A growing group of women members and supporters of the Labour Party have publicly comdemned attempts by some women MPs to discredit the leadership with allegations of gender based bullying.
Read below their letter in the Independent Online.
See also their new website.
We, female Labour members, condemn attempts by some women MPs to blame the Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell for alleged bullying in the party. These accusations form part of an unceasing witch hunt against Corbyn and his supporters.
Women in politics have no right to discredit legitimate political opposition as gender based intimidation. MPs are supposed to be public servants, not masters, and we all have a right to peacefully hold them to account.
It is the anti-Corbyn hierarchy that has banned constituency meetings, cancelled the results elections such as in Brighton and Hove CLP, and denied members the right to vote in the leadership election unless they pay an additional £25.
Corbyn’s leadership, the most democratic, anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-war this party has ever had, has inspired the mass participation of women and men in shaping Labour politics. His anti-austerity programme targets “inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination” – not only gender balance in Parliament but pay equity for women who are “over-represented in the lowest-paying sectors: cleaning, catering and caring – vital sectors of our economy, doing valuable work, but not work that is fairly rewarded or equally respected.”
It is sad that women MPs, some of whom were part of the first-ever shadow cabinet with a majority of women, have not welcomed this “new politics”. We are glad that one of them has unresigned and we hope that the others will reconsider.
Niki Adams, Kilburn
Nana Asante, Ealing
Cristel Amiss, Kilburn
Caroline Barker, Kilburn
Lynda Bennet, London
Amanda Bentham, Stoke Newington
Nechamah Bonanos, Brixton
Kristina Brandemo, Kensal Rise
Jessica Burke, Brighton
Emily Burnham, Barnet
Linda Burnip, Warwickshire
Sara Callaway, South Kilburn
Vee Cartwright, Brighton
Ellen Clifford, Lewisham
Petra Dando, Camden
Miriam E David, Islington North
Hanna Demel, Kensal Rise
Nina Douglas, North Broxtowe
Una Doyle, Holborn and St Pancras
Marlene Ellis, Streatham
Roisin Francis, South Kilburn
Claire Glasman, Gospel Oak
Beth Granter, Brighton
Bethan Griffiths, Birmingham
Sibyl Grundberg, Tottenham
Charlie Hall, Cambridge
Jo Hammond, Vauxhall
Linda Heiden, Streatham
Christine Hemmingway, Norfolk
Michelle Hemmingway, Rowley Regis, Birmingham
Amy Hills-Fletcher, Hackney South
Jenny Hardacre, Cambridge
Becka Hudson, Islington North
Selma James, Kilburn
Coral Jones, Hackney
Eleanor Kilroy, Winchester
Jem Lindo, Haringey
Ruth London, Kilburn
Nina Lopez, Kilburn
Marie Lynam, Kilburn
Nicola Mann, Childs Hill
Sandra Mann, Childs Hill
Helen Marks, Liverpool
Delia Mattis, Enfield Southgate
Juliet McCaffery, Brighton
Denise McKenna, Welling
Heather Mendick, Hackney South
Firinne Ni Chreachain, Brent
Marion Pencavel, Keighley, West Yorkshire
Paula Peters, Bromley
Rachel Remedios, Oxford
Mena Remedios, Oxford
Ariane Sacco, Kensal Rise
Harriet Sampson, Ealing
Awula Serwah, Brent
Vanessa Stilwell, Dulwich
Cindy Taplin, Hackney South
Mary Taylor, Greenwich
Chrissie Tiller, Hackney
June Turvey, Brent South
Rosa Valdez, Brighton
Flora Wanyu, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Laura Watson, Kilburn
Ann Whitehurst, Stoke-on-Trent
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Chingford
