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Deselection issue in Labour Party with respect to Luciana Berger

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yggdrasil Fri 07-Jul-17 11:36:45

There was a lot of controversy about her original selection in 2010. She wasn't 'chosen by her constituents', even if they voted for her since.
Her getting that percentage of the vote in that very safe seat is not surprising. The current constituency party does have the right to look for someone more in tune with them.

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MawBroon Fri 07-Jul-17 11:11:38

Sounding like Eastern Europe/N Korea.
Apologies to the former

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Baggs Fri 07-Jul-17 10:43:37

Liverpool Labour MP, Luciana Berger, got 34,717 votes (four fifths of the total) in the recent General Election. Local supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, members of the far left group, Momentum, who have nine of the ten executive committee places in Berger's constituency party, think she should be deselected because of her criticisms of JC's performance in the EU Referendum (she resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in protest).

I think her deselection, based on the opinions of these nine people, would be completely anti-democratic: an assault on the principles of representative democracy. Berger was chosen by her constituents to represent them. It is to them that she is accountable.

The activists controlling her local Party are demanding she apologise for not supporting JC "in the past". They clearly have no understanding of the irony of their stance: JC's parliamentary career is thickly littered with evidence of his lack of support for the Party leadership.

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