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Lord Ahmed: Labour’s decision

December 23, 2010 by trialbyjeory

Remember this post? Remember how Labour peer Lord Nazir Ahmed openly declared his support for Lutfur Rahman during October’s election campaign? This is what he said:

“I’m a Labour peer and for a Labour peer to come and support someone like Lutfur Rahman, I know that I could get into trouble, but…I’ve no hesitation in supporting Lutfur Rahman because he is the best candidate.”

Here’s the proof again:

Remember the Labour Party Rules? Chapter 2, Rule A(4)(b) states:

“A member of the party who joins and/or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the party, or supports any candidate who stands against an official Labour candidate, or publicly declares their intent to stand against a Labour candidate, shall automatically be ineligible to be or remain a party member….”

Here’s what a Labour Party spokesman said at the time:

“Our focus is getting Labour’s excellent candidate Helal Abbas elected as Tower Hamlets’ Mayor. We will look into the allegations made in due course after the election.”

And two months later, here’s the official outcome from Labour’s deliberations:

“The National Executive Committee considered a number of issues arising from the Tower Hamlets mayoral election. No further action on this issue is considered necessary at this time.”

No action on Ken Livingstone, no action on Lord Ahmed. If I were Lutfur and his gang of rebels, I’d be feeling fairly hopeful that the party door remains well and truly open. Maybe Labour needs to revise its rule book.

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  1. on December 23, 2010 at 12:16 pm Fighting4EdMiliband

    Labour needs to find an immediate replacement for Ken Clark, its London Director, for messing up the party in Tower Hamlets and taking it into Opposition. 2011 may just prove to be another good year for Galloway’s Mayor Rahman.


  2. on December 23, 2010 at 9:00 pm Milosh

    Ken Clark is retiring in 2012 after the London Mayoral Election. Nothing will change, not a jot, Peter May is replacing him who is even more inept and far more ruthless. You talk as if Tower Hamlets is the only borough in London. Whilst many other boroughs especially Newham have issues with Ken Clark he is liked by far more borough parties.

    People forget that 2014 will be a high/higher turnout election due to the mayoralty, council and european elections all on the same day.

    LR won’t be able to increase his share of the vote, it’s already absurdly high, Liberals and some Conservatives will return/protest at the government and the mayoralty as they did with Respect, higher white turnout etc. There is still a lot in play.

    The London party isn’t crazy enough to let him back in to mount what would probally be a successful challenge against Rushanara <<< very intresting story there im suprised Ted hasn't picked up on it or/and Jim.


  3. on December 25, 2010 at 2:32 am Fighting4edmiliband

    Marc these words:

    Rahman will become
    TH mayor in 2014.
    Again. And
    Rushnara will be selling
    Walkers crosps


  4. on December 26, 2010 at 11:35 pm Noor Miah

    Now day The Labour Party is not doing there job the should do.
    if i was in charge of the party i would kick Nazir and ken out of the Labour Party.


  5. on December 27, 2010 at 5:54 am THagainstpuppet

    Surpise Labour Party still didn’t take any actions against those put paty into this mess. You would expect Rush/Abbas and Josh would resign if they had any dignity. How many defeat Rush had since she came into TH Politics? 5 – 0 so far, DM lost in leadership contest, Oona lost in Mayoral Selection, xxx lost in TH mayoral selection, Abbas lost in TH Mayoral election, Alim lost in SPB election. Many more to come ………….


  6. on December 27, 2010 at 7:27 pm Milosh

    Who would write on TBJ on Christmas day :O ? Fighting4edmiliband I can’t believe you interrupted your Christmas dinner to write that. Hardcore.


  7. on December 28, 2010 at 2:46 am Fighting4edmiliband

    Actually mullah milosh I was writing the itinerary for the butler, it’s a shame ur dinner didnt last the weekend, guess ur turkey was small like ur feast! Toast!



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