Make Miatta MP in Camberwell & Peckham

[selhurst]

Harriet Harman is stepping down after 38 years as the MP for Camberwell & Peckham.

Labour Party members who live in the constituency can vote on deciding who our next MP will be.

I am supporting Miatta!

Hoping local members will vote for her at Hustings on Sat 19th November or by a Postal Vote.

You may have seen Miatta on Question Time and Politics Live.

She has worked for Labour forming policy, and she's now the CEO of the New Economic Foundation.

Check out her campaign video on the website

https://miattafahnbulleh.org

or YouTube

[Peckhamnearbe]

I am sorry but I cannot be enthusiastic about voting for Labour here.

What happened to selection process candidate, Mr Maurice McLeod (and I must say a lot of other BME and non-BME candidates up and down the country) has been nothing short of a national scandal. In case you do not know about this, I recommend looking up Maurice's name - there's information in The Guardian, The Voice, Skwawbox.

In the last, I read that the people of principle and due process in this CLP, the Chair, Procedures Secretary and one other who were on the Selection Committee resigned in protest. There's something profoundly wrong with the direction the ''new-look right wing'' Labour Party has taken. The major documentary,The Labour Files exposed a lot that is cause for concern.

I don't like this Government but there are more principled alternatives. When I saw this endorsement for the ''approved'' candidate, my mind immediately turned to the writings of Frantz Fanon.

[diable rouge]

Corbynistas who were happy to see moderate candidates deselected in favour of Corbynista candidates upset that moderate Labour leader wants moderate candidates shocker...

[legalalien]

There does seem to be some conflict between the CLP and head office, and potentially a little bending of the rules of Southwark News is to be believed…

https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/politics/exclusive-labour-party-dismisses-entire-selection-panel-in-row-over-harriet-harman-succession/

As a casual observer, from what I’ve seen of them in past council meetings Evelyn and Peter both seem reasonably well spoken and on top of their briefs. I think it’s better to have local candidates.

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[Bic Basher]

I'd take The Labour Files with a pinch of salt. It's a pro-Corbyn "expose" which skews it towards the allegations of anti-Semitism against far-left Labour members being false as part of a supposed plot to get rid of socialists in their party.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

What happened to selection process candidate, Mr Maurice McLeod...there's information in The Guardian, The Voice, Skwawbox.

If you're talking about this Voice article, it's pretty pernicious journalism - there's a strong implication that McLeod was binned because of his race, but the candidate selected was also black.