Suspended former council leader and his close associate both involved in disciplinary cases – both allies of Tom Watson. Watson’s intervention in one case this week described as ‘appalling’. But […]
Labour NEC member – and Disputes Panel Chair – Claudia Webbe challenged the BBC after the Corporation’s Jo Coburn tweeted a claim that her Politics Live programme had been unable […]
A little-marked change today will have a significant impact on the confidence of Labour members in the handling of serious disciplinary matters. Labour’s National Constitutional Committee (NCC) is the party’s […]
Several NEC members have told the SKWAWKBOX that neither the addition of the remaining ‘IHRA examples‘ to Labour’s Code of Conduct nor the strengthening of protections for free speech and the rights […]
One of the features of recent antisemitism claims about the Labour Party has been a tendency by mainstream media and Labour’s opponents to treat the number of complaints pending as […]
The SKWAWKBOX has covered at considerable length the battle in the London borough of Enfield between a broad coalition of Labour members and officials from all wings of the party […]
In the early hours of this morning, the SKWAWKBOX described the chaos infecting the Labour right in its heartland of Sandwell borough in the West Midlands. That chaos had been manifested […]
The SKWAWKBOX has covered at length the huge controversy in the London Borough of Enfield, where the then-Secretary of Labour’s LCF (local campaign forum) oversaw a deeply-defective selection process in […]
Ian McKenzie is Chair of Lewisham East CLP (constituency Labour party), secretary of Lewisham LCF (Labour local campaign forum) and a die-hard anti-Corbyn factionalist. In the wake of yesterday’s candidate […]
One of the most misleading aspects of recent uproars about the Labour Party is frustration – on the part of those making complaints and the subjects of complaints alike – […]