Labour’s Kafkaesque Expulsion Unit Refuses Time Extension

DEFEND THE GARSTON THREE AND INVESTIGATE THE LABOUR PARTY OVER EXPULSIONS

Not content with the fact that I am facing accusations from persons unknown, who therefore cannot be questioned or cross examined, Labour’s Kangaroo Court (sorry National Constitutional Committee) and its anonymous Chair (because I’m also not allowed to know the name of the person who is presiding over the NCC or indeed who is the chief kangaroo) have decided that I am not to be allowed an extension to the 5 weeks notice that I have been given (or less than 4 if you count the time need to actually get my case in to them). 

The unreality of the situation is demonstrated by the fact that they took a leisurely 20 months from my suspension or 17+ months from my Investigation Hearing to lay charges,  There is however an unseemly haste by McNicol’s pliant pawns to get the matter over and done with no doubt because they fear that the longer these cases drag out the more difficult it will be to carry out the expulsions.

I have therefore written to Jane Asher, the Secretary to the NCC stating that I shall not be complying with the deadline.

The Garston 3

News has also come in of 3 more ‘auto-exclusions’.

Bob Walker, Tony Lucock and Gerry Tyrell have been expelled without even the luxury of a hearing by that despicable little toady Sam Matthews who is McNicol’s chief monkey. 

They have launched a petition which I urge people to sign.

It calls upon the Party to establish an immediate inquiry to review all the circumstances of their expulsion; and also to investigate the operation of those office holders and units responsible for this and other recent disciplinary actions.

Bob, Tony and Gerry are three disabled pensioners in their seventies who are active and valued members of Garston and Halewood CLP. Bob was democratically elected by CLP members in July to be their Vice Chair for Membership. They are lifelong socialists and trade unionists who have faced politically-motivated accusations that they support another party, simply because they attend a wide variety of public political meetings, including those of TUSC.

Once again Sam Matthews, head of Labour's 'Disputes' (formerly the Compliance Unit) has expelled them without redress, despite photographic evidence that the three campaigned for weeks on end for a Labour candidate in a Tory marginal during the General Election.  Matthews was caught out by a wave of indignation when he tried to autoexclude Moshe Machover.  We got Moshe back because of the massive campaign which has still not abated.

As in my case, their accusers are anonymous.  The witch hunt thrives on anonymity and faceless accusers doing the bidding of the chief Organ Grinder Iain McNicol and his monkeys, chief among them Sam Matthews.

As in my case there is a complete absence of due process.  The CLP Chair and Executive have refused to allow CLP members to debate an emergency motion (which demanded they be afforded due process) which raises doubts about the motivations of all involved.

This is of course the constituency of the other Chicken Maria Eagle who is as detestable as her sister Angela.  Like her sister she needs the intervention of Southside in order to ensure that members don’t reselect her.

As they say on the petition, ‘the spirit and content of the charges against Bob, Tony and Gerry evoke the shameful tradition of American McCarthyism. The tactic of 'guilt by association' will inevitably rebound on the integrity and legitimacy of any who tolerate or employ them.

Let’s make sure that these bastards don’t get away with these silent expulsions.

We should also ensure that the Leftwingers on the National Executive Committee, people such as Peter Willsman and Darren Williams, have the bottle to start raising these matters on the NEC instead of pretending that it is nothing to do with them.

We also need to ensure that the 3 Momentum candidates who are coming up for election, including Jon Lansman, are forced to take a position on the witch hunt.

Tony Greenstein

to contact the campaign email jennifernicolejames@hotmail.co.uk

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On December 2^nd we will be meeting at 12.00 at the Calthorpe Arms, Greys Inn Road, Kings Cross

After his humiliation over the failed expulsion of Moshe Machover Iain McNicol is desperate to restart the witchhunt

Suspended for one and a half years from Labour - I am invited to my Expulsion Hearing with 5 weeks notice

Nearly 20 months ago I was suspended for comments I was alleged to have made.  Of course I was given no indication of what those comments were and it would appear that all the things they are charging me with now occurred after the date of my suspension.

With 5 weeks notice I have now been told the date of my hearing before the National Constitutional Committee, December 11^th.  I have to have my response in by December 1^st. 

this is the real abuse that anti-Zionists receive but of course it goes unmentioned by the media

This is of course the kind of justice you expect from Crooked McNicol and his apparatchiks.  My investigative hearing was on May 30^th 2016, a mere 17+ months away.  They have spent all this time assembling a case against me and now they expect me to have a response ready in under a month.

both the Telegraph and Times withdrew insinuations of anti-semitism

Letter from the Witch-hunters

This article and a similar one appeared in The Telegraph after the Compliance Unit denied me all details of what the allegations against me were

Letter in response to witch hunters

The fact that I have just come out of hospital after surgery or that I have child care responsibilities matters not a jot to these dessicated automatons.  McNicol and his minions are determined to prove to the Zionist lobby and the Israeli State's representatives inside the Labour Party that they are looking after their interests.  After the fuck up over Moshe Machover, McNicol is determined not to be thwarted a second time.

 'most of the people who have been suspended from the Labour Party for anti-Semitism seem to have been Jewish'  Alexei Sayle 

My response in The Telegraph to the suggestion that comparisons between the Nazis and Zionists were anti-Semitic

I guess it is flattering that it has taken 20 months in order to try and fit me up on bogus charges of anti-Semitism.  As Alexei Sayle said on Sky TV last week, ‘most of the people who have been suspended from the Labour Party for anti-Semitism seem to have been Jewish.'

Of course this is not surprising since Jewish anti-Zionists are particularly detested by racist scum like Jeremy Newmark of the Jewish Labour Movement.  Zionists hate anti-Zionist Jews much like the Nazis hated anti-fascist Germans.  Why they even use the same insult ‘self-haters’ against us.  The real meaning of which is that you hate your race and nation and therefore yourself.

Jewish anti-Zionists stand in the same relationship to the Palestinian struggle that White Anti-Apartheid activists bore in relation to the Black Liberation struggle in South Africa

I have written to McNicol’s errand girl, Jane Fisher, explaining to her that I shall not be attending on December 11^th and that I require far more time in order to prepare a case.  Given the amount of time they have allowed themselves there can be no bona fide objections.

once again the Compliance Unit and its NCC lackeys have leaked material to the press

It would also appear that the press has once again been informed in advance of my being notified.  Although the Compliance Unit refused to divulge exactly what I had said when I was suspended two weeks later, on April 2^nd the Times and Telegraph both ran with detailed versions of what the evidence against me.  The Telegraph stated that they had seen material from the Compliance Unit.  This time the Jewish Chronicle has been tipped off in advance.

Below are some of the posts that I have carried on my suspension, including a transcript of my investigation hearing.

Tony Greenstein suspended from Labour Party - Labour Party machine gets its revenge on Corbyn’s activists as expulsions mount

Labour’s Disciplinary Procedures would put the Star Chamber to Shame

Labour Party Witch-hunters Employ the   Daily Torygraph to Pursue Bogus Allegations of Anti-Semitism

The Paper of Record Joins in the 'anti-semitism' Witch-hunt

Labour’s Inquisition – from the banal to the mundane

Calling for the reselection of Labour MP Peter Kyle is a disciplinary offence

The Times 'clarified' its Compliance Unit fed article

Below is the letter I have sent to Jane Fisher in response to an email from her:

It is now important that Momentum, which said nothing over Moshe Machover, begins to take the witch hunt seriously.  When Israel’s lobby in the Labour Party seeks to be rid of people like Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker or myself it does this in order to make Labour safe for a pro-American foreign policy and Netanyahu's military occupation. 

The Left on the National Executive Committee also needs to begin growing a backbone.  To date is has said nothing and done nothing.

The NEC Left needs to start opposing on principle the idea of witch hunting socialists whilst all manner of reactionaries and Blairites are allowed to run Labour’s civil service.  But for McNicol’s refusal to allow resources to be used in Tory marginals at the last election, because he was too taken up defending Progress MPs, Labour could have won the General Election.

Tony Greenstein