Seat Corbyn won from LibDems in 2018 rejects Starmer
Keir Starmer’s Labour has thrown away a seat in the London borough of Hackney that Labour won overwhelmingly under Corbyn. The Cazenove by-election was won by the Tories, who managed only single digits in the last election:
Cazenove’s population is around 40% Charedi Jewish and 40% Muslim. Locals say that the Labour vote collapsed among Muslims and some Charedis – who, unlike the prevailing right-wing narrative that Israel is central to Jewish identity, generally do not support the modern state of Israel – because of Starmer’s complicity in the Gaza genocide.
But the catastrophic loss is also a microcosm of Labour’s anti-democratic, visionless and frankly incompetent approach to politics, as former Labour speechwriter Alex Nunns pointed out:
The Prole Star page added a screenshot from a local London site:
Labour is also said to have blocked a union-backed prospective candidate from standing in the seat.
The result again exposes the nonsense of Starmer’s claim to have ‘professionalised’ the party and to have made it appealing to ‘Jewish voters’ – apparently Charedis are considered ‘the wrong type of Jew’ for the Labour right. It also highlights – again – the cynical and anti-democratic manoeuvrings that have characterised Labour’s selections and campaigns since the Starmer regime began.
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