the beginning of PMQ. [49] It has been suggested that this practice of lending nominations to left candidate to widen the scope of debate "set a precedent" for Jeremy Corbyn's run for Leadership in 2015. Copyright 2020 The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. 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. The planned tax became known as the poll tax and was thought by many to be intended to save the rich money and move the expenses onto the poor. [7], Neil Kinnock was hostile to the Campaign Group. If youd like to help it keep revealing the news as it is and not what the Establishment wants you to hear and can afford to without hardship pleaseclick hereto arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal orhereto set up a monthly donation via GoCardless (SKWAWKBOX will contact you to confirm the GoCardless amount). This put pressure on the Labour Party leadership to support the strike, something Neil Kinnnock resisted until 10 months after the start of the strike. Enquiry as they were gathering their evidence? Sam Green is a Labour Party member, mental health campaigner and co-secretary of Labour Against Racism and Fascism. "[12], The scale of public opposition in both polls and in the streets have been identified as one of the key causes of the end of Thatcher's premiership.[13]. Apsana Begum MP For 14 years Gaza has been under siege. Their trajectory is obvious, theres no need to wait and see. John McDonnell MP Socialist Campaign Group MPs. Id like to be able to be a community-member of this new group, but not need to rejoin Labou to be so. PS this is not a invitation to f and blind..! Reiterating that Corbyns EHRC reaction undermined Labours ability to tackle antisemitism, the leader said: I have taken the decision not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. Borax is used allot in blacksmithing as well to help forge welding or joining 2 bits of usually steel especially in Damacus or pattern weald steel for knives and other sharp stabby stuff to stop oxygen messing up the weald. 16 members of the left-wing parliamentary group did not sign the statement last night, including Nadia Whittome MP who had said she was saddened by the suspension but cannot agree with Corbyns statement on the report. Fair weather socialists (?) As we can all see thats been a rip-roaring success. [39] Rules introduced following Tony Benn's 1988 leadership challenge meant that candidates would have to secure nominations from 55 MPs to make it onto the ballot paper. He pursued a 'carrot and stick' approach to undermining the Campaign Group by promoting MPs who were willing to leave the Campaign Group and renounce their previously held views and by isolating those who remained members. [37] The decision to run led to a number of MPs leaving the Campaign Group including Clare Short, Margaret Beckett, Jo Richardson and Joan Ruddock. [74], As of 2008 the editorial board was Jim Mortimer (chair), Diane Abbott MP, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Anni Marjoram, Bill Michie MP and Pete Willsman. However, this time rather than a new 'rank and file' initiative, it seems that a group of 11 Campaign Group MPs and one member of the Scottish parliament are forming a new parliamentary caucus. With prices rising every year Ill be lucky to live the rest of my retirement in dignity. Rebecca Long-Bailey MP Eleven Labour MPs and Jeremy Corbyn backed a Stop the War campaign . So glad I am not a member or someone daft enough to be sucked in my these tossers #WeNeedANewParty. 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". Especially when they get paid 80k a year with a generous expense account and a good pension. 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. Starmer is not for turning, so what do they have in their armoury to force him too? Not at all, I thought it was important enough to post it more than once. mis- used by Starmer to suppress democracy. 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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. Rupa Huq has had the Labour whip restored following her suspension from the party after she described then, This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. 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! All candidates in the Labour leadership election earlier this year pledged to implement an independent process, and this is a compulsory move following the publication of the final EHRC report on Labour antisemitism. This new organising space for left MPs should in the first instance focus on innovating with newparliamentary tactics and media interventions to push issues like the Green New Deal in the runup to COP26 and off the back of it. However, three (3) of the five cited footnoted references [21, 23 & 24], claiming that the evidence does not support the US-funded Bashash 2017 and Green 2019 studies, were published before 2017 and thus it is absurd to use them to dismiss such important findings. Hmmmmm. Andy Fantasy politics : A new party led by Howard Beckett(?) Dance! The right of access, throughout life, to the full range of human knowledge, through education at school, in college and afterwards. What a vile individual he is ! Not only have they stitched up who will win but they have also stitched up who will lose and in what order. They are only copying their leader after all Mr Loach announced his exclusion from the party through Twitter on Saturday. Just reading a cracking book, Why We Cant Afford The Rich by Andrew Sayer. Portugals PM Costa stuns with majority win in snap election 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. This campaign had no support at all from the Labour Party at a national level, no official party rallies being organised, and those who rallied were singled out for disciplinary action, many being expelled from the party just because they were active in the movement, and some prospective local and parliamentary candidates were refused endorsement by the NEC merely for their principled refusal to pay."[14]. Abbott secured the first-preference votes of 7 MPs: Diane Abbott, Katy Clark, Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, John McDonnell, Linda Riordan and Mike Wood. However, Margaret Beckett, who had been a member of the Campaign Group until 1988, was nominated by 18 Campaign Group MPs, with 5 nominating John Prescott. The groups strategy document, of which Skwawkbox exclusively obtained a copy, makes clear that it aims to steer Keir Starmer rather than resisting or replacing him. I have tried highlighting the injustice of the 550,000 British overseas pensioners who have been shafted by successive governments. The group also plans tactics such as parliamentary actions and stunts including: Using conventional Parliamentary tactics better i.e. The right to mass media which provides accurate news, free from bias or distortion, and a diversity of views. Tribune Group member and future Labour leader Neil Kinnock led a number of Labour MPs to support John Silkin in the deputy leadership election and abstain in the run-off between Healey and Benn. Ive just found this on FB. Thats a sign of a lightweight. The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs on the partys left wing have issued a statement calling for the reversal of the decision taken by Keir Starmer not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. The right to receive the best possible medical care, free, and at the moment of need. The squawking one claims: The cut was brought in by Harriet Harman, Secretary of State for Social Security, who championed the cut despite the majority of people affected being women and children who were already poor. worth while job than fining a few members of the govt when The Socialist Campaign Group, officially the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs and also known as the Campaign Group, is a left-wing, democratic socialist grouping of the Labour Party 's Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley. Claudia Webbe MP with Corbyn as honorary President would be a more exciting development. [34] In the 1987 General Election Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives won a landslide victory and were nearly 12% ahead of Labour in the popular vote. Its up to us the people on the ground whod rather not give-up on the despicable and often authoritarian (show me your papers) Labour party. The SCG statement describing the reinstatement of Corbyn as correct and the continued suspension of the party whip as wrong and damaging has 32 signatories, including 27 Labour MPs plus Claudia Webbe. Not sure what to make of it I quite like Clive Lewis and Dawn Butler. They signed StopTheWar letter. The Socialist Campaign Group, officially the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs and also known as the Campaign Group, is a left-wing, democratic socialist grouping of the Labour Party's Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. And the group sees its identity as new left, presumably to separate itself from the old left of union activism and a focus on the working class: Who are we? A group of 11 new left MPs and an MSP. In order to be part of the organising space for decision making in phase one you mustagree to the principles above and make a monetary contribution towards its organisation. Dan Carden MP The SCG MPs called for the party to unite behind the implementation of the EHRCs recommendations, and stressed the importance of the labour movement coming together to take the fight to the Tories in the face of the pandemic. Just wonder if this is the prelude to a leadership bid by at least a couple of them. Christine Blower Claiming there is widespread "anger and. Trying to save their own necks more like. The following members resigned their membership of the Campaign Group in 1985 in a show of support for Neil Kinnock's reforms:[79], The following members resigned their membership of the Campaign Group in 1988 in protest at Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the Labour leadership that year:[80]. if they are waiting in the wings and working surreptitiously Originally called the Gay Labour Group, [3] the purpose of this organisation is to campaign within the Labour Party and wider Labour movement to promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT) peoples, and to encourage members of the LGBT community to support the Labour Party. Issues regularly covered included: women's liberation, Black Sections, international liberation struggles, internal Labour Party democracy and elections, reports from the National Executive Committee, proposed resolutions for Labour Party Conference, socialist economic policy, disabled people's rights, Northern Ireland and the Conservative Party. Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "socialistcampaigngroup" Flickr tag. Steering the right of a nominally leftwing party to the left sounds familier, Bernie Sanders with the Dumbocrats. It is this latter argument that its account of the 2015-19 period is principally constructed to support. Rebecca Long-Bailey MP a new structure and I wouldnt blame anyone Another re-arrangement of the 3rd class passengers deck chairs on the sinking ship I see. She was sacked from Cabinet the following year. A number of MPs who did not join SCG colleagues in calling for the reinstatement of Corbyn earlier this month have signed the latest joint declaration, but some SCG members are still missing from the list. I cant help but feel that first year operating costs of 133,000 could be better spent in the fight for socialism. Totally off subject but thought I whould throw that in there as I have messed around in this field for many years now and vertebral every smith that uses it has to mask up because its not pleasant stuff. Holby -I like your sense of humour. [42], No candidate from the Campaign Group ran in the 1994 leadership election and the group did not endorse a candidate. This would be a much more For 54 years Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem have been illegally occupied by Israel. [52] Ed Miliband went on to win the leadership election. Rupa Huq has had the Labour whip restored following her suspension from the party after she described then, This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. For doing precisely sod all if they so choose. A coalition of left-wing MPs, unions and Labour members are calling on Keir Starmer to hold an emergency party conference, HuffPost UK has learned. So, these MPs and MSP are going to fund this, in part, with 1000 payments from their training budget? While all around you crumbles to dust. It doesnt matter. We all kow what they should be doing is planning a new party. Our preference is likely for a new legal structure if Lloyd is able to administer but wed likeopinions on this. From the bore whos too ignorant to say one vote fewer! Another day, another initiative on the Labour left. Katy Clark Obviously not the ones paid a 600,000 bonus for screwing Corbyn. At a meeting of the Socialist Campaign Group on 3 June it was decided that, with McDonnell and Abbott both ruling themselves out after having stood previously, Jeremy Corbyn should be the left's candidate for leader. But since joining the halls of power, she changed. John Hendy Until that is done the Gulf War will be the first of many such wars where Western countries declare war on Third World countries, allegedly for reasons of international law but in reality for an unjust economic order and against people attempting to claim their right to self-determination like the Kurds. No further words are needed. This seems like a document which was submitted to the Forde An 'MPs Strategic Coordination Proposal' document, obtained by Skwawkbox, says that the group's budget to March of this year will be almost 32,000, with a first year of operations costing 133,000. Labour MP for Streatham. The paper published articles by Campaign Group MPs alongside left wing Labour Party activists and trade unionists. and it is a brilliant film definitely to be recommended! . The devolved structure for selection of candidates protects them from central control, and there can be no withdrawal of the whip. Socialist Campaign Group MPs are doubtful that a candidate could secure the 40 MP nominations required to stand against an incumbent leader. To raise one glaring error in the section: Evidence of potential harm, the Policy Papers authors state: There have also been some more recent studies reporting associations between exposure to fluoride and adverse developmental neurological effects[. I wont give up. Ian Lavery MP [17], Alan Simpson, a member of the Campaign Group during the New Labour years, described it as "the only bolt-hole of real political thought that I found throughout my parliamentary years they were the MPs you would always find on picket lines, at trade union and social movement rallies, on anti-war marches and at the forefront of campaigns to restore rather than exploit the planet. Only one of the eleven (Kim Johnson) voted against the welfare cap. Distasteful might have been better. real motives. More than 80,000/pa and theyre skimming money from their training budgets (which surely is meant for training) to fund this? Kay Clark To her credit, she footslogged like no other. Tahir Ali MP The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs has released a statement defending Ken Loach as a "fierce opponent of discrimination", urging the party to reinstate the filmmaker. 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. These schools would, like academies, determine their own curriculum and ethos, appoint the governing body, control their own assets, employ their own staff and set their own admissions policy. The Nottingham East MP explained: The grounds for Jeremys suspension remain unclear. The Socialist Campaign Group, also known as the Campaign Group, officially Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs is a left-wing , democratic socialist grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Nadia Whittome MP Earlier this week, Skwawkbox exclusively revealed that a group of 'eleven new left Labour MPs and an MSP' from the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) of left MPs have set up a separate group, which they hope to fund from contributions from high net-worth donors and by donating money from their own parliamentary training budgets.. Now Skwawkbox can reveal the names of the Labour figures it . [25] These plans were described as intending to "all but abolish local authority involvement in state schools" and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott argued that it would "condemn a generation of poorer children to ghettos of collapsing schools". The Socialist Campaign Group, also known as the Campaign Group, officially Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs is a left-wing , democratic socialist grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. So, each Campaign Group member agreed to buy one set of bolt-cutters and donate to the Greenham Women. However, this was the largest rebellion a Labour government had ever suffered at the third reading of a Bill.[25]. [36] Benn secured only 11.4% of the vote (17.2% of MPs, 19.6% of CLPs and 0.2% of affiliated unions). Not forgetting the ubiquitous, thank you for your service, mantra. [19] Backbench Labour MPs, led by the Campaign Group, opposed these plans, speaking and voting against them in Parliament. Fantasy politics : A new party led by Howard Beckett(?) My grandfather was apprenticed to be a plumber before he joined the colours and went off to the Somme. Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Kate Osamor MP Astonishing! 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. In January 2020, the Socialist Campaign Group was reformed. [9], Tony Blair enthusiastically carried on Kinnock's attempts to "delegitimise the left". Mick Whitley MP Pauline Bryan, By clicking subscribe you confirm you have read and agree to our privacy policy. THE Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs called on the party to immediately reinstate the membership of filmmaker and anti-racist Ken Loach today. The Board of Deputies of British Jews president Marie van der Zyl welcomed Starmers withholding of the Labour whip from Corbyn and described the move as an appropriate leadership decision. They will not rest until the Labour Party has been purged of all traces of socialism. A younf Socialist female bame leader would be the lightening rod for progressives across the country Fingers crossed ..like many I would like to see the The UK is completely different so any such group in the UK would, just like the SCG, be largely a talking shop. I smell a Rat..even from 8ooo miles away! Like all, her voting actions show her true colours. The party now has six weeks until December 10th to produce an action plan to the EHRC in response to the findings and recommendations. [36] The scale of this defeat was a surprise to Benn, in particular the decline in support from CLPs since the 1983 election, and strengthened Kinnock's position, which he used to take the party further towards centrism. office possibly that is why it has taken them so long to produce [9], In 1989 Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government announced plans to introduce a flat-tax to fund local Government. However, many of these references are either misquoted or based on outdated science and the many, newer peer-reviewed studies are either misrepresented or not referenced at all. Tony Benn's decision to challenge Denis Healey for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party in 1981 was heavily criticised by Labour's leader, Michael Foot,[3] who had long been associated with the Labour left and Tribune Group. People Before Profit Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs Rally 7,852 views Premiered Oct 4, 2021 398 Dislike Share Save The World Transformed 6.12K subscribers Support TWT for as little as 1 / month:. [36] At a meeting of the Campaign Group following this election defeat, it was agreed that Tony Benn should stand against Kinnock in a leadership election, although Benn himself was reluctant to run. Hes the proverbial waste of space as leader of Labour. Mary Foy MP It was formed in December 1982 following the 1981 Labour Party deputy leadership election when a number of soft left MPs, led by Neil Kinnock, refused to back Tony Benn's campaign, leading a number of left-wing Benn-supporting MPs to split from the Tribune Group to form the Socialist Campaign Group.[1]. If anything. The right to a good home for all in which to live, bring up children and care for all dependents. Jim.I think it means not sacking the servants and cutting their wages instead.so very new age neo liberal alliance. But among the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, many alleged the party was no longer able be the broad church that it was under other successful Labour leaders such as Clement Attlee and. 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. [65], On 24 September 2016, Corbyn was re-elected Leader of the Labour Party in another landslide victory, increasing his share of the vote from 59.5% to 61.8%. 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.. [2] Corbyn was immediately nominated by Campaign Group MPs including John McDonnell (who became chair of his campaign), Diane Abbott, Ronnie Campbell, Kelvin Hopkins, Michael Meacher, Dennis Skinner, Richard Burgon, Clive Lewis and Cat Smith. [23], The Coalition organised what is widely thought to be the largest demonstration in British history, when on 15 February 2003, over a million people[24] marched against the War in Iraq. My pension was frozen in 2015. History is with the science. [4], The Campaign Group would go on to back Eric Heffer and Michael Meacher in their unsuccessful bids for the leadership and deputy leadership in 1983. [75], A website of the same name, providing electronic versions of some of the articles in the printed edition and lists of Campaign Group MPs, was run from 1999[76] to 2010.[77]. However, they did not respond when asked to confirm explicitly to confirm that this meant there was no intention ever to leave the SCG and to clarify who would be considered qualified to join, there was no response. [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. Olivia Blake MP and I dont think they have the political bottle to take on the Labour Right and the rich and powerful, with the advocacy of left wing policies and actions. The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs around Corbyn finally, in August, announced its support for a Zero-Covid policy, but its statement was careful to make clear that the measures proposed . We all know what they must do, a new party and fuck this neoliberal shitshow Labour party. Loach, a. He doesnt care coz hes well minted and it doesnt affect his life. For other uses, see, Opposition to the Iraq War & founding the Stop The War Coalition. The EHRC report published last week found Labour responsible for three breaches of the Equality Act relating to political interference in antisemitism complaints; failure to provide adequate training to those handling them; and harassment. Labour MP for Wansbeck and former trade union leader.