Party’s stitch-up of MP of the Year Ian Byrne grows ever more shameless
Labour’s rigging of the ‘trigger’ process, which will decide whether Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne will face a challenge to stand at the next general election, grows more shameless daily.
On Tuesday night, a meeting in which more than two-thirds of those attending were confirmed Byrne supporters was declared by the party – with no tellers or oversight – to have voted against him, leading Byrne’s supporters to ask others to hold up placards at subsequent branch votes so the number of votes for Byrne is harder to rig.
And last night, the Tuebrook and Stoneycroft branch held its meeting – like all the triggers, forced by the party to be held as a more easily riggable Zoom meeting – held its meeting.
Skwawkbox understands that several Byrne supporters were barred from entering the Zoom – including a union representative to the branch. At least two have already posted to social media about their experience of the Starmer regime’s abuse of democracy – but Skwawkbox understands that the total was a high single-figure count, hugely significant in branch meetings where the total votes can be a couple of dozen:
Ian Hughes represents the USDAW union at the branch and, even though USDAW is run by the right, he is a strong supporter of Byrne – yet he told Skwawkbox that his requests for the Zoom link were ignored:
And then this morning, libel-ridden right-wing hack Lee Harpin – a favourite recipient of leaks from party staffers – announced that Byrne had ‘also’ lost the Tuebrook and Stoneycroft vote. But with the usual arrogant incompetence of the Labour right, nobody bothered to wait until the vote had closed at noon today before announcing the result well over an hour before the vote was over:
Other MPs targeted by the Labour right have reported similar tactics, with bullying and intimidation at in-person votes and blatant and demonstrable rigging – admitted by the party, which refused to overturn the result – of online votes.
Ian Byrne is the UK’s MP of the Year for his tireless work on behalf of the poor, vulnerable and hungry – and one of the most popular MPs in the city, probably the most liked and respected by a distance.
Yet Keir Starmer’s hollow shell of a party and his war on democracy know no shame – and there are clearly no depths they will not plumb. Legal action and people power are clearly essential to put these democracy-destroyers back under the rock they have crawled out from.
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