Starmer stabs anothe Black female Labour candidate in the back

Hmm. Trying to pick out some positives ; a hung parliament might be a very good outcome. It would soften the cough of the tinpot control freaks in Starmers inner circle. Freezing out feminists and socialists might become a luxury.

And PR would be the price of Lib Dem support. Bit of a pipe dream I fear. More likely they'll get an overall majority. Then Reeves and Mortimer will muddle along with Austerity 2.0 until Reform/ Tories are ushered back in.

"a person's immutable characteristics has NO RELEVANCE to their political stance." @CantDealwithChristmas

This. It would nice if we could see a more general move away from identity politics from the Labour Party, which seems to have backfired, particularly over Gaza.

I've just read one of the tweets she liked, its blatantly antisemitic. So no she shouldn't be standing for election.

Excellent post and I am starting to feel the same.

She's not Black, she's Brown. Half Pakistani, half Fijian. I wish I didn't have to point that out because frankly a person's immutable characteristics has NO RELEVANCE to their political stance. We non-white-British people are fed up of having our politics taken for granted, especially by the left wing. We're not puppets, nor an insensible voting bloc. We can do critical thinking too, who'da thunk it?

Shaheen does however have form for antisemitism and seems to think she's standing to represent Gaza rather than a constituency in the UK. utter crank, needs to go.

I'm starting to feel a grudging respect for Starmer. All I need now is for him to admit that he knows what a woman is, then he'll get my vote.

Exactly. She deserves all she gets. Dreadful behaviour.

I felt sorry for her watching the interview. Then they read out just one of the very recent tweets and I was horrified. Blatant antisemitism. She tried to shift the blame onto her newborn baby. She's a disgrace and deserves to be thrown out.

But Diane Abbott also needs to go imo. She didn't say what she said in a heat of the moment chat or interview. It was a considered position she decided to publish in a newspaper. One that presumably took thought, drafting and review. How does anyone benefit by pitting minorities against each other?

Before you judge her, I think you've got to take into account the constant abuse DA has had to endure. Of course it doesn't help to pit minorities against each other - although I'm not convinced that is what she was trying to do - but try walking a mile in that woman's shoes. Even if it was a misjudgement to write that article, I think she can be forgiven.

As for Faiza, she looked shell-shocked during that interview.
Sadly, I can see Labour snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the GE.

As far as I am concerned, another disgusting anti-semite bites the dust. Good. Starmer is clearly working to make the party electable which has to be a good thing.

If anything DA has been given extra leeway because of the colour of her skin. There is a large contingent that will support her regardless of anything odious or inadequate she does (see also Meghan Markle) simply because of that.

Her anti-semitism is appalling. Thinking just ‘apologising’ is enough is absurd.

She also seems deeply unwell, and was shaking quite violently yesterday. I wish her well on a personal level but there comes a time when it’s best to leave the stage.

Yes this is an important point.

Exactly this. Nor is it an attempt to purge left wing candidates from the party - although there is an unfortunate middle bit in the Venn diagram of antisemites and the far left of the Labour Party.

I suspect most Muslim votes care more about their own public services and living conditions than Palestine. The Left have always been obsessed with Palestine, even before October 7th almost to the exclusion of everything else. Its not relevant to a UK election.

Excellent post.

It is easy to miss the importance of Labour's internal feuds here.

There is a right faction inside Labour that wants to remove left leaning candidates from inside Labour and think this is MORE important than winning the election.

Of course it is vica versa as well.

Thinking that the leadership office are causing maximum drama by targeting enemies inside an election campaign and waited years to do it doesn't make that much sense. Starmer isn't doing this, he is reacting to stuff which is landing on his desk.

It makes perfect sense for faction fighters though. They find their targets wait till they can hit them at a perfect point. They don't care if it makes Labour look absurd. They want to eliminate their enemies at all cost. The Labour left did similar in 2019 used the campaign period to get their candidates in.

This is important because the TRAs have a similar mindset so they think Streeting and Rosie have to go.

I dont agree with/understand someone standing as a 'pro palestinian' candidate in any case (or anti)

Be pro NHS, or anti NHS, be pro SEN places or anti SEN places or be pro inheritance tax or anti inheritance tax etc etc. These are things that apply to the UK, these are things that affect the person on the street in their every day life

Its as ludicrous as saying you're pro or anti China or the Congo or any other controversial world issue/place. You can absolutely have an opinion but for it to be your platform in a UK election where your job is to look after your local constituents is ridiculous.

And I agree with someone above, who cares if a person looks like you, what difference does that make to the world

According to this article she has been ditched for being an antisemitie not because of her skin colour. If this article is correct I say good riddens to her

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/30/faiza-shaheen-labour-mp-general-election-left-keir-starmer/

They've just proved her right then , haven't they. Labour will win this election in all probability, despite doing their best to alienate black and Muslim voters. But it may come back to bite them on the arse next time.

Some semblance of peace might have returned to Palestine by then. But I suspect Starmer will find something else to be wilfully obtuse about. Perhaps he'll start another war.

KS can’t win either way.
You’ve got certain elements of the RW media currently eulogising Abbott who they previously mocked and derided horrendously. Anything to score a few political points. And then you’ve got the Corbynites frothing about both Shaheen and Russell Moyes being suspended as well. Even GC women who were apparently ‘life long labour voters’ still aren’t happy despite comments by Wes Streeting and others suggesting a turn around re gender ideology (some very cross TRAs on Reddit put it that way).

Are you suggesting that Starmer acted because she was black and / or female? There's nothing to back that up in your post.

The media loves to trawl back into people's social media. With the last few years the Labour Party has had, any leader is bound to be cautious. Without any evidence of the tweets she liked, can we assume the are worse that what DA wrote, given one is suspended and one isn't?

But Diane Abbott also needs to go imo. She didn't say what she said in a heat of the moment chat or interview. It was a considered position she decided to publish in a newspaper. One that presumably took thought, drafting and review. How does anyone benefit by pitting minorities against each other?

I don’t agree with this “purging” and actually think it is wrong tactically but the hard left reap what they sow. They were all “ there is no such thing as cancel culture “ when they had the upper hand.

Yes I saw her interview. She seemed to say she just accidentally like a sketch by a comedian ( I think) while she was breastfeeding, but reading the Times article, she seems to have also tweeted supporting the Green Party, which automatically means you can't stand anyway, along with saying Labour were institutionally islamophobic, so she was undermining her own campaign and party. I think someone else would have a better chance of beating IDS.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/labour-poised-to-suspend-chingford-corbynista-candidate-over-divisive-gaza-campaign/

the “other side” seem to think she is all about inflaming community tensions. And in that case, get rid of her. MPs need to represent all their constituents. The last thing we need is more stoking division. Whatever happened to diplomacy?

Nothing about race. He’s ditching the extremist cranks. Wise. They can stand as independents if they want. But he knows they’d be trouble if they got any whiff of power in the labour party