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    14 members of CLP quit in protest at Labour's crackdown on free speech 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on December 8, 2020, 11:42 pm

    8 December 2020

    (quote)
    Fourteen members of Great Yarmouth Constituency Labour Party (CLP)
    have announced that they are leaving the party after Labour HQ
    "silenced" members over support for Jeremy Corbyn and Palestine.

    The "proud socialists and committed anti-racists" wrote to their CLP
    secretary to say that "with a heavy heart" they will be terminating
    their memberships.

    The members said that suspending former Labour leader Mr Corbyn over
    his response to an external report into the party's handling of
    anti-semitism complaints and his successor Sir Keir Starmer's
    subsequent decision to withdraw the whip from him "demonstrates overt
    political interference into party investigations."

    They added that they are "angry, frustrated and quite frankly
    embarrassed" that the Labour leadership "uses false allegations of
    anti-semitism, which cannot be upheld, for factional political gains."

    A directive to CLPs by Labour general secretary David Evans stating
    that discussion or motions in relation to Mr Corbyn's suspension or
    withdrawal of the whip would be ruled "out of order" undermines
    democracy and political debate, they wrote.

    The directive has also led to bans on motions in support of rights of
    Palestinians.

    The letter says: "It is essential that members are provided with free
    speech in relation to the Israeli government's occupation and its
    systemic human-rights abuses of Palestinians."
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    -- https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/14-members-clp-quit-protest-labours-crackdown-free-speech

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