Diane Abbott accuses Labour of left-wing candidate purge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c800pzlz9k8o
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Diane Abbott accuses Labour of left-wing candidate purge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c800pzlz9k8o
Posted by Glanza
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With the other woman going for just liking a tweet saying about the isreali lobby I can’t see how she’s wrong. Don’t think she should’ve her job but they are purging the left
Diane Abbott is actually a nightmare. They should just expel her from the party and consign the past to the past.
Says she has been banned from running to journalists. The leader comes out some hours later and says that’s not true. So a few hours later she comes out and says Labour is carrying out a “cull” of left-wing candidates.
So again in a few hours, Starmer will come out and say that’s not true.
She is a circus act. Expel her, ride the 24 hours of negative press and be done with it already.
She will be in the Jungle before next Christmas.
Whatever you think of Abbott, this is clearly true
I’m confused – does Diane Abbott want the Tories to win? Genuinely baffled that she wants to be a Labour member, wants to stand as a Labour candidate and yet appears to be putting significant effort into slating and discrediting the party at every turn. It truly feels as though she’d rather that Labour loses so she has a shot at retaking control of the party. It comes across as exceptionally self-serving and lacking in any kind of awareness. I felt truly sorry for her most recently when she was a victim of racist and sexist abuse and was silenced in parliament but, frankly, her behaviour now is bizarre, dishonourable and I struggle to respect her professionally.
If I was Starmer I’d be welcoming these types of comments. Yes, he’s had a purge, and would you look at that? They suddenly become electable.
Just one of the many reasons that we will actually win this election.
I mean, she’s right. I don’t agree with a lot of the stuff she’s said recently, but she’s correct on this one. Kier has actively been purging the left from Labour to appeal to Tory voters.
You keep going Diane, fight for your rights and help highlight the Labour infighting and disorganised direction. Bravo 🙌
It’s not so much an accusation as a statement of fact, regardless of how you feel about Abbott.
Diane’s had the whip restored a matter of hours and she’s already plunged Labour into a new crisis.
Starmer should have nipped this in the bud months ago rather than dither over her future in the Labour party but it’s pretty clear a number of salty Labour lefties have now jumped on the band wagon and are out to cause trouble. Its right what they say about Labour having the ability to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Watching her talk last night it’s clear she has no place being anyone’s MP. She should retire with a strong legacy
I mean, we can literally all see that Labour have been getting rid of left wing candidates, not a controversial opinion at all.
I think it’s time the whip was removed and followed by an expulsion. She’s literally the biggest vote winner for the tories now. This morning Hunt defended the record debt, poor services, huge tax bill and NHS problems with “well Starmer can’t deal with Abbott, so how can he run the country?” to which the presenters nodded with agreement.
Like lancing a boil, it’s best to do it in one go and be done. It’s better to lose one or two seats in London (although the local support is vastly overstated) than lose 150+ nationwide.
All the policies on tax and NHS are being drowned out by someone realising their time on the gravy train is over
I mean, she’s not really wrong. But the problem they have is that the real left wingers like Corbyn are probably unelectable.
“Diane Abbott accuses Labour of not picking here, threatens to take her ball home” -FTFY
Even I’m getting tired of this now, and I’m pretty sympathetic to Corbyn.
Why does anyone care about Diane Abbott. Yes she was a trailblazer, now she’s an embarrassing hasbeen.
I can certainly see how right she is regardless of whether or not I agree with her turbulent past
Not surprising labour are pulling this shit. Labour have moved so far to the right under starmer that they are hardly recognisable any more. They are no different now than David Cameron’s conservatives
Starmer’s really let the broken clock exceed expectations here.
The country wants economically left wing politicians. Not socially left wing politicians. These champagne socialists are always the latter.
Blah. The fight is Tory v Labour.
The rest is a side show, but not a bad one. Abbott is actually encouraging soft Tories over if they believe a left wing purge. They see DA unhappy, makes them happy. Keep going. Take every centrist vote I can get.
Good. The far left of the Labour Party should set up their own party.
Strange timing, they literally just didn’t purge her.
Can Starmer please just get in front of this and give an answer one way or another? It’s infuriating watching this completely unnecessary mess. Abbot says she’s ‘heard’ that she’s going to be barred from standing, with no evidence ether way, but then Starmer likewise just says it’s untrue without confirming whether she can stand, leaving it completely up in the air. Meanwhile Abbot’s continuing to raise a storm about this. It was absolutely merciful that the right wing papers didn’t run with this yesterday (the Mail running some silly story on Lord Lucan), but if they don’t get a fucking grip on this it’ll just turn into more embarrassment
Fuck off and stand as an independent or just keep pushing and give more votes to the tories. Corbyn gave the election to them last time so the same old facts are looking to do the same this time around.
Your average voter won’t know any Labour MPs but they will know Diane Abbott, and she has not done herself or Labour any favours in the past, so I’m not shocked that this is the case.
Saying it’s a left wing cull is just trying to piss off the vocal minority that hate Starmer for not being Corbyn who will vote Green anyway.
It’s not an accusation, it’s a simple statement that the Starmer Clique is driving anyone who’s left wing in any meaningful way out of the Labour Party.
Look at the election results from 2019, those huge swings against Labour were because the party was not electable, they’ll probably swing back to Labour again now that the party has refocused onto clause 1 of the party constitution, that which is all about representation in Parliament.
Purge or not, she needs to be ousted. At this stage she’s a hindrance and attracting nothing but negativity. She seems to be more focused on herself rather than Labour winning an election.
I heard a Momentum member interviewed last night on LBC. Would definitely prefer Labour un a centrist to lose to Tories. Unbelievable. Proves to me that Starmer and Sue Gray are better to purge the arsonists if they are to win, and to govern with any stability. Yes I would prefer them to tack left but the key thing is to get the Tories out.
It’s not a purge it’s just removing the left wing extremists and racists .
Some in labour and their supporters just like opposition. Keep it together ffs. The country needs a united Labour
It’s not an accusation when it’s true. Whether you agree with the purge or not is an entirely separate discussion.