Organisation [ edit] I couldnt agree more. It was released shortly before Unite general secretary Len McCluskey declared that he was astonished at the withdrawal of the whip, saying it was vindictive and vengeful and shows marked bad faith. They signed StopTheWar letter. An MPs Strategic Coordination Proposal document, obtained by Skwawkbox, says that the groups budget to March of this year will be almost 32,000, with a first year of operations costing 133,000. JLM national secretary Peter Mason argued in a piece for LabourList yesterday that the EHRC report was supposed to offer us some closure on antisemitism, but that it doesnt appear to be arriving anytime soon. They have cut off their legs. Holby -I like your sense of humour. With people facing the deepest attack on living standards in decades, we urgently need to build an alternative to the soaring energy bills, pay cuts, food poverty and housing insecurity faced by millions. . Socialist Labour MPs demand Ken Loach is immediately reinstated to the Really?! [9] Socialist Campaign Group MPs made up a significant number of these including Tony Benn, who gave his full support to the campaign and spoke at the 200,000 strong anti-Poll Tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square,[11] and Jeremy Corbyn who appeared at Highbury Magistrates' Court in 1991 for not paying his poll tax bill of 481. Rebecca Long-Bailey MP Gabbard is another one. [50], Corbyn outlined an anti-austerity domestic agenda and an international agenda opposed to military intervention. a new structure and I wouldnt blame anyone John McDonnell, then Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, argued "Our sincere hope is that the prime minister desists from relying upon a [David] Cameron coalition to force his education policies through in the face of this overwhelming opposition within the parliamentary Labour party. It could also be, that she is a democrat too and finds difficult to breath in the stench of fascism that the Labour leadership is producing right now. Exclusive: 'new left' Socialist Campaign Group MPs form new separate No further words are needed. Socialist Campaign Group MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Dan Carden - have spoken at a rally in Liverpool at which an elected local councillor was filmed joining in with a chant from the crowd of "From the river to sea - Palestine will be free.". Among its planned funding streams are a levy of 1,000 per MP to be taken from their training budgets and contributions from. A caucus of eleven new left Labour MPs and an MSP from the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) of left-wing Labour MPs have agreed to set up a separate group with its own funding, priorities and at least one staff member. Is not Starmer doing both with HQ staff? Really interesting, thank you Joseph. worth while job than fining a few members of the govt when Dan Carden MP Sorry comrades to be so harsh but with the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, Right Wing Tory Authoritarianism and War mongering we dont have the time for Left Wing Labour to turn things around or the Lefts CUSTERS LAST STAND! Zarah Sultana MP Some activists have been campaigning for this to end for over 20 years. No one can speak on behalf of the whole group on that basis We are backbenchers and frontbenchers and believe in the power of insider and outsiderstrategies in the Labour Party and will have MPs pushing both within the group. Seems to be a gang of soft left MPs going through very expensive PR exercise for themselves. If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so seeherefor more. [42], No candidate from the Campaign Group ran in the 1994 leadership election and the group did not endorse a candidate. Not forgetting the ubiquitous, thank you for your service, mantra. With everyone concentrating on just surviving the Tory government then its good that you continue to highlight a silent poison flouride in water.IF there was any benefit from adding flouride to fresh water without any problems then we and Cafod would have done so years ago when providing free clean water from boreholes in the third world countries.,.I am retired but not de..commisioned and will continue in a small way to defend ordinary people especially the working-class who are invisible to the authorities across the world. This reduced the previous weighting in favour of MPs and Trade Unions. If he turned up, plenty of people would choose to commemorate elsewhere. MPs using their training budget (Im not sure if thats from party funds or part of their parliamentary expenses) to fund this seems cheeky. Socialist Campaign Group Privacy Policy Socialist Campaign Group Thank you for signing up Who we are Home Thank you for signing up Thank you for signing up Thank you for signing up to get updates about the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. [63] Corbyn promoted a number of Campaign Group MPs to fill his Shadow Cabinet including Richard Burgon, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Grahame Morris and Clive Lewis, and with their support along with that of other left wing MPs and the mobilisation of members by Momentum Corbyn refused to resign. Socialist Campaign Group of MPs Splits. Allegedly. [38], Labour's electoral college was weighted 40% to affiliated unions, 30% to Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) and 30% to MPs in the Parliamentary Labour Party. He is aiming to pass a bill banning MPs from taking any money from oil and gas companies, Labour MP for Hemsworth, Former Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. [36], Following this election the party rules were changed to quadruple the number of MPs required to nominate a candidate to launch a leadership challenge from 5% to 20% (lowered in 1993 to 12.5% for elections where the incumbent had resigned). It was a campaign initiated by that well known opponent of racism, the Daily Mail in an article written even . Starmer announced on Wednesday morning that he would not restore the party whip, however, due he said to Corbyns response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on Labour antisemitism. In October, the Socialist Campaign Group produced a pamphlet called "Winning the Future", which proposed solutions to the COVID-19 crisis.[30]. Get the blasters out and dance workers, dance. Pauline Bryan, By clicking subscribe you confirm you have read and agree to our privacy policy. Zarah Sultana MP John McDonnell MP ", This page was last edited on 30 January 2023, at 22:23. In one hilarious meeting [of the Socialist Campaign Group], the Greenham [Common] Women addressed us. @socialistcam Tweets Socialist Campaign Group @socialistcam Occasional tweets from the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. For 14 years Gaza has been under siege. ", "The BBC's obsession with balance took Labour off-air during the referendum campaign", "Media coverage of the EU Referendum (report 5)", "Labour crisis: how the coup against Jeremy Corbyn gathered pace", "Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote", "Corbyn re-elected as Labour leader with bigger landslide than last year", "Socialist Campaign Group has reformed for 20192024. who set such a brilliant example of pretending to be one thing Portugals PM Costa stuns with majority win in snap election that is OK by me. [36], Bernie Grant sought nominations as the Campaign Group candidate for Deputy Leader. Following the 1997 General Election, 7% of Labour MPs were members of the Campaign Group. Obviously not the ones paid a 600,000 bonus for screwing Corbyn. One can only hope that this new group proves to be more effective than the SCG. Hes intendng to recite his TenPledges again with his fingers crossed behind his back. A younf Socialist female bame leader would be the lightening rod for progressives across the country ..I know that my comment is negative,but really another faction who only make it easier for the fascist Labour leader to divide and rule.I know one of that group personally and drove round in a car with him trying and succeeding in getting him elected.The aims are to be applauded and I realise that good jobs are hard to come by but another so called socialist group who want to survive and left it far too late to recieve former members backing.Sincere maybe but as one commentator said just moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic Build from the ground up this is just example of trying to plug a hole in a sinking ship too too late. This decision and the division it causes severely undermines efforts to unite to defeat antisemitism and fully implement the EHRC recommendations and to challenge and defeat this disastrous Conservative government. Since then, three (3) more similarly robust US Government funded studies (Bashash, 2018, Green, 2019 and Till 2020) have been published. Despite beating both Andy Burnham and Ed Balls in total number of first preference votes cast (35,259 individual first preferences for Abbott compared to 28,772 for Burnham and 34,489 for Balls),[51] Abbott was eliminated in the first round of voting, as she received fewer votes from MPs. 18 Socialist Campaign Group MPs in parliament have signed a statement declaring that they oppose the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and calling for the disciplinary action to be quickly reversed. Pauline Bryan London: Macmillan. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. By George Eaton LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 14: John McDonnell MP addresses striking workers at a rally near at Heathrow Airport on December 14, 2020 in London, England. The UK is completely different so any such group in the UK would, just like the SCG, be largely a talking shop. [33], During his time as Leader Neil Kinnock moved the Labour party to adopt centrist politics. Promise to clean out the stables from top to bottom, no one is above the law we are truly all in it together and as Socialists we will never leave anyone behind. Party workers were tasked with personal lobbying for the leaderships preferred choice, or were even told to chase up certain postal votes but not others. But while the vast majority are struggling to get by, its boom time for the privileged few who are getting ever richer and the corporations raking in record profits. Navendu Mishra MP Ian Byrne MP Like all, her voting actions show her true colours. Mick Whitley MP Momentum accused Starmer of making it up as he goes along while being farcical and incompetent, with the co-chair Andrew Scattergood saying: They cant remove the whip from our movement.. Brilliant contribution my friend, cheers. Not at all, I thought it was important enough to post it more than once. [71] The document outlines a socialist, internationalist and democratic agenda and starts by listing the rights that members thought out to be fought for: "WE BELIEVE: That there should be certain rights which must be won and maintained: We need a campaign for peace and disarmament in Europe, and for an end to the arms trade throughout the world and for a new international economic order which will start to reverse the transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest. LabourList has been told that the new group includes Labour backbenchers Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Clive Lewis, Nadia Whittome, Rachael Maskell, Dawn Butler and Kim Johnson, and frontbenchers Sam Tarry and Olivia Blake. Much was submitted -including some put together by JVL of with Corbyn as honorary President would be a more exciting development. But thats all the SCG ever seems to do, talk about anything but the matter that counts, the pointlessness of staying in the Starmer party. Talks a good game. Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs Statement - Labour Outlook I dont think we have a bunch of careerists here. Days after berating the West, former shadow minister Richard Burgon, secretary of the hard Left Socialist Campaign Group . One member of the group told Skwawkbox that setting it up did not constitute a split of the the existing left MPs group, but did not respond when asked to confirm that this meant there was no intention to leave the SCG. Jon Trickett MP ?why the games up..!Thanks Nemtona but it was not the sort of breakfast reading that can be stomoched especially as my money was used to destroy a decent man too too good for this fascist Labour party.Jeremy Corbyn and the hopes and dreams of millions of working class people. a fair report? True enough. John McDonnell is the MP for Hayes and Harlington, and former Shadow Chancellor. These people are not even vaguely socialist. Signed (32 names) The right to expect that any government in power will work for peace and justice, and will not provoke international conflict or hostility or divert resources from essential purposes to build up the weapons of mass destruction. Will there be a Labour left leadership challenge to Keir Starmer?