UK Labour Party 'ordered MPs not to join anti-racist protests'
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Labour MP Clive Lewis attended a demonstration in apparent defiance of the ban

The UK’s ruling Labour Party allegedly ordered its MPs not to attend anti-racist demonstrations on Wednesday.

According to journalist Owen Jones, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Chief Whip Alan Campbell made the order “via a virtual call” on Wednesday morning.

Jones is a former member of the party and was part of its left-wing faction before quitting because of Labour’s centrist turn under Keir Starmer.

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netMEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    It was literally just because they didn’t want their MPs to get involved in a situation that might’ve turned violent. Can you imagine if any organisation had said, ‘Yes, we want to oblige our staff to go and maybe get their heads kicked in by Nazis’?

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      4 months ago

      Liberals always have a magical excuse to not do the right thing, I’m sure this was all about “safety concerns for their staff”.

      • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netMEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        It’s obviously not ‘the right thing’ to put MPs in danger. It really is not that long ago that one of these thugs murdered a Labour MP.

        I’m not a liberal, incidentally, but it’s probably not the greatest idea for the left to adopt the language of American fascists. Reading the rest of your contributions to this thread, it’s clearly not the only thing you’ve decided the fascists are right about, though.