Bristol Momentum join Labour In Exile to organise a Campaign Strike against Labour

 

The comrades of Bristol West got a shock at their recent AGM as the party turned against them and faced a complete wipe-out. However a Militant is never without an answer to any problem and they organised a vote amongst themselves for a boycott of helping the Labour Party to which they belong and had sought to control. 

Bristol West Momentum issued the following announcement on Facebook: 

We are thrilled that a whopping NINETY-SIX PERCENT of respondents agreed to hold a campaign strike in protest at the recent attacks on democracy in our region!

The campaign strike means we will encourage our membership not to campaign for any candidate who hasn't signed the letter in support of those who have unjustly lost their candidacies; and targeting campaign efforts only towards those who have signed.

 
We believe that those who don't support your rights don't deserve our efforts to get them elected.
We will be in touch about campaigning for candidates who have signed this letter of support:

https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeHepnAWdM.../viewform

Momentum once again illustrates that it has become more than a pressure or ginger group inside Labour and operates as a "party within a party" and by organising this action have effectively placed themselves outside the Party and should be invited to join their former comrades in Labour In Exile who are also undertaking such action and have issued the following Press Statement:

Labour Party members plan to take a form of extraordinary strike action — against their own party.

The action is being planned by the Labour In Exile Network (LIEN) group to protest against the suspensions of members under the leadership of Keir Starmer.

Under the plan members will only campaign for Labour Party candidates prepared to condemn the suspensions.

Christine Tongue of LIEN said: “Hundreds of people, including many party officers, have been suspended since Keir Starmer became leader, unfairly and without even a semblance of natural justice. This is a purge — and we are going to take collective action to stop it.”

The group aims to target the May elections to local government.

Hardly an action that will go down with the vast majority of hard working Labour activists who will be out doing what they can around the pandemic.  Frankly the majority of these people won't be missed. Members of Bristol Momentum got a shock on the doorstep when a small group turned up to do some canvassing and found out how unpopular his holiness the Corbyn was on the doorstep.

These comrades need to realise they don't belong in the Labour Party. Time to show them the door.