Three councillors resign over Labour's ‘lily-livered stand’ on Gaza

some_guy, 22 days ago

Good for them, but it won’t be enough.

theinspectorst, 22 days ago

lily-livered

Hoist the mainsail and shiver me timbers, are they joining the Pirate Party?

RobotToaster, 22 days ago

The saying came from Macbeth, or at least that’s the first recorded use.

baggins, 22 days ago

But pirates are cool 😉

Jackthelad, 22 days ago

Socialists Penny Wrout, Fliss Premru and Claudia Turbet-Delof held a press conference outside the east London borough’s town hall.

Imagine being this self-important.

aleph, 22 days ago

Why shouldn’t three elected politicians make a statement to the local press?

NegativeInf, 22 days ago

Socialists Penny Wrout, Fliss Premru and Claudia Turbet-Delof held a press conference outside the east London borough’s town hall.

Ms Wrout said they were leaving the party due to “the inadequacies about Labour’s national policies to address problems we have got at the moment but it’s also, crucially, about Labour’s lily-livered stand from the beginning on Gaza.”

She said Hackney Council needs “to act now” to sell its shares in an Israeli arms company “before the Tory government makes it illegal for them to do that.”