A Co-operative Socialist call to Parliamentary action

 A Co-operative Socialist call to Parliamentary action

I was notified, in February 2019, that according to an anonymous complainant to The Labour Party, that certain of my Facebook posts were considered to be antisemitic, etc.

I was offered a hearing, where only one 'silent friend' was to be allowed to be present apart from my self; confident of my innocence, being a Quaker, and long-time Labour activist and supporter for fifty-eight years, I accepted.

The Labour Party shilly-shallied and, at its September 2019 Conference, changed the rules, such that Hearings and Appeals are no longer allowed.

Accordinly, a year on, on 10th February 2020, I was summarily expelled: along with two dozen others (none named, or known to me), by letter, in a little-reported injustice (only one report was made, in 'The Jewish Chronical', the next day, and cited by 'The Huffington Post', shortly there-after).

No Hearing or Appeal or Application for Restored Membership within Seven Years was to be permitted. And the latter 'Only in Exceptional Circumstances'.

Shortly thereafter, I made a Statutorily-permitted 'Subject Access Request', by Recorded Delivery.

Despite the Statutory requirement for reply in the, specified, short period and with another reminder letter, also by Recorded Delivery, that Statutorily-required Subject Access performance has still not been complied with.

Accordingly, I am still in the dark as to the records that The Labour Party in its various Sections hold on me (briefly, I was a Labour Ward Organiser and Town Councillor in Hertford, 1995-99; Chair of Hertford and Stortford CLP and Vice-Chair of the Hertfordshire County Labour Party, thereafter until 2004; Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliamentary Constituency in 2015 and pushed aside for both the 2017 and 2019 General Elections in that, my 'home' Constituency by devious actions by Labour Party officers: despite, in 2015, moving Labour back into second place and, therefore denying UKIP that position in one of its target seats).

Then this expulsion, by what I see, now, as the 'Weaponisation of Expulsion Without Hearing or Appeal'.

It is this latter weaponisation that marks the end of The Labour Party.

Accordingly, any effort to promote a democratic socialist response to, either, Capitalism or Zionism, will be made the subject of immediate expulsion.

And will, thus, fail.

As a result, The Labour Party will be, by that process, be continuously a supporter Party of Capitalism: with a Primary Focus of supporting all actions that bring about the continuation of a foreign power, The Zionist State of Israel.

I, thus, consider that our way forward, as Democratic and Co-operative Socialists, is clear: the local, unfederated, identitification and support, by local 'Guilds of Co-operators', of Parliamentary Candidates who will call for an immediate Parliamentary Debate on the implementation of the 'Plan for Co-operative Socialism' (as already adopted by Labour Action For Peace, by Occupy London, by Bromley Co-operative Party, by Bromley Peace Council and by the Bromley Trade Union Pensioners' Action Association).

With, once elected, such group of independent MPs sitting as a 'Parliamentary Co-operative Socialist Party Group'.

For the avoidance of co-option, I do not recommend the formation of a federated, etc, such Party in the Country, though, likely, *informal* contacts will, most likely, devolop.

(It will be a sign of co-option should such informal contacts of, and for Solidarity, be proposed to be concretised into formal stuctures: Capitalism and Zionism will aim to do this.)

Thus, from these ashes will #truesocialism emerge.

For #TheCommonGood.

John Courtneidge (Dr), Formerly LP A777179

2 Furzedown

Littlehampton

West Sussex

BN17 5NJ