Alistair Cambell expelled from Labour for voting LIb Dems

[Denver]

He betrayed Labour by voting for a different party and has no been expelled

[Oliver_W]

Instead of punishing people for the way they vote, maybe Labour should wonder why it's voter base are turning to the Lib Dems?

[joeysteele]

I'm never a fan of Campbell.
However this is ridiculous.

He said what he was going to do, if he hadn't this wouldn't have happened.

If Labour think others, possibly even MPs didn't do so, they may be mistaken.

Rules are rules, they say.
People should not be punished however for voting in line with their hopes and conscience.

There'll be loads of other Labour party members voting for another party if Corbyn ignores his membership and doesn't support a new public vote.

Possibly most of his multi hundreds of thousands of members he keeps going on about too.

[Greg!]

Instead of punishing people for the way they vote, maybe Labour should wonder why it's voter base are turning to the Lib Dems?

Exactly. Ridiculous decision. If they punished every Labour member who voted Lib Dem or Greens at the EU elections they would hardly have any left. So much for learning from the result.

[Livia]

Ridiculous but unsurprising.

[bots]

so members are also subject to a whip then?

Is it a labour party rule that if you are a member, you cant vote for anyone else?

[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/alastair-campbell-expelled-from-labour-over-eu-election-support-11730108

Yes he got others to vote LibDem
they had to KICK HIM OUT.

[Livia]

If voting for another party was an expellable exercise, both Labour and the Tories would have about a dozen members after the Eu elections.

These days Labour only ever opens its mouth to change feet.

[Crimson Dynamo]

If only he had just attacked Jews then he would still be member today..

[Livia]

LOL... true.

[Cherie]

this is most bizarre....

[smudgie]

His own fault. He was far too public about it.
He does love the sound of his own voice.
No reason to blab about it on telly and internet.

[joeysteele]

His own fault. He was far too public about it.
He does love the sound of his own voice.
No reason to blab about it on telly and internet.

I thought he was foolish to say he had.
It was a question put to him on election results night I think.
Where he said he had.

It's a bit crazy really though.
Anyone could say they voted one way but had actually voted another.
Who could really know.

I have a feeling if you could guess however more likely it will be the case, Labour may need to expel many members for voting for another Party.

I know of many who are saying if we head to a no deal brexit and Corbyn does not now support fully another referendum.
They'll not need expelling, they'll be cutting up their membership cards.

Politics is in a strange place and uncertain one too at this time.
I think on brexit more leniency should be in place, as to how people feel best placed on where they stand on brexit and how they decide to vote.

[bots]

Jess Phillips, who represents Birmingham Yardley, tweeted that Mr Campbell was "expelled quicker than a man who threatened to kill me [and] quicker than a man in my [local party] who denied the Holocaust", adding: "Both are only still suspended."


this shows how wrong labour values are