This short video was linked from the website of the Rotherham Advertiser. It features a member of the constituency party – identified on Twitter as council deputy leader Jahangir Akhtar – confronting a party official on the exclusion of candidates from the NEC shortlist.
This is presumably before the majority of members present at the meeting stormed out in protest.
Cllr Akhtar says: “You still haven’t given us a single reason why Mahroof Hussain [a popular local councillor] did not make the shortlist.”
Another member can be heard to reply: “Because he’d have won!”
Cllr Akhtar has since tweeted in support of selected candidate Sarah Champion.
“Cllr Akhtar has since tweeted in support of selected candidate Sarah Champion.”
No need to kiss the hand that slaps you when there’s an alternative.
In my world of exposing Labour corruptions within the selection process, ‘supporting’ the winning candidate usually means a shoo in somewhere else.
100 members walked out(?) leaving only 27 to vote in Rotherham.
If this is Labour, then we know why Labour lost the last General Election.
I gather Newsnight have decided not to run this story and have opted to run a story on the Blue Peter garden instead.
Lucky Labour.