Group that took both council seats in Garston is preparing to fight for parliamentary seat
The Liverpool Community Independents (LCI) group announced last week that it will stand a candidate to challenge Labour incumbent MP Maria Eagle in the Liverpool Garston constituency at the next general election, because – as a last straw – her decision to abstain on a Commons vote earlier this month calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza.
Labour has cause to worry – in May, the working-class south Liverpool community threw out Labour, which heavily lost both its council seats heavily to LCI’s Lucy Williams and Sam Gorst, despite a disgusting Labour smear campaign in the election. But the group will need an even greater influx of resources and volunteers to win the parliamentary seat.
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 the abstention.
As a first step, the group has launched a crowdfunder with a target of £15,000 to create a campaign fund for the seat. Readers who would like to contribute toward the effort can do so here.
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Yet another lost deposit?
For Labour? Yes, quite possibly.
timfrom – The pitiful performances by ‘independent socialist’ parliamentary candidates over the past few years would strongly indicate the contrary.
Who are you trying to convince, yourself?
Threads like these are flypaper for your dull, repetitive, unimaginative, abused-beyond-reason stock answers, aren’t they?!
That that party has to rely on a tedious goatfucking dullard like you to shill for them says it all.
And you can’t even do that with any creativity or proficiency.
SH:” The pitiful performances by ‘independent socialist’ parliamentary candidates over the past few years would strongly indicate…..”
Well, Transform’s founding conference
took place yesterday, Saturday 25 November in Nottingham. The Electoral Commission has never been so busy as ‘dearly departed’ former-Labour members all over the country formalise their intent to contest seats at the next General Election.
Moreover, a political party led by a WEF-supporting agent for state secret services has never existed before (not even under war-crime instigator Blair), so the real labour ‘alternatives’ have never been as focussed/determined and electable as they are now in some seats.
Lost deposits on the part of the democratic left under the inherently anti-democratic FPTP are quite possibly a thing of the past, and we jave Sir Kier of Davos and MI5 to thank for that.
Herr Flick
Did Ken Livingston lose his deposit when he stood for London Mayor
Will Jamie Driscoll win in the North East
Red and Blue Tories are but one domino away from wipe out
My advice to Independents is to agree a pact with the other parties to step aside or stand as one of them
FPTP is on your side against the Uni parties, £20,000 and a bit of organisation and discipline and Bob’s your Auntie
Given that it’s been blatantly obvious for some years now that SH is a troll and a shill, and that a major part of his MO is to post comments contrived to provoke people and wind them up, it’s way, WAY past time for him to be banned from this site, He just totally ruins it, as many posters have said, and he puts people off of posting comments on here, and many others are put off reading the comments section just because of his antics and his infantile fascist games and his disruption of the comments section.
He hasn’t put you off.
You can’t ban people because you dislike what they have to say , no matter how insane. We are either for free speech or we are not. Starmer and his band of brownshirts are afraid of free speech Socialists are for it.
I posted the following comment on Craig Murray’s website about two weeks ago, and I may have posted it on here as well…… I just can’t remember, but here it is anyway:
As the call for a ceasefire grows, and millions around the world march and demonstrate against the mass murder every single day of hundreds of men, women and children and babies in Gaza, the fascists – because THAT is what they are – come up with ever-more pathetic reasons why there shouldn’t be a ceasefire, including Starmer of course, along with Sunak et al, And each and everyone of these lying bastards is complicit in these daily mass murders, and they are lying through their goddam teeth when they claim that they are concerned about the Palestinians. The reality is that these people, as with Netanyahu and Co, are Psycopaths of the highest order, and they know that the vast majority of people don’t have the slightest inkling that they are, and that it is inconceivable to them that they ARE psychopaths. And that is why they can get away with the slaughter of millions, and in this instance, give Netanyahu carte blanch to kill and maim and destroy until his black heart is satiated. You have to understand that these people are mega-sadists and they – like Bush and Blair and Co – get a total rush from this orgy of death and destruction. They are not human in any sense that we – non-psychopaths – think in terms of, and it would be more accurate to call them anti-human.
The reality is that the anti-human psychopaths in the US and Europe have fully endorsed their Israeli psychopath buddies in all they’ve done and been doing for seventy-five years or more, and if and when the issue comes to the fore, as of now, for example, they make all sorts of pronouncements about finding a permanent solution, and do so knowing that when the focus is no longer on the Palestinians, they can just forget all about them until the next crisis arises, which of course is always Israel killing Palestinians en masse one way or another – ie either bombing them or shooting them.
I’ve had the TV on mute whilst typing this out, but a short while ago it came up on the screen that nearly 9,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza [make that 15,000 + around another 5,000 dead under the rubble]. If I remember correctly a journalist asked Starmer yesterday after he finished his B/S speech, how many men, women and children will have to be killed in Gaza before he calls for a ceasefire, and, needless to say, he avoided answering the question, and slithered his way out of it. But how many will it be?! 15,000, 20,000, 25,000, 30,000? 50,000?!!
If, as is almost definitely the case, Netanyahu and Co and Israeli Intelligence knew months before the October 7th attack that Hamas were planning and training for such an attack – and probably even knew the date shortly after it was decided – then if you are evil enough to let the attack go ahead (and do so for a variety of reasons), then I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the ‘events’ in the West Bank in the six/seven months prior to Oct 7th were deliberately instigated so as to warrant posting a large contingent of the IDF there. I mean what a coincidence that ‘troubles’ should arise in the West Bank in the months prior to the attack, and be ongoing at the time of the attack.
In a post on JVL a couple of days ago I copied and pasted a passage from an October 9th Times of Israel article which said the following:
In one of the said warnings, Egypt’s Intelligence Minister General Abbas Kamel personally called Netanyahu only 10 days before the massive attack that Gazans were likely to do “something unusual, a terrible operation,” according to the Ynet news site.
Unnamed Egyptian officials told the site they were shocked by Netanyahu’s indifference to the news and said the premier told the minister the military was “submerged” in troubles in the West Bank. Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big’.
Netanyahu denied it ever happened of course, and for the obvious reason, but given that he knew that Abbas Kamel was contacting him directly because Egyptian Intelligence were aware that nothing had been done in respect of their previous warning(s), Netanyahu was ready with a reason/excuse as to why Israel hadn’t acted on their previous warning(s) – ie because the military was submerged in troubles in the West Bank.
The thing is though that Netanyahu and Co thought they could just ignore the warnings because no-one would ever get to hear about them, and didn’t foresee Egypt making it known that they had warned Israel on a number of occasions of an impending attack.
And the reason Egypt did so – ie let it be known publicly – is because they knew that Netanyahu and Co had deliberately let the attack happen.
It is inconceivable of course that the leader of a country would just ignore such warnings from another country.
But my point of course is that BN and Co and Israeli Intelligence already knew what Hamas were planning long before Egypt initially contacted Israel to warn them, and that is why they instigated ‘events’ in the West Bank. And in case you didn’t see it, the following article on JVL is very revealing:
‘The women soldiers who warned of a pending Hamas attack – and were Ignored’
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/israeli-women-soldiers-warnings-were-ignored/
Please share far and wide and get the truth out there. Thanks
Has the candidate been named yet who is standing against eagle?
I believe not, Paul.
Selecting its PPC is a golem opportunity – sorry, golden opportunity – for LCI to celebrate, harness and thereby strengthen its community roots.
The ‘Dearly Departed’ former members will be watching (and hopefully, £ helping) Alan G and LCI in this.
I believe Lucy Williams is the name – loosely – in the frame, at the moment. She was one of the two LCI Candidates who trounced Labour at the Local Elections, in Garston, last May.
From the Guardian Live Blog on November 3rd:
Palestine Solidarity Campaign says it has no plans to march ‘anywhere near Cenotaph’ on Armistice Day
Rishi Sunak issued a statement earlier saying he wanted the Home Office and the police to ensure Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday events in London next weekend are not disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters. (See 1.25pm.) This is clearly a popular cause on the right. Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK (the successor to the Brexit party) has just put out a statement saying pro-Palestinian marches should be banned in the UK next week and that this ban should be “enforced by all means necessary”. He seems to be taking inspiration from the Tory MP Henry Smith, who has called for the military to be involved.
But the Palestine Solidarity Campaign says it has no intention of organising a demonstration near the Cenotaph anyway. Its director, Ben Jamal, says:
The attempts to frame the planned national demonstration on November 11, part of a cycle of weekly marches calling for a ceasefire, as disrespectful to Remembrance Day commemorations is at best misinformed and at worse an incitement to public disorder. We note with special concern comments by far-right commentators like Douglas Murray calling for people “to come out and stop these barbarians”.
There are no plans to march anywhere near Whitehall or the Cenotaph. We are choosing a route designed to avoid those areas, in consultation with the Metropolitan police. The march will also not begin until some significant time after the two minutes’ silence at 11 o’clock.
This is a march calling for a ceasefire in order to stop the current slaughter in Gaza. To highlight this democratic action taking place on November 11, well away from Whitehall, as disrespectful is dangerous and disingenuous politicking that defames many hundreds of thousands of people who want the current violence to stop.
And later the same day:
Rishi Sunak has described pro-Palestinian protests planned for London on Armistice Day as “provocative and disrespectful”. But Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, accused Sunak of being “deeply irresponsible”. He said:
We have made clear that we have no intention of marching anywhere near Whitehall out of respect for events taking place at the Cenotaph. The march will begin around 1245 nearly 2 hours after the minutes silence of commemoration for the war dead.
Given these facts we are deeply alarmed by members of the government, including the prime minister, issuing statements suggesting that the march is a direct threat to the cenotaph and designed to disrupt the Remembrance Day commemorations. Such statements are encouraging the calls from far right activists and commentators inciting action on the streets to stop the protests taking place, and are deeply irresponsible.
Given the wider context of the previous statements by the home secretary seeking to demonise all of those marching in support of the rights of the Palestinian people, it is clear that these comments are in reality motivated by a desire to suppress widespread public support for an end to Israel’s bombardment of the people of Gaza [and to isolate and marginalise protesters by demonising them].
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/03/labour-keir-starmer-ceasefire-israel-hamas-gaza-rishi-sunak-grant-shapps-uk-politics-latest?page=with:block-654513018f08293ffae52690
About two weeks ago I read somewhere that Stop the War and the other groups involved in organising the big London demos – and who were of course regularly meeting and consulting with the Met Police to plan the demos/marches – put it to the Met a couple of weeks before Armistice weekend that they of course wanted to avoid the commemorations on the Saturday and, as such, their plan for the march that weekend/Saturday was to take a route well away from the Cenotaph, and do so of course out of respect. I forget where I read it, but it wasn’t in the MSM! Probably in an email from StW.
Just came across this Guardian article from November 8th:
‘Jeremy Corbyn calls Hamas ‘terrorist group’ after previous demurral’
Demurral?? WtF is a demurral (apart from sounding like ‘mural’; remember da mural mon). Anyway, here’s a few clips from it:
Jeremy Corbyn has described Hamas as a “terrorist group” in a magazine article after repeatedly refusing to use the term in a television interview earlier this week.
The former Labour leader has written an article accusing the Israeli army of being guilty of “acts of terror too”, arguing that the comparison was necessary because Israel had killed thousands of children in strikes on Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’s attacks.
The MP for Islington North added: “If we understand terrorism to describe the indiscriminate killing of civilians, in breach of international law, then of course Hamas is a terrorist group.
“The targeting of hospitals, refugee camps and so-called safe zones by the Israeli army are acts of terror too; and the killing of more than 11,000 people, half of whom are children, cannot possibly be understood as acts of self-defence……”
In his Tribune article, he wrote: “Ultimately, we do not just have a responsibility to end the bloodshed.
“We have a responsibility to stop bloodthirsty voices from dictating the terms of debate, and to push back against cynical attempts to distract us from our urgent goal: bringing about an immediate ceasefire.”
The Labour leader told the News Agents podcast: “He won’t stand as a Labour MP at the next election or any election.
“His days as a Labour MP are over. We have a changed party.”
Yes, it’s now run and controlled by fascists!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/18/jeremy-corbyn-calls-hamas-terrorist-group-after-previous-demurral
well, semantically they got that right: Demur, verb, to raise objections or show reluctance…
He demurred (raised objection to) austerity, militant zionism, its illegitimate offshoot, apartheid, racism generally and the rigged economy. Starmer, of course, doesn’t.
Brilliant!