First published at 20:26 UTC on July 2nd, 2024.
If this is a typical example of what Keir Starmer means by a high quality Labour candidate, then the country is stuffed!
Right, so the Labour Party National Executive Committee imposing candidates on local constituency parties rather than letting the…
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If this is a typical example of what Keir Starmer means by a high quality Labour candidate, then the country is stuffed!
Right, so the Labour Party National Executive Committee imposing candidates on local constituency parties rather than letting them select their own candidates has very much been a defining aspect of Keir Starmer’s authoritarianism leading up to the election, he only wanting people who seemingly won’t question him, people from his faction installed and blow to what local people want, let alone when it comes to actual representation by someone who knows their areas and puts their local needs first. Where some of the more well known impositions of this election might be the replacement of Jeremy Corbyn with a multimillionaire private healthcare CEO, or members of that Labour NEC awarding themselves safe seats where they have no local connection, all for the sake of becoming MPs, not caring one iota about where they are supposed to represent, like Luke Akehurst, have caused considerable anger, but another less known example, but a no less disgusting imposition has really shown just how poor some Labour parliamentary candidates and you have to see this to believe it.
Right, so that was Chris Ward, the Starmer imposition on Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven and if you might have been wondering perhaps why the Green Party is doing so well this time around in that seat, frankly wonder no more. He couldn’t detest being questioned by a local person more if he tried could he? He was really annoyed, that’s the first impression you get. He didn’t want to make a statement on Israel and Gaza, he was quite sulky about that, he was quite sulky about being filmed, it was the Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign who were filming and asking questions incidentally, hence the Palestine flags seen, but Ward? Well, get used to being filmed and questioned like that if you want to be an MP, but he eventually managed to stutter out that he supported a ceasefire, ..
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