Weakness and vanity of Labour regime exposed as Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, who was running Farage and Tories close, told never to return to Clacton
Labour has withdrawn support from its Black Clacton candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul – because he was outshining Keir Starmer. In a move signalled by insiders to Skwawkbox three weeks ago but which could not be verified at the time, Labour has cut off the Owusu-Nepaul campaign’s access to its canvassing software and refused to provide any more campaign materials.
Instead, it has ordered Owusu-Nepaul to campaign for other candidates in the West Midlands and he appears to have complied, despite polling only a couple of points behind Farage and the Tory candidate last week. A Labour source has been reported as admitting:
At one point [Owusu-Nepaul] was getting more retweets than Keir Starmer. The officials were furious with him and said he was distracting [from] Starmer’s campaign.
A campaign event at a local theatre for Clacton voters to meet Owusu-Nepaul has been cancelled with no explanation beyond ‘unforeseen circumstances’:
Owusu-Nepaul’s campaign manager wrote to party general secretary David Evans:
Jovan was told to never come back to Clacton, and yesterday, was instructed to move to the West Midlands region.
I’m concerned there will be follow-on questions: members, supporters and more worryingly donators will be both angry and upset that it appears like the party that they have a great hope in isn’t doing anything to show a battle front to what many see as a catastrophe not only for Clacton, but for the parliamentary system entirely…
…Now I have no candidate to put in front of the people for them to see us at least trying to ‘Save Clacton’. “This could be very damaging to the party’s image.
Labour has also withdrawn system access from a number of other candidates considered not to be neglecting their own campaigns to work hard enough in the seats of favoured right-wingers.
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Surprised?
Me neither.
“Country before party”. Loosely translated: “starmer uber alles”
Egocentric, muculent twunt.
“Country (Israel) before party.”
I don’t believe this, the candidate can’t have been stood down because he was outshining Starmer as that would mean standing down hundreds of other candidates.
A theme used by Starmer in recent debates is that he wants to see a ‘return to service’ and is concerned about a sense of entitlement.
Starmer recently attended a show by Taylor Swift in London. Now, there is a far greater chance that the Conservatives will win the next election than that he paid for the tickets himself!
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/240528/starmer_keir.htm
Now, there is a far greater chance that the Conservatives will win the next election than that he paid for the tickets himself!
Yep. Probably to the tune of around £750** pp. That’s on top of all the hospitality freebies he’s had at the footy. Then there’s wimbers to come next week…How often has he been at centre court with the pimms & strawberries & cream gratis? .
A far from exhaustive list.
On a par with the bliars with the shameless freeloading.
But then again, it’s ten years for someone making a mistake on their benefit claim form…
**Or about 2 months universal credit
This from the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/26/labour-not-putting-up-a-fight-against-farage-in-clacton
Which confirms that;
“dozens of Labour candidates have been blocked from accessing the party’s canvassing systems, which help them drum up support from voters, because they were deemed not to be campaigning enough in target seats.
…..see below
……..
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/21/labour-candidates-penalised-for-not-campaigning-enough-in-battleground-seats
“Dozens of Labour candidates have been blocked from accessing the party’s canvassing systems, which help them drum up support from voters, because they were deemed not to be campaigning enough in target seats.
In some cases, candidates who have been campaigning every day in battleground seats they are twinned with – as instructed to by Labour HQ – in parts of the home counties and Essex, have still lost their access to key software as their seats are considered either very safe or simply not winnable.
“People in non-battleground seats who are working really hard to gain attention and secure non-Labour voters and could even potentially win have suddenly lost access to this,” a source said. “Some candidates have even been told to stop doing too much because their campaigns are gaining traction.””
When a political party treats its own candidates and members in such a spiteful and cavalier manner it will certainly treat the citizenry in the same way if it ever forms and administration.
One waits with eager anticipation for the sycophantic excuses which Billy no mates (SteveH) is going to offer in the usual pathetic attempt to mitigate this nonsense?
I just hope it costs them many, many seats. I’ve been saying for a while that IF they form the next government, they’ll do it with as many marginals (of 3k or lower) as may & de piffle had.
And on a shite turnout, as well.
It’ll be no skin off my nose; replacing one set of toerags with another ain’t gonna benefit me and people like me.
Okay, lets see if I’ve got this correct?
Non-favoured (ie not one of the Starmer clique) Labour party members – having gone through whatever passes for the process of Parliamentary candidate selection – are being denied the opportunity to become an MP by an authoritarian diktat which not only denies them and their local party constituency organisation access to the data systems necessary to campaign for their seats in the election but also to cease campaigning in that seat.
A situation not that far away from being invited to apply for a job but being denied the opportunity to submit a CV/Resume and attend an interview for that job. giving other candidates for that job an unfair advantage.
Moreover, one wonders how this relates to these particular provisions of the PPERA 2000:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/41/section/148
“148 General offences.
(2)Where the relevant person in the case of a supervised organisation, or a person acting on his behalf, requests a person holding an office in any such organisation (“the office-holder”) to supply the relevant person with any information which he reasonably requires for the purposes of any of the provisions of this Act, the office-holder commits an offence if—
(a)without reasonable excuse, he fails to supply the relevant person with that information as soon as is reasonably practicable, or
(b)in purporting to comply with the request, he knowingly supplies the relevant person with any information which is false in a material particular.
(3)A person commits an offence if, with intent to deceive, he withholds—
(a)from the relevant person in the case of a supervised organisation, or
(b)from a supervised individual,
any information required by the relevant person or that individual for the purposes of any of the provisions of this Act.”
—————————————————————-
Because it certainly cannot be denied that information reasonably required for the purposes of conducting an election – which is the very purpose of PPERA 2000 – is being deliberately withheld. from candidates participating in the election.
Perhaps it is time to make an official announcement that the UK is a bona fide Banana Republic.
Which is strange because the first thing that will happen after the election is Nigel will become leader of the Cheap and Nasties, which he can’t if he hasn’t got a seat
Looks like the Fuhrer is carrying on his sterling work from 2019 for the Tories, like all good kleptocrats he will get his £20 million after he leaves office, for services rendered
Farage, as we have seen in the past couple of weeks, is just another UI stooge whose role is to take ownership of critiques of specific narratives – which should be coming from the political left – for the extreme right with the express purpose of those critiques being associated with the extreme right.
Thus placing an effective cordon sanitaire around those critiques discouraging the political left from making those critiques for fear of being labelled “far right.”
A process we already witnessing on this site.
Starmer effectively giving Farage an open goal for the seat in Clacton will only further encourage and spread as the norm a Britain where this kind of thing becomes commonplace:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/06/asian-brewdog-worker-sacked-after-raising-concerns-about-edl-presence
An Asian female turns up for work to find her workplace is hosting the EDL for a St George’s Day rally in London and when she complains she is dismissed.
Starmer – and he obviously is not the only one on this point – has a major problem with the concept of women. He also has a problem with any ethnicity which is not part of Jungle Joe Borrell’s “Garden”. Hence his treatment of Jovan Owusu-Nepaul in Clacton allowing Farage a free ride to become MP for the seat.
The creature – because it certainly does not qualify as a man – should not be trusted to count the railings. British society is becoming a whole lot uglier as a result of people like Starmer and those who support him.
Dave – I thought that this recently published list of political party donations (for the 3rd week of the election campaign) would interest you.
Co-operative Party – £34,000
Conservative Party – £375,000
Green Party – £20,000
Labour Party – £3,309,918 (over 80% of this weeks donations)
Liberal Democrats – £193,945
Reform UK – £99,000
Workers Party of Britain – £12,000
Total – £4,043,863
Billy, do come back to us if the Starmeroids ever manage to catch up to that £17 million funding gap from 2023 that they’ve been whinging about in their emails.
PS: Money, as your nazi penis playing piano comedian friend from Kiev is finding out, is no good if you don’t have the troops and equipment to sustain a campaign on the ground, at the coal face.
Now I wonder which numpty and his sycophantic cheerleaders pissed off their own troops to the extent of having to pull their own candidates out of Constituencies to focus on getting sufficient campaigners on the ground in other constituencies even in the face of a collapse in the vote of the Government vote?
How inept can you get. And thse wassocks are really going to run the country? Yeah! Right Billy.
Meanwhile, in this neck of the woods – a former Red Wall seat which is a target seat – the Labour Party candidate did not even bother turning up for the public hustings with the other candidates which was organised by the local Community Forum.
Probably ordered by Britain’s answer to Worzal Cummidge to help campaign in another seat because all those nasty little left wingers who do all the donkey workhave been purged out of the Party.
Dave – Come back and tell us all about it on Friday.
Billy, be sure to come back any time from this coming Friday and lecture us all from your safe haven how wonderful we are all doing under the Continuity Conservatives.
Dave – Is that before or after we’ve had a discussion about all the ‘independents’ who lost their deposits?
Which ones Billy?
Traditional Unionist Voice?(R/w);
Greens? (L/w);
Reform? (R/w);
Alba?(Nationalist);
Worker Party of Britain? (L/w)
Women’s Equality Party? (Single Issue);
Party of Women? (Single Issue);
Scottish Greens? (Who knows?);
Sinn Fein? (CL/w)
Social Justice? (L/w);
National Flood Prevention Party? (single Issue);
British Unionist Party? (R/w);
Mebyon Kernow/(CL/w);
Yorkshire Party?(CL/w);
North East Party (CL/w);
Gwlad (CR/w);
Propel? (?);
Plaid Cymru? (Nationalist)
People Before Profit? (L/w)
Progressive Unionist Party? (CL/w)
Dave – We’ll know on Friday.
And after Friday?
Oh, yeah! I’m forgetting. After Friday does not matter because the “real” issue here Is not about the Country it all about whether little Billy no mate’s team “win”.
Dave – “And after Friday?”
You’ll still be trying to convince yourself how clever you are, you still won’t have anything coherent to offer the electorate and come the 2028/29 election you still won’t have progressed beyond incessantly bleating.
How would you know Billy from where you are (allegedly)?
The implicit contextual premise you are attempting to sell that there exists this mythical level playing field in which ideas and policies are objectively presented and assessed is abject nonsense.
A fairy tale which only the permanently baffled such as yourself, Billy, are gullible enough to swallow to the extent of unwittingly regurgitating such fantasies.
The Starmer junta have totally expunged anyone from any and every party position or influence at every level not just on the political left but also the traditional political right throughout what passes for the LP . Much as I disagree with the former Deputy leader of our city council, who lives only a 100 yards away, and the rest of what was colloquially and unofficially known as “the fat blokes club”, what was done to them was beyond the pale. Even the left felt sorry for them.
They are now what you disparagingly refer to as independent Councillors. Not from the political left but from the traditional political right.
Meanwhile, a media owned and controlled by a handful of of corporate entities viciously attacks and misrepresents any idea, policy or narrative that differs from a narrow Official Narrative whether from the left or the right. Pumping out a daily level of propaganda that would make even Berney blush.
Even Farage, someone who is approved of when it comes to immigration and Brexit, is vilified when he strays outside that ever narrowing Overton window. As was demonstrated recently. Point being that even the political right do not get a fair hearing when they stray outside The Official Narrative.
That political lockdown will not, however, long survive the malign incompetence of your second eleven. The metaphorical fat lady has yet to finish singing.
Rank approach by Starmer. I visited Clacton this week. Here is my reporting: https://theleftlane2024.substack.com/p/whats-the-best-way-to-challenge-farage
Narcissists like Starmer always end up metaphorically shooting themselves in the head with their own incompetence and hubris.
When economically illiterate weekly comic books like the Economist declare in favour of Starmer, as reported here….
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/06/28/the-foxes-really-do-look-like-they-have-taken-over-the-chicken-run/
…..it is obvious to a blind man on a galloping horse that the Country and its populace are going to continue to be driven at high speed over the edge of the cliff.
As Murphy quite accurately (despite being the academic equivalent of John McEnroe as a result of his fragile ego) observes in the above link; “the foxes have taken over the chicken run’.
The oligarch’s present front man Starmer has screwed up in a real world practical sense everything he has touched his entire career. The latest example being that of having to pull activists and candidates from dozens of constituencies to canvass and campaign elsewhere because all those nasty ‘lefties’ which he and his junta have waged war on and abused for years and who have always done all that kind of donkey work have downed tools and rightly given him and his ilk the finger.
When – not if – things start to go belly up there will be no hiding place for this pathetic cipher with his permanent frightened rabbit expression. Nor will there be any hiding place for the cheerleaders and apologists of what he stands for.
Dave – Is anyone surprised that ‘the left’ have wasted the last 4 years by yet again failing to get their act together and unite? I wonder how your resulting disparate ragbag collection of ‘independents’ will fare.
Thankfully we don’t have long to wait, we’ll know in just a few days.
The “left” have certainly been too loyal in trying to save the Labour Party from the nonsense you are pushing Billy.
Besides, as history demonstrates via the lengthy process of the LP replacing the Liberals as the main opposition, it takes a lot longer than four years to build a national organisation with an organised presence across every Parliamentary Constituency. Inertia, traditional voting habits for established brands, a hostile media ready to smear anyone venturing outside the ever narrowing Overton Window, financing and so on providing obstacles established entities do not face.
(Hence the attempts – futile in my view – to continue fighting the corner in one the established political party entities.)
A problem just as evident on the political right – ask Farage how many times he’s tried to break the mold. Though this time your oligarchs little marionette has left the field open for him in Clacton and disenfranchised Labour voters in that and other constituencies because of his ineptness in waging war on the political left who provide all the troops who do all the campaigning donkey work.
The LP now being so thin on the ground in terms of foot sloggers it has to abandon its own voters even in a situation where the Government vote has collapsed. When he cannot run his own party effectively what makes you think he’s going to be any better running the Country Billy?
Oh! Of course. I forget. You don’t give a shit about the way the country is run as long as “your team wins”.
Moreover, your line of argument fails to deal with the practical realities I have referred to. Wrongly assuming that the only thing that matters is “your team winning.” A childish mentality for someone who will not have to deal with the consequences of a choice you want to push down other peoples throats.
And that’s all you’ve got Billy. “Nah! Nah!, Nah! Nah! Nah! My teams going to win on Thursday.”
How pathetic and puerile.
Meanwhile, here’s the first of what is certainly going to be many ‘Stats for Starmeroids’ like yourself Billy. Suck it up and enjoy:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/29/three-quarters-of-labour-voters-say-woman-cannot-have-penis/
75% of Labour voters – not 75% of biological women Labour voters but 75% of ALL Labour voters – disagree with the Party policy on this key issue of material reality.
Dave – I see that you are getting your well rehearsed excuses in early. I am looking forward to you explaining on Friday how Labour won because they got their canvassing strategy wrong.
“When he cannot run his own party effectively what makes you think he’s going to be any better running the Country Billy?”
Isn’t that what the electorate justifiably said about Corbyn when they voted with their feet in 2019? In Dec19 the electorate gave their verdict on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership skills and on Thursday they will give their verdict on Keir Starmer’s leadership skills.
ps: have you read SKWAWKBOX’s article on Ms Duffield?
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/06/26/duffields-ex-staffer-and-local-author-dismantle-lazy-frit-labour-right-winger/
Whether you like it or not Billy the reality – from those us who were actually here on the ground rather than someone like yourself pontificating from afar about matters to which you know nothing – 2019 was ALL about Brexit. Not Corbyn or the political left per se.
And that was all down to your boy Starmer and his ilk – once again, as in 2017, deliberately undermining any alternative on behalf of his oligarch donor class – with able assistance from a rabid media.
As regards Duffield; Whether she, like yourself, is as idle as Ludlum’s dog as claimed is neither here nor there. It does not negate the basic facts of a position based on objective reality.
As noted here……
https://www.holyrood.com/editors-column/view,women-wont-wheesht-keir-starmer-needs-to-listen
…..”Why do politicians like Starmer still not understand that by moving the goalposts to make it easier for a man to declare himself a woman, you inevitably increase the risks to women by opening that single-sex security door just a little bit wider to let more men through?
It’s not rocket science and Harriet Harman, once the Mother (or Person) of the House, can be as “baffled” as she likes but the net effect of watering down the legal protections for female-only services puts women at risk and erodes their pre-existing rights…..
….right now, the party is all over the place on even its legal understanding of what it is to be a woman, never mind on the biology.”
However, do tell us Billy, in what way do claims from a vociferous minority who label anyone who disagrees with them as a TERF that Rosie Duffield is a bone idle grifter negate the Gender Critical position and the genuine fears of the majority of even Labour voters on this issue?
We are all ears.
Dave – “However, do tell us Billy, in what way do claims from a vociferous minority who label anyone who disagrees with them as a TERF that Rosie Duffield is a bone idle grifter negate the Gender Critical position and the genuine fears of the majority of even Labour voters on this issue?”
Where did I say that they did?
Did you actually bother to read the article in full before responding?
Yes. The gist of the said Skwawkbox article, which was read the day it appeared on this site, details claims that Rosie Duffield is not properly performing her duties as an MP and is using security concerns over her Gender Critical stance as an excuse. It cites a number of sources among which are specific groups from the diametrically opposite position.
The clue is even in the title – “lazy frit labour right winger.”
Does the content of this article in any way differ from the way it was described in the post of 08:48pm today, 30/06/24 to justify the question “Did you actually bother to read the article in full before responding”?
As to your rhetorical question “Where did I say that they did”
Here Billy: ” I am looking forward to you explaining on Friday how Labour won because they got their canvassing strategy wrong.”
Canvassing, having actually done the job, involves, among other features, selling your policies on the doorstep. You clearly think, from thousands of miles away (allegedly) that the LP has it right on this issue not wrong. On that particular matter of policy I beg to differ.
As do 75% of Labour voters.
The question is therefore valid and remains unanswered. Get on with it.
Dave – My question wasn’t rhetorical and you have yet to answer it.
Whether you like it or not Billy it has been answered:
“Here Billy: ” I am looking forward to you explaining on Friday how Labour won because they got their canvassing strategy wrong.”
Canvassing, having actually done the job, involves, among other features, selling your policies on the doorstep. You clearly think, from thousands of miles away (allegedly) that the LP has it right on this issue not wrong. On that particular matter of policy I beg to differ.
As do 75% of Labour voters.
The question is therefore valid and remains unanswered. Get on with it.”
If you don’t like the answer that’s your problem not mine. Deal with it and stop mardy arsing.
On another matter
Gareth Southgate has created a new style of Football
It’s called ‘Tikki Kaka
The sporting equivalent of what passes for politics and governance throughout the Collective West.