What's going on?

I dont think being a blairite or a friend of israel in itself will ailinate the left of the party.
I believe its only if she is either; undermining Labours election chances... because Corbin (it never cesees to amaze me how many 'socialists' are activly doing everything they can to make sure a socialist does not get in to number 10) or trying to perpetuate the antisemitic smere that memebers will have an issue with her representing them in parliment.
I hope its not Labour silencing a woman who is sticking up for women.

@LangCleg I did not see that part I've not slept in days sorry OP

Apologies. Did not spot.

All women shortlists are a feminist issue. Diana Johnson's constituency will have one. Could be useful for the country at large to see what an AWS can mean nowadays.

what has this got to do with feminism?

Welcome to Mumsnet, MoobaaMoobaa.

OP expressed right there in her OP that she was concerned about the deselection of a pro-woman female MP. Instigators appear to be the Momentum faction, which has a clear anti-woman and genderist perspective.

HTH.

@MoobaaMoobaa what has this got to do with feminism?

Also, Hull is safe Labour. Maomentum aim to oust a sitting MP over internal politics & wrongthink, they get a safe seat forever.

Ah yes. Suddenly, the light dawns.

Worrying. I live in a constituency with a huge Labour majority. My MP is not a Corbynite nor a member of Momentum, but has managed to keep in with all sides, as far as I'm aware. However, Momentum is pretty strong in our area, so she must be walking on eggshells in the hope of not triggering the reselection process. I bet there are lots of ambitious Labour party members eyeing up this seat not least a well-known local politics student.

Apparently it's an all woman shortlist, I read.

Which, as we all know, in no way guarantees I'm going to have a female candidate available to vote for.

Also, Hull is safe Labour. Maomentum aim to oust a sitting MP over internal politics & wrongthink, they get a safe seat forever.

Do you know of anyone Momentum might wish to stand there? Apparently it's an all woman shortlist, I read. Apologies, I still don't really understand how this works.

University Labourites eg Aylett are supportive of her. Brexiters feel betrayed by her stance. She's too Centrist for Maomentum.

Sadly, no.

How is she meant to singlehandedly facilitate Brexit as a little known backbench MP in the opposition party? Whoever else they get will likely be in the same position.

Cursory glance at the comments on Hull Live fb have me despairing.

So many arsey men basically saying "She has to go because she hasn't given us our Brexit." A few people saying "Brexit aside, she does a good job." They are lost amongst the torrent of whingeing arseholes.

There are many things I love about my city, but the strength of anti-EU, anti-immigrant, pro-Brexit sentiment from poorly educated people who've only had two decades to get their heads round the existence of other ethnicities and nationalities is definitely not one of them.

Is her position more precarious because Hull University is in her constituency? If activism is quiet in other wards, but the Uni group is more active/radical, would it make it easy for a few Uni students to push for her deselection? Is that how it works?

I used to live in her constituency, would always see her out in the community, holding surgeries, visiting schools, working hard. Since moving house I have NEVER seen my local Tory MP "out & about".

Tyrotoxicity, Diana Johnson may yet be reselected as the Labour candidate.

I don't know the area at all so cannot comment on specifics but in general the number of members of a political party or its affiliates who actually involve themselves in meetings and votes is a small fraction of the whole, which is what makes it easy for small factions to cause trouble.

If Ms Johnson is popular in her constituency however the larger, less involved group of members may be galvanised into action and return her as candidate.

Not saying that will happen but you may yet be pleasantly surprised.

The thing is - which makes Labour shenanigans even more ridiculous - is that the Tories benefit from low turnouts. It's Labour who needs everyone to vote.

Hmm. I've already been faced with a bit of a struggle in elections - can't vote Tory, haven't forgiven Lib Dems, not over the AWS thing, and they all want to roll back women's rights - but I can cope with voting for Diana Johnson.

I'm unlikely to be able to say the same about whoever else ends up as the Labour option on my ballot paper. Which means I'm going to feel even more disenfranchised and Labour will be losing a vote.

Was that the aim, I wonder?

Deselection in general means a sitting MP, councillor, whatever being removed as a party's candidate for the next relevant election.

In this case it is a bit more complex as Diana Johnson can put herself forward, alongside anyone else who chooses to, as a potential candidate and the local party members will vote on whether to reselect her or not. This is not deselection per se.

Some parties, the SNP for example, have mandatory reselection for every candidate at every election (unless there isn't time in the case of a snap election). Labour used to do this but have replaced it with a system where reselection can be 'triggered' if a sufficient number(one third) of eligible branches and affiliates (usually meaning unions) call for it. The number of actual people in those ward branches or unions voting for a reselection ballot can be tiny so the system is easy to 'game' by small, noisy factions.

She sounds like an MP popular with both colleagues and constituents. Surely it will just piss people in the area off?

Okay. I do head-in-the-sand over politics a lot of the time so I don't quite know what deselection means.

Could someone please explain it to me, because this is my MP and I am indeed pissed off. She's been quietly getting on and doing her job for bloody years. What's she meant to have done?

I don't know about 2 people but from what the links in your OP say it certainly seems to have been triggered by a minority of ward branches.

It is a very long time since I was a Labour Party member, but back then (mid/late 90s) the ward branch meetings in my CLP were usually only attended by maybe a dozen people.