The No Ceasefire, No Vote movement is growing rapidly
Councillor LOTTE COLLETT is part of a nationwide wave of resignations over Labour’s betrayals of its members and principles — and that wave is now forming into an organised network with two major conferences
ONE of the most remarkable reactions to Labour’s twisting and turning over its position on Israel’s savage assault on Gaza has been the defection of local councillors away from Labour to sit as independents.
Perhaps a hundred or so councillors have left, and in some cases have cost Labour control of the council — such as in Hastings, Oxford and Burnley.
Labour shows an apparent indifference to losing councillors and councils, some in parliamentary seats covering the former mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire that must be won back for it to form the next government.