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hmm were do we start read it are we now to infight the blairites of this party has their times over blair done such a good job of taking it right its fighting to come back left ouch pinched from over at mikes silver blogg
Labour Party members who were suddenly suspended for flimsy reasons in the run-up to this year’s leadership election have a new hurdle to overcome.
If you aren’t aware of the background to the ‘Labour Purge’, please read this article, and also this one, then come back here.
Done? Now read on:
It appears Labour’s National Executive Committee is now passing lists of suspended members to Constituency Labour Parties for them to… what shall we call it? Investigate?
It seems the member will attend a “hearing” with the CLP.
Not only does this smack of the NEC trying to absolve itself of responsibility, now that the volume and type of suspensions is coming to light, but it also suggests – to This Writer – that members of individual CLP hierarchies who also want to cause distress and humiliation to suspended members will now have a chance to do so.
That is no way to behave.
The Labour suspensions group has decided that people should not face these hearings alone – especially if they are vulnerable, elderly or disabled.
The group feels that the member should not be (potentially) forced to admit any wrongdoing and that being accompanied to the hearing will protect the member’s interests.
This Writer has personal experience of how having a McKenzie Friend works. You see, Glynis Millward, the lady who has launched legal action against Labour’s general secretary Iain McNicol, was my own McKenzie Friend when I took the DWP to a tribunal to force it to reveal how many sickness and disability benefit claimants had died after being found fit for work.
Readers who were following Vox Political in August last year will know we won.
So the Labour Suspensions Group’s idea – to set up a crowdfund in order to provide travel expenses for members of the group to accompany suspended Labour members to any hearing – has my full support
Posted by jeffrey davies [86.17.83.77] on 15 October 2016
