Hodge reselected after ‘farcical’ hustings and vote
Huge incumbency advantage tells as challengers had only 3 hours to seek postal voters Barking MP Margaret Hodge has been reselected as the constituency party’s candidate after a bizarre meeting […]
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Murray becomes first MP triggered by affiliates – ‘consistently undermined’ party
Unite branches showed anger at ‘centrist’ MP Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray has become the first MP to be triggered, not by local Labour Party members, but by affiliate branches. […]
Triggered London MP ‘reported missing’
A local wag in the London constituency of Ealing Southall has made an eloquent comment on his or her member of Parliament in the form of a tongue-in-cheek poster on […]
Breaking: Ellman quits Labour rather than face trigger
Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman has quit the Labour Party, days before she was due to face a ‘trigger’ ballot by local members on whether to make her face a […]
Breaking: Sharma triggered
Ealing Southall MP loses first three branch votes, meeting trigger threshold Ealing Southall Labour MP Virendra Sharma has been ‘triggered’ by members, forcing the MP to face a full selection […]
Excl video: ‘mayhem’ at Barking AGM
Footage shows just some of the outcry that forced annual general meeting to be abandoned last night As the SKWAWKBOX reported exclusively last night, the annual general meeting of Barking […]
Breaking: ‘absolute mayhem’ at Barking AGM, member threatens to call police on Hodge
Meeting abandoned amid chaos: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it” At the end of last month, the SKWAWKBOX reported that Barking MP Margaret Hodge had been ‘triggered‘ as local members […]
Breaking: Lewell-Buck ‘triggered’ by illegal re-vote
South Shields MP loses branch meeting that originally cast tied vote Popular MP Emma Lewell-Buck has been fighting a campaign of dirty tricks and abuse by the Labour right that […]
Breaking: Phillips survives trigger
Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips has comfortably survived tonight’s four ‘trigger’ votes by local branches. One branch had to be re-balloted because of a discrepancy in the number of votes […]
Urgent call to S Shields members: Emma L-B facing right-wing tricks and abuse in triggers. Remaining votes this week
South Shields MP has suffered long campaign of abuse by local Labour right that has carried over into trigger process South Shields Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck is facing a (so […]