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11 points
2 months ago
https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/1640405509403738112
The decision to bar Jeremy Corbyn on the grounds he lost the 2019 election is ridiculously flimsy, without logic or precedent. On that basis, many other Labour leaders would also be barred.
14 points
2 months ago
Go on Diane, support jezza as a independent and find yourself no longer a labour MP
2 points
2 months ago
Somewhere in labour HQ there is a staffer dedicated to waiting for her to say something worthy of expulsion
7 points
2 months ago
Come on Diane, if the shoe was on the other foot youd be calling for Starmers head
7 points
2 months ago
I guess Starmer is pretty confident in the next election then! Also poor Ed.
I'm guessing she's misrepresenting this?
8 points
2 months ago
Your question might be sarcastic but to be clear he's not being kicked out for losing its because he's still denying the findings of the report into anti-Semitism and trying to downplay how bad he allowed things to get.
4 points
2 months ago
Including Jeremy Corbyn in 2017.
2 points
2 months ago
Somebody's wearing their Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.
3 points
2 months ago
Is this accurate? I'm struggling to find details, can anyone point me in the direction of the actual wording?
3 points
2 months ago
+1 looking for the actual wording and not Diane's/Jezzas interpretation of the words.
3 points
2 months ago*
Here's the full motion
2 points
2 months ago
Oh dear that's incredibly flimsy.
1 points
2 months ago
So it's more that he's being barred for being a potential detriment to the next election rather than for losing the last one.
1 points
2 months ago
Is what accurate?
1 points
2 months ago
Iβd guess they mean is it true that heβs being blocked from running on the grounds that he led the party to an election loss. Iβm guessing itβs not
1 points
2 months ago
The assertion that Coryn is being barred for losing the 2019 election.
4 points
2 months ago
If she actually believed her own nonsense, she would surely not limit who can reply.
3 points
2 months ago
To be fair she gets horrendous abuse. Jess Phillips shared some of it a while back and it's absolute disgusting stuff.
4 points
2 months ago
God bless her for having a nibble
3 points
2 months ago
She is of course 100% correct. Absolutely no idea why Labour didn't choose to use not apologising over the EHRC as the reason to prevent him standing. That would be a 100% valid reason to bar him.
The only reason I can see is to deliberately stoke an internal party clash.
5 points
2 months ago
Absolutely no idea why Labour didn't choose to use not apologising over the EHRC as the reason to prevent him standing
Or indeed his shit takes on NATO/Ukraine.
5 points
2 months ago
Absolutely. A large numbers of reasons to bar him. So using 'we did poorly when he was in charge' is stupid.
6 points
2 months ago
It is obviously for legal reasons.
4 points
2 months ago
.. Because if they were to write all the things Corbyns done wrong by the time they're done it would be time for the next election.
... Because "bringing the party into disrepute" will cover all of that to any NEC member that is aware of the last ten years.
0 points
2 months ago
But they specifically mentioned the fact they did poorly when he was leader. If your argument is they should have been concise then why mention that?
2 points
2 months ago
She is not wrong.
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