Labour candidate says she’s been blocked from standing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3ggv2jxz7go
by Mannersarefree
Labour candidate says she’s been blocked from standing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3ggv2jxz7go
by Mannersarefree
20 comments
Does anyone have the list of tweets that were deemed offensive? The one referenced in the clip is patently true, no? Are we at the point of pretending that there aren’t Zionist entities that organise on behalf of futhering Zionism? I’m saying this as someone who considers themselves a Zionist…
How are you going to bar someone who has stood in that area for so long and the best example of an offensive tweet you can produce is liking what is an objective fact???
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The tankies in Labour have really played themselves this time round. Labour are so far ahead in the polls and the Tories are so disorganised it seems like even Sunaks cabinet aren’t out campaigning with him, so Starmer can purge them with little worry of it distracting from the election. No great loss in the long run in my opinion.
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
If they don’t bar her, because she liked a tweet that referenced the antisemitic trope that Jews are pulling the strings from within “professional organisations”, they get accused of harbouring antisemites and not having learned from their mistakes.
If they do bar her, because she is (now, unbelievably) one of the furthest left candidates in the Labour Party, they get accused of completing their left wing socialist purge of the party.
Not defending them. Just pointing out they can’t actually win here.
And on that note, I’m really interested to see how Reform does at the election. If it does well, I think that opens up a space fora proper left wing party perhaps, not anything to do with Galloway, but a real Socialist party with Corbyn and others to pull at Labour from the left just as Reform do to the Tories from the right.
However, with FPTP I’m guessing Reform aren’t getting any seats at all.
I watched this last night. The revamped Newsnight giving a member, who hadn’t even been chosen as a candidate, 15 minutes of air time to incoherently expose her raw emotion at the unfairness…of not getting the job she craved
It was car crash TV.
should have listened to the only wise thing David Cameron ever said: ‘too many tweets make a twat’
I can’t say the whole ‘I had coffee yesterday with a rabbi’ was particularly convincing either
I’m no fan of the socialist campaign group and Labour left but hard not to feel sympathy for this woman. Seems to have been callously handled, at best. Unquestionably an opportunistic purge. Bad taste in the mouth.
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So basically she has been barred from standing for liking a tweet stating the very obviously true fact that Israel has active and often professional lobbyists who work to drive vocal critics of Israel from positions of influence.
And this has happened on the same day that Labour parachute someone who is literally the director of pro-Israel lobbying group into a safe seat.
Extremely on the nose from Labour
The supposedly antisemitic tweet she liked is publicly available [here](https://x.com/phl43/status/1789653035456643277). You can disagree with the point it’s making, or the language it uses, but I simply do not believe there is a single person on the planet who considers it “an antisemitic trope”.
God Labour really hate the idea of winning don’t they?
All they have to do is shut up and they’ll win one of the biggest majorities in history, but then all these useless twits start pouring out of the woodwork to pull the party down.
I did wonder if Labour/Keir being so far ahead in the polls would mean he could have a free hand in dealing with issues
They have an open goal. They just need to not mess it up. It looks like he is insuring himself against likely gaffs like with this woman and the likes of Abbot
If labour weren’t purging them the press thats complaining about purging them would be up in arms about them being in labour.
Meanwhile labour are doing well so they have to have the worms coming out of the woodwork. This was why they failed so badly last time they had so many random pms like Diane Abbott just spouting any old shit and it looked a mess. Now they are complaining they are clearing them out. We have such a right wing press that it works against the country. A whole day yesterday on the beeb was spent on Abbott who really matters nothing in the grad scheme of the shit going down. But they have to find something. And now they pull out this like its something. Its pathetic.
An equally horrible element of this scandal is that she is a worthy candidate to be a MP. She is teacher at LSE, she has decades of experience working in social inequalities, is a published author, and was born and raised in the constituency she’s standing in, having built a great campaign for the past 5 years.
“Barred from standing for election for anti-semitism compo face”
“Can’t you look deep into my big, sad, puppy-dog eyes and let my Jew hate slide just this once, pwetty pweeze?”
What is it with both the left and right constantly claiming “the jews” act as one gigantic organised group that control everything.
Even her “jewish friends” apparently.
But at the same time she was equally happy to exploit the local jewish community for some PR after Oct 7th by organising a vigil.
Why TF do politicians have twitter? You’re guaranteed to slip up at some stage.
Labour leadership are playing it ultra safe, and responding excessively and without nuance to anybody who does anything that can at all be perceived to be antisemitism or anti Israel.
While I agree that anything anti-Semitic should be struck down, there is nothing wrong with legitimate criticism of Israel. Especially in light of their recent barbarism against explicitly civilian targets.
Some parts of the tweet highlight how the nation of Israel is known for its political lobbying, this is accurate. By using donations/incentives to many politicians, Israel can ensure an immediate chorus of “that is antisemitic” anytime Israel is criticised. This is reinforced by the support of grassroots Jewish civilian movements, whose approval or disapproval of politician X gets regularly cited in print media.
It totally shuts down debate, and is deeply concerning when any foreign state tries to influence our government and democracy.
Before any dishonest actors tries to claim that last statement is somehow an anti-Semitic trope, I will add that it is also concerning how Russia influences our nations politics, notably with Brexit and Tory donations, and how China seems to operate their own police force within our borders.
The only state directly influencing our politics should be the British state.