FAIZA SHAHEEN: Labour implodes as Starmer purges own candidates

Right, so for everyone who has viewed the complaints that the left have been victims of a purge by Starmer since he became Labour leader, now that it is happening to parliamentary candidates and even long standing MPs themselves, all of a sudden the more people and certainly the mainstream media are sitting up and taking notice of just how despotic things have become in the Labour Party whilst they’ve been giving Keir Starmer a free pass, but if you think this is just another video about Diane Abbott, then you’re wrong, because clearly she was just the first. Yesterday evening, and in a last minute change on Newsnight in order to get her on, Faiza Shaheen spoke of how she has now been dismissed as a Labour parliamentary candidate, the woman who almost beat Iain Duncan Smith in 2019, despite how bad that election went for Labour, on similar spurious charges so many others in the party have been dismissed over, making a mockery that it is about electability and as another woman of colour told she isn’t wanted, the racism Starmer is presiding over has been dialled up to 9. And things haven’t stopped there, and who knows who else is going to be axed in the coming days?
Right, so that was Faiza Shaheen, talking to Victoria Derbyshire on last night’s Newsnight about how she had only been informed literally an hour before she went on the show, via email, to tell her she was no longer the Labour parliamentary candidate for Chingford and Wood Green. She had literally been out campaigning, baby strapped to her as she was knocking on doors, and all the while the the media were already been briefed that she had been dropped as labour’s candidate, which is just plain nasty and on the basis of 14 tweets since 2014, some since before she was even a Labour member, so the thought police strike again. Nothing prior to the time of being a member is relevant to the party at all in my view, unless it is particularly extremist and Faiza is soft left, I would say, certainly nothing of the sort and of course she said much of what they were about. Three tweets about the Green Party. I’m guessing everyone who has left Labour in disgust and gone to the Green Party, such as myself, would never be welcome back into Labour ever again, it would be held against us, not that I imagine any of us who have left are looking at doing so, but such is stupid logic, for lack of a better word, of Starmer’s Labour here. She even had a tweet about her own experiences of Islamophobia within the party used against her, and I can only speculate that the logic behind that is that Labour don’t acknowledge Islamophobia as being present, the attitude many now in positions of influence accused Corbyn of over antisemitism, or feel that by bringing up such racist attitudes used against her, that she is directly attacking the Labour Party and harming it’s reputation therefore, in which case the Labour Party is every inch the racist, foul endeavour now that Starmer’s predecessor was accused of presiding over. There is zero logic to using somebody’s experience of racism against them. That can only be seen as racist itself. No ifs or buts. If Labour wanted to be that anti racist party, then people experiencing it even now, because it is an all pervading societal ill, that you can never truly rid yourselves of, just deal with every time it arises, then people need to be free to talk about it not be punished for doing so as clearly has happened here.
British journalist and Zeteo frontman Mehdi Hasan highlighted another of the tweets Shaheen had apparently been punished for a sketch by American comedian Jon Stewart, himself Jewish, sending himself up as being the wrong kind of Jew for being critical of Israel. So now Israel can’t be criticised if you want to be a Labour candidate. Is the party now being run by a bunch of pound shop Netanyahu’s then? Stewart acknowledged Mehdi Hasan’s tweet in relation to Faiza Shaheen himself saying:
‘This is the dumbest thing The UK has done since electing Boris Johnson…’
I certainly don’t argue with that assessment at all. Especially if you consider electability as a factor here.
Shaheen was on course to beat Iain Duncan Smith this time, Dr Death himself, yet now, he may well end up holding his seat and if he does, then that is all on Starmer. PollingReport.uk put out their prediction yesterday, putting Faiza Shaheen on 56% with Duncan Smith on 28%.
Well, the condemnation has been scorching on social media as you can imagine it would be.
The Labour Muslim Network have said:
‘The deselection of Faiza Shaheen is unacceptable. To use her tweets accounting personal experiences of Islamophobia as evidence for deselection is utterly outrageous. Telling a Muslim woman she is not allowed to talk about her own experiences of racism is clear Islamophobia.’
Women’s rights activist and lawyer Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu referenced that Jon Stewart sketch as well:
‘Keir Starmer just kicked Faiza Shaheen out of Labour Party because Jewish Labour Movement complained she liked a tweet about a Jon Stewart sketch. They're offended by a line 'mobilised by professional organisations' because it 'plays into a trope'. It's not a TROPE when it's FACT & Jewish Labour Movement just PROVED it by mobilising to get Faiza kicked out! Make it make sense!’
So the Jewish Labour Movement were behind that complaint were they? The same body chaired by Mike Katz who the other day shared a platform with anti-Muslim journalist Melanie Phillips, that faction, belongs nowhere near any position of authority on meting out ruling relating to racism. They were inadequate before – not my claim, the claim made in the Forde Report into Labour abuses and racism – but now they appear to have been behind moves to remove a candidate who has themselves experienced racism, but that doesn’t appear to matter, because she dared invoke what they refer to as a trope, which as Dr Shola points out, only stands if it isn’t true and it is. Labour’s Hierarchy of Racism apparently being demonstrated by their anti racism appointees.
Diane Abbott, now Faiza Shaheen, both women of colour. Will white men get their spots now? Will both run as independents now? But it doesn’t even end there.
Having failed to deselect her previously, it seems another deselection attempt is now potentially in the offing against Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum, oh what a surprise another woman of colour!
Begum’s treatment by Labour is a litany of abuse, whereby the local Labour Party had been in the control of her abusive ex husband, and a deselection attempt he triggered, later got overturned and he has subsequently I believe been thrown out of the party. Apsana Begum is a domestic violence survivor, she was suspended on the basis she was alleged to have committed housing benefit fraud, again an accusation triggered by her ex, was hospitalised as the strain became so much for her to bear, having no support at all from her party led by Starmer, but she’s come out the other side. In fact Starmer’s faction were actually disappointed when she was cleared of the fraud charges, they were all set to expel her on the spot outside the courthouse, because it’s all about factional control.
And now Michael Crick’s Tomorrow’s MPs account has put out a tweet saying Begum could be about to face another deselection attempt, quote tweeting a letter from Poplar and Limehouse CLP, to the Labour national Executive Committee, urging them to back her selection, which evidently still hasn’t happened, despite her being the incumbent MP.
It's little wonder there are people fearing for civil liberties now in the face of a Labour government. Looking at this level of draconian authoritarianism being meted out in the party and how that would be reflected across the country should Starmer win a majority. It is little wonder people are now considering not tactical voting, but splitting the vote as an option to deny Labour that majority, such is the importance of such a move as it is now being seen by more and more people.
Another casualty of the Starme purge, and for a change this is a white man, but nonetheless seen as being of the left is Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who has now received an administrative suspension from Labour as of yesterday, based on comments he allegedly made eight years ago, the timing of which, with parliament being dissolved today, now means he can’t stand to defend his seat of Kempstown & Peacehaven. The details of this complaint aren’t known, but the timing of it is as convenient as it gets.
And of course Diane Abbott and what she will do next is still a topic of conversation, a rally held for her last night, was attended by massive crowds, butt he double standards on show here against Abbott and Shaheen stood against white men doing far worse but getting little more than a slap on thew wrist shows not only rampant racism, but massive double standards in the party as well, as this video recommendation exposes and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.