Labour Pains blog have revealed that GLP are running on dry:
Under the Sunak-led Tories, the GLP launched new crowdfunders at a rate of more than one a month: 21 of them in the 18 months from 1 January 2023 to the General Election on 4 July, contributing to an overall total of 73 since 2017. In July and August last year the GLP launched four new crowdfunded legal challenges. But since Keir Starmer entered Downing Street two months ago, this industrial scale grifting has ground to a halt.
In fact, since 4 July, the GLP have closed four crowdfunders (all launched in 2024), and as a result they currently have only three open crowdfunders, all of them moribund. In August last year the GLP grifted thousands of donations totalling £82,744 via 11 different crowdfunders. So far this month, they’ve raked in just five donations totalling a mere £45, including two simultaneous £1 donations that were most likely made by a criminal testing out stolen credit/debit cards.
Joylon has disappeared into the mountains since July 21st. At this moment we can neither confirm nor deny Mumsnet rumours he has been eaten by a pack of foxes led by the vixen partner of the fox he murdered. However it seems his position at GLP is being questioned:
More to the point, last week it emerged that the GLP Board – from which Labour peer Stewart Wood resigned on 31 July – feel much the same way. Because they are currently seeking to recruit an Interim Managing Director with a “demonstrable track record of successful design and delivery of change [sic]”
Jolylon the founding Executive Director will be "working alongside" this new hire:
The chosen candidate will have the unique chance to design and lead change, enabling the organisation to deliver its objectives while working alongside the founding Executive Director. The role is interim for six to nine months in the first instance.
Is he training his replacement?
[Anyway it seems his time off was not productive. Unlike JKR who was spending August productively building a polar bear army in Greenland.]
Although we love to hate the fox-botherer here I think we need to acknowledge the good GLP has done the pro-women cause.
By being spectacularly bad lawyers GLP has wasted over £200,000 crowdfunded pounds for gender cases which could have been used in far more dangerous ways. GLP has lost every single gender case it has taken to court though many didn't even get that far. This pushes case law in a more reality based direction.
It has helped solidify a trend where pro-women lawyers keep looking at a long list of wins. Meanwhile the legal profession who see Joylon and GLP as useless grifters are not impressed by the TA side.
He has strengthened the pro-women side inside Labour by pushing Wes Streeting and others more firmly into the reality camp.
He has led to the NHS officially discrediting the suicide myth.
It helped strengthen the position of the Cass Review and confirm its authority.
Read the whole blog for the full catalogue of failure:
https://labourpainsblog.com/2024/08/27/good-law-project-things-fall-apart/