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Starmer stabs anothe Black female Labour candidate in the back

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IwantToRetire · 30/05/2024 01:41

“I think the Labour Party… needs to be a broad church - from what I can see that’s happening, that’s becoming more difficult”

Faiza Shaheen, who was set to stand for Labour, says her candidacy was pulled over liking a series of Tweets which she claims Labour said would frustrate its campaign

Interview on newsnight shorty after learning she has been deselected.https://x.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1795942561258889318

It seems someone has been going through candidates tweet accounts going back years, even before they were officially part of Labour.

If these tweets were so awful how come they were ever chosen as candidates in the first place.

She had spend the afternoon canvassing with the support of the local party. https://www.faizashaheen.co.uk/

Faiza Shaheen — Labour Candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green

Official website for Faiza Shaheen, the Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green.

https://www.faizashaheen.co.uk

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AGlinnerOfHope · 30/05/2024 06:56

How have we arrived at a place where the Labour Party is riddled with antisemitism? Where critical thinking is so diminished that being revolutionary and pro Palestine can blind people of colour to the complexity of the situation?
It's like an underlying attitude of 'pick your team then shout and boo the other side'. It's no way to function.

Tribalism is a disease. Identity politics.

Bululu · 30/05/2024 06:41

Black females are not getting kick out for being black. It is because they are anti semitic. I do not like KS but he is right to do this. She belongs to fringe independent parties along with Corbyn.

Chickenuggetsticks · 30/05/2024 06:25

As an ethnic minority myself I really do think we need to be more concerned with what people do, say and think than the colour of their skin. Your appearance or “identity” should not be the important thing when you are standing for office.

I only mention my ethnicity because it’s assumed that representation is of primary importance to those of us from minority groups. I remember watching a girl with purple hair complaining that their weren’t any people who looked like her to vote for on question time and I thought, “who gives a fuck if they look like you or not, isn’t the most important thing that they are proposing policies that you think will be good for the country”.

GreenTeaLikesMe · 30/05/2024 04:23

She appears to be a big Corbyn fan and basically very much on the hard left. If I were running a soft-center-left party, I wouldn’t want her involved either, sorry.

Starmer stabs anothe Black female Labour candidate in the back
Starmer stabs anothe Black female Labour candidate in the back
GreenTeaLikesMe · 30/05/2024 04:17

If these tweets were so awful how come they were ever chosen as candidates in the first place.

Presumably the tweets had not come to anyone’s attention at that point. I’d like to know what the tweets were.

WhereYouLeftIt · 30/05/2024 03:15

"If these tweets were so awful how come they were ever chosen as candidates in the first place."

When you look at the calibre of some actual MPs, you wonder how they were ever chosen as candidates too - but they clearly were. Constituency parties are like every other 'club' - very dependant on the actual individuals for how well they operate.

Loads of candidates got dumped in 2019 too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50408438

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General election 2019: The candidates who fell at the first hurdle

Dredging up dirt on rivals has never been easier - leaving some wannabe MPs rueing online indiscretions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50408438

beguilingeyes · 30/05/2024 03:15

I'm a little bit gutted about this. She came within 1200 votes of beating IDS last time. I live in the next door constituency and she had High Grant here campaigning for her.
All for nowt. IDS must be skipping.

RogueFemale · 30/05/2024 02:15

Maybe they're just being cautious?

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IwantToRetire · 30/05/2024 01:58

RogueFemale · 30/05/2024 01:45

What did the tweets she liked say?

You need to listen to the interview or maybe wait until tomorrow when there might be more details.

I think there was a suggestion there was more than one, some dating back to when she was an academic. ie she liked a tweet about an area of research someone tweeted about, not realising they had also said something or other.

But quite honestly, even is she shouldn't have liked a tweet, how come she was allowed to be a candidate for the last election and was selected for this election.

It actually make Labour look incompetent that at the very last minute they are suddenly coming up with tweets from years ago, which indicaes on 2 occossions their vetting procedure doesn't work.

Or it is just a purge.

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RogueFemale · 30/05/2024 01:45

What did the tweets she liked say?

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