Some 70 Labour councillors have quit the party recently, including 20 earlier this week in Pendle, as Labour seeks to avoid another Rochdale melt down
George Calloway celebrates with supporters at his campaign headquarters after being declared the winner in the Rochdale by-election in February The Labour leader now faces growing calls to demand the UK stop selling arms to Israel, but pressure has been brought to bear not only in the realms of policy.
Graham Jones, the parliamentary candidate for the nearby target seat of Hyndburn, was at the same meeting and suspended for saying Britons who go to Israel to fight for the Israel Defence Forces “should be locked up”. Starmer’s crackdown on antisemitism began in earnest with the proscription of four groups, most with communist links, in July 2021. Since then, hundreds of members have been expelled or disciplined, either for their association with those groups or other antisemitism allegations. The number disciplined, however, runs into thousands.
who left Labour last year after he was blocked from being the party’s candidate for mayor of the North East. “What have the Labour leadership offered? The magic growth bunny. It will hop along, and Britain will boom. No need to invest in public services. The magic growth bunny will fix the crisis in social care. The sick will walk. Greenhouse gases will chill out.”
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