided was somehow correct, and subsequently took the decision himself to pay out.
That’s when the wee fellas NOT claiming that the lawyers have total autonomy to make the decisions…
Make yer mind up, wee softshite. 🤔
Kuklux….keef….The name is a masterpiece of discriptive verse kukluxkeef readily lends itself to the mindset of a evil and deluded tyrant….I will have to study this but the “Grand knight of the shadowy world kukluxkeef is the dominant and a very apt description of this abomination from Surrey.
It’s a very clever use of language. The masks, the secrecy and its lodges and the massing of hatred to destroy someone or thing, not forgetting the friends in the media. It is demonic and its endgame is evil. The plantations never went, they just grew internationally. No flaming crosses just drones! No whips but sanctions against the workers. Evil, that’ll do it.
The NDAs’ the party were trying to get Laura and Georgie to sign also contained the additional clause that if they both would be liable for costs incurred regarding the leaked report court case.
Now why would party lawyers include that in the NDA? No one would ever put themselves in a position whereby you could be responsible for millions if those named in the report were successful.
Plus as it is an NDA both wouldn’t be allowed to discuss, or explain they were pressured into signing. I’m not too up on all things legal, would this save the party having to go to court, leaving Laura and Georgie to pay all the costs. Then again the party has accused 3 others of leaking the report. It certainly is an embarrassing unscrupulous tangled web party has woven.
The day after the story was released someone on social media asked if anyone had seen/heard Jess Phillips yet.
Look I have just veiwed a video on here that clearly describes and shows that the fix and stitch up was always in position even Corbyn the leader of the Labour party was virtually ejected from the leadership whilst he was officially in charge but most importantly not in control of the rogue labour party in bed with bent lawyers and QCs that did the bidding of a out of control PLP.I
ITS worse now and digging over a bankrupt labour party is a exercise in futility
Doug – re: “goldbach
Would you like to point out to SteveH ……”
It isn’t worth the time trying to convince Idéfix of anything.
goldbach
Set in the year 52BC, Idefix aka Dogmatix has an idea an Original thought, them pesky Romans off they must fuck
SteveH responds
You havnt got the numbers
Here’s a poll that says the Romans are very popular, here’s what they have done for us
Idefix
Who is that ×=€₩
Doug – Oh dearie, dearie me. You really are getting desperate aren’t you. 😏
Well, today sees the nation going into the third year of keef.
He binned every one of his pledges within his first year**
He’s still to win an opposition vote – or rather oppose the toerags.
The PLP’s worse off in terms of Westminster seats.
Membership’s halved, and continues to dwindle, added to the £13m in assets that has been spunked on his personal war against left factions, leaving the party facing bankruptcy
There’s no 20 point + lead over THE most corrupt toerag govt in history.
Cronyism is every bit as rife within his party as it is the toerags’.
And stillhe shits on the poorest and the working classes, offering them not a single bit more than the toerags are (LESS, in fact, that the rags are on NMW).
** Regarding those pledges, no doubt they will resurface IF he’s still (alleged) opposition leader come the time of the next general election. Who to believe? Kukluxkeef? Who binned all his within a year, or sunak, who has planned for a massive 1p tax cut that keef said was (to paraphrase) ‘cynically putting the toerags ahead of the workers of britain’ ?
The toerags are far more likely to give a 1p cut in income tax than keef is to stick to a promise…
It’s all going swimmingly, except for those who are drowning/have drowned.