Not only have they stitched up who will win but they have also stitched up who will lose and in what order. It doesnt matter. Police (Fraud Squad) involved. The party now has six weeks until December 10th to produce an action plan to the EHRC in response to the findings and recommendations. Originally called the Gay Labour Group, [3] the purpose of this organisation is to campaign within the Labour Party and wider Labour movement to promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) peoples, and to encourage members of the LGBT community to support the Labour Party. [75], A website of the same name, providing electronic versions of some of the articles in the printed edition and lists of Campaign Group MPs, was run from 1999[76] to 2010.[77]. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. These Rebel MPs Are Planning a War with Labour Austerity - Vice Well Ill give this group time. The devolved structure for selection of candidates protects them from central control, and there can be no withdrawal of the whip. 18 Socialist Campaign Group MPs in parliament have signed a statement declaring that they oppose the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and calling for the disciplinary action to be "quickly reversed". I have tried being nice and also tried shaming them. (Monty Pythons). It was here that members of the Socialist Campaign Group - the 35 most left-wing MPs in the Labour party - spent three days parading their grievances with the Starmer project. Among its planned funding streams are a levy of 1,000 per MP to be taken from their training budgets and contributions from Im sorry to say the list is not what I would call left, soft left yes, which is why they arent going for the jugular. In light of this, the decision to not restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn is wrong and damaging to the Labour Party. Steering the right of a nominally leftwing party to the left sounds familier, Bernie Sanders with the Dumbocrats. [48] Abbott secured the necessary 33 nominations after being 'lent' nominations from a number of MPs who were not supporting her campaign but wanted to ensure that the contest was not exclusively white and male. Leftwing Labour MPs fear losing whip after Jeremy Corbyn barred Diane Abbott MP Thats a sign of a lightweight. Portugals PM Costa stuns with majority win in snap election for hiding their real motives. First published in March 1986,[73] Socialist Campaign Group News was the monthly magazine of the Campaign Group. Join MPs from the Socialist Campaign Group at our Annual Conference Rally looking at the socialist solutions we need to tackle this cost-of-living emergency and to build a society that puts people before the profits of the wealthy few. Paul Smith the science and The Science (that supports the shamful, harmful and pathogenically dangerous Covid Narrative) are two very different things. John McDonnell MP strategic use of parliamentaryspeeches and questions clipped for social media, coordination around Private MembersBills and amendments to Bills, media interventions around select committeeappearances etc Playing with Parliamentary conventions to capture media attention and generate debatein Westminster i.e. Welcome to Socialist Councillors - Socialist Councillors Open Letter To The Socialist Campaign Group | Turning the Tide This new organising space for left MPs should in the first instance focus on innovating with newparliamentary tactics and media interventions to push issues like the Green New Deal in the runup to COP26 and off the back of it. The UK is completely different so any such group in the UK would, just like the SCG, be largely a talking shop. [4], The Campaign Group would go on to back Eric Heffer and Michael Meacher in their unsuccessful bids for the leadership and deputy leadership in 1983. So, these MPs and MSP are going to fund this, in part, with 1000 payments from their training budget? Richard Burgon is the Labour Party MP for Leeds East and member of the Socialist Campaign Group. Thanks. real motives. The "Zero-Covid" campaign by Britain's pseudo-left: a political cover But among the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, many alleged the party was no longer able be the broad church that it was under other successful Labour leaders such as Clement Attlee and. The following members resigned their membership of the Campaign Group in 1985 in a show of support for Neil Kinnock's reforms:[79], The following members resigned their membership of the Campaign Group in 1988 in protest at Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the Labour leadership that year:[80]. [9] Tony Benn described the relationship of the campaign against the Poll Tax with the Labour Party: "The main credit for defeating this monstrosity [the Poll Tax] must go to those, first in Scotland and then in England and Wales, who organised the anti-poll tax unions and the federation that brought them together, for without their brilliant leadership and the mass rallies which they organised the Tories might just have got away with it. Is this: I dont think so. Thank you for signing up - Socialist Campaign Group It is understood that others were invited to join the group, including Paula Barker, Beth Winter, Nav Mishra and Rachel Hopkins, but ultimately they did not become members and are not currently involved. Rebecca Long-Bailey MP Labour Party news: Left-wing MPs discuss radical plan to break up party Hes alright, too. JC supports us but so called Socialists are nowhere to be found. I remember my Mum and Gran always having some in the kitchen during my childhood (near Oldham so looks like we are both Lancastrians and like you I am retired but not decommisioned!). Co-Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. In the days following the referendum a number of Corbyn's critics resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and the parliamentary party passed a vote of no confidence in Corbyn by 172 votes against to 40 for. But since joining the halls of power, she changed. Socialist Campaign Group on Twitter So, each Campaign Group member agreed to buy one set of bolt-cutters and donate to the Greenham Women. [36], Bernie Grant sought nominations as the Campaign Group candidate for Deputy Leader. At a meeting of the Socialist Campaign Group on 3 June it was decided that, with McDonnell and Abbott both ruling themselves out after having stood previously, Jeremy Corbyn should be the left's candidate for leader. All the previous criticisms of the 60 or so prior cross-sectional studies, showing lowered IQ associated with fluoride, were addressed in the Bashash 2017 study. ", "The BBC's obsession with balance took Labour off-air during the referendum campaign", "Media coverage of the EU Referendum (report 5)", "Labour crisis: how the coup against Jeremy Corbyn gathered pace", "Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote", "Corbyn re-elected as Labour leader with bigger landslide than last year", "Socialist Campaign Group has reformed for 20192024. Thanks for your solidarity so SKWAWKBOX can keep doing its job. Of those involved in the new group, only one appears to have publicly expressed support for Jeremy Corbyn though that one was after the result of the Labour NECs vote on whether to reinstate Corbyn to the Labour benches was already known. Reiterating that Corbyns EHRC reaction undermined Labours ability to tackle antisemitism, the leader said: I have taken the decision not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. The way to operate in the UK is for them to be active in extra-parliamentary campaigns and the trade union movement. Much was submitted -including some put together by JVL of A distraction (give the impression something might change and get people waste time, energy and money into something going nowhere)? who set such a brilliant example of pretending to be one thing [52] Ed Miliband went on to win the leadership election. Fake left remainers. Holby -I like your sense of humour. John Hendy As the deadline for nominations approached it started to look as though all other candidates would be excluded not only Livingstone and Grant but also Ann Clwyd, Bryan Gould and John Prescott."[40]. [40], John Smith won the electoral college vote against Gould with 91% of the vote. Arwyn, Rosie Duffield does probably believes that comes the next General Election she stands better chances at retaining her seat as a LibDem MP. mis- used by Starmer to suppress democracy. Jeremy Corbyn is the MP for Islington North and former leader of the Labour Party. 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Those MPs who did support Benn quit to form the Socialist Campaign Group, and the Tribune Group soon descended into a fan club for Kinnock's leadership before becoming defunct in the 1990s. The Board of Deputies of British Jews president Marie van der Zyl welcomed Starmers withholding of the Labour whip from Corbyn and described the move as an appropriate leadership decision. It is this latter argument that its account of the 2015-19 period is principally constructed to support. [5], The Campaign Group subsequently organised itself around opposition to the direction the party took under the leadership of Kinnock and his successors. Hmmmmm. Socialist Campaign Group Page Socialist Campaign Group Page Newsletter 3 - July 2020 Building Back Better In our latest newsletter, members of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs look at how the Left must respond to the public health and economic crisis and call for solidarity with Palestine. I smell a Rat..even from 8ooo miles away! Christine Blower For doing precisely sod all if they so choose. [68][69] Both were defeated by Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner respectively.[70]. A younf Socialist female bame leader would be the lightening rod for progressives across the country With Britain passing the horrific milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths this week, members of the Socialist Campaign Group have called on the Government to adopt the Zero Covid strategy that has effectively eliminated the virus in many Pacific and East Asian countries. Jeremy Corbyn will be turning up for the fifty years commemoration since thirteen civilians were murdered by Crown forces on the streets of Derry.Fifty years and still no justice for the murders of innocent civilians.Jeremy Corbyn has always been in the right place at the right time to support the victims of British Occupation of partitioned Ireland.God bless him and all peacemakers. Corrupt or corrupted? Whats the name of this new group of 12? Katy Clark Party Governance structure which has been [43], No Campaign Group MPs backed Tony Blair, who went on to win the contest. All the rest capitulated to Starmer. Can I ask you why you think hes a Socialist? Rachel Hopkins MP Kudos for that. One can only hope that this new group proves to be more effective than the SCG. when he was really quite another. 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For over four and a half years there was a sustained campaign of vilification and defamation alleging that the Labour Party was overrun by 'anti-Semitism'. Everything changed in 2015. In October, the Socialist Campaign Group produced a pamphlet called "Winning the Future", which proposed solutions to the COVID-19 crisis.[30]. Speaking as a grass-roots socialist and trade unionist : I had wrestled with this decision for 13 months. [10], Only 15 Labour MPs supported the Anti Poll Tax Federation. Members of the Campaign Group have been the first to be at the forefront of mass campaigns on trade union rights, private equity, council housing, public services and against the war We consistently raise uncomfortable issues and support campaigns that no other parliamentarians will touch, on issues like asylum, deportations, international trade union and human rights, campaigns for those killed or injured at work, safety of vulnerable workers, including sex workers, cuts in legal aid and English for speakers of other languages funding. Mary Foy MP @socialistcam Tweets Socialist Campaign Group @socialistcam Occasional tweets from the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs.
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