If Emma Dent Coad hopes to return to Kensington as the MP, is it too much to ask for more than a ranting leaflet with no policies? Perhaps it is.
Read the room? Obviously, Ms Dent Coad didn't.
There also appear to be a lot of her supporters who don't actually live in the constituency pictured there.
A few of them are from Hammersmith and Fulham or Brent and don't actually have a vote in Kensington!
It might be even more of a struggle for Ms Dent Coad to get disaffected left-wing votes as an independent now.
Because the word on the street is that Golborne councillor Mona Adam who defected to the Green Party from Labour at the end of last year will be their PPC in Kensington.
As the Green party have actual policies and more to offer than revolving entirely around one person, the likely outcome will be that the Greens will pick up the disaffected left-wing Labour votes that Team EDC is desperately seeking.
So much for Ms Dent Coad making her "return".
With no campaign, no policies, hardly any local base of support (outside Hammersmith and Fulham Socialist Workers Party) and now a more credible alternative for her voter base Ms Dent Coad will be lucky to hold onto her deposit!
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The letter which dates back to the days of Mosley and the Communist Party of GB is that the British have no taste for ranting extremists ....right or left. The Greens are a sad joke.
ReplyDeleteTrots are not too good at turning up at meetings. I wonder if Emma's supporters who do not live in Kensington are trying to find address in the constituency so that they can register to vote here when the election is called.
ReplyDeleteJust look at the picture above of her with her finger pointing outwards. She reminds me of the Trot, Vanessa Redgrave of the Workers' Revolutionary Party, addressing a meeting at Conway Hall in 1984. If memory serves me well Jeremy Corbyn was at that meeting.
Emma positions herself on the hard left politically. She becomes very stroppy if anyone says she is a Marxist and, even stroppier if someone suggests that she is a Trot. The good people of Kensington recoil in horror at the prospect of a Trotskyite World Socialist Order and Proletarian Control.
ReplyDeleteEmma gave an interview which was published in The Guardian on the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. It was not about the victims and survivors of the fire, it was all about Emma and how the fire affected her personally. In that interview, she said, “My socialism is Corbyn’s socialism.” We can all think it was stupid of her to brand her socialism in terms of Corbyn’ socialism. It is the sort of crass statement that one forgives if a sixteen year old GCSE Politics’ Student says it but to come from a former Member of Parliament was incredibly simple-minded of Dent Coad. I shall now unpack Corbyn’s socialism to get to the nub of Emma Dent Coad’s socialism.
1. When Corbyn dropped out of his Trade Union Studies course at North London Poly, he espoused the virtues of Workers’ Control and a World Socialist Order. These Trotskyite virtues led to him taking up employment as a Trade Union official campaigning for Workers’ Control - and the so called Workers’ Democracy.
2. When the Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock, wanted to expel the Trotskyite factions in the Labour Party in the 1980’s, Corbyn opposed Kinnock every step of the way. The Trotskyite Group, Militant, and those with Militant Tendencies, were seen off but not without Jeremy Corbyn trying to save them. Corbyn personally told me back then that, “Clause Four of the Labour Party’s Constitution says that the Labour Party is a socialist party.” Corbyn reminded me that, “As Trots are socialists, there is a place for them in the Labour Party,” This places Corbyn firmly in the Trotskyite camp and by default Emma Dent Coad with him - remember Emma Dent Coad said, “My socialism is Corbyn’s socialism.”
3. If any of you are in any doubt about Corbyn’s Trotskyite sympathies, and by default Emma Dent Coad’s endorsement of them, did you know that Corbyn proposed the following unequivocal Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for Trotsky’s Complete Rehabilitation –
......That this House, in the light of the special conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in one week's time, and of the judicial rehabilitation of Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Radek and Pyatakov, demands that the Russian Government goes further and gives complete rehabilitation to Leon Trotsky, Leon Sedov the chief defendants in the Moscow frame up Trials.
It is possible to argue that Trotsky would want to overthrow our Parliamentary democracy but Emma Dent Coad and Jeremy Corbyn both know there is no money in doing that so they are Trotskyites with a bit of fine tuning for a world eighty years after Trotsky’s death.
I suggest that the foregoing puts Emma in the running as a modern day Rosa Luxemburg.
EDC is "cuddly" in Knightsbridge, Kensington, Notting Hill, Campden Hill and Holland Park.
DeleteShe is Marxist in Dalgrano, Kensal, Notting Dale, Golborne, and St Helen's.
And Trotskyte when speaking to Corbyn .
Trying to be all things to all socialists, em. It just won't do. It does not wash.
DeleteMiss Trotwood, you are a star!
DeleteDear Dame,
DeleteYou should re-post Miss Trotwood's analysis in the run up to the election.
Here's a question. What has EDC ever managed to achieve for the people of N Kensington other than cause divisions & upset in the community?
ReplyDeleteWhat has she achieved? Meddled with council selections, got rid of decent councillors & replaced with complete incompetents who don't know what they're doing. Left Kensington Labour a factional mess that took 2 years to put right. Was the councillor who insisted on banning the public from the part of the audit and transparency meeting about Grenfell recovery spending. Made despicable false sexual harassment allegations about another councillor which were proved to be untrue. Caused widespread upset nd offence with racist drawing on her blog. Has out of control supporters who put out antisemitic emails, vandalise peoples homes and even put others in danger. She shouldn't even be a councillor.
DeleteGosh, 16.30, you have a very low opinion of Emma Dent Coad and that is saying something.
DeleteI know about Dent Coad:-
i) seeing off four good councillors with established track records for her own ends,
ii) her appalling racism towards Shaun Bailey,
iii) her virulent antisemitism,
iv). incendiary incidents at one former councillor's front door, with graffiti at Felicity Buchan's front door and shit posted through Linda Wade's letterbox.
Please tell us about what I do not know anything about, her:-
a) banning the public from part of the Audit and Transparency meeting about Grenfell Recovery Spending and, why she wanted to suppress the dissemination of information about the spending of public money in this way? (I must say that this seems very underhand and shocks me)
b) making false sexual harassment allegations about another Councillor which were untrue? (I always thought she was nasty madam).
As this is election year, it is important that voters find out about her past before casting their ballot.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
That's it. People did not know about EDC's picture of Lord Bailey swinging on the gallows in 2017 when she got in. If they had done so, they would have been so disgusted, she would have been shafted when the ballot was counted.
Delete@17:37 the false allegations against another councillor were reported about elsewhere on this site. EDC held on to those unbelievable allegations for 2 years & only went forward when he wouldn't step down from the opposition leader job for her. He was subsequently suspended pending investigation & then completely exonerated.
DeleteJoe,
Delete"EDC shouldn't even be a councillor" so says 16.30.
What did the Labour Party think it was doing allowing her to stand as a councillor and later as a parliamentary candidate?
Hi 21.50.
Delete17.37 here.
If you could tell me where to look on this blog to find the false allegations against the councillor you mentioned then I will do so.
It was DESPICABLE of EDC to exploit that issue for her own advantage. She is supposed to be good at strategy but one which shafts a political opponent because he would not allow the Aristocratic Trot (with a sense of entitlement) to claim her place on the parliamentary ballot paper.
Could you please give the Dame a line or two about the Audit and Lack of Transparency Meeting regarding Grenfell Recovery Expenditure?
@ 16.30 To think that EDC held on to the appalling untrue allegations of sexual harassment for two years against someone who opposed her politically within the Labour Party. Remember that EDC had been in high dudgeon and wounded so egregiously by what she called "lies" from the lips of Sam Gymiah when she herself did exactly the same thing to a Labour man.
DeleteNow be careful, she likes to report those who get the better of her politically during the election period to the police. One of Corbyn's QC mates gave her legal advice but the police were not impressed and took no action, I wonder why.
When Emma Dent Coad abused Shaun, Lord Bailey of Paddington, she tried to make light of her insults by saying that Shaun had said far worse about himself. She was not contrite!
DeleteShe tried to come out with a cock and bull story about inverted commas, " " I ask you.
She couched her apology, "IF Shaun is offended then I apologise." How could any self respecting Black man not feel hurt at an aristocratic woman drawing a picture of hime being hanged.
Shaun Bailey responded that not even the BNP had abused him as badly as Emma Dent Coad had done. Is this the sort of person who should be a Labour MP?
Emma has never atoned properly for her racism! An apology expressed in grudging terms is not an apology and says more about her character than she realises.
Just imagine how hurt Shaun must have been to find that Emma Dent Coad had done a better job on him than the BNP who are expertly qualified in racism.
Did these false sexual harassment allegations have a homosexual dimension or a homophobic one?
DeleteI heard there was a whiff of homophobia.
DeleteMORE than a "whiff" of homophobia!
DeleteDear dame,
ReplyDeleteYour correspondent is right. I like the reference to the Greens having
.........."actual policies and more to offer than revolving ...........entirely around one person."
Egocentric Emma has no policies! She is oppositionist with little to say and when she does say something she says it too loudly. I bet she will have Trials of Nuremberg to find out who supplied the pictures of her dreary meeting. It would be better if she bowed out gracefully and returned the £28, 000 + of donations tho those who donated.
EDC looks manic in that picture, courtesy of the Dame. Perhaps, she is having a go at the Trots assembled, pointing her finger at one of them, for not drumming up sufficient interest in her left wing "rant" to be delivered at that night's meeting.
ReplyDeleteIn that "manic" picture of Emma on here, is she telling her few followers in the best tradition of Trotsky,
Delete"Shoot them like partridges?"
Interesting to note that many of the big names on the left seem to be giving her campaign a wide berth
ReplyDeleteThat's true.
DeleteTrue. The "big names" and big socialist guns have not come out for EDC.
DeleteHave Corbyn and Abbott left EDC to tough it out for herself?
Corbyn and Abbott both want Labour to reconsider and to allow them both to stand so Emma is expendable; hence the noticeable lack of support for her.
McDonnell is still in labour so speaking up for EDC is a no, no, or he will be out on his ear.
Rebecca Long Bailey, the reluctant marxist, has not come out for Dent Coad either.
Just read EDC's leaflet on here. She would have had no complaints about the Labour Party's leadership if they had not barred her from standing for parliament. She was barred for race hatred towards a black political opponent and for endorsing a vile antisemitic trope- for god's sake.
ReplyDeleteShe thought that Starmer would just let her off her anti black racism and her antisemitism because Corbyn had done so.
DeleteHas Emma, the Royal Trot, made the Trotskyite Pilgrimage to Cafe Central in the Herrengasse in Vienna. She would find the surroundings opulent and be able to have a coffee from a coffee cup from which Trotsky once drank. I can highly recommend the Apple Strudel
ReplyDeleteIt is a very pricey place but a must for every left wing aristocrat.
Ken Livingstone once refused to attend a mayoral hustings on BBC radio because the BNP candidate would be there. "No debate with a racist," - and the hustings programme was cancelled. The trouble is Livingstone was not without a good old fashioned dose of racism: he is racist to Jews. He has crossed the line of legitimate criticism of Israel in to the realms of antisemitism so often which is why Corbyn had to ask him to leave the Labour Party - shafting a fellow antisemite in the nicest possible way. EDC is no better than those two for endorsing an antisemitic social media article.
ReplyDeleteOne wonders just how much antisemitism she got away with in the privacy of the hard left in the Corbyn cabal. Corbyn is around anti jewishness so often, he no longer knows what it is. EDC became so confident in the cabal that she slipped up, forgetting what she was supposed to say and publicly demonstrated her antisemitism so beautifully.
I think she would do better completing her Ph.D instead of playing politics: she is not cut out for politics.
Emma is misguided and wrong in her hellbent desire to become an MP again. She has shown, by expressing loathsome views, she is not the stuff of a socialist politician.
ReplyDeleteShe is behaving like a spoilt brat who has thrown her toys out of the pram because she did not get her own way in being selected as the parliamentary candidate for Kensington. She might think it was very clever to engineer situations which see off her political opponents but that just shows us that she fights dirty.
Joe Powell is the better, more consummate, candidate and Emma is determined if she is not the Labour MP then no one else will be so that is why she is standing to split the vote because her pride and ego is dented.
Dented Pride and Ego - nice one.
DeleteMy dear lady,
ReplyDeleteWow!
Superb commentary !
How many views has this page had?
The writer of this piece is indulging in the sort of practices which those like me, who have had SWP members (and those of other political parties) attempt to bully them out of participating in local politics (without success) can recognise a mile off. They are cowardly, hiding behind anonymity, making sweeping, wrong assumptions about attendees at a meeting and throwing in a bit of divide and rule for good measure – RBKC residents versus LBHF residents. How puerile! Btw there is no Hammersmith and Fulham Socialist Workers Party as far as I can see online. This article is an example of why many people do not get involved in politics at any level unless they absolutely have to. The febrile, mud-slinging atmosphere has already started in this general election year.
ReplyDelete"Febrile mud-slinging?"
DeleteEDC could be accused of doing that. This is the woman who happened to cycle by a demonstration taking place outside the home of the then Tory Councillor, Rock Feilding Mellen. We are invited to believe that this was a purely coincidental event; occurring purely by chance.
I have heard that Communist Agitators were there.
Rent- a-Trot from Grenfell was there.
DeleteWho's "Rent a Trot from Grenfell"? None of those people are from Grenfell Tower & the immediate community around it so they can f off and shut up if they think they speak for all of us. That also means Dent Code who did Jack shit for our community & affected people when she was MP
DeleteSorry you are pissed off. There is a loud mouthed Trot woman who lives near Grenfell. I wish I knew her name. She was at the demonstration outside Feilding Mellen's house when Dent Coad cycled by.
DeleteI agree that Dent Coad never did "jack shit' for anyone. She did nothing when she was on the TMO Board. She acquiesced with Tory councillors and let tenant suffering continue under the dictatorial, oppressive, managers at the TMO. She later announced in an interview on the BBC, "There was nothing an opposition councillor could do about it." So, you and I are agreement that we don't want her as our MP again.
Ok moving away from blog post the subject but really do have to correct people here. There wasn't just one
Deletedemonstration outside Feilding-Mellen's house. There were a handful of them. Emma Dent Coad had nothing to do with it and neither were the demonstrations organised by far left people. This was North Kensington social housing residents (Silchester, Lancaster West and surrounding neighbourhood) singing songs outside there brielfy for 10 minutes after meetings (about the Silchester estate regeneration) because his social cleansing plans for our neighbourhood were threatening OUR homes and community. Please do not confuse this with the brainless morons allegedly sticking nasty things through other peoples letterboxes etc
If you happen to feel for the despicable psychopath Jailhouse Rock, then do remember that he treated most of North Kensington (especially the poor and vulnerable) with utter contempt, was going to do away with our public amenities (North Kensington Library, Wornington College) and was more concerned with the appearance of the cladding on Grenfell Tower "I prefer the battleship grey to the champagne" than about fire safety of the building and the poor quality refurbishment and the wellbeing of residents. We all know what happened next. And to boot, he has zero remorse for his behaviour and does the textbook psychopath thing of blaming innocent others. https://www.newsweek.com/attacked-politician-psychedelic-therapy-1819508
Dear Pissed Off of W11,
DeleteHow right you are about EDC doing nothing of any value or as you put it "jack shit." EDC was good at coining in all the money. She received her salary as an MP for representing everyone in Kensington. She also claimed her Councillor's Allowance for representing the people in Golborne Ward. As the people of Golborne all live in Kensington, it means that EDC was paid for representing the people of Golborne twice over - once by Parliament and for the second time by the Council.
They're all in it for themselves: Labour, Tory, Dent Coad and the Lib Dems. They are past masters at turning their greed in to goodness. It is money grabbing courtesy of the Council Tax payer.
Do you really expect The Dame and her hornets to believe that Dent Coad, that paragon of virtue, had nothing to do with the demonstration outside Rock Feilding Mellen's house? That is, the demonstration which she conveniently cycled by, in the ten minutes of its duration, to observe; by pure chance.
DeleteI have no doubt that Feilding Mellen has much to answer for and is deserving of people's ire. He has never impressed me and I have no time for him. BUT, I believe that people's homes are not the place to stage demonstrations regardless of the wrongdoers deeds; wicked or otherwise. I would not dream of mounting an anti- racist demonstration outside Emma's home or bringing political demonstrations to anyone's front door. It is a question of standards.
I was there . Both living there and at the meetings and demonstrations. (I don't support EDC or her campaign by the way, I support Joe Powell)
DeleteThe demonstrations outside Feilding-Mellen's home were because residents were going to lose their homes under Feilding-Mellen's regeneration plans. That vile man lived on Bramley Road right in between the Silchester and Lancaster West in the obvious hope of cashing in.
It was an extreme situation in which residents felt frustrated and powerless it wouldn't happen today .
- Emma Dent Coad had nothing to do with the demonstrations nor did any other councillors or political figure -or left wing group for that matter. I don't know where you get your information about her cycling by from, but she wasn't any part of it and neither there any far left movements it was organised by RESIDENTS
- The demonstrations were entirely peaceful with residents singing a song outside his home after the meetings. There are short videos of them on THINK blogs about Peter Bingle
Our community has been through enough as it is, with all the regeneration and planned sell offs and housing in managed decline (Also the doings of Feilding-Mellen) before Grenfell then the fire 72 people losing their lives, and all the trauma you probably also don't know about how residents' mental health has deteriorated (a few have sadly taken their own lives) and people aren't getting the help and support they need. The regenerations may be thankfully off the table but life in Notting Dale isn't exactly all going well (Ask people in Lancaster West about the refurbishment and leaseholders about the huge service charge increases)
If you like to stir up nonsense and criticism towards innocent residents who have been through more than enough, then I can only assume you must be some friend of Feilding-Mellen who also despises North Kensington social residents and is campaigning for his return and is trying to put a spin and false narrative over these matters in your aim for his comeback .
Because if you areen't, then please do consider that many of us in that areas including myself have severe PTSD and that by posting misinformation you are retraumatising people and causing unnecessary distress with your misinformation and what appears to be attempting to portray our community in a negative light
Typical Edc.
DeleteSome people appear to be far more concerned with criticising the protest outside Feliding-Mellen's home rather than criticising Feilding-Mellen and his policies that drove distraught residents (being threatened with the loss of their homes) to such desperate measures.
DeleteI am very sorry to hear you have PTSD. We live in a democracy and people must have the freedom to express a different line to your one. I think it is unfair for you to suggest that people should not say something diametrically opposed to your line because you or someone else reading it may have PTSD and be re-traumatised. I am sorry but, in my view, it is a question of standards when it comes to mounting demonstrations outside a Councillor's home - no matter how genteel the protest might be or how nice the singing is.
DeleteIf you are unable to cope with a discourse on a community blog, on account of your mental health, then I can only suggest you stop reading it and stop trying to control others.
If only EDC cared about Lancaster West!
Delete.
Emma is a member of the Emma Society.
Delete19:08 I don't think the upset commenter was trying to control people, more trying to correct a false narrative that yourself and possibly others are putting on this page. The fact that you condemn residents protesting outside Fielding-Mellon's House but you don't condemn the policies and behaviour of Fielding-Mellon himself speaks volumes.
DeleteI made it very clear at 21.46 above in which I expressed my very low opinion of Rock Feilding Mellen. I said he was "deserving of people's ire." I understand your position and the strength of feeling you express.
DeleteHowever, I still think I am entitled to say that it is wrong to demonstrate outside someone's home no matter how bad someone's wickedness has been. I am not being partisan about this matter, it would be wrong to mount an anti-racist demonstration outside EDC's home.
EDC was seen cycling by one of the demonstrations outside Feilding Mellen's place. She has not denied that she did this.
Well said, 21.46.
DeleteIt is wrong to hold demonstrations outside anyone's home.
Regardless of Feilding Mellen's comments, suggestions, proposals or however badly he may affects your personal interests, it is wrong to protest at his front door. I agree with 21.46, it is a question of "standards" and "standards" have now reached an all time low. This is not "creating a false narrative" 22.20 just having a very clear view of the difference between right and wrong; and not being afraid to call out bad behaviour.
You can protest about Feilding Melen outside the
Town Hall,
Wornington College,
The Department for Local Government and Communities,
On College Green opposite parliament or anywhere else you please but not at his front door.
When people resort to mob rule by bringing a demonstration to the front door of any councillor's home, they let themselves down very badly. Sympathy and support for the predicament in which people find themselves is lost forever. Those involved were their own worst enemies. Think on.
DeleteCorrecting a "false narrative." Don't make me laugh. The hard left likes to use that one.
DeleteThe commentator at 21.46 above supplemented an "incomplete narrative" with further and better particulars. It is surprising how those in the wrong encapsulate a different version of events with trendy expressions found in Socialist Worker.
EDC has done her share of "febrile mud-slinging," and her lot have done far worse.
ReplyDeleteThere was a sh*t show - with dog sh*t.
DeleteI am sure that 12.53 is EDC. She knows where all the SWP branches are in London. She did not have to look anything up on-line about that.
ReplyDelete12.55 doesn't want it to be known that EDC's campaign is full of people who:
Deletei) Don't live in the constituency and have a vote here but think they speak for people who live here.
Most of the people at the event. Most of the people on the donations list.
ii) Are on the extreme left.
Socialist Workers Party, Momentum, Workers Revolutionary Party.
iii) Have resorted to some very unpleasant behaviour
The authors of the Mete Coban email and those responsible for putting posters on Felcity Buchan's door were present. One was even a speaker at the event. So EDC either approves of such conduct or she turns a blind eye to it.
Also if 12:55 wants to talk about bullying I could also mention that the ex clp chair and the figure behind a lot of the bullying that used to take place at clp is now EDC's right hand man.
Well said 09.35
DeleteTrots from the Socialist Workers' Party, Momentum Comrades (where Emma's attendance has been noted and often commented on) and Workers' Revolutionary Party Trots are Emma core supporters.
Can we take heart that as this meeting convened by EDC was so sparsely attended, the hard left are now acknowledging that she is a racist and they do not want to be seen to be supporting a racist?
DeleteThe Hard Left are supposed to be stalwarts of antiracism.
Please do tell the Dame and the Kensington voters about EDC's "right hand man" and "the bullying at the CLP" that took place under his direction and Chairmanship.
DeleteThis is election year and we need to ensure that EDC is seen off politically and has no chance of becoming our MP again.
How I wish that Monica Press would blog on here and tell us straight what went on in the CLP. Monica is an honest decent woman
DeleteI was in hospital and missed all the coverage of Mete Coban affair / email.
DeleteWould someone care to provide a summary of went on?
Is it true that The Dame had to tell the homophobes to stop posting homophobic comments on From the Hornets' Nest. I have looked back through the FTHN archive and cannot find anything.
This lady is divisive and has no interest in the issues residents face.
ReplyDeleteShe only cares about her purse. She wants the parliamentary salary and five more years of her gold plated pension.
ReplyDeleteNo chance of that. She'll scrape 4th at best. Privileged self-indulgent modern day Marxists and Trots never do live in the real world
DeleteThat's true, 15.38.
DeleteBut, I didn't think EDC stood a chance in 2017 but she scraped a win by 21 votes. it says a lot about RBKC's Counting Assistants who managed to lose 30 votes in her favour between the first count and the final one.
She won in 2017 alright. But don't forget about the Brexit factor as well as local issues (half of N Ken wanting to give the Tories a kicking over Fielding-Mellon & Paget Brown's unpopular library/college/regeneration decisions) back then. Not forgetting about general changing trends in pattern of voting (blue walls in inner London moving away from Conservatives). It never was the massive personal vote and the
Deletefar left victory that EDC likes to claim it was.
It was a fluke for sure
DeleteCome on Dame,
ReplyDeleteHow many views has this page had?
The wording and these lines gave Anon Hypocrite at 12:53 away: 'attempt to bully them out of participating in local politics (without success)' and 'This article is an example of why many people do not get involved in politics at any level unless they absolutely have to'.
ReplyDeleteSo Councillor Simmonds, please do tell us that since you are supporting EDC and have been seen coming out of her place regularly as well as leaking information to her why are you still a member and still taking the Labour whip? A safe seat for life and a committee chairmanship with salary wouldn't have anything do to with your still remaining on the Labour benches and in the party would it? She's not the only traitor privately supporting EDC in that group either.
Simmonds must be expelled from the Labour Party.
DeleteKensington is a marginal constituency - probably the most marginal constituency in the country even with the boundary changes. Labour has always had an uphill struggle in Kensington. Dent Coad's win for Labour in 2017 was thought unlikely and was a fluke! I could not have voted for a least worthy person.
ReplyDeleteI am not prepared to fight an uphill struggle or a losing battle if the Party does nothing about all the Double Agents in the CLP; many of whom are Councillors. A divided Constituency Labour Party with its various factions and Double Agents will not come through. Voters do not vote for divided political parties locally and it is the 'local" that we are bothered about here.
Clear out the spies and the Trots!
You don't have to be a Rocket Scientist to realise that Kensington CLP has factions within it which support Dent Coad. Dent Coad jumped ship but left all of her acolytes in the Party so they can run to her with information and tales.
ReplyDeleteWhy should I go to the trouble of encouraging my friends who are life long Tories to change and vote Labour when the CLP is tearing itself apart through factionalism.
You should vote for Joe Powell, Labour's candidate at the General Election because he has no connections with Emma Dent Coad and genuinely offers Kensington a new beginning. The Constituency Party is now firmly controlled and guided by sensible people who , led by Monica Press , are making an excellent job of cleaning the 'Augean Stables' left by Ms Dent. Unfortunately the useless bench of Labour Councillors, hand picked for their inexperience and passivity cannot easily be removed until the next Council Elections. But their cards are certainly marked and they will be removed as soon as it is legally possible to do so.
DeleteI accept that Dent Coad's stooges have been elected for a four year term and they are entitled to serve as councillors until that term ends. However, they can be expelled from the Labour Party in the meantime. I shall vote for Joe.
DeleteIn the 1980's, the National Labour Party was ripped apart by infighting and factionalism. So much time was wasted debating what was, and what was not, Socialist. As a ofresult factionalism, the Labour Party was unelectable. The hard left loved it. They were prepared to stay out of office for thirty years so long as they had a purist socialist party to belong to. The working classes could suffer in Thatcherism and who knows there might just be a revolution to save the country. Kensington CLP is now degenerating in to something similar. Time to ask Starmer for help. The CLP is unable to mange this without support from the top.
ReplyDeletePS. I think I shall be unable to persuade the Tories whom I know to vote Labour with the factionalism in the Kensington CLP. They are telling me they may as well vote Tory with all of the factionalism amongst Tory MPs. People don't like factionalism.
DeleteIt is indeed true that the electorate loath faction ridden & warring parties ( which is why the Tories should immediately go into opposition to sort out their differences & not just keep the electorate waiting )
DeleteThe civil war in Kensington Labour Party is over & has resulted in a total victory for the sensible faction led by Monica Press & Joe Powell . It still remains to round up & expel some of the stragglers but the Labour Party currently has better things to do with its time ) It is hoped that some of those decent purged councillors such as Bevan Powell & Nadia Nail can be brought back& surely it is now time to honor some of those ( Judith Blakeman , Pat Mason , Pat Healy ) whose careers ended without acknowledgement ? . But let us hope also hope also that the borough council will look carefully at its rule book & winkle out a couple more duds
Question : Just how many Members does the Labour Group now have ? In addition to 'Dent Envy' l know of at least 3 more who have lost or resigned the whip. Does not this mean that the shrunken group should lose committee places & allowances ?
But l guess that despite the wastage of public money it suits the Tory Council to permit the continuation of comic chaos on the opposition benches ?
Is Lari still there ? He shouldnt be.
DeleteHi 14.35,
DeleteIt is hard to believe that Kensington Labour has not made it a top priority to get rid of those who are keeping faith with Dent Coad. The Party should not indulge or yield to these double closers - treachery
I agree with 11.35
DeleteIf Labour does not expel those keeping faith with Emma Dent Coad, these traitors could regroup, shore up their position with Trotskyite entryism, and take over the Kensington Labour Party. As Lord Denning would say, "an appalling vista."
How can we have a Constituency Labour Party that is at odds with Joe Powell ? Assuming he gets in as our MP.
The electorate needs an assurance that proper Labour stays in control in Kensington if we are expected to vote for Joe. Bring in Labour's top brass to sort it, I say.
The "Double Crossers" in Kensington CLP should be shafted.
DeleteWhy haven't Labour's "Double Agents" been "SHAFTED" before now?
DeleteIs it still in the Labour Party's Rule Book that anyone who has stood against a Labour candidate, at any time, in the last four years is barred from standing for Labour?
The spies and double agents must be feeling very paranoid with all this talk of being shafted.
DeleteDear Dame,
ReplyDeleteCould you please put in to your Picture Library the photograph of Emma Dent Coad pointing her finger at her half a dozen or so supporters and use that picture whenever you need to find one of her in future?
No point voting for Emma Dent Coad. She has no policies to offer the electorate because she is without a political party. If you vote for her, she would make the same impact as a Citizens' Advice Bureau volunteer writing to the Council, the Social, or UK Immigration. Think carefully before you vote for her.
ReplyDeleteCitizens' Advice Bureau Caseworkers are excellent! They are well versed and well trained in social policy issues. The ones, who do housing casework, fully understand the legislation relating to every tenancy tenure (some of which goes back to the 1960's) with relevant judicial decisions. They can also identify the tension which exists between legislative provisions and a housing providers' policy frameworks, & associated practices.
DeleteEmma would be alright in dealing with an administrative matter connected with your housing, if something is stuck in a bureaucratic nightmare. However, if your housing problem is legal rather than administrative in character you are definitely better off with a professional caseworker from the CAB or a Law Centre. High Street Solicitors are expensive and not any better than a politician dabbling in the housing mire.
16.12 & 18.33.
DeleteThe Welfare Rights' Advice Workers at the CAB are marvellous too; just like the Housing ones. Most MP's, even the ones who have been on the Work and Pensions' Select Committee, do not understand the delegated legislation governing the claim, payment and administration of all the various Social Security benefits. CAB caseworkers can enter in to technical, legal arguments with the DWP leaving most MP's sitting in the back in terms of what they can achieve when representing those experiencing difficulties in getting their benefits.
We need an MP that would be better than Emma. Perhaps, the CAB could find a niche for Emma to do some voluntary advocacy work more suited to her talents.
DeleteTHE CAB does not want racists in its number. Strange that we can vote one in to parliament.
DeleteSimilarly, 08.50hrs, K&C Council does not employ people who are racist.If enough of the electorate vote for a racist, the racist is allowed to serve as a councillor.
DeleteEmma has got the body language of a Trot in that picture above.
ReplyDeleteThere is something very "ugly" about that picture of Emma Dent Coad above.
DeleteTo quote Roald Dahl...........................
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it."
If the cap fits, wear it...........................
Roald Dahl was a dreadful antisemite just like Jeremy Corbyn. Antisemitism is very ugly. Ugly thoughts day in, day out, week in, week out, year by year.
DeleteWhatever anyone thinks of Theresa May, she is not so ugly with her thoughts to resort to expressing racist or antisemitic views. The ugly label that EDC attaches to Theresa May could easily apply to herself.
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