I imagine it’s going to be tricky if a Red Wall MP defects to Labour, given that these were previously generational Labour safe seats and there’s potentially a former Labour MP first in line at the GE, not a Tory Borisite who’s suddenly discovered a protean conscience. I’d be very suspicious of that sort of person. Could always remove them at constituency level I assume?
Ultimately this is a classic example of a silo mentality whereby interconnected organisations grow larger & become disconnected. The link between unions & Labour has been far from harmonious for many years.
Not really. There are numerous examples now of constituency parties having their favoured candidates rejected and having a shortlist of just two candidates imposed by the NEC and regional Labour HQ. Wakefield is just one example:
So to use a clourful example- if the Beast of Bolsover said he wanted to stand again and the local voters had his full support, the party leader would let ex-Tory MP Justin Squire/ Rupert Whiteman stand as candidate?
Nor sure what you’re getting at but in my experience from when I was a Labour activist visiting different local associations, there was more than one who were not permitted to field their own local candidate, but had a candidate ‘bused in’ by the NEC.
Well, we're talking about members of the constituency party, not voters in a general election, but yes, quite possibly.
But when he had the opportunity to do so, Corbyn figured that what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, as in the case Claudia Webbe.
David Lammy's constituency party just passed the following motion:
Agreed
Almost by definition, yes. Also, hers is a party that went into coalition, locally to me, with the Lib 'no more broken promises era' Dems as they were about to go into coalition with the Tories. In Ireland with Fianna Fail, for God's sake,- saving their bacon in a no confidence vote in the Dail. They have opportunism written right through them as a political party.
