Keir Starmer


Please read our below statement from the EC
Resignation statement on behalf of Copeland Labour Party Executive Committee & Copeland Parliamentary Selection Committee
In 2020, after he became Labour Party Leader, Sir Keir Starmer said that local Labour members should be able to select their candidates, and that “the party should be at the forefront of championing diversity.”
What we’ve seen, in reality, is the opposite. Local members in Copeland have been denied a vote and a voice by the National Executive Committee. Members in Copeland have been denied a fair selection process, and will not get to choose their own candidate.
The national party has blocked our long-serving Copeland Constituency Labour Party secretary, Cllr Joe Ghayouba, from the long-list of candidates.
Joe is not only a popular local councillor. As secretary he led us to a landslide Cumberland election victory in the 2022 local elections. Joe is a Muslim of Egyptian descent. He fits firmly into the “BAME” group as defined by the Labour Party, for whom rules state there must be at least one representative on any Prospective Parliamentary Candidate long-list. Considering that just a few days ago it was reported by Channel 4 News that Black Labour MPs fear speaking out on issues of race within the party, we should be doing all we can to support members and candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds, rather than blocking them when they stand.
We are particularly disturbed as a CLP Executive Committee to learn that “evidence” brought up at Joe’s due diligence interview centred on a photograph taken by a criminal former Labour councillor. This former councillor, who is currently in prison for child sex offences, waged a racist campaign against Joe and his young family, which was subject to a police investigation. It is beyond comprehension that Labour’s national executive gave credence to such “evidence” in an internal Labour Party selection.
As a result, and in the face of this shameless disregard for democracy and the rights oflocal members, we feel we cannot give legitimacy to an illegitimate process by continuing to serve on the Copeland Labour Party Parliamentary Selection Committee, and are also resigning with immediate effect from our roles as members of the Executive Committee of Copeland Labour Party.
In Solidarity,
Cllr Jean Murray, Executive Committee Chair, Selection Panel member,
Cllr Linda Jones-Bulman, Executive Committee Vice Chair, Selection Panel member and Former Copeland Mayoral Candidate,
Cllr Nicholas Graham, Membership Secretary, Executive Committee and Selection Panel member
Margaret Lamb, Executive Committee Treasurer, Selection Panel member,
Cllr Mike Hawkins, Executive Committee Member and Selection Panel Procedures Secretary,
Flo Hanlon, Woman’s Officer, Executive Committee member,
Karl Connor, Executive Committee and Selection Panel member,
Cllr Graham Minshaw, Executive Committee and Selection Panel member,
Cllr Tony Lywood, Executive Committee member and 2019 Copeland Parliamentary Candidate, Cllr Robert White, Communications Officer, Executive Committee and Selection Panel member, Stan Sanczuk, Executive Committee member.
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Media silence in comparison to former leaders is deafening.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
I’ll stop at your first sentence. In this day there is no right or left,
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As i stated, their is right and further right, there is no choice.
The Future’s Blue! said:
there is only those who want to take and those who at least want to earn their corn, or is it quorn?
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As long as the rights are in power the corn will be taken by those with most at the expense of those with least.
The Future’s Blue! said:
Your choice, whether you want to make it or not, is if you want a better living now or for the near future. Sticking with the same then you get fucked. Deciding to change then you will probably be less fucked. Sticking with ideology and then you don’t do anything for yourself or anybody in the future.
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I wish the Labour right had that attitude.
The Future’s Blue! said:
We all have choices and whether it’s Green, Lib Dem’s, MRLP, it all has influence and maybe one day leads to the utopia that you wish to see.
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Why is the left always described as wanting a utopia? If it is fairness, equality, human rights that constitutes utopianism, then count me the fuck in.
The Future’s Blue! said:
Personally, I’ll look at where we are and work out the probability of where we will be, and the Tories aren’t what I want to see for either the near, middle or distant future.
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I despise the Tories, I hate them with a passion, but what is the point of them being replaced by a Tory lite version?

My life will not be improved by a party funded by private healthcare providers and backed by nefarious groups like the LFI. It is a party with serious issues with racism, not only anti semitism but anti black and muslim racism too. It is a fucking cesspit of hate as the Copeland debacle has shown.

As long as this current shower of Labour cunts hold sway, its a massive NO from me, they hate people like myself more than they hate the real threat, so fuck them.
 
Rascal said:
As i stated, their is right and further right, there is no choice.

As long as the rights are in power the corn will be taken by those with most at the expense of those with least.

I wish the Labour right had that attitude.

Why is the left always described as wanting a utopia? If it is fairness, equality, human rights that constitutes utopianism, then count me the fuck in.

I despise the Tories, I hate them with a passion, but what is the point of them being replaced by a Tory lite version?

My life will not be improved by a party funded by private healthcare providers and backed by nefarious groups like the LFI. It is a party with serious issues with racism, not only anti semitism but anti black and muslim racism too. It is a fucking cesspit of hate as the Copeland debacle has shown.

As long as this current shower of Labour cunts hold sway, its a massive NO from me, they hate people like myself more than they hate the real threat, so fuck them.
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Do you honestly think that things can change overnight and that you personally will be transformed overnight?

You feel you’ve been let down, I get it, but whatever happens, it won’t happen to your satisfaction that fast.

I don’t often use Corbyn as even though I voted for him I knew it was a vote to nothing, but he, and those who pushed so far, are a part of what we see now. Allowing the far-right to get such a majority by standing aside in certain votes was an absolute failure of leadership, all in order to have no vote in what the Tories wanted.

Fine lines, small margins, Labour failed and it will take a long time to get back to where you want.
 
His joke there about Braverman being unable to cope with points-based systems was surprisingly good.
 
Man is a charlatan I’m afraid.
No to FOM, SM or CU. “We will make Brexit work”, ffs…
Immigration. “A ‘better’ plan than the Tories…
Civil Rights Law. “We will not change it but let it ‘bed in’.
“No money for the NHS, just more reform”.
PR? ”I don’t think so”.

What is the point of him if he could actually be in charge of the ‘old’ Tory Party?
 
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