Only just seen the allegation about death threats, sorry for the delay. Did you go to the police because if you didn’t you won’t be believed.

Dave Roberts, you are making libel and defamatory misleading statements.
The National executive committee ruled in my favour that i was bullied and harrassed whilst in office, and reinstated my selection at a hearing. Which was at Millbank in them days. (They wrote to me also apologizing for the conduct i recieved from certain individuals)

Your comments on labour list that I was deselected for non attendance, expenses fraud and never having a surgery is quite denegrating and wholly false. I was not deselected. I served my full term of office, no deslection took place.

To give the NEC panel thier dues, they were able to see through, people similar to you, making it up as you go along. You are speculating and may end up with a injunction issued if you keep crossing the boundary, and libelling my character and name reputation.

Maybe you have told so many tales, that you believe your own propaganda.

My parents, Bill Morris generation , joined the labour party in solidarity with working class, and to mobilise against inequality and injustices. Not to slander and like you say we only joined for money and to use it as a stepping stone. They were strong trade unionists and were part of International solidarity with workers in south america and the Caribbean.

My family have been involved in the labour movement, perhaps before your birth. Its quite possible. We never joined as you stated i joined Labour party for the allowance as a councillor!

I had a fulltime paid job. Not a career politican. You also infer that i was involved in fraud. I have never had any implication in election fraud or expense fraud.

Your assertions that blacks should not apply for seats , as we should know our place, as you strongly implied on labour list. Are a insult of our values.

Finally;
Tower Hamlets labour party is still in special measures, imposed by the Regional party.

Sharon332 & Harrison77, you are right upon the statistical data.
Evidence of this is further demonstrated by the treatment of josie Channer , when she was selected as a PPC for Labour and then resigned following a campaign of disclosures and smears against her to the press.

Further as you can see from Dave Roberts comments on Labour list, I have been attacked , with unsubstantiated allegations and it is also stated by implication that black people should not apply to these roles , as we are just “stepping” up, to places which are above our place in society.

So i can appreciate why Harrison77 is stating perhaps we should be looking to other political parties, as the membership may value our contribution to UK life .

When typing fast on social media , many people make spelling errors, some of us are dyslexic, so it demonstrates the “gutter” level Dave is prepared to lower himself to refer to a error in spelling to denegrate and dehumanise. (cate ll)

This article is complete and utter rubbish and leftfootforward gains no credibility whatsoever from publishing drivel like it. The racist blame game is over as is the influence, such as it was, of has beens before they were anything in the first place like Sunny Hundal. He has been promising for six months to pack up his pathetic Liberal Conspiracy but it still staggers on.

Cate can you give us details of your case because, as far as am concerned, it doesn’t ring true? It seems that you were selected for a political party as their candidate, were elected and then suffered a campaign of bullying and intimidation.

By shouting racism just because you have not been given preferential treatment, or when you have lost out because you are incompetent or useless at your job undermines people who really do suffer racism.

This oozes contemptable self indulgence. Go away work hard for your community, and come back when you don’t see the colour of your skin as a free ride. That you seek to undermine the party which gave you such an opportunity, shows you need to grow up.

No allegations of racism or discrimination were ever made before he lost the vote, and when challenged to make specific private allegations or publicly detail their nature afterwards, none of those who left to form an independent party would do so – despite repeatedly demanding a high-profile investigation of a party they had already left. And if the group was racist, how did he get elected in the first place?

This is political opportunism. The refusal to make formal or specific complaints shows it up.

Crucially, he and his followers left rather than having faced expulsion, which was not considered before they left. The people who had voted against him after his time as leader had previously felt completely comfortable voting for him.

People should feel confortable making allegations of racism.

But they also need to be aware that this allegation is very serious and shouldn’t be used simply for the purpose of political advantage – which in this case, it was.

What I do know was that there was great difficulty in getting these Councillors to campaign, to respond to resident contact, or generally to fulfil their candidate contracts. I can’t speak for other boroughs, but perhaps searching so desperately to find people to represent minority communities (token representation) is part of the problem, as we simply get bad candidates.

What seems to be needed is more genuine engagement with grassroots community groups and more political education that is accessible to people who have immigrated here and perhaps speak English as a second language.

I hope this doesn’t come accross as patronising, but in any event I hope it’s less patronising than thinking it’s OK to get people selected simply because they come from a BAME background, and then call that a diversity strategy.

I’m saying this from the point of view of a white bloke obviously, but in Harrow the issues were about political leadership and a refusal to accept the democratic decisions of the group by a minority of BAME Councillors. If someone refuses to level any specific allegations (as you have here), but makes generalist complaints after losing a leadership vote, their motives should be subjected to more suspicion than otherwise. When they then vote to create a large allowance for the third party leader in the face of huge cuts, even more so.

A larger and even more diverse BAME contingent stayed in Labour even though a number of them had voted for the ex-leader who left with the rebels.