Hull West and Hessle Constituency Labour Party met Wednesday evening in an emergency meeting to vote on a motion proposed by a member.
We met to vote on a "statement of support for Jeremy Corbyn, the democratically elected leader of the Labour Party." The motion was "The CLP of Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle believe that the leader of the Labour Party should be democratically voted for by the membership of the Labour Party and the Parliamentary Labour Party should not undemocratically decide to disregard their vote." It went on "we therefore support Jeremy Corbyn as leader until another election is called and the membership democratically decide on their preferred leader." It was an orderly meeting with those wanting to speak allowed up to five minutes to talk through the chair. The motion proposer spoke first. There was a brief debate about the motion needing to be seconded which happened quickly. One and a half hours later those attending voted in favour of the motion. The votes were by hand and counted as:
Our CLP did not support any candidate in last year's leadership race as there was no consensus but a majority Wednesday sent a clear message of support for Jeremy Corbyn. Our MP Alan Johnson did not attend. It was however an emergency meeting and the CLP will hold its usual meeting later this month. The number of people attending was possibly unique and considering the meeting clashed with the Wales Euro 2016 football match probably exceptional. Hull Daily Mail report Thursday "Blow for Hull MP Alan Johnson as local party back Jeremy Corbyn."
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Tempers have frayed and passions run high Wednesday as the costly and lengthy Chilcot Inquiry Iraq War report is finally published.
One Labour MP reportedly shouted for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to sit down and shut up as a debate in the House of Commons got underway. The Iraq War cost millions and resulted in British military deaths and the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis. Jeremy Corbyn was an active anti Iraq War campaigner and today is vindicated. The same cannot be said for many in the House of Commons now or then, in 2003. If you witnessed @IanAustinMP heckle Jeremy and are upset with his manner please report him to rosie.winterton.mp@parliament.uk Arrogant Austin tweeted the above also. Below is our brief email sent today: Dear Rosie, My husband and myself are both retired, live in Hull, voted for Andy Burnham last year but support Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. We are not members of Progress, Momentum or any other group and we have pushed the case for voting Labour for many years to friends, colleagues and family. We have been increasingly angry and appalled at the treatment of Mr Corbyn before he was elected as party leader once his name was on the ballot to the recent bullying and harassment toward him. We have watched angrily as members of the PLP worked to umdermine Corbyn and humiliate him from day one. Today MP Ian Austin highlighted all that is rotten in British politics and the Labour Party. Mr Corbyn may have been a backbench dissenter previously but he was never as childish, disrespectful, antagonistic, out of touch and self serving as Austin and some others. I hope I will get a reply to this email. I wrote to Alan Johnson almost a fortnight ago asking that he support Corbyn and at time of writing still await a reply I expect that Mr Austin will face some form of reprimand. I have to say 43 years plus of voting Labour may be coming to an end unless the PLP supports party democracy, the leader Jeremy Corbyn and get their acts in order. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-told-to-sit-down-and-shut-up-in-commons-as-he-criticises-iraq-war-after-publication-of-a7122871.html The British Conservative Party are recruiting a new party leader. They hope the person selected will be the next Prime Minister of the UK. If they have their way that will be achieved by a fait accompli. Elected to government in May 2015, with a majority of just 12 seats, the Tories hope to stay in office until the next scheduled General Election in 2020. Politics is a funny old game though and in spite of legislation that almost guarantees a UK government five years in office look out for the unexpected. The Tory leadership election process is already underway with the new leader expected to be announced in September. Tuesday one of the candidates was eliminated; Dr Liam Fox polled the lowest number of votes and is now out of the race. That leaves four candiates. Theresa May, Stephen Crabb, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom. As the David Cameron, the man who staged the UK EU in or out referendum resigned saying that he would pass the role over to an OUT campaigner, the leadership challenge is odd. Gove and Leadsom campaigned for the UK to leave the EU while the other two opted for the remain camp. But in these crazy UK political days anything can and will happen. Ukip leader Nigel Farage resigned as party leader Monday. Cameron will hang about until September. The main Tory OUT campaigner Boris Johnson was virtually stabbed in the back by Michael Gove making him a non-starter in the leadership race he had been tipped to win. Theresa May seems favourite for now but the way the Tory voting system works it could still be any candidates race. Jeremy Corbyn is still taking a battering from his own MPs as Labour Party voters and members look on in dismay. Wednesday the long awaited Chilcot inquiry report will be published. Will it be a very expensive whitewash? As for the Tory leadership race - one down four to go! BUT HOLD THE PRESS! A short time later Stephen Crabb announced he was quitting the race tweeting "Following tonight's vote I will not be putting my name forward for the next round of #toryleadership - and will be backing @TheresaMay2016." Liam Fox also confirmed he is backing May as Tory MPs jockey for top roles in a new party leader's government. [Watch veteran Tory Ken Clarke below as he is caught off camera speaking a few home truths!} http://www.newtekjournalismukworld.com/eileen-kersey/against-recommendations-theresa-may-pushes-for-more-surveillance http://www.newtekjournalismukworld.com/eileen-kersey/ipcc-lets-down-miners-again http://www.politico.eu/article/theresa-may-out-in-front-in-tory-leadership-race-as-liam-fox-eliminated-brexit-uk-prime-minister/ David Cameron quickly announced he would be stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister after a bruising EU referendum.
A majority of voters opted for the UK to leave the European Union but it appears those running the leave campaigns were fairly ignorant of how that could and would work and the implications. David Cameron may have campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU but he misjudged the electorate. Plenty of people had waited years to be allowed a vote on British membership of the EU and no amount of campaigning could have changed their minds. But Cameron is Prime Minister and having called the referendum he should surely have worked out a Plan B? When politicians take the electorate for granted there are often consequences. Ditching his responsibilities in the aftermath of the EU referendum shows a careless disregard for his Prime Ministerial responsibilities. He rushed through the EU referendum when he had until 2020 to fulfil Tory election promises. Will the reason for the rushed referendum become clear later this year? Was it for the personal or career reasons of David Cameron? There could be many other reasons though. Wednesday we will find out who is throwing their name into the would be Conservative leader hat. Those predicted to stand are Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Stephen Crabb, Sajid David and Liam Fox with Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan possibly in the mix. Tories have just 24 hours to declare their leadership intentions. The new leader will be in place by September 9. At time of writing Boris Johnson is leading the field as far as nominations goes. He is reportedly being advised by the Tories favourite PR guru Lynton Crosby. Johnson has indicated that if he wins the Tory leadership race he will not hold an early General Election but rather expect the electorate to simply accept a fait accompli. While the Tory party sort out their own affairs the country is left in limbo. Cameron will not invoke Article 50 which will trigger the UK's exit from the European Union. That will be up to his successor and following his logic his successor must surely be a Tory MP who campaigned for BRexit? David Cameron is determined his political legacy will not be the man who took the UK out the EU but like it or lump it that is what he has done. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36656752 Sunday is going to be a day of political double dealing with the Labour Party taking the heat away from the Tory Party which is split beyond belief. Labour Party leading lights are now in the process of splitting the Labour Party; Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party and he has rightly refused to resign. The Labour coup has been bubbling away since Mr Corbyn was elected September 12, 2015 but they are now using the EU referendum result and campaign as a reason. Labour party backstabbers are looking at legal options to prevent Mr Corbyn being on the ballot paper if a leadership challenge is launched. It will be interesting to see which Labour MPs declare their intent. Hilary Benn was sacked from the shadow cabinet by Mr Corbyn around 1am Sunday and later the same morning Heidi Alexander resigned from her post. In current style Ms Alexander posted her resignation letter, which is shown below, on Twitter; Someone on Twitter pointed out that Ms Alexander's letter is dated 2015.
More as available. http://www.newtekjournalismukworld.com/british-political-scene/hilary-benn-sacked-heidi-alexander-resigns-as-uk-politics-gets-nasty Just when the Tory Party is ripping itself apart in private the Labour Party opts for a very public battle.
After Jeremy Corbyn learned Saturday that Hilary Benn was part of a leadership coup he sacked him over the telephone. Benn was already scheduled to appear on the Andrew Marr show at 9 am Sunday and appear he did. He controlled the interview managing to ignore the question of whether he was part of a coup or not. Saturday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn confirmed he was going nowhere but it seems the Parliamentary Labour Party and shadow cabinet have other ideas. They have been looking at legal ways to keep him of the ballot in the event of another Labour leadership challenge. Heidi Alexander was first to quit the shadow cabinet Sunday. She published her resignation letter dated 2015 on Twitter. Since then the usual suspects have been making their self-serving plans plain on Twitter. Here are a few: De Piero to Corbyn: Your refusal to engage with issue of freedom of movement means profound disconnect between you and voters who elected me. That was tweeted by Wes Streeting and followed by Just hearing @GloriaDePiero has now quit shadow cabinet. I'd urge anyone who thinks that our leadership is credible and competent to spend 30 minutes watching this: Jeremy Corbyn The Outsider Vice News. Again from Wes Streeting who is being a busy boy Sunday. He is not getting it all his way though @wesstreeting I'd urge you to resign. You're going against the membership tweeted a Corbyn supporter. Others at it include John McTernan who tweeted "Calling the Parliamentary Conservative Party - this is for you" followed by this tweet from Momentum "Show your support for Jeremy with the 'I'm with Corbyn' twibbon." Another young careerist .@TristramHuntMP: we are in a national crisis and the Labour leader should hold government to account #Murnaghan chose Sky News. Alastair Campbell opts for "A man who could actually be a good Foreign Secretary sacked by someone who could never be Prime Minister." Stella Creasey "Most of us in labour worked our socks off for #Remain vote - to see just how others in positions of influence half hearted about it gutting!" And of course the BBC are as always in the mix "Labour MPs Ian Murray & Lilian Greenwood to quit shadow cabinet, @bbclaurak understands bbc.in/264XBZu." And within no time Murray resigned life on air on BBC Scotland. Again some in the Labour Party top ranks feeding the mainstream media snippets that should be private. Some MPs are being more polite than they often are on Twitter. For it has to be said that those MPs who complain of maltreatment on Twitter are often good at stirring the pot and antagonising. Ian Austin retweeted from an alleged activist "Spent yesterday afternoon talking to lifelong Labour voters in my ward. Not a single one felt Labour can win with current leadership." Check out the Twitter timelines of the usual Bitterite brigade for the latest display of party disloyalty. The country needs political unity at this time and will never forgive those in Labour intent on ripping it apart at such a crucial stage of the game. And the latest news is that "Nicola Sturgeon says MSPs at Holyrood could veto Brexit." The UK is in a terrible mess, politicians are peeing on voters as they play games and the best some in the Labour Party can manage is an internal coup. They are of course guaranteeing the Tories election success in the event of a snap General Election. And as I end this report Stephen Kinnock is talking on the BBC and is obviously up to his neck in the coup. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36633244 http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-06-26/shadow-scottish-secretary-ian-murray-resigns-reports-claim/ Things have been moving fast in some ways since Friday morning newscasters announced that a majority in the UK had voted to leave the European Union.
It may look as if nothing has really happened but leaving the EU would never be instantly achievable. Overnight Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn sacked his foreign secretary Hilary Benn sending him to the backbenches but plots and coups are crossing the two main political parties. It shows how self-indulgent both the Tories and Labour have become. Here is a round up of recent developments:
They claim a General Election is likely and that he is unable to lead Labour to victory but local election results do not support that view. Perhaps some Labour leading lights prefer the politics of old new Labour abhorred by many voters. As expected the mainstream media blamed Mr Corbyn somehow for the OUT vote though it was a tory-based referendum. Sadly some senior Labour politicians also blame Jeremy. On rolling TV news Sunday Ben Bradshaw did as much though he did say the Labour IN campaign was not overall Corbyn's; after all it was Alan Johnson who ran that campaign. So as the UK stands on the brink of uncertainty the two main political parties are opting for self-indulgent politics. Cameron is ditching his responsibilities and the Tories are in disarray with accusations of election expense fiddling from 2015 still to play out; but in-fighting in the Labour party and attacks on Mr Corbyn are taking the heat from the Tories. Expect this story to be updated throughout Sunday as an Eton Mess becomes something entirely different. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-hilary-benn-sacked-shadow-cabinet-resign-jeremy-corbyn-eu-referendum-a7103916.html Op-ed: Having watched the European Union in / out referendum until the wee small hours of Friday morning, around 4.30am in fact, sleep has been brief. But even so posting this report around 8.30am much has changed; UK PM David Cameron has announced he is stepping down and will be gone by October. By the time our coverage of results as they came in ended main TV news sources had declared the LEAVE campaign was the winner. Having taken a chance and called an EU referendum Cameron was a political dead man walking as soon as LEAVE took the lead. Fear tactics by Cameron's REMAIN campaign acted as reverse psychology in some cases and failed. Thursday night as results began ro roll in some senior Tory MP's on both sides threw their support behind the Prime Minister but he was doomed. The UK now faces a series of challenges including:
The EU referendum story still has some way to go. Updates as available http://www.newtekjournalismukworld.com/eileen-kersey/eu-referendum-results-as-they-come-in |
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