Shaheen claims party has ‘problem with black and brown people’ after panel stops her standing in London seat
from standing in Chingford and Woodford Green, has announced she will challenge the decision in the courts, claiming she has faced “a systematic campaign of racism, Islamophobia and bullying”.
“I have come to the inescapable conclusion that Labour, far from being a broad church encompassing different views, has an ingrained culture of bullying, a palpable problem with black and brown people, and thinks nothing of dragging a person’s good name through the mud in pursuit of a factional agenda, with no thought of the impact on committed members’ mental health and wellbeing.”
“My husband was at work and I undertook the interview with three members of Labour’s national executive with a crying baby on my lap, with no time to prepare, and feeling very poorly with mastitis,” she said in her statement. Asked whether she could see why the tweet was offensive, she said: “It plays into a trope and I absolutely don’t agree with that and I’m sorry about that.”Shaheen was informed by email on Wednesday evening that she had been blocked from standing as a Labour candidate – a message she says she received after the news had already appeared in the media.She posted on X: “Whose clever idea has it been to have a cull of left wingers?”.
Labour’s internal party processes mean that if a snap election is called, as in this case, the NEC wields immense power over selections, with little or no involvement by grassroots party members.
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