Labour candidate suspended for 'transphobia'

[Imnobody4]

Labour’s London region has suspended the party’s candidate for a closely-contested council by-election in Hackney following allegations of “transphobia“.
Party members were told by email early this morning by Hackney’s borough organiser that “all planned campaign sessions” in the Cazenove ward had been cancelled, including those that were to have taken place today.
A Labour source has confirmed that the candidate, Laura Pascal (front right in photo), has been “administratively suspended”, which means a complaint has been made about her by another party member and a decision taken to investigate it.
The timing of the suspension means there is not enough time to nominate a different candidate in time for the by-election, which will be held next Thursday. This means that if Pascal wins, she will sit as an independent councillor. The source confirmed that Labour will do no further campaigning for her.

https://www.onlondon.co.uk/hackney-labour-cazenove-candidate-for-council-by-election-suspended/

About time KS got a grip.

Trans people and allies call the shots with Labour. Starmer is an idiot to allow this treatment of personnel. He thinks it will win him votes and doesn't consider the number of votes it loses him. How can he possibly be our next PM?

Have only just seen this thread, and apart from the sheer stupidity of the accusations, it is even more dispiriting because of the reason there is a by election.

There was a thread about this and will try and find it but to summarise the former Mayor of Hackney was forced to resign because he tried to cover up the criminal accusation of child pornograpy of another Hackney councillor who just happened to be a friend.

During which time the ward of the accused councillor had the rights to use the Labour Party network for advertising meeting etc.. withdrawn.

So eventually Mayor resigned, new Mayor elected (Labour of course) so the vacancy is because the new mayor cant be mayor and a councillor.

Hackney is by a vast majority Labour, previously old school Labour but now invaded by well heeled incomers who have made Hackney a really expensive place to live, and very very woke. Gentrified and almost worse advertised to tourists as a really cutting edge place to visit. Just south of Hackney by a main road is a very famous flower market, where the stall holders say that despite huge crowds visiting it just people coming to take selfies and rarelly buying anything.

And needless to say in terms of actual solid council work Labour has vamped up woke agenda items, but at the same time has the second worse housing record in London. Its flats regulary appear on local London news for the lack of repairs, damp, etc..

Thread about the former Mayor https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4884926-hackney-mayor-suspended-by-labour-after-photo-emerges-of-him-partying-with-paedophile-councillor

Green Party jumping on the band wagon https://www.hackneygreens.org.uk/statement_on_suspension_of_labour_candidate_for_cazenove_by_election

The article in the OP says that it was Regional Labour that stepped in and suspended her, and wrote to the local branch / membership to say there would be no campaigning.

"Hackeny (sic) has a large black community, many of whom rightfully find the linking of blackface/womanface offensive."

Do they?

This isn't the same as citing a single thread on Black Mumsnetters with some deleted posts as evidence of offence being taken.

Internet search results (DuckDuckGo) for "blackface womanface comparison offensive" turn up:

• several critical Mumsnet threads,
• a couple of reddit threads (including an archived critical r/GenderCritical thread),
• a handful of articles (including one saying the comparison isn't valid because drag is a good gay thing and one amplifying the r/GenderCritical thread)
• plus a thread on Lipstick Alley where opinion is divided: https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/drag-is-womanface-is-as-unacceptable-as-blackface.4767223/

If those results are representative then concerns about the comparison seem to be minimal and mainly confined to Mumsnet.

Maybe most black people are not aware of the comparison being made? Or are aware but think it unremarkable?

It would be genuinely interesting to know whether many in the black community in Hackney "find the linking of blackface/womanface offensive", specifically by Laura Pascal.

this. Yes please. I long for a proper socialist party with no toadying, where critical thinking is encouraged and blind allegiance discouraged. Where women are respected and feminist beliefs taken as standard.

God I hope that she wins as an independent candidate.
Where is Starmer ? Oh yes picking splinters out of his arse.

I'm afraid I don't believe he has any splinters. He is perfectly ok with all this, he is fine with the bullying of women, the totalinarianism, the Orwellian dystopia, he's all for it. He enables this constantly. He's just got enough sense to not actively get involved in the doing of it himself, and thereby leave some illusion of reasonable doubt about how much of a misogynist so and so he is until he's in power and no one can stop him for five years.

I'd truly prefer Boris. At least he's honest with you that he's a total wanker without a grain of ethics or capacity, and has no fucks to give. By their deeds shall ye know them.

Whilst I get that very few people will have detailed knowledge of the Labour complaints process it's frustrating to see people on Twitter who should know better reinforcing the narrative.

Under the independent process mandated by the EHRC Keir Starmer CAN'T just personally intervene in disciplinary cases. If he did then the independent people who oversee the complaints process would reverse any decision he made on the grounds that the original complaint hadn't been properly investigated.

I know the GC movement seems to have convinced itself that Labours consistent two year 15-20 poll is going to mysteriously evaporate in the next six months but wouldn't it be more sensible to assume it won't? And that we might have more influence over a future Labour government if we hadn't convinced the party that we were going to try and undermine it whatever it does?

If it was possible to influence that appalling mess from the inside, the many, many patient Labour faithful women would have managed it while the party was in opposition. God knows they have tried. They haven't managed it. That parrot is dead and rotting, it is an ex parrot.

Starmer permitted a female MP to be openly bullied in the HoC by one of his MPs and did fuck all. Rosie Duffield has suffered for years. He does fuck all. This is not just one isolated incident, this is a link in a very long and very grotty chain of incidents over years.

Btw don't run away with the idea that I'm talking down Labour because I want another party to win. I don't. There isn't one of them I want in power. I'm a floating voter with middle left political beliefs reaching utter bloody despair,

This is all on Labour.

Not the actions of women who are fed up and or annoyed

Starmer has chosen the ‘no one is talking about it’ block head stance. That’s on him too.

Many have spoken up and fulfilled their part of doing what they could.

@Froodwithatowel
Agreed

Let's not forget that Starmer still won't be seen talking with the Labour Women's Declaration who have shown the patience of Griselda in their efforts to influence from the inside

This isn't about whether you personally agree with Labour or not.

It's about future influence on what is likely to be our next government.

Go ahead then.

I’ve lobbied where I can, and feel I’ve fulfilled what I can do. I won’t vote Labour so their future actions are not down to me.

Feel free to influence though. What are you doing?

And yet there is a group who are trying to work on the inside to influence the party, and Starmer won't even meet with them in public. That tells me a lot.

It seems the blame is on those who are trying rather than those who won’t meet

Same old

The article quotes the Tweet. She doesn’t say anything about trans people. Or use the word woman. She just talks about biological sex

This. i actually just had a little cry about this. Women are not allowed to say that biological sex is real in 2024? I don't know where we go from here but the Labour Party can absolutely fuck off.

Couldn't agree more.

Bottom line: It's always women's (the old-fashioned cunty kind, obv) fault.

100% the same here. My vote is up for grabs. Anyone who protects women's rights gets it.

You didn’t bow down and grovel to the incoming gov in the right way

Even though blocko male says no one is talking about it and doesn’t meet

Sod that. I agree with @Froodwithatowel and @DewHopper too

I had better keep my thoughts to myself about the sheer brass neck of trying to put the blame for this shitshow on women who've been trying to work with Labour over this for years, all the while staying loyal. Let's just say that it's made me very, very cross.