SIXTH member of Starmer’s Executive takes a safe Labour seat.

Right, so General Election candidacies have been finalised as the nominations period ended this week, but not before yet another member of Labour’s National Executive Committee have seemingly handed themselves a safe seat, let’s face it, these people are not properly scrutinising themselves, they are simply taking the biggest slices of cake, the tastiest portions, safe Labour seats for their own ends, Starmerroids helping themselves as rewards for services rendered.
So far the chair of the NEC has taken a seat, there’s Luke Akehurst of course, the best known and most notorious example, along with another equally as bad in Gurinder Singh-Josan a couple of trade unionists from right wing led trade unions round out the NEC reps taking safe seats, but others getting the nod, no less disgraceful and showing what a stitch up matters have been include no less than and a former staffer of Starmer himself, though it isn’t going well for them as a result amongst the people they hope to represent, so will things go down any better for the latest executive member jumping on that gravy train, especially with a background of proven bullying allegations against her, but I suppose the question there is, is that seen as a high quality characteristic for an MP in Starmer’s Labour these days?
Right, so have the people of Barking not suffered enough? They’ve had Margaret Hodge as their MP for over 30 years, imposed on them and with all the baggage she has brought with her, not to mention her ardent support for Labour Friends of Israel and all despite not living in the area and never having had as far as I’m aware, coming from North Islington as she did, famously losing out on that seat in 1983 to a certain Jeremy Corbyn. Yet now the very much taken for granted people of Barking have had someone else imposed on them, no less right wing, nor from the area, this time coming from Enfield in north London, the Labour Council leader and one of the two Labour Councillors appointed to the Labour NEC, Nesil Caliskan, this is she with former Labour Friends of Israel chair Joan Ryan lurking behind her, the former MP for Enfield North, now the Chief Executive of ELNET-UK, another vehicle similar to Luke Akehurst’s We Believe in Israel, lobbying on behalf of Israel to promote their interests in Britain, her family is apparently quite close to Caliskan’s.
Now on the face of it, and indeed if you’ve seen my other video’s on Labour impositions going into this General Election, you might notice that Caliskan is not white, bucking the trend somewhat in what we’ve seen from Labour selections under Starmer so far, disproportionately seeing deselections happening amongst ethnic minority candidates, yet here he is imposing one. Well, all will become clear presently on that score I think as we dig into her previous actions.
Enfield has gone through something of a right wing purge, even before Keir Starmer became Labour leader, because as we’ve now become accustomed to since Keir Starmer took over, it’s what the Labour right wing does.
Caliskan in 2018 was the Local Campaign Forum Secretary in Enfield, LCF’s co-ordinate Constituency Labour Party activities within their given area and they do so with a view of securing the re-election of local councillors ahead the next set of elections. But Caliskan appeared to have a different set of ideas. Ahead of that same years local elections, some very suspect and irregular vetting of councillor candidates went on, proper assessment wasn’t carried out, for example one candidate that got passed reportedly had a very serious lack of communication ability, not great for someone required to speak in public, but then that didn’t appear to be the aim, as shortly after these people were installed, they promptly voted Caliskan in as the Council Leader, Labour held as the Council is.
Not only that, but in a borough where 1 in 5 people are black, every single black Labour Councillor ended up deselected, to make room for these, erstwhile Caliskan minions, though not exclusively so. Such was the blatant discrimination against black candidates, that one former councillor and one the candidates for that election resigned in protest over it, the councillor having been one for 12 years by that point, said on the matter:
‘In my twelve years as a councillor I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s unprecedented. The black councillors were largely in safe seats – but those who stayed on to fight, reluctantly, were given unwinnable Tory seats.
The safe seats went to – well, to people who had been planning this for some time. And a lot of them were from one particular community – the people who benefited from the whole debacle of the compilation and selection process.’
One particular community at the expense of blacks, those from Caliskan’s own racial background, she’s of Cypriot descent, which could be Greek or Turkish Cypriot, and that allegation of one community ousting another was borne out by the fact black candidates were ousted and Turkish candidates imposed amounting to what was called an ethnic coup at the time.
The then Deputy leader of the Council stepped down from his role ahead of this being confirmed, not prepared to serve in her cabinet, the most inexperienced in Enfield’s history as it was called at the time, responsible for a budget in the region of some £1bn.
This coup triggered complaints to the Governance and Legal Unit following the election and Caliskan taking over as Leader, but by the November, a full motion of no confidence was called against her after refusing to answer questions concerning her role is selections as the LCF Secretary, those imposed and those who were effectively removed to make way for them, breaching standing orders pertaining to who got nominated and selected as Leader and to the various cabinet positions.
The motion demanded Caliskan’s resignation, the motion passed, with just 4 votes against, but being non binding made not the slightest bit of difference.
The Council off the back of this ended up being placed in special measures, Labour’s then National Executive Committee rebuked Caliskan for ignoring instructions they’d made to her by this point, it was a complete mess driven seemingly by one woman’s massive ambition and little else.
The bullying allegations came to a head however the following year in 2019, where an allegation made against Caliskan by another female Councillor, which had found against Caliskan was upheld after she tried to appeal it. Evidence was given at the appeal by the Chief Monitoring Officer who Caliskan had accused of bias and political motivation, which by now as I’m sure you can appreciate, might be a bit rich coming from her. The Conduct Committee overseeing the appeal sided with the Council, said they’d done everything by the book and that Caliskan was a bully, had bullied this other Councillor and was instructed to undertake mediation, send a written apology to the Councillor, which must be text approved by the Chief Monitoring Officer, hardly inclined at this point to cut her any slack, a statement issued at the next Full Council meeting and acknowledge that her actions were out of order. Failure to comply would result in all of this being published in the local paper and council website. Did she do it? Yes, but then went on to complain about the cost of all of this to the public – she’s the one who chose to appeal and was still found bang to rights! Some £11,000 charged to the public purse to only have her told she was a bully still. And her week hadn’t even finished.
She then breached standards again, by trying to get a meeting arranged with the chair of the council’s overview and scrutiny committee, those that get the fine tooth comb out to go through council motions and decisions looking for flaws – an independent process - asking for regular meetings with them so that he would be ‘more closely aligned to key decisions.’ Well, she was accused of trying to exert undue influence and to pack it in, she was told her email was ‘inappropriate, compromising and incriminating’ to which her response was to just email again. This resulted in the Monitoring Officer getting involved again after receiving a formal complaint.
A track record it would appear or being a bully, an inexperienced and overly ambitious individual who doesn’t wish to be held accountable for her actions, who, despite all of this, has remained Council Leader and in fact got elected to the Labour Party National Executive Committee as one of the two councillor reps in the meantime, which has now paved the way for her apparently limitless ambition to now become an MP, an individual even as awful as Margaret Hodge, having left a more than 15,000 seat majority, a seat that has been solidly Labour since 1945 and is being taken for granted over that fact more than ever now.
Meanwhile, her equally parachuted in NEC counterpart Luke Akehurst’s campaigning goes from bad to worse, as more of his old comments come to light, undermining any semblance of Labour only imposing high quality candidates, when they come out with stuff such as the nonsense outlined in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.