PinnedIn numbers: Brighton and Hove City Council elections 2023You may wish to download the full spreadsheet before reading this article. This article is based on an Excel spreadsheet I have generated using official data derived from Brighton and Hove City Council, which — like most local authorities — has yet to discover the importance of publishing such information…Elections 202311 min readElections 202311 min read
PinnedFive years on: The future of the left in Brighton and HoveTo mark the fifth anniversary of the events of July 9 2016, join some of the leading protagonists to discuss the future of the left in…Labour Party5 min readLabour Party5 min read
PinnedLabour employs anti-Semitism to ban Israel sanctions debate — in Peter Kyle’s CLPBelow is an article I wrote for the latest issue of the ever-excellent Labour Briefing (July 2021). Since I wrote it — and in response to a similar article by investigative journalist Asa Winstanley — the Labour Party has made a bizarre attempt to stifle free speech with an unprecedented…Anti Semitism4 min readAnti Semitism4 min read
PinnedStarmer and the vilification of Becky MasseyBelow is an article I have written for the January 2021 issue of the ever-excellent Labour Briefing. Please subscribe to — and support — a remarkable must-read publication. With Brexit done and Covid vaccines on the way, the current Labour Party leadership can get on with what it does best…Labour Party4 min readLabour Party4 min read
PinnedThe truth about Sir Keir Starmer and the expulsion of Labour activist Becky MasseyNew evidence about events of Monday, May 18 has provided a shocking insight into how Sir Keir Starmer and senior Labour Party officials deliberately used the “anti-Semitism” crisis as a pretext to vilify and then expel a leading pro-Corbyn activist in Brighton and Hove. It was on that Monday morning…Becky Massey20 min readBecky Massey20 min read
May 15Introducing Sweary Julie Cattell, your new Labour councillor in Westbourne and Poets’ CornerFoul-mouthed Cllr Cattell (@cooljool80) is suing @UKLabour, after targeting Jewish party colleagues using antisemitic language. Her favourite term of abuse is “Fuck” [59 times] — https://twitter.com/search?q=fuck%20(from%3Acooljool80)&src=typed_query&f=topJulie Cattell3 min readJulie Cattell3 min read
May 3Back to business-as-usual for Sir Keir Starmer’s authoritarian, anti-democratic Labour PartySecret imposition of pro-Starmer candidates in Brighton and Hove — including turncoat Warren Morgan (@warrenmorgan), with no involvement of local Labour Party members; Hardline supporters of Peter Kyle MP (@peterkyle) imposed on most-winnable seats across Hove, guaranteeing his acolytes a majority in the new council-controlling Labour Group; Julie Cattell (@cooljool80)…Julie Cattell13 min readJulie Cattell13 min read
Nov 27, 2020Complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the Labour Party’s chronic failure to respond to Subject Access RequestsBelow is the text of my latest complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about the Labour Party’s chronic failure to respond to Subject Access Requests (SARs). It is my fourth SAR to the Labour Party in four years and follows my third suspension by the party. SAR 1 —…Labour Party5 min readLabour Party5 min read
Nov 26, 2020Ten emails that sealed the fate of Becky Massey — all within hours of Sir Keir Starmer meeting the Jewish Labour MovementThere are countless individual examples of how the level of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has been dramatically overstated because of false allegations — erroneous, imagined, or fabricated — made for political reasons by opponents inside and outside the party. Becky Massey’s experience — the result of a handful of tweets — is far from unique.Becky Massey2 min readBecky Massey2 min read
Nov 26, 2020The tweet that got Becky Massey expelled — and the ones that didn’tThere are countless individual examples of how the level of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has been dramatically overstated because of false allegations — erroneous, imagined, or fabricated — made for for political reasons by opponents inside and outside the party. Becky Massey’s experience — as recently-released emails reveal —…Becky Massey2 min readBecky Massey2 min read
