Five years on: The future of the left in Brighton and Hove
To 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 Brighton and Hove. Speakers to be announced later:
7.30pm on Thursday, July 29, at The Rialto, 11 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3FE. Get your tickets now.
On July 9 2016, more than 600 Labour Party members in Brighton and Hove elected overwhelmingly a pro-Corbyn leadership team of the “City Party” — which comprised three Constituency Labour Parties: Brighton Pavilion, Brighton Kemptown, and Hove.
Within days of its annual meeting, the 6,200-member citywide party — the biggest in the Labour Party — was suspended and the election results overturned.
As many of us knew at the time, the suspension was based on lies concocted by anti-Corbyn elements locally conspiring with paid officials in Labour Party headquarters.
With Corbyn gone and right-wing preparing a new offensive against socialists, organisers of The Resist! Event in Brighton (September 26, 27, 28) are hosting a discussion to mark the fifth anniversary of the “spitting” that never happened.
In addition, there will be more information about The Resist! Event, with a chance for you to help shape what promises to be an exciting three-day festival of events during this year’s Labour Party conference.
Join us at The Rialto in Brighton to hear first-hand accounts from some of the July 9 protagonists — and to discuss how we can resist — inside and outside Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party — all those who continue to block a radical transformation of society.
Postscript
Since April 2016, I have published 232 articles on Medium — attracting more than 500,000 “views” — of which 130,440 resulted from the 20 most-read articles.
For the record, to mark the fifth anniversary of the “spitting” lies on July 9 2016, I am listing — in chronological order — the 20 most-read articles relating specifically to the suspension of the City Party and its aftermath. [For a lengthy continuous narrative, setting the July 9 events in a much wider context, please read this article.]
PRIVATE: The socialists trying to “take over” Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party — according to Warren Morgan (a member of Progress) [Published on July 8 2016]
Download our “Keep Corbyn” rally poster. And show it to anyone you know [Published on July 8 2016]
Full text: The letter suspending Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party [Published on July 15 2016]
Statement by Mark Sandell, elected chair of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party* [Published on July 15 2016]
Letter to the Labour Party’s NEC, delivered on Tuesday, July 19 [Published on July 20 2016]
A selection of anonymised quotations from the statements of 78 people — out of about 600 — who attended the annual meeting of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party on Saturday, July 9. [Published on July 28 2016]
My response to Katherine Buckingham, the Labour Party’s head of disputes and discipline [Published on August 7 2016]
CCTV proof: There was no spitting, shoving, barging, or abusive behaviour at Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party’s annual meeting at City College on July 9 [Published on September 14 2016]
Statement by Mark Sandell, elected chair of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party* [Published on July 15 2016]
A selection of anonymised quotations from the statements of 78 people — out of about 600 — who attended the annual meeting of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party on Saturday, July 9. [Published on July 28 2016]
An index of statements and articles — predominantly tweets and photographs — relating to the annual meeting of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party at City College, Pelham Street, on July 9 [Published on July 17 2016]
Revealed: The anti-Corbyn “moderate” in Brighton and Hove who stands accused of the hate-crime against Seema Chandwani [Published on September 3 2016]
Neil Grant, managing director and executive producer of Films of Record, is responsible for Channel Four Dispatches [Published on September 17 2016]
Response of Mark Sandell, chair-elect of suspended Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party, to Neil Grant, executive producer of Channel Four Dispatches [Published on September 17 2016]
Leaked two-page confabulation by Jack Spooner, paid Labour Party organiser answerable to Councillor Warren Morgan, leader of the Labour Group on Brighton and Hove City Council [Published on September 18 2016]
BBC Panorama and Channel Four Dispatches: The eye of a media storm and the epicentre of the battle for the soul of the Labour Party [Published on September 19 2016]
Statement following expulsion of Mark Sandell and suspension of at least 15 members of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party [Published on October 19 2016]
The Labour Party purge of socialists continues in Brighton and Hove [Published on October 27 2016]
Leaked: The still-unpublished NEC report into the “spitting” and “abusive behaviour” at the annual meeting of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party [Published on October 27 2016]
A letter to the secretary of the Labour Party’s National Constitutional Committee [March 31 2017]
How the lies took hold….
In addition, here are some tweets posted on and after July 9:
Selection of tweets: Councillor Warren Morgan
Selection of tweets: Councillor Emma Daniel
Selection of tweets: Councillor Caroline Penn
Selection of tweets: Nicky Easton
Selection of tweets: Sue Teddern
…And how the truth triumphed
Fortunately, there were more than 600 hundred eye-witnesses:
Selection of tweets: Matt Tully, the young man falsely accused of “spitting”
