Wirral West constituency party (CLP) on Merseyside has been suspended by the party without explanation. Local MP Margaret Greenwood had already announced that she will not stand at the next general election.
The party in Wirral is in upheaval – right-wing MP Alison McGovern’s Wirral South is being abolished in the constituency boundary changes and she has announced her wish to take the Birkenhead candidacy currently occupied by left-winger Mick Whitley, even though Wirral West will be vacant.
And at local government level, right-winger Paul Stuart – who featured prominently as an author of the smears revealed by the recent Al Jazeera ‘Labour Files’ documentary series and played a key role in the suspension of Wallasey CLP in Wirral to protect right-wing MP Angela Eagle – has just bribed the Tories and LibDems with promises of senior positions in order to grab the Wirral council leadership and freeze out the Greens, despite the Greens’ strong performance in local elections earlier this month and Labour has scandalously discriminated against disabled candidates to deselect them and install right-wing drones. Meanwhile, over the river in Liverpool the city party has been hammered for dirty campaigning, failure of services and collusion with the Tories.
Around the country, members and elected officers continue to resign because of Starmer’s selection-rigging and wider assault on member democracy. While the party’s excuse for this latest action is not yet known, it is likely to form part of some further power grab.
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While the party’s excuse for this latest action is not yet known, it is likely to form part of some further power grab.
Likely???
Think cryarse mcgovern… I doubt she’s got the cojones OR the support to win birkonia ahead of Mick Whitley.
…So Wirral West (as a constituency not just CLP) ought to remember that neither mcgovern, nor any of her fellow rodents went to canvas for Maggie Greenwood in ’19, iirc.
Wasn’t it Karie Murphy who ran the 19GE campaign?
Who asked you? And what relevance does it bear?
Nobody, and none.
Now keep quiet and let the grown ups discuss the issue.
Toffee – You obviously have delusions of grandeur.😏
And of course, you’re so highly regarded that just about everyone else shreds any and every bit of the ceaseless bullshite you spout.
A roadkill’d have no problem whatsoever in tearing your blathering(s) a new one; every bit as big as the grand canyon.
Now run along, gawp.
Toffee – Thanks for proving reaffirming my point.
BOOOOOOORING.
Toffee,
Apparently, according to the Poundshop Parolles, the events described in this Skwawkbox article – along with those of other similarly recorded cases, from the dubious suspension and expulsion of members through to the suspension of CLP’s and Councillors forced to resign key positions – did not really happen and are all “conspiracy” theories.
However, Britain’s answer to the birth pill doesn’t have the balls to call the Skwakwbox editor, along with all the others impacted by such actions, liars and relies on mere innuendo and personal smears from his safe haven bunker a thousand miles (alleged) behind the rear.
Dave – “Apparently, according to the Poundshop Parolles, the events described in this Skwawkbox article – along with those of other similarly recorded cases, from the dubious suspension and expulsion of members through to the suspension of CLP’s and Councillors forced to resign key positions – did not really happen and are all “conspiracy” theories.”
Have I really, where have I said that❓
When are the unions going to stand up for social democracy?
This is the reality of not doing so :
NEW: Trade union membership in the UK fell by 200,000 last year. This is the lowest membership level among UK employees since 2017. It is the second successive year where membership levels have fallen, following four years of growth.
Any wonder when the unions are so cowardly in defence of those who are bearing the brunt of Starmer’s purges and other rough justice, born of his obvious hatred of left-wing politics?
“[The Labour Party’s] Membership stood at 395,811 including 17,233 in arrears, with 48,295 joining in the last 12 months and 15,000 in 2023 so far. Sales for conference exhibition stalls and fringe meetings were at record levels and income from the raffle doubled its target, with 60% sending extra donations, all showing how positively Labour is viewed.
SteveH
This was more a point about the unions losing members, as they are seen to be rejecting socialism simply by supporting Starmer.
As to your point about Labour membership, well, there are lies, damn lies and official Labour party membership statistics.
Of course, the mere sniff of power is attracting corporate donors like flies to the proverbial, we saw it with Blair and the resultant mess over donations from dodgy sources. Billionaire Hinduja brothers, to Ecclestone’s returned £1 million, that wasn’t linked to lifting a cigarette advertising ban 🙂
Which is democratically healthier : A 580,000 strong mass membership party funded by hundreds of thousands of ordinary folk making small donations, with the party’s books in the black. A party that need not make secret promises to the rich and other vested interests…
…Or, a party with its books in the red, receiving £2m as a bail out from the likes of Lord Sainsbury then attracting all sorts of corporate donors: investment bankers; US private healthcare CEOs & hedge fund managers as it gets closer to power, with gawd knows what being promised over fancy three-course meals behind closed doors?
395.8k? Whoo-fucking-hoo. Get the bunting out; hoist the flags…for keef to shag – he’s got 395.816 members.
More than Corbyn ever had, innit, soft shite?
48k joining last year AND 15k in 2023 SO FAR!!
Great.
How many have binned keef in taat same time, seeing as you’ve been perpetually crowing that he supposedly had 430k+
Come back when you get a basic grasp of numbers.
Toffee – “as you’ve been perpetually crowing that he supposedly had 430k+ “
Do you mean when I have occasionally mentioned that 20% of this historically high membership abandoned Corbyn during the later half of his leadership and that by the time we got to Nov19 the membership was down to 430,359.
SteveH
The widely reported dire state of party accounts, leading to Lord Sainsbury’s emergency donations together with the ‘membership holding up well’ line, well, it doesn’t exactly reconcile, to use accounting parlance.
Someone is surely massaging numbers somewhere? Who audits the party?
246
Doubled your Raffle takings
WOW
My educated guess is that Margaret Greenwood has been pushed out, to make way for another right winger.
Their is not reason for McGovern to stand in Birkenhead as only one ward of present day Wirral South (Bebington) has transferred to Birkenhead while two ward from Wirral South (Claterbridge and Heswall) have transfer to Wirral West.
Still my understanding of Labour’s Rules, unless they have changed since I left the Labour Party is that in order to have a claim to a Constituency presently with a Labour incumbent, the challenger needs to have 40% of his/her old Constituency tranferring to the new one.
With a single ward from Wirral South transferring to Birkenhead is clear in my mind that McGovern doesn’t have a claim to Birkenhead, neither she does to Wirral West.
I hope that Mick Whitley fights to represent Birkenhead and wins the Party’s nomination against McGovern..
This provides us with proof that under Starmer, the Labour Party is becoming the Fascist Party of Great Britain.
Rules, Maria??
Nope. it ain’t rules that count.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTdx1QSPfHb7yVx75OLnSeLhH3yKG9bcoNdbRWNpTmBZRBt2Qb5tNWBQUf6dtQYvIylCp9Mb0U&usqp=CAc
As for greenwood, she was one of only eight (left-leaning) MPs that spewed their positions under keef.
mcgovern, for once, shed NO tears.
PS,that’s a shoehorn not a baseball bat – although they wish they had a few of them to use on the oiks.
If there is a contest for the seat then Birkenhead’s Labour Party constituency members will get to decide who they want to represent them. it’s democracy, what’s not to like?
‘what’s not to like?
That’ll probably depend on how much fixing the not very capable stalinist serving as ‘leader’ tries to affect. Every part of the party that the right wing have control of is flustering and floundering. You might regret your words here SteveH.
qwertboi – Oh dear, how Trumpian of you. 🙄
The gerrymandered process by which such pre-decisions are carried out has already been explained with examples on numerous occasions steveH.
Clearly, the concept of democracy is beyond your ken in a context in which local CLP’s have been suspended and excluded from the decision making process.
Just like local Councils have.
Here, as a matter of interest, is why Greenwood resigned from the frontbench:
“Margaret Greenwood has resigned as shadow schools minister to vote against the so-called “spycops” bill.”
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/shadow-schools-minister-margaret-greenwood-resigns/
Toffee, Do you honestly believe Labour’s ‘Official’ Membership figures? I give you an example, of myself, who resigned my membership one minute after Starmer was announced the winner of the leadership election. Letters and emails sent to Membership Services at HQ, my CLP Sec and Direct Debit cancelled. I am still getting pleading letters from them and other correspondence treating me as a member. So is my wife, and most of my friends, who all resigned too.
Don’t forget, come any election, within the Party where members can vote, it is very advantageous to have a fake membership list, so that fake ballots can be handed out. If you catch my drift. I’m looking forward to seeing how much money Labour have lost this last financial year, last year it was over £5m.
The last time I saw any figures Labour had raised considerably more than the Tories.
From what sources – see https://skwawkbox.org/2023/05/25/breaking-wirral-west-constituency-party-suspended-by-labour/#comment-244652 above…..
…..and at what price to the rest of us in terms of NHS piratisation and other promises to the corporate lobbyists providing that funding.
The ‘best’ democracy money can buy.
Do you mean when I have occasionally mentioned that 20% of this historically high membership abandoned Corbyn during the later half of his leadership and that by the time we got to Nov19 the membership was down to 430,359.
Historically high membership – but it’s not happened under KEEF has it?
No.
And you’re not crowing that keefs’ more popular than Corbyn in THIS thread, are you? Because the numbers are there for all to see.
Again, a failure of basic arithmetic from the innumerate gobshite.
Let’s use your own figures shall we?
Keef.
Nov ’19 = 430,359 (peak)
May ’23 = 395,816 (supposedly)
Corbyn.
2015 = 180,000
2019 = 530,000 (peak)
Bit of a difference there, wee dunce.
He hasn’t GAINED a single member since shithousing his leadership position. Keefs’ had as long as Corbyn had, so where’s the masses, all thronging to him?
Oh…15k this YEAR up to now? 15k in almost SIX MONTHS… Corbyn was getting that in a WEEK at his peak, you cretin. And he’s STILL 140k shy of the numbers Corbyn got.
Yet AGAIN it has to be explained to you that starting with 180,000 and finishing with 430,000 is an OVERALL GAIN of 250,000+.
So hurling over-emotive terms about, like the membership supposedly “abandoned labour under Corbyn” just makes you look the right fucking Imbecile you truly are.
Learn to count. Learn to spell. Learn to use punctuation. And desist with your incessant infantile bollocks.
THEN you can attempt to ply your bullshit on here. And STILL be ridiculed for your idiocy.
You godawful, nonce-friendly gobshite.
I wonder how many of the Labour Party’s current membership are Corbyn supporters.
One thing’s certain, gobshite.
Keef hasn’t got anywhere near the members flocking to the party that Corbyn did.
Tell me I’m wrong. Go on…15k in six months, for fucks sake. Stupid 2️⃣🎩
Toffee – But how long did that last and when it came to putting their cross on the ballot paper how many of the 1,000s who melodiously chanted of “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” chose to either voted for Boris instead of Jeremy or like you couldn’t be bothered to vote?
Have you checked the polls recently?
https://www.markpack.org.uk/155623/voting-intention-opinion-poll-scorecard/
Toffee, It can be done…..
“Former Labour councillor of ten years, Tony Randerson resigns from the party in protest at Keir Starmer’s abysmal leadership, runs in by-election as an independent and annihilates the new Labour candidate.”
“Social Justice gain from Labour in the Eastfield (Scarborough) by-election
Tony Randerson 499
Lib Dem 281
Lab 169
Tory 69
Far-right 39
Green 19
#SocialJustice #LinkingTheLeft
12:08 am · 26 May 2023”
Is that the exception that proves the rule?