Petition updateExpel 'Nazi Stormtrooper'-labelling donor, Michael Foster from the Labour PartyMichael Foster is suspended from the Labour Party
Nick RobinsonLoughton, ENG, United Kingdom
Sep 10, 2016 — http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-3783399/index.html This is an appalling article in an appalling paper, designedThis is an appalling article in an appalling paper, designed to fuel hate via click-bait headlines. I understand it is the Labour National Executive Committee disciplinary committee - not the party leader, that presides over member expulsions & suspensions; but make no mistake - if this is factually correct and Micheal Foster has been suspended, it is a HUGE VICTORY & STEP FORWARD in restoring values, justice and dignity in the Labour Party & demonstrating that £400K in financial donations does not give you the right to go to the press and label party members as Nazi storm-troopers. Despite its best efforts, the coup-challenge to the Labour Party movement and leadership has lost the appetite and sympathy of the wider electorate at large. No more clearly was this shown than in the Sheffield by-election, this week, where the vocally anti-Corbyn candidate & team, who expressed a strategic wish that Corbyn and Momentum did not involve or associate with their campaign, lost to the Lib Dems ... 2 weeks after the largest political rally (for Corbyn) in Sheffield ever took place. I was incensed by Michael Foster's comments in the Daily Mail and the revelation of the infallible values and attitudes that is exposed, evidently so close to the party core and media interests. Over 3000 people signed my petition, demanding that the party take suspension action against Mr Foster, but we received no response to Party HQ as revelations of long-standing party members and trade union leaders were being purged ... along with the odd Foo Fighter fan. This news, reported in the most undignified of media journalism manners should give heart, if accurate, as Labour Party members who have had to put up with racist and anti-Semitic slurs, cynically espoused by party comrades, including Owen Normal, for divisive & failed political gain. Gradually we will re-build our member's trust and then the trust of the wider nation, by sticking to common, founded egalitarian principles and condemning this kind of cynical and immoral behaviour. Thank you for your support in helping this petition contribute to a successful conclusion!
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