Labour leadership

[Ruchi Gupta]

Ed Miliband right, stopping unfair 0hrs contracts is part of immigration policy. Dodgy firms exploit immigration to undercut . Unfortunately, None of these people on that stage engage with the generation of today .
Thanks,
Ruchi Varshney

 

[Santino]

You're welcome.

 

[belboid]

and the rest of the article:

senior Labour figures who are concerned that the party’s vetting process is not robust enough to remove all entryists with only a week to go until the first ballot papers are sent out. The vote closes on September 10.
A Labour insider said that the party’s central operation had started to panic about the potential scale of entryism. It has attempted to strengthen the operation by drafting in staff from its headquarters in Westminster to do batches of vetting. There have even been rumours that the vote will have to be delayed.
On Wednesday Harriet Harman, acting party leader, wrote to MPs urging vigilance against entryism. Each Labour MP has been sent data on local new members to check for suspicious names and those who do not “share Labour’s values”. The failure to spot senior rival party members, many of whom stood against Labour figures in the election, is likely to cause concern.
Liz Davies was a member of Left Unity’s ruling body until this summer and has signed up to vote in the Labour contest without being detected. Although she claims she resigned from Left Unity when she registered, she is still listed online as a member of the party’s ruling body and has not been contacted by Labour to verify her status.
Mark Serwotka, the left-wing head of the Public and Commercial Services trade union, which has around 250,000 members, has also signed up undetected to vote, despite being a harsh critic of Labour in the recent past. He confirmed that he registered shortly after Mr Corbyn won a place on the ballot paper in June.
Labour refused to comment on individual cases, but a source insisted: “Anybody identified as a public critic of the party or seen to do it down will not be given a ballot paper.” It argued that it will verify all new recruits before the vote, checking them against the names of senior members of other parties.
All Labour leadership contenders and their teams have been given access to new recruits’ data to allow them to pitch to them. The data is updated weekly, with a list of blacklisted recruits passed on. It is understood that no banned recruits were passed on last week, while 700 were sent the week before and 50 the week before that.
The revelations follow reports yesterday that 100 Green party candidates had been caught having registered to vote in the Labour leadership contest.

 

[imposs1904]

and the rest of the article:

From that article: “Anybody identified as a public critic of the party or seen to do it down will not be given a ballot paper.”

Does that mean that Jeremy Corbyn won't be getting a ballot paper?

 

[Rob Ray]

and the rest of the article:

So 29 people out of 180,000 are entryists. Panic! that's nearly one in 6,000! OOOHH the humanity.

Entertainingly, in percentage terms if I was to say it's like Calais it'd be about right, while simultaneously being utterly ridiculous. Ahh silly season, you're a corker this year.

 

[belboid]

So 29 people out of 180,000 are entryists. Panic! that's nearly one in 6,000! OOOHH the humanity.

plus 100 Greens, don't forget.

 

[Rob Ray]

100 GREENS???! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD! GRAB YOUR CHILDREN, PRAY TO WHATEVER GOD WILL HAVE YOU!

(I'm hoping there's not any other groups, I'm fast running out of sarcastic hyperbole here)

 

[DotCommunist]

Communist Party as well, thats another dozen.

I think its a bit much to say anyone openly critical won't get a ballot though, Harriet Stalin there.

key line from corbyn at the end of that indy article mochasoul posted, in regards to people not working with him in shadow cabinet: 'When the dust settles we're all still labour'

 

[belboid]

Communist Party as well, thats another dozen.

naah, thats the CPGB, so they're include in the 29

 

[Rob Ray]

CPB's pro-Corbyn, and may have duel carders around (I mean let's be honest, they all do, a lot of revolutionary group members are middle-of-the-road lefties who like to support everyone "left" that they can), but entryism's definitely not policy.

 

[belboid]

Only just noticed the article mentions the ISN as being a part of Left Unity - even tho it dissolved several months ago.

 

[treelover]

A Labour source said Corbyn was “sneaking in Green party members by the back door” and that a Corbyn surge would be “completely illegitimate and on a par [with], if not worse than, the Militant infiltration in the 80s”. The source said senior figures would expect an immediate independent inquiry to follow the result, due to be declared on 12 September, regardless of who wins.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...ndidates-and-members-rival-parties-apply-vote

Preparing the ground for a postponement or even cancellation if they don't get the result they want?, wouldn't be surprised by these 'democrats'

 

[treelover]

This implies the electorate in the leadership ballot is now well over 325,000, and likely to rise still further. Some MPs have already voiced fears that the system to elect the party leader, one of the most important tasks facing the membership, should never have been handed to people who have no long-term commitment to the party. The decision to change the rules was taken by Ed Miliband in 2014 as part of his effort to reform the party in the wake of allegation of ballot-rigging by Unite in the Falkirk constituency selection.

Wintour spin again, this is what the Blairites wanted, a much more open(less committed) membership, now its not in their favour they don't like it.

 

[J Ed]

They only found 260?

 

[DotCommunist]

They only found 260?

as purges go, its hardly the night of the long knives

 

[Ungrateful]

Given the size of the membership of the(not-so) 'radical-left': SWP, LU, TUSC, I doubt they could swing a pendulum never mind a Labour Party leadership election.

 

[Pickman's model]

as purges go, its hardly the night of the long knives

the morning of the boxcutters.

 

[Pickman's model]

So 29 people out of 180,000 are entryists. Panic! that's nearly one in 6,000! OOOHH the humanity.

what % of the sp membership is 29?

 

[brogdale]

 

[Libertad]

 

[Pickman's model]

the most disappointing thing about that is that if 18 left unity people have entered the labour party, and there's only questions about 29, that means at most only 11 socialist party members entered the labour party as entryists. that's disgraceful.

 

[belboid]

the most disappointing thing about that is that if 18 left unity people have entered the labour party, and there's only questions about 29, that means at most only 11 socialist party members entered the labour party as entryists. that's disgraceful.

TUSC, not necessarily SP. They're clearly a disciplined bunch.

 

[Pickman's model]

TUSC, not necessarily SP. They're clearly a disciplined bunch.

at most 11 sp: and as you point out quite possibly fewer.

 

[DotCommunist]

that means at most only 11 socialist party members entered the labour party as entryists. that's disgraceful.

once bitten twice shy? fool me once shame on you, fool me twice etc

 

[Pickman's model]

once bitten twice shy? fool me once shame on you, fool me twice etc

what about trots who have called for a labour vote in every election since 1974? they must have been fooled so often they don't know what day it is.

 

[Pickman's model]

once bitten twice shy? fool me once shame on you, fool me twice etc

you can tell trots don't like the who

 

[nino_savatte]

The Blairite postmodernist wing of the party is doing an excellent job of making itself unelectable and that's in spite of the fact that it regards Corbyn as "unelectable". Irony?

 

[nino_savatte]

Wintour spin again, this is what the Blairites wanted, a much more open(less committed) membership, now its not in their favour they don't like it.

The Wintour of discontent.

 

[Wilf]

I do hope the headless chickens Labour have hired to co-ordinate the anti-corbyn campaign are being well paid for their consultancy. It's most amusing to see the grauniad recycling the 80s wild eyed trot (errrm, green) entryist stories.

 

[SpackleFrog]

at most 11 sp: and as you point out quite possibly fewer.

I know of one or two who say they're going too. But they've not done it yet and I think its nearly too late. Tony Mulhearn says he's applied to rejoin as a member but he does that all the time, I think it amuses him.

Personally I'm quite fucked off with anyone even thinking of doing it, but sadly I'm in a minority of one when it comes to demanding expulsions apparently.

But yeah, we've done fuck all to warrant the most press coverage we've had in years.