Creasy hit back at Mahmood on Facebook, saying that while she remained uncertain of how to vote: «the one thing I will not do is be bullied by a sitting Walthamstow Labour councilor with the threat of
deselection if I don't do what he wants».
Creasy has hit back, saying she will not be «be bullied by a sitting Walthamstow Labour councilor with the threat of
deselection if I don't do what he wants».
She'll be facing
deselection if she pushes ahead.
Few would query the proposition that constituency Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn supporters, orchestrated a campaign to pull MPs into line — with the threat of
deselection if they failed to do so.
Writing in the Guardian, Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, warned MPs tweeting and briefing against their leader that they could face mandatory
deselections if they continued with their disloyalty.
Not exact matches
But Mr Dugher said: «I think it might be quite useful
if he went along to it because he can have a word with them as their former chairman and say to them «stop the intimidation, stop the abuse and stop the talk of
deselections and going after Labour MPs who voted in a way they didn't approve of.
Shadow foreign minister Diana Johnson has been warned she faces
deselection from her Hull North seat
if she backs airstrikes in Syria.
And
if not their self - respect, then their self - interest, because any hopes of re-election will be squashed between the threat of
deselection and the charge of guilt - by - association, as soon as the Conservatives have had enough of watching Labour's self - immolation and step up their own campaign.
He insisted MPs would unite behind the leader
if Mr Corbyn won a second contest, and assured them they would not face
deselection for disloyalty.
If you open up deselections as a factional tool, don't be surprised if you lose some of your ow
If you open up
deselections as a factional tool, don't be surprised
if you lose some of your ow
if you lose some of your own.
But members acknowledge that
if the government plan goes ahead to have boundary changes in 2018, reducing the number of seats to 600, there could be de-facto
deselection.
The only effective way to do so is by the wholesale discarding the PLP coup supporters, either through
deselection or,
if the boundary changes come about, by rejecting them for the new constituencies.
Not quite clear
if there will be more to
deselections to emerge but given that there will also some standing down voluntarily it is clear that most of the current Labour Group will not be Labour candidates next time.
Trust me -
If Deselection was allowed in the Labour Party this election they would have been quite a few.
Party conference next year,
if not this year, will be asked to make constitutional changes to allow easier
deselection of MPs,
if they appear to be sufficiently ideologically impure, in the eyes of the leadership.