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Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

I got this piece of shite through my inbox earlier today:-

In recent months there has been a marked increase in reports of intimidation and threatening behaviour taking place at party meetings. Whilst the NEC recognises that the majority of our members hold vigorous yet collegiate meetings, the NEC has a duty of care for individuals who feel that their safety is threatened. It was therefore saddened to have to take the decision to suspend all normal party meetings at CLP and branch level until the completion of the leadership election.

However, in recognition that there is some essential business which must be agreed by CLPs, the NEC has made a number of exceptions to this suspension while this timetable is in place.

Meetings able to go ahead as agreed by the NEC include those:
  • Meetings solely for the purpose of making a supporting nomination in the leadership contest and for essential Annual Conference business
  • Campaign planning meetings for by-elections or devolved mayor campaigns
  • Any other meetings (Such as Executive Committee meetings) with the explicit permission of the Regional Director (General Secretary).
Meetings which go ahead under these exceptions will not consider ordinary motions or other business, except as explicitly agreed by the Regional Director.

This means any CLP meeting already scheduled should be postponed until after the completion of the leadership election. This is with immediate effect.
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So, in effect I am paying subs to a group that is no longer allowed to meet. If people are displaying threatening behaviour the police should be called. Otherwise, people should be allowed to meet. If this had been South Africa 30 years ago people the same arseholes writing this tripe would have been marching with placards.
 
By the way, have they managed to be specific about this 'intimidation'? Beyond Angela Eagle's brick of destiny, have any of the 'victims' managed to say what form it took?

In most of these meetings where the Corbynites have taken over, presumably the chair up till that point was a Blairite. If things were so intimidating, why did the chair not suspend the meeting?
 
Biscuitician said:
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If Liam Neeson turns up, I'm voting fucking Tory...
 
Having chaired numerous meetings I can't imagine how you could be intimidated unless people were actually threatening to beat the shit out of you.
 
Wilf said:
By the way, have they managed to be specific about this 'intimidation'? Beyond Angela Eagle's brick of destiny, have any of the 'victims' managed to say what form it took?

In most of these meetings where the Corbynites have taken over, presumably the chair up till that point was a Blairite. If things were so intimidating, why did the chair not suspend the meeting?
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Nothing that I've heard about, no members named, no specific claims.
 
SpookyFrank said:
That so many of them are going along with this madness is hard to credit. OK, maybe they all genuinely think Corbyn needs to go, but is there nobody who at least realises that the way they're going about it is doomed to failure?

They were never going to be able to stop CLPs meeting, they have no conceivable right or authority to do so. God only knows what their next scheme will be once this one fails.
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These are people who are in their positions because of the work of their CLPs yet they now want to shut their sponsors up? Their arrogance is unbelievable, can only hope the CLPs get their act together and deselect the bastards.
 
Attended a 'non-meeting' of the local clp earlier with a better turnout than regular meetings. A lot of anger at the decision to suspend formal meetings as well as cut off date and the situation in general. The anger seemed evenly spread, amongst anti-Corbyn people as well as the pro and suspect the general clampdown will backfire and counteract (at least in part) any drift from Cornyn amongst older members.
 
FabricLiveBaby! said:
Oh my, can anyone can confirm this is true?

If so it's a doozy! I *really* hope this has legs.

Basically it says that Eagle missed the cut off for triggering a leadership race by two weeks... which she was involved in setting

lol.

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*Parks tank on the NEC's lawn*
eta having read brogdale's link below stalls tank and pisses off for a brew.
 
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brogdale said:
Difficult to say without sight of the claimed October decision. Who knows with the LP?
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true, but it reads like he'd got the rulebook in front of him when writing that post. The rules you posted have definitely only come out in the last few days, since the NEC meeting.

It'd probably be best all round if they could find a proceduraly reason to end this farce and spend the summer uniting to attack the tories rather than forcing the party to grind to a halt across the country for 3 months, disenfranchising 150k members and seeking to get as many other members as possible kicked out to attempt to jerimander the leadership election. It's not as if either of the challengers have got their campaign off to a flying start or look like significantly better leaders than Corbyn.

Prob won't happen, but could avoid a lot of messiness and a potential split in the party.
 
  1. A strong democracy as the Tories lurch to the right
  2. A Labour party that can win elections and deliver radical change
  3. A Labour party that can deliver for everyone
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What variety of radical change are they thinking of?
 
free spirit said:
true, but it reads like he'd got the rulebook in front of him when writing that post. The rules you posted have definitely only come out in the last few days, since the NEC meeting.

It'd probably be best all round if they could find a proceduraly reason to end this farce and spend the summer uniting to attack the tories rather than forcing the party to grind to a halt across the country for 3 months, disenfranchising 150k members and seeking to get as many other members as possible kicked out to attempt to jerimander the leadership election. It's not as if either of the challengers have got their campaign off to a flying start or look like significantly better leaders than Corbyn.

Prob won't happen, but could avoid a lot of messiness and a potential split in the party.
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Really doesn't look like any procedural fix can sort this out now, and whichever side it came from it would rightly be seen as just as much of an anti-democratic stitch-up as the various attempts that have already been made.
 
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