@markhburton@mstdn.social“Once again, Keir Starmer’s hyper-factional war on the Left has created an almighty mess for Labour. In Faiza Shaheen Labour had a respected, popular, local candidate democratically selected by local party members. But ... Starmer’s allies decided to purge [her] on spurious grounds and parachute in one of their own clique from outside the constituency."
#FaizaShaheen resigns from
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzFaiza Shaheen - interview-based article
So apparently Faiza Shaheen is now standing as an independent! Hope she wins.
Bit more here about how the deselection process unfolded, and other things she's done in the past.
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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzFaiza Shaheen / Labour Party 2/n
The thing about the "likes"... It isn't that those kinds of things could never be taken into account. It's that the _time_ for that was back when she joined Labour, or back when she started campaigning as a candidate. You bring it up, and if the person agrees, they take off the like, and apologise or whatever.
You don't let someone put in hundreds of hours of work, and then spring this on them weeks before the election!
#FaizaShaheen #LabourParty
@markhburton@mstdn.social#FaizaShaheen's very effective election video.
https://twitter.com/faizashaheen/status/1798983120471069040?t=3vY5Y0kkcaV-EsKS6KejUw&…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzFaiza Shaheen / Labour Party 3/n
It reminds me of how Munroe Bergdorf was treated by Childline.
If someone's representing your organisation, and they say something you think is wrong, then unless it's very very bad, the first port of call should be to support them in walking it back, in a "this is a chance to educate _everyone_" kind of way.
And there definitely are racist & sexist patterns in who does get the benefit of that grace, vs who gets blamed & ditched.
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