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Over the last 24 hours, a number of false and defamatory statements have been published about me concerning the launch of Your Party’s membership portal.
The portal was properly launched in accordance with the party’s roadmap.
At no point was members’ data misused or put at risk.
All funds received from members were ringfenced and protected in the appropriate manner.
These baseless attacks on my character are politically-motivated and I intend to hold to account those responsible for making them.
To that end, I have this evening instructed specialist defamation lawyers.
To avoid prejudicing or complicating any future legal process, I will not be making any further comment about this matter at this time.
So she’s not said if she discussed with anyone the members portal. Looks like she unilaterally did that like when she announced the party early.
Since she had a whiff of leadership, I’ve seen a whole new side of her. Trying to blow up the project for her own ego. Calling your co-leader sexist is highly unprofessional, even when you disagree.
A 150,000 racists only marched on the capital on last Saturday, god forbid we show some urgency.
She has, from her previous statement: “Neither of this week’s emails had the dual authorisation of both myself and Jeremy - which was the agreement made at the start of this process.”
She didn’t say that, she said she was being subject to appalling behaviour and exclusion from the working group that she likened to a “sexist boys’ club”. She never called Corbyn himself a sexist, and you don’t need to be personally sexist to perpetuate sexist systems.
Also, saying a woman should hide how she’s being mistreated for the sake of professionalism is kind of a shitty thing to do.
That’s not what I said. She has as much rights as the other 5 MPs. She pushed herself into a co-leader role and that will only apply until there is a democratic vote.
I’m autistic. When people don’t agree with me. I don’t call it discriminatory. For that, there would have to be a pattern over a period of time longer than 4 weeks. Not getting unilateral say is not sexism. Her mistreatment accusations are real vague and lacking in examples.
There is a difference between an email and a system that is subject to the most sensitive data and subject to laws. You cannot just whim buy it. It affects everyone.
Whether she said it exactly, or insinuated it. She attacked his character.
I didn’t say she should hide sexism, but to attack peoples character within weeks when you don’t get your way sucks. If I was any of them I’d no longer want to work with her. She cannot work as a team. How can you set up a project with her. She hasn’t got the reputation or following JC has. What are her credentials for leader? What contest did she win? She carries more negative impact than benefit and decided to torpedo a promising movement when she didn’t get her way.
Number 1 rule of politics is disagree privately, be united publicly.
So just because she didn’t leak a bunch of emails and internal communications like a drama YouTuber you can just safely dismiss her claims of mistreatment? You don’t have any idea of how things are going internally within Your Party and internal sources have indicated that Sultana is being pushed out by Corbyn and his orbiters.
Funny you say this, from the Novara article I linked:
Where was this ‘they should suck it up and work together’ attitude when Adnan Hussian was subtweeting Sultana and telling her to ‘sit down’ (a totally not sexist and very professional thing to do)?
She’s the only person in this political project with any significant political standing other than Corbyn. She’s popular, an effective communicator and she’s the reason Your Party exists at all.
She’s not the reason it exists at all. When she announced it, it came out discussions had been going on for a while and a process was being formed. The independent group of 5 MPs was already working together.
She left the party, jumped in on something and tried to push herself into leadership.
Adnan already talked about being pushed out, and he’s clearly not happy by that. Is it right, that only 2 MPs in a group of 6 have a say and staffers do but no other MP does. You’re very selectively picking points you want and really twisting them.
She is an effective communicator, and politically principled. I was a fan before this, but her kiboshing a new project because she doesn’t have 50% of power is not a good luck.
Oh, and who is this insider? Someone in Sultana’s camp? Who said fuck off? This is vague.
I have no idea what you meant by the YouTuber comment. It’s not something I follow and politics is all about winning over voters. Public spats never work or help.
Pushed out? This group is 6 MPs and some helpers. If 1 member does there own thing, calls the other 6 sexist, you’d bet the others wouldn’t want to work with them. However, the loss is 1 independent MP. Better than 5. I still expect this to go ahead without her. She’ll probably crawl back to Labour in a year or so.
She has openly admitted in her first response. That she acted alone.
She also claimed clear reason why she felt she had to. Based on control being removed from membership before the members had any options to prevent it.
We have no idea if that is true or not.
But she has not denied she acted alone. Only failed to tell members before 20000 (using her own claims) signed up.
And suggesting women should be silent about sexism due to professionalism. Is a very predudiced viewpoint designed to further systemic prejudice. You really should not fall for such ideas.
There is no real membership yet. Paid membership is still in the pipeline. You need a structure. Rules. When you procure a membership system it has to respect privacy and provide the required functionality.
You cannot just grab any system. Is it even safe.
It’s also vague what sexism she is referring to. If there are 6 men and 1 woman and she feels her views should weigh 50% because she is a woman, that’s not sexism, that’s using sexism to further her agenda. In another breath, she complained about power in the hands of JCs allies, such a Karie Murphy. She’s complaining about women (her) not getting a say, but Karie shouldn’t because her being a woman is irrelevant because she’s a JC ally.
It seems you have taken every word she said is in good faith, and none of JCs and the other 5 MPs are. It’s a skewed perspective.
Sultana may have lacked authorization. But 20000+ members were defiantly valid in thinking that is what they signed up to.
Any court would side with them. So refusing to consider them members would be f*&^ing dangerous to the progress of this party.
If the DD hasn’t come out, the membership isn’t active. 20k people have been mislead and scammed to sign up to an unofficial system. Over 600k people signed up, many because of JC, if 20k got duped, it doesn’t mean anything in terms of legality. You haven’t even seen the terms, so you’re speculating in a way that catastrophises this.
It’s pretty clear you dislike JC and anything that could make him look bad is true to you. If it helps you feel better, OK, but it’s irrelevant to the 600k people that are keen for a left party that they can call home.
The membership was paid by card not DD.
And came out. Maybe actually find the facts before expressing an opinion.