Amongst other things, Chris Williamson took Labour to court and stood against a Labour candidate
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Als antwoord op @Fgh22Gill @KevinPascoe
He took Labour to court with good reason: his suspension by the party was against party rules. And he won his case. He stood for election as a socialist, loyal to the leader of the Labour Party, and asked Labour not to put up a candidate against him. The party went ahead anyway
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Als antwoord op @geol_uk @KevinPascoe
He may have won a minor victory about process, but it was completely unnecessary to take Labour to court over that. And he resigned his membership in the middle of the second investigation, so Labour had no choice but to stand a Labour candidate. He helped to cost us the seat
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Als antwoord op @Fgh22Gill @KevinPascoe
No he didn't. Labour lost by far more votes than Chris Williamson received. He did not split the vote. It was one of the 'red wall' leave seats which Labour lost because of the centrist remainers' insistence on a PV with remain on the ballot
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Als antwoord op @geol_uk @KevinPascoe
I said "helped". The internal fight played out in public will have destroyed some level of confidence in Labour
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Als antwoord op @Fgh22Gill @KevinPascoe
There is often a tendency within Labour to continue fighting battles that have already ended. CW left Labour, Corbyn's resigned as leader; those battles have finished. There's *plenty* of other battles that need fighting
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Als antwoord op @Fgh22Gill @KevinPascoe
Like the necessary battle against the Tory Board of Deputies, trying to impose their own demands on the Labour leadership candidates.
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Als antwoord op @geol_uk @KevinPascoe
If that's the battle you're choosing to fight, with that framing, then not only will you pretty much be on your own with that, but you'll also be asked why you're choosing that battle over say the battles the right is waging against trans people or against disabled people
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Als antwoord op @Fgh22Gill @KevinPascoe
The right is waging war on all the 99% - picking off the most vulnerable first. Especially the disabled. An important part of the discrimination issue. Labour is on the side of the victims who are targeted. This is why the AS smears are so unjust, unhelpful, and plain WRONG
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Als antwoord op @geol_uk @KevinPascoe
They're not "wrong" if there's a crisis in confidence in Labour - and there clearly is about AS as well as a number of other issues. That's why listening *and* increasing confidence has to be done.
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You can listen and act without this nonsense - item 8 is terrifying for Jewish people who disagree with BoD
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