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This is a very important article in @LabourList by @Sabrina_Huck about the problems caused by the so-called 'united' left slate for Labour's NEC elections. This whole episode has called into question the procedures by which such slates are decided... https://labourlist.org/2020/07/party-democracy-must-not-become-just-a-buzzword-to-annoy-moderates/?fbclid=IwAR1iUrEJQLwxIboKfN2ahQzJkMY9RxIdY2NHY-ZbunqbaYhHjotwkVNaK9c
The problem seems to stem from the way @CLGALabour, presumably in consultation with the new @PeoplesMomentum National Coordinating Group decided on who should be supported by this slate. This process was neither democratic nor open. Instead its decision was simply handed-down...
...in a heavy-handed, top-down manner and people were told to accept it or lump it. It now looks like lumping it will be the choice of many, as people are angry that two candidates many #trans people and allies regard as transphobes have been included on this dodgy list...
... So @CLGALabour and @PeoplesMomentum as well as the @socialistcam -paign Group of MPs, who have sought to gloss over these issues need to step back and reassess the situation. Unaccountable, back-room decisions, opaque to the membership are no longer acceptable when people...
...in the Party and in @peoplesmomentum demand, and value transparency, diversity and inclusiveness.
How was the slate arrived at?
How were candidates selected?
Were all @peoplesmomentum members who put themselves forward invited to put their case for inclusion on this list...?
How was the slate arrived at?
How were candidates selected?
Were all @peoplesmomentum members who put themselves forward invited to put their case for inclusion on this list...?
...How was this list advertised to members who might have been interested in being included?
What were the criteria for selection?
What equal opportunities procedures were undergone?
Who made the decisions about inclusion on the list?
How were they elected...?
What were the criteria for selection?
What equal opportunities procedures were undergone?
Who made the decisions about inclusion on the list?
How were they elected...?
...How can I remove these people from this position?
What democratic processes exist in @CLGALabour through linked Labour Left groups like @PeoplesMomentum and @socialistcam-paign Group of MPs to ensure transparency and democratic accountability?
It is clear that the slate...
What democratic processes exist in @CLGALabour through linked Labour Left groups like @PeoplesMomentum and @socialistcam-paign Group of MPs to ensure transparency and democratic accountability?
It is clear that the slate...
...as it currently exists, in both unacceptable and likely to be a gift to the Centrists, and to the Tories and right-wing media.
It is incumbent on @peoplesmomentum, @CLGALabour and @socialistcam to re-run this selection, openly, transparently, inclusively and in such a way...
It is incumbent on @peoplesmomentum, @CLGALabour and @socialistcam to re-run this selection, openly, transparently, inclusively and in such a way...
...that members of @PeoplesMomentum and other left groups can support candidates on the slate unreservedly and in the knowledge that they have been selected democratically and transparently.
Many members of Momentum NCG and @socialistcam have indicated that they support #trans..
Many members of Momentum NCG and @socialistcam have indicated that they support #trans..
...people's human rights, and I am sure many of these people are privately angry that this slate has been put forward with these candidates included. The fact that this slate was decided with unseemly haste just after the @PeoplesMomentum NCG elections, when many were new too...
...the role, and probably also without much consultation amongst @socialistcam members, suggests that this is not merely a moment when new, more transparent and democratic selection procedures can be put in place, but the selection re-run with basic principles of inclusiveness...
...and equality of opportunity taken proper accountability, and the decisions taken openly, by people who are accountable (and whose names we know). @PeoplesMomentum, @CLGALabour and @socialistcam need to stop, ignoring those asking these questions and demanding answers...
...and action. #trans people's human rights are not something you only support when convenient, especially since our rights are under attack by the far right, right now, in a way they have never been in the past. @PeoplesMomentum and NCG candidates have stated their support...
...for #trans people repeatedly. Now is when we find out whether you really mean it. The chips are down, trans people's lives, livelihoods and freedoms are under threat RIGHT NOW, not at some time in the future, that is why this election matters, not just from the POV of...
...openness and transparency.
Time to make a decision,
@PeoplesMomentum
@socialistcam
and
@CLGALabour
This is not something you can defer. If you do not support #trans people now, in our hour of need, your words are meaningless, you 'support' only for show.
Time to make a decision,
@PeoplesMomentum
@socialistcam
and
@CLGALabour
This is not something you can defer. If you do not support #trans people now, in our hour of need, your words are meaningless, you 'support' only for show.
