MP’s collusion with Keir Starmer to defeat ceasefire motion triggers challenge in seat where independents trounced Labour in May
The Liverpool Community Independents (LCI) group has today announced that it will stand a candidate to challenge incumbent MP Maria Eagle in the Liverpool Garston constituency – currently Garston and Halewood – at the next general election.
In May, working-class south Liverpool community Garston saw Labour lose both its council seats heavily to the LCI’s Lucy Williams and Sam Gorst, despite a disgusting Labour smear campaign in the election, so Eagle has cause to worry, although the resources and volunteers needed for a constituency wide fight will be considerably greater.
LCI leader Alan Gibbons – who trounced Labour in May in Orrell Park in the north of the city – has said that the decision to fight Eagle for the seat is a ‘historical necessity’ after she abstained last week on a parliamentary amendment demanding a ceasefire in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including at least five thousand children.
Garston LCI councillor Sam Gorst added that Ms Eagle had committed ‘dereliction of duty’ in supporting the Gaza genocide as well as interventionist UK military action elsewhere. Colleague Lucy Williams has said she would be willing to stand as the group’s candidate if selected.
On the other side of the Mersey Jo Bird, a popular Jewish Birkenhead councillor hounded out of Labour by the Starmer regime, has been selected by the Greens to fight for the Birkenhead seat in which Labour is ousting left-winger Mick Whitley to stand right-winger Alison McGovern.
An earlier version of this article stated incorrectly that Jo Bird is contesting the Wallasey seat.
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Good, we need Left Wing Democratic Socialists standing against every Right Wing Lab candidate (but not against the few Lefties) and I think them mentioning that they support Jeremy Corbyn, would greatly help. (JC has a kind of brand name & is high profile).
Hope LCI win, M Eagle has been de facto Tory for years. Liverpool can do better.
Good. Hopefully someone goes up against the twin
useless parasiticsister in my constituency. They’ll be getting whatever assistance I can provide if so.Really about time. She/it is my MP. It doesn’t even acknowledge my emails anymore. Does absolutely zilch for this area. Votes for herself not for us constituents. I will happily campaign heavily against her.
Which one are you talking about, jillazzouz?
You’ve described both of them. Not that it matters, they both need punting. 🚖🏃
Maria. But i agree brickgate is just as bad.
A most convincing reason to support a LCI candidate in Garston and Halewood* is that on the SNP motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Maria Eagle MP ABSTAINED. She *ucking abstained!
These people are the lowest-of-the-low in my eyes. Worse than Tony Benn’s ‘weathervanes not signposts’. They’re not just vacuous bods who lack commitment and conviction – they are obedient enablers of the World Economic Forum’s Davos rule-book and New World Order.
Pick a good Prospective Parliamentary Candidate LCI!
Shouldn’t just be about Gaza. The pair of them have followed keef’s decree on just about everything without so much as a peep.
Like each & every smarmerist, they’ve both needed the boot long before the ceasefire vote.
Yeah, and if she does it on something as ethical and important as Gaza, she’s surely doing it on everything else. Class enemy peddling very dangerous mRNA chemicals to an unsuspecting world!
Well, good luck to them. I wish them well.
Wikipedia:
“On 17 May 2009 The Daily Telegraph revealed that Eagle had claimed £3,500 for the refurbishment of the bathroom of her Liverpool home property, then switched her second home designation to a different property four months later. Eagle voted in favour of legislation which would have kept MPs’ expenses information secret.”
“However, she described Corbyn commenting he would not countenance using a nuclear deterrent as “unhelpful” to the policy process.”
“She is a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel.”
They’ve gotto be gone today.