Breakaway Labour MP’s

Jalima
That is actually a very kind description of Ian Lavery. No one in Northumberland would be so polite about him.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ian-lavery-received-165000-miners-13788425.amp

After over fifty years as a Labour Party member and activist, stuck with the party through their robbing my community of donations given following the deaths of 128 people and then keeping the liar Lord Robens in his job . The wilderness years following the 1983 disasterous election, having doors slammed in my face , a dear friend struggling with cancer campaigning for the party whilst Corbyn was campaigning to get the expelled militants back into the party .

Today I have left the party, I believe Luciana, I have never tolerated racism and anti semetism is racism no matter how some choose to excuse it or deny it. I cannot support a party where those at the top are racist and some Corbyn supporters defend it.

So no longer a Labour Party member , if I stayed I would be supporting anti semetism and bullying. I cannot do this,

Congratulations on standing by your principles, anniebach.

For the first time in my life, I regret never having joined a political party; I am denied the opportunity of resigning on a matter of principle. And like so many voters, I am in a constituency which is unlikely to change hands, so my vote counts for nothing. Roll on, proportional representation in one form or another. Single transferable vote would do for a start.

Yep Derrick Hatton back.

Another premonition come to fruition.

Some of us could become versions of Mystic Meg.

Thank you grumppa , I have been troubled for quite some time .

It’s very sad isn’t it Anniebach I couldn’t vote for them after Corbyn won the leadership. There are very very many of us who can’t stomach the culture of labour now.

I too saw nothing but pain hurt and some anger in the faces of those MPs especially Luciana.,

I feel for you this evening Anniebach. It must seem the end of an era for you, in many ways. ?
RIP Labour. ⚰️

And I thought Tom Watson spoke eloquently but he will be ignored

Anniebach

' Today I have left the party,'
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I am genuinely sorry you have felt it necessary to come to this decision.

We had many a fight when you once upon a time defended Corbyn and you have always been known to older posters to have given support and loyalty to the Labour Party.

You have put up with bullying and personal attacks by those who did not know, or those who choose to forget, of your past ' fervent' loyalty to Labour and I hope it will be so again for you one day.

Anniebach

On a happier note you have good company with the likes of Frank Field.

Anniebach everyone can see Corbyn and his Momentum attack dogs and rabid activists for what they are now,you were/are the first to point this out on GN, which, as a Labour member makes you a rarity on here.
There are one or two on GN ( amazingly) who are still denying any anti- semitism in the Party, with the stupid cry of ‘ it doesn’t exist, it’s just a way of getting at Corbyn’ !
What blindness.

3 cheers for Anniebach❗️
Hip, hip ... hooray!
A woman with principles. ❤️

I didn’t know all this back story as I am new to Gransnet but wanted to say I admire you Anniebach and as said you are in good company and right

Thank you all, I have always said ‘ I have to be true to myself ‘ . lemon it was the denials and excuses which made me finally admit ‘ I don’t want to belong to the same party ‘

POGS we did have many a fight but my in defence then I didn’t know the truth .

I am content to follow Frank Fields

And for the Corbynites here, no I am not joining the Tory party

Urmstongran mycatisahaker thank you.

Yes Tom Watson will be ignored

I have ALWAYS admired FF. A good man of principle and much undervalued.

That must have been an extremely hard decision after being loyal to the LP and worked and campaigned for the party all these years, Anniebach.
Well done for sticking with your principles and what you believe to be fair and right.

Frank is a proper labour MP.

Brave fair courageous and with integrity.

4 words not associated with Corbyn

Anniebach ?

Their defection makes no sense unless you and or your allies are about to be dumped, anyway. Then it makes a bit of sense to get yourself on tv and invite some Tories who are about to be dumped to join you.

Politics, Eh?

Their defection makes no sense unless you and or your allies are about to be dumped, anyway.
Do you think not?

I think they have more principles than that and are sick of the way the LP is being run now.

Well, Anniebach, I expect you shed a few tears today, but if we cannot be true to ourselves then we truly have lost everything. I left last year, but even so, listening to the 7 MPs today, I was shocked to hear those accusations of antisemitism and racism so powerfully put, and I believe them.

I was not as involved as you were, but did my share of working in the local LP office and on the doorsteps. That was when I believed in the LP. I'm afraid Tom Watson spoke for me today.

Hatton back? Well he should fit in very well with what the LP has evolved into during his absence.

urmstrongran

Maybe they are just principled. Maybe they are rightly applied by the bullying, antisemitism, lack of any leadership and the frankly wierd worship amongst the plp of one very ordinary and not very clever or principled swithering thin skinned old Trotsky!

Is antisemitism really an issue that affects how the average person votes because personally I don’t give a sod, to me it’s much more important to have a effective opposition in parliament. The Labour Party scored a massive own goal giving party members leadership votes because activists will always dominate, and moderates marginalized.
Wether the recent resignations are the start of a new party I’m doubtful, they will be deselected at the next election and be opposed by an official candidate, splitting the vote. This is not going to be a Macron style presidential landslide, each MP has to be elected it will be a long slog.

Davidhs, I can’t believe that I have just read your comment “ don’t give a sod”. In fact it leaves me speechless. I am just so pleased that the majority of GNs do feel it is important.