Sadly Newham voted to retain it’s Mayoral system. a statement is posted to the campaign blog. repeated on twitter and I created a thread unroll for the tweet thread here. …
10 more years, for Newham’s Mayoralty
Democracy Threatened
Daniel Blaney wrote a piece on the suspension of the Newham Labour Parties on the Labour Briefing site. The article gives some context, documents the NEC’s hesitance in getting involved in the mayoral reselection last time round, but this quote, may sum up his fears.
…the local Left has very strong reservations, and fears this will lead to a longer term frost in local democracy when we had hoped for a thaw, – there is no doubt that Newham Labour politics needs to be cleaned up, something the wider party apparatus has neglected for a very long time.
Daniel Blaney – Labour Briefing
The last sentence is key, neither the London Regional Office, nor the NEC seem to be safe guardians of democracy and even decency. We need to do better. …