Author: Dave

The courts rule Labour’s Freeze Date for its Leadership elections as ultra-vires, another 130,000 members are to be included. …

Chapter 5 of Labour’s Rules states that selected candidates with less than 12 months membership longevity can be approved by the NEC; so the Totnes candidate was not ineligible as alleged by Ben Bradshaw MP, just not approved by the NEC. So who’s fault is that? …

Four things about Owen Smith’s promise to ban “…former Labour Party staffers, advisers MPs and donors from receiving an honour or becoming a member of the House of Lords”. Firstly, I wonder how many of his supporters this’ll piss off, secondly, should he ever become Prime Minister, an increasingly unlikely event, he’ll find that he needs to make appointments to the House of Lords to, at the least, be part of a Government, thirdly, the timing makes this part of the shameful and sexist smear on Shami Chakrabrti, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Fourthly, what does he have to say about the Whitehall/Business revolving door which is arguably even more corrupt. …

I am fed up hearing about the PLP’s 9m vote mandate. Firstly, the total labour vote is ~8.7m. Secondly just above 5m voted for winning candidates i.e.the members of the PLP, the other 3.7m voted for Labour candidates that lost and thirdly, they won because they were Labour candidates, and that is chosen by the Party membership. Read More …. …

I am advised on facebook that you can still buy the E.P.

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In Cameron’s resignation honour’s list, Jeremy Corbyn nominated Shami Chakrabarti to be a peer, a member of the House of Lords. This has upset some in the Labour Party, and some in the Jewish community. Chakrabarti’s appointment to the House of Lords as a Labour peer is a coup for the Labour Party, her track record in pursuing the defence of human rights and for grown-up adult politics makes her the most appropriate appointment for many years. The attacks by the Jewish community are an attempt to play the person not the ball, as they seek to prolong the smear that Labour is anti-semitic. There is also a subliminal return to the sexist attacks made on her when she was campaigning against the last Labour Government’s plans for a national ID database with David Davies MP because of the implication that she has been unjustly preferred. Labour Party members should be proud that its front bench (or at least its Leader) wants to be associated with such a brave, independent, capable and fair women. I am.

See Also

1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/honours-list-read-full-david-cameron-peers-knighthoods-mbes-nominations-a7172406.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36983112

I noted that the GMB are breaking a mandate from Congress to ask their membership who they want the GMB to nominate for Labour Leader. I received my online credentials earlier this week. As you can see from this screen shot, I used my head!

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I am advised that Labour’s registered supporter sign up page doesn’t have separate billing and ‘delivery’ addresses, a common if not mandatory feature of all online shopping systems. This is one reason why there is an enormous number of failures, allegedly around 50,000. Many people are being rejected because the payments failed (they didn’t supply an accurate billing address), or they’re not on the register (they did supply an accurate billing address but aren’t on the register at that address; this assumes that the Party’s ability to perform this check is error free.) This could have been minimised by recording both addresses or using paypal. …

The Jewish Chronicle reports that Shami Chakrabarti’s enquiry had access to the results of the Royall inquiry into Oxford University Labour Club and is failing to document whether she’d seen it. They major on the fact that Royall discovered evidence of acts of anti-semitism at Oxford University Labour Club but Royall descoped individual acts from her report as she stated she believed that the Party or University’s disciplinary code should be invoked. She (Royall) also argues for more training and is confused as to how far back people should be investigated for evidence of anti-semitism.

My red line is that the Labour Party must not put its disciplinary process in between a perpetrator and the police and courts. I think the language the rules use around culprits of electoral fraud, which is non-compromising should be used and her argument that there should be no statute of limitations is also unacceptable to me. …