Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Mr.Bishie]

@LabourEoin Brighton CLP, a massive 6,000 members strong, has just been suspended by Labour HQ after voting overwhelmingly confidence in Jeremy Corbyn.

 

[jakethesnake]

Meanwhile legal challenges, media smear campaigns not entirely in keeping with the comradely behaviour they are suddenly so keen on and NEC meetings every day to move goalposts around.

Meanwhile, meanwhile, over the last couple of weeks I have attempted to find my CLP details and, although I have seen reference that suggests it exists I can't seem to find anything useful like where it meets, email address etc. Not sure I've even allowed to attend with being an affiliate member only.

Have you tried to find your local Momentum group? That might be an easier point of access.

 

[binka]

I heard on the news that the PLP are having a secret ballot to decide which of smith or eagle will go forward to go head to head with Corbyn: looks to me like Smith is the chosen one.

Wonder who Corbyn will vote for

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Warren Morgan's (labour leader Brighton) mask has well & truly slipped, the utter cunt!

 

[Cakes]

This is encouraging from my clp in greenest Tory Surrey

I wanted to send you an update on the current situation in the party.
As many of you will know from media sources there is a Leadership election campaign. Nominations have not closed but the Party's National Executive ruled that the leader Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot. In a latter part of the meeting they voted on a motion which ruled that only members as at 31.12.2015 can vote in the election. Those joining later have a possibility of voting if they pay a supplementary fee of £25. I understand that this fee and registration would have to occur between 18-20 July. The motion was not on the meeting agenda and the vote on it occurred after Jeremy Corbyn and other members of the National Executive had left the meeting. I am very disappointed with this decision. It is undemocratic and unfair. However the situation is fluid and it may yet be reversed! I sincerely hope so.
A further ruling stated that branch and constituency meetings be cancelled during the Leadership election campaign. Again this is a disappointing decision.
Notwithstanding the above our recent branch meeting agreed to meet on the second Tuesday of August(9th). Dependent on rulings from our National Executive this meeting will be either formal or informal....we can organise a "Red Drinks" evening in a local pub. At the same meeting we did discuss the issues in the party. It was a very healthy and comradely discussion where everyone had an opportunity to express their views. The majority at the meeting were disappointed with the Parliamentary Labour Party and were in support of Jeremy Corbyn.
I am very excited by the huge growth in our membership. Nationally and locally we have grown considerably and have a real opportunity to build a mass party which can be a force to change society. I believe that the bureaucratic attempts to stifle democracy can and will be overcome and we, the members, will be able to shape the party. This is a time to stand firm and overcome these challenges.
I will send a further update next week together with meeting minutes etc.

Wow. This is a world away from my CLP's response to the growth in membership!

 

[agricola]

Warren Morgan's (labour leader Brighton) mask has well & truly slipped, the utter cunt!

Not much of a mask, though.

 

[danny la rouge]

@LabourEoin Brighton CLP, a massive 6,000 members strong, has just been suspended by Labour HQ after voting overwhelmingly confidence in Jeremy Corbyn.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Not much of a mask, though.

Oh indeed, bloke's a proto Tory cunt. Suppose it was the Brighton LP vote for discrimination against travellers & the homeless that nailed it today.

 

[mauvais]

What have they been suspended for? Meeting at all?

 

[two sheds]

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Do the NEC meet every day to do this sort of thing?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

What have they been suspended for? Meeting at all?

Warren Morgan doesn't support Corbyn so (apparently) whinged to the NEC.

 

[danny la rouge]

Do the NEC meet every day to do this sort of thing?

I'd guess no.

 

[mauvais]

Warren Morgan doesn't support Corbyn so (apparently) whinged to the NEC.

Of course, I get why, but what's the official, rulebook explanation?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Of course, I get why, but what's the official, rulebook explanation?

Maybe anti-Corbyn "whinging" has been amended to the rule book? You tell me!

 

[Biscuitician]

Surely a split is now inevitable, assuming they can't fuck around with the vote by excluding people.

 

[mauvais]

Maybe anti-Corbyn "whinging" has been amended to the rule book? You tell me!

My guess would be something to do with the NEC's conditional suspension of all CLP meetings, you know, that pesky freedom of association. Even though they're allowed to meet to sort out supporting a candidate, I think.

 

[Lord Camomile]

How do these people not get that the more you try to control this stuff the stronger you make it? I bet there are a handful of anti-Corbyns absolutely despairing at how the majority of them are carrying on making these blunders.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

@LabourEoin Brighton CLP, a massive 6,000 members strong, has just been suspended by Labour HQ after voting overwhelmingly confidence in Jeremy Corbyn.

ffs

 

[Cid]

Can they suspend membership/voting rights?

 

[DotCommunist]

Surely a split is now inevitable, assuming they can't fuck around with the vote by excluding people.

I dunno how deep wider party loyalty goes. How can you admit the project you've been at for so many years is going to shit and you are helping? Its possible I suppose but they seem convinced that everyone else, the entire party is wrong and they are not. Serious cognitive dissonance

 

[MochaSoul]

What does suspension mean?

e2a: Oops, didn't realise Cid had asked the q already

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Can they suspend membership/voting rights?

What does suspension mean?

I am fairly sure it means that the local party organisation has been stopped from carrying out business - i don't see that they could suspend individual membership / voting rights of all the local members (if that's what you mean) - irrespective of whether they have been active / been to meetings / voted

this (about south shields) has a bit about what happens

 

[MochaSoul]

Thanks Puddy_Tat.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Suspension of a CLP means it gets additional oversight from the regional office for its official business. It can still carry on as normal, but all motions and so on have to be ratified by region, and they oversee everything.

It's different to individual members being suspended. It's more like 'special measures.'

Source: him indoors, who oversaw our CLP being brought out of suspension a few years ago.

 

[Vintage Paw]

It is relatively common. I hear there are several CLPs officially suspended at any one time.

Pesky buggers.

 

[newbie]

there's a list of pro- and anti-Corbyn CLPs here, with a few motions of no confidence from mostly inner London constituencies while confidence motions have come from all over the country. It's almost as though a small cabal has infiltrated in the metropolis....

 

[DotCommunist]

the naughty step. Fucking party politics. Pull a stalin while weeping about bullying

 

[Raheem]

there's a list of pro- and anti-Corbyn CLPs here, with a few motions of no confidence from mostly inner London constituencies while confidence motions have come from all over the country. It's almost as though a small cabal has infiltrated in the metropolis....

I make that 80-16. But it's a game of two halves, of course.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Our (part 2 of the) AGM was meant to go ahead tomorrow but instead it's going to be an informal drink at the pub with no official business.

Mostly going for the gossip and to see if I can catch any pokemon along the way

 

[quimcunx]

there's a list of pro- and anti-Corbyn CLPs here, with a few motions of no confidence from mostly inner London constituencies while confidence motions have come from all over the country. It's almost as though a small cabal has infiltrated in the metropolis....

London is the island of red in a sea of blue in the GE and an island of blue labour in a sea of red labour. My CLP that I can't find any details for is anti-Corbyn.