Faiza Shaheen says her candidacy has been blocked by Labour

Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen says her candidacy for Chingford and Woodford Green has been blocked by the Labour Party.
In the interview with Victoria Derbyshire, she describes hearing that her candidacy had been pulled over liking a series of Tweets which she claims Labour said would frustrate its campaign.
There are currently known to be six candidates standing in Chingford and Woodford Green: Chris Brody for the Green Party, Josh Hadley for the Liberal Democrats, Yousaff Khan for the Workers Party of Britain, Paul Luggeri of Reform UK, Faiza Shaheen and Iain Duncan Smith of the Conservative Party.
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[@TheCaptain-db5ys]

Faiza, you need to go where you are wanted. Run as an independent.

[@markstill515]

Is it not too late to do it, if it’s not too late she should?

[@huwdavies-tallon3305]

Little chance she don't have the name recognition or history of being an MP for decades like Corbyn and Abbott. Also the area is historically much more wealthy and conservative than Hackney or Islington. Labour will win it.

[@danpatterson7108]

​@huwdavies-tallon3305 not after this. She should run as an independent and stick 2 fingers up to Labour. I think the community would actually probably back her in droves. That'd be another seat lost for Labour and it would be all there own fault.

[@azami123]

Keir Starmer is disgusting. He's not fit to be PM. Faiza should run as an independent. Please support Andrew Feinstein to unseat Keir Starmer

[@huwdavies-tallon3305]

@@danpatterson7108 I live on the borders of this constituency and it is a quiet wealthy traditionally conservative area much more so then most seats in london and she is not hugely popular trust me. All she would do is split the left and maybe let Tories keep the seat.

[@ivanlondon]

Not sure why she apologised, Jon Stewart was spot-on

[@LesHAaRd]

Whats one way of proving that Jon Stewart sketch wrong? By doing exactly what he did in that sketch lol!

[@tnghunter]

@LesHAaRd she liked a tweet.. and got barred from running. If anything it validated the tweet.

[@LesHAaRd]

@@tnghunter I was being sarcastic haha, it's ridiculous the way she has been treated

[@tnghunter]

@LesHAaRd gotcha lol sorry, it's sometimes hard to pick up on in text

[@dogblessamerica]

They proved the basic point of the John Stewart sketch she liked...

[@danmayberry1185]

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, rabid antisemite .. he should complain to the Jewish Labour Lobby about Starmer.

[@digglerdudeuk]

Starmer's Labour is abhorrent.

[@sonofednawelthorpe8609]

I’d agree with you more if you’d left Starmer out. I realised that for certain as soon as the Aberfan charity funds scandal became public. I’m glad my father and grandfather - both miners who were staunch Labour supporters - had passed when the truth was exposed.

[@adrianobastardi]

To whining crying ridiculous ignorant stupid far leftists that is correct.

[@MSA-uj7cp]

actuallyy its great. We are hoping for a landslide win. We don't want any anti semites in labour.

[@zaidsayed3222]

Apparently he was human rights lawyer ….. really

[@MLC-ef1qf]

@@zaidsayed3222 Starmer was the DPP, he was at the top of all the prosecutors who prosecute on behalf of the State. 'Human Rights' are there to protect people from their own State.

[@easyware]

I have supported Labour all my life. I certainly will not be voting for this version of the Labour party.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Hmm.......try Reform instead ? 😂😂

[@APAG]

@@2msvalkyrie529 Are you aware of this wonderfull party called 'the greens', I hear that they are attracting former labour supporters, not reform (in other words stfu)

[@sonofednawelthorpe8609]

I’m a Tory - I feel the same about the Tories. Despite being the son and grandson of a miner and being born in a pit owned prefab … and gay - I realised the truth about Labour as soon as I left home. Labour have always been vile and not for the working man as they claim

[@hussm63]

It's on the BBC so it must be true 😡

[@sohosteveuk]

@@hussm63 If you doubt it then it must be fake news PML 🤣🤣🤣

[@willjohn1717]

i was becoming more convinced to vote labour, but after all this not now. Starmer is anti-democratic, he’s a slimy liar who only cares about power.

[@SenorSol]

Yeah, vote for the Tories instead. You muppet.

[@broadcast-east]

No you werent

[@stephenhill545]

She made anti-semitic comments online. Zero tolerance.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Starmer made his utter disdain for democracy quite plain after the Brexit vote

[@broadcast-east]

@@MartinParsons-tr6wi Word salad. Democracy is not everything you think and anything you don't is anti democratic. I know this is social media and nothing is meant to mean anything, we make up alternative facts and everything is an outrage but what does that actually mean.

[@MoebiusUK]

Stand as an independent M.P

[@GregOrCreg]

She doesn't have the name recognition of a Jeremy Cornyn or a Diane Abbott, thus, it would be a near-pointless endeavour.

[@huwdavies-tallon3305]

​@@GregOrCregexactly and is a harder area to run as is conservative area has been for decades unlike Hackney and north Islington.

[@GregOrCreg]

@@huwdavies-tallon3305 Indeed, and you raise an additional point; it will split the anti-Tory/left-leaning vote.

[@huwdavies-tallon3305]

@@GregOrCreg Yeo defo in polling in the area had Labour up 20 points but if she runs from the left as independent she will split the vote and take probably 10% of the vote of labour and could even let Tories in. I live literally on the borders of this contingency and it is quite a suburban and in alot of parts very wealthy with huge houses golf course so traditionally a Tory area.

[@Flat24-ue9pj]

Labour deserves a boycott don’t care if it means Tory gets in, in the long run we need an opposition with strong decent values not one that advocates the cutting of food and electricity to an entire population

[@adamtovey8721]

Labour will absolutely not be getting my vote and ive voted for them every time.

[@hg82met]

This is the real Starmer. He's not even prime minister yet and we've seen his authoritarian streak.

[@stephenhill545]

They loved Thatcher.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Kneesalot is a moocher

[@imemine6494]

.. he loved lockdown

[@chinny_reckon]

Just another Zionist glove puppet.

[@Loner-Wolf]

Faiza is being unnecessarily apologetic and explaining way too much. She did absolutely nothing wrong. The fact the she is being dropped because she 'liked a tweet' ironically plays into the very idea about the Israeli lobby and Labour's hierarchy of racism.

[@Mike-tb5gj]

Possibly so. However, this is politics and people are nasty - they go into that job specifically because they are nasty. Wouldn't mind if she could pronounce her words properly!! She seems to think the alphabet consists of only 25 letters! She must only drink coffee (oh, of course, with the rabbi....!!), because she can't remember "T"!! Goodbye, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu!

[@wozzer3wa]

Rubbish

[@pauls3204]

She’s a race baiter and a bit thick as well . Really not fit to be in parliament

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

🎉🎉🎉 she's gone

[@propork]

@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 the guy who played into a trope with shekels apologised less emotionally than she has and he was immediately allowed back in. double standard?

[@Forksake82]

What is wrong with liking a tweet that describes the Israeli lobby? Books have been written about it.

[@liveyourbestlifetoday5329]

The Israel lobby don't like it.

[@michaelryan2562]

Nothing starter the fascist Zionist dictator is following Tories Zionist fascist racist policy

[@jake751]

Nothing 😢

[@anfg7376]

history and context

[@touchpotential3762]

@@anfg7376Whats the history and context between liking a tweet by a Jewish person critical of the Israel lobby?

[@JZ_Strings]

As a Jewish Labour voter this racism form the Labour party is deeply troubling. I live in Chingford and was looking forward to voting for her. She is one of the only decent politicians in Parliament, but it seems the Racist Establishment has their ugly hands deep in our democracy, and the Labour party is now entirely corrupted.. The more I see of this the more it becomes apparent that direct action will be the only way to get our country back. There is no democracy in this fascist country any more. The fight against this will be fought through independents, but it means they have succeeded in their mission to divide us. Direct action will be the only way

[@SuellaForPresident]

You're part of the problem here.

[@mogznwaz]

She is a Muslim whose priority is Gaza and being a ‘minority’ - what’s so great about that?

[@JZ_Strings]

​@@SuellaForPresident Ah one said racist telling me I'm part of the problem

[@SuellaForPresident]

@@JZ_Strings Aye

[@SuellaForPresident]

@@JZ_Strings Everything is racist,you included don't cha know

[@johnsopel3804]

Vote for THIS Labour party and get Tory MK 2. Starmer MUST GO !!!

[@ascgazz7347]

LOL Based on WHAT evidence, BOT?

[@jacquelineithell307]

Correction vote for this Labour Party and you will get what Blair started only a million times worse, please use the one day of power you have in this country , when putting your X

[@carlpierce2486]

Incredibly dangerous to create fear by excluding any dissent. Do you want a party of yes-men.

[@grimm_40k]

That is, by all accounts, exactly what Starmer wants. He's a dictator, no other way to describe it.

[@stephenford8775]

Bring Corbyn back.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Flipflop's the WEF shoe in

[@HelenaMikas]

the answer to that is YES ( he does )...

[@ilyasVa]

Forget Labour. Stand as an Independent. Good luck ✌🏼❤️

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

Split that vote

[@MelodyHoefdraad-pf7dg]

Absolutely abhorrent the way Starmer's Labour treats its minority, left, and critical members. How they can remove Faiza Shaheen and allow Luke Akehorst who has made so many deplorable remarks to become a Labour candidate is beyond me. Just shameful!

[@johnbooth2005]

'Shameful' seems to encapsulate the history of Starmer's leadership -- and, before that, of course, his leadership campaign -- to date.

[@ukvalues7669]

It's the minority who's trying to controle the majority nothing was mentioned aboute the british people or the uk it was all aboute her community open your eyes lefties your being used and that's how islamists got leadership of iran they then killed the lefties it's in there quran on how to take a country

[@see6052]

There's only one "minority" this fraudulent "Labour party" is interested in. And they're not even British. It's the smallest minority of all, with the least connection and loyalty to this country. The only one that isn't allowed to be criticises for it's religious/political extremism

[@ascgazz7347]

Lol who are you pair shilling for then?

[@mogznwaz]

Perhaps he should pander less to minorities and focus more on majority native Brits? 🤔

[@KK-iy7mw]

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO APOLOGISE FOR THEIR VIEW, SIMPLY BECAUSE JEWS DON'T LIKE IT???

[@eyesopen7946]

Starmer still thinks he is in charge of crown public prosecution , just think if he ends up as prime minister and how he will treat us the general public

[@MelodyHoefdraad-pf7dg]

Food for thought.

[@marcust123]

Just remember starmee is the guy who refused to charge and jail jimmy saville and let him continue to attack

[@moomin7461]

​@@marcust123That's not true at all.

[@stephenford8775]

Bring Corbyn back.

[@SamHocking]

Stand as an Independent, your community will ensure you win and you will win big!

[@TomRaine]

Vote for Labour or Tory is a vote for accountancy firms in London. Vote Green instead.

[@adamscottprice]

Well said 👍

[@pete456113]

And tories for 5 more years as a result!

[@KennyG-qh8jc]

id rather vote labour than you loons LOL

[@danpatterson7108]

​@@pete456113Labours fault

[@Flat24-ue9pj]

It’s sickening to see the damage Starmer has done to labour, disfigured feels like an apt way to describe it…

[@hadi96100]

Wow, she liked a tweet around 12 years ago & the tweet was telling the truth.

[@Flat24-ue9pj]

Labour deserves a boycott don’t care if it means Tory gets in, in the long run we need an opposition with strong decent values not one that advocates the cutting of food and electricity to an entire population

[@Flat24-ue9pj]

Vote independents vote green vote workers party

[@mogznwaz]

Why should Israel supply resources to people who want them dead? Perhaps Hamas should have spent all that aid money on their own water and electricity infrastructure instead of digging tunnels and buying rockets…

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Unite behind reform

[@samcarena4702]

Starmer is a liar and a coward. Starmer offers absolutely nothing

[@davelong9055]

And all my promises are lies All my love is hate I am the politician And I decide your fate

[@SuellaForPresident]

Power to Sir Keir !

[@user-rk9it9hz6g]

She's clearly been stitched up

[@SolutionOrientedMan]

Stay strong Faiza, we still love you!!

[@ne-ht4zx]

She's not genuine. Crocodile tears - she knows she messed up.

[@SolutionOrientedMan]

@@ne-ht4zx Please elaborate

[@dalek604]

​@ne-ht4zx mate the MP who talked about puppet masters is still standing

[@RJH755]

@@ne-ht4zx Messed up how? Calling out a lobbying group that advocates a foreign state's right to murder over 35K people in 7 months?

[@hadikhan5197]

@@SolutionOrientedManWell, all she talked about was the seat she was to contest from. She obviously stayed silent vis a vis the latest slaughter of Palestinians by the Israelis because she knew that would be problematic. She literally jumped out when asked if she d apologise for her Views about Palestine and is obviously Ready to even support the Israeli crimes if she gets to contest on Labour Ticket. Honestly speaking, Her opinions and intentions are pretty obvious from the way she replied to the questions. Israeli War crimes or Islamophobia aren’t an issue if she gets to be the labour candidate . She’s still hoping, clutching the straws etc, against hope that the leadership change their minds and let her contest. She was literally bursting to Apologise for anything and everything, hoping to appease the party bosses.

[@Archivian01]

Labour could do a lot wrong before the election and not lose people. Because right now, the other choice is the conservatives with 14 years of failure. That this situation even exists points out a major issue with the current election system.

[@user-zi4iu5lj6z]

The other choice is not just the tories, the green, independent lib dems are other parties as well

[@DanKeatis]

Greens all the way for me!

[@andylewis7360]

@@DanKeatis😂 Ohh! You’re serious! PAAAAHAHAHAHA!!

[@marcust123]

Vote reform

[@DanKeatis]

@@marcust123 Not for me, but I'm curious to know why you'll be voting for them. No judgement just curious. They're about as appealing to me as a jizz and tonic.

[@dclark123456]

Doesn't this prove the point of the tweet?

[@GregOrCreg]

Anyone who disagrees with this, can you please provide a good faith and honest argument as to why dclark is 'wrong'? Thank you.

[@carlitor4173]

The labour party got accused and found guilty of antisemitism, it cannot be seen in any way shape of form to be doing that again, it very simple

[@paulfildes5489]

Emboldened by their successful campaign to purge Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party and hold veto power over the party’s membership, the Israel lobby was growing in ambition in the UK. (Starmer says he has 'extended family' in Tel Aviv through his wife and that "I'm a Zionist without qualification"). The lobby also demanded nothing less than the power to veto membership of British academia. Any opponent of Zionism, Israel’s racist state ideology, was to be purged - until an employment tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly dismissed, and that his “anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic pursuant to section 10 Equality Act 2010!

[@anfg7376]

​@@GregOrCregperhaps the fact she's disowned liking the tweet

[@gpkh-xg8qc]

Hatred is purposefully against minorities like Blacks, Latinos, Muslims etc by countries where governments have failed economies because of ruling class, coporates and capitalism. People should vote even for independent candidates, if they are sincere and faught for common cause of people, irrespective of race, religion or gender.

[@ronyh5959]

First time in my life will not vote Labour.

[@sm8315]

They kind of proved the point of the tweet didn’t they

[@letura1000]

She is vilified for liking a tweet, yet Starmer literally said Israel had a right to cut off power and water!!

[@mogznwaz]

Israel is not obliged to supply resources for free to people who want them dead.

[@imemine6494]

.. That right he did.. and still people are going to vote for him

[@roadtohope]

Exactly 😳

[@samcrooks4749]

Discusting behaviour, the labour party is no longer a democratic party.

[@EarthHart1]

Correct. It's a Very Wet Tory Party.

[@anfg7376]

hows that?

[@samcrooks4749]

Anfg7376 when kier starmer was running for the leader of the labour party he promised to let clps pick there own candidates but for purely factional reasons the labour right has blocked pretty much all of the new candidates on the left of the party. That is why the labour party is no longer a democratic party.

[@theSPUK901]

When

[@anfg7376]

@@samcrooks4749 they haven't made selections yet....this woman's issue/s are specific....I would suggest the more radical left seek their own party if the current options don't suit

[@tc4906]

Never beg 🤌🏼. They'll delight in seeing you grovel. Be Independent. 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@babymonalisa]

💯🎯💯🎯

[@user-nh5pn9ty2j]

It’s not a trope when it’s true.

[@davelong9055]

You're a trope

[@user-nj1qu1cs7s]

Stand as an independent you'll walk it.

[@huwdavies-tallon3305]

No she won't not got name recognition of Corbyn or Abbott or decades as MP or decades as MP like them. That's why she is so upset chance has likely gone. Labour will win with a new candidate just probably is a quiet conservative area.

[@lizcollinson2692]

​@@huwdavies-tallon3305 she may in her community, and she does now.

[@jintyc9133]

@@lizcollinson2692what’s her community?

[@TimComley]

Not a chance she’d walk it couldn’t win last time

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

She thinks anti semitism is fine... don't support racism

[@user-jq1ul5ww3b]

It's abysmal the way the labour party is treating their left wing MPs. Labour might win the election, Might, but I will never have any respect for this political system ever again

[@jast63]

Eating themselves alive 😅

[@HelenaMikas]

Labour can only win the election if daft people vote in the hope they get Starmer as PM . He is merely a self centred dictator and Zionist lover For those wondering "You have been warned" ...

[@sarahjaneross2918]

😢, this is so awful. If this is how they treat their own, how are they going to treat us!

[@yamadakenji4143]

Starmer's already declared there's no money and he wont raise taxes so everything will continue to go to pieces if he gets into power

[@andipandi5641]

3:03 thrown out of the Party of agreeing with someone else stating a simple fact that it is no longer acceptable to acknowledge.. truly Orwellian nightmare..

[@on2a]

The fact she has been suspended for simply liking a tweet shows Kier’s hypocrisy. This together with the Diane scandal is doing him far more damage than good

[@wozzer3wa]

Diane scandal!,she’s a racist

[@favourbridgette1939]

My daughters and I will not be voting for LABOUR THIS YEAR….

[@frackooo]

And Me

[@MSA-uj7cp]

😢😢😭😭😭😭 does this mean that we will only win by a landslide of 400 seats?

[@bganonimouse2754]

What the hell is going on in the Labour Party? Are they trying to throw away a clear victory? Shaheen is a solid candidate, at the very least Labour needs people like her to serve the party on the backbenches.

[@jonathano.7109]

She's said the wrong thing about Palestine, so she's out. Parties may change, but nothing real or important.

[@HelenaMikas]

When will you get it .Starmer is no more Labour than I am a film star.He is a self centred dictator who makes the Tories look pleasant . Are you blind to independents , green , liberal ...Starmer is evil

[@Trebornudd69]

WTF is going on. Shameful treatment of a bright star. Labour’s loss.

[@mogznwaz]

She doesn’t seem too bright to me, she’s a socialist for a start so super dumb

[@imemine6494]

.. She needs to toughen up

[@Dode108]

stand as an independent. Don't get angry, get everything. BBC at it again

[@Tarubini1]

Fails, you are young and a good MP. Stand as an independent if they don’t want you; it’s their loss. Personally I will not vote for this party that I have voted almost all my life until further notice. People should not vote Keir Starmer’s Labour. He’s a flip-Flopper

[@tabariayo2839]

I'm absolutely disgusted with the way Labour is moving, I don't want a Tory government but my god Kier is making it hard to vote for Labour. If he can't handle differences of opinion in his own party how will he handle the country when in power.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Flipflop doesn't know the difference between a man and a woman

[@walan31]

Labour are not racist at all. They only got rid of a high profile black MP and an Asian muslim candidate. And for liking and sharing a Isreali lobby groups like conservative and labour friends of Isreali and critical sketch of that made by a Jewish American comedian!!!

[@Flat24-ue9pj]

The world has gone mad where have all the adults gone?

[@mshahid1258]

Is this our country controllerd by Isreal

[@danielross6956]

Your comment sounds antisemitic! 😂

[@celestesmith6060]

@@danielross6956 Truth is anti-semitic in the eyes of some people.

[@Global_Reading_Club]

Labour is messed up

[@cardboardmusic]

I'm not in the UK, but surely it's time for people like Faiza Shaheen to join Jeremy Corbin and Diane Abbot and start a small independent party, a sort of New Labour (or whatever).

[@RJH755]

Don't apologize Faiza, you did nothing wrong... Free Palestine!

[@UKdraxion]

Here's a thought go to Palestine and free it yourselves instead of being here in a safe country hypocrites.

[@davelong9055]

Free hugs

[@mmd2156]

Politicians need to understand one very simple fact. The only people who's support actually matters is you constituents, not a political party and definitely not a lobby. If your constituents support you, then move straight ahead, don't apologize for anything. Be who you are, and if you're constituents like who you are then you'll be their representative plain and simple!

[@lizcollinson2692]

This is a terrible interview, a partial reading of the tweet, is disingenuous. And presumption that dismissing someone because they offended some people vaguely, without knowingly doing it. Disgusting biased questioning.

[@thisismetoday]

So we’re spending more time of course talking about her alledged antisemitism than her actual lived experience of Islamophobia. They get so outraged about the former and entirely ignore the latter. It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Medieval warlord worship is quite tragic

[@patrickmike2524]

Victoria Derbyshire gaslighting Faiza, by cutting off the end of the actual tweet to make it sound worse. They absolutely targeted her

[@paulsimin-gv6jj]

HA HA HAHA CRY YOUR EYES OUT

[@RajPatel-oy4jg]

Don’t apologise

[@oliverkirkland6541]

Independent is the only way to go if you support a UK without fatcats.

[@huwdavies-tallon3305]

To lose she doesn't have name recognition or history of being MP and the area is hard to win for Labour as it's a more conservative area then Hackney or Islington.

[@RajPatel-oy4jg]

F Labour and run as an independent. You don’t need Labour to win this seat.

[@ox3965]

Not voting for Labour or Conservatives. Anyone else is better. That tweet (by a Jewish American comedian) doesn't mean your anti semitic, this non sense needs to stop.

[@twogsds]

Outrageous, someone liked a tweet which contains some questionable words! She didn't write the tweet, this is Macarthism! My intuition told me from the beginning that Starmer was put in place to smash Labour, I still believe I am right!

[@ne-ht4zx]

What else was there? We don't know. Will Shaheem share the letter?

[@Shsjier]

There was nothing questionable about it

[@EdwardLindon]

The tweet is quite measured, very informed and not antisemitic in the slightest.

[@DanKeatis]

“Faiza Shaheen has been blocked for maybe possibly liking a tweet which some people might, out of context, possibly find objectionable. But anyway, say hello to Labour’s newest recruit, Natalie Elphicke!” -Kier Starmer

[@stephenford8775]

Labour is very proud of her, Keir was in Dover all day, to promote the lady.

[@paulfildes5489]

Victoria Derbyshire disgracefully leaves off the end of the "Professional organisations" sentence..."but to a large extent that is organic." The professional organisations mentioned being the Israeli lobbies. But the post says that the lobbies are not even the issue. Why wouldn't Derbyshire include the full context? Unless it was to paint this tweet as extremely toxic. The reality is the tweet is just pointing out facts. The Labour Party were looking for a reason to boot her out because she's one of the few socialists left . Derbyshire should have looked at this objectively by reading the full tweet and thus giving the full context. She should be laughing at how ridiculous it is - instead of making things sound worse than they are. So disgusting.

[@andrewreeve5537]

Don’t be sorry. I am very average English Christian, ex Conservative, now ex Labour. Labour deserve to lose under right wing Starmer. Stand as independent. Good luck, Faiza.

[@paulsimin-gv6jj]

HA HA HAHA CRY YOUR EYES OUT

[@benwrong6855]

15000 murdered children......

[@sarahjaneross2918]

Faiza liked a tweet. Starmer said he supports the cutting off of power and water to civilians... collective punishment, a war crime. He then bare, face lied, and said he didn't. I know which one I think is abhorrent. #StarmerOut

[@mickvamplew7600]

The Israelis av been killing Palestinian people for many years they have people locked in camps it's shocking

[@andylewis7360]

@@sarahjaneross2918Do you really think anyone can get into number 10 without lying?? It’s a test for the people who really make the decisions

[@benwrong6855]

@@andylewis7360 Jeremy Corbyn would have.... had he not had his character destroyed by the establishment over the course of his leadership...that level of harassment and slander is criminal

[@andylewis7360]

@@benwrong6855 That’s why he never got in. Well, that and the fact that nobody likes lefties. Very appropriate name btw

[@KeithFox-]

Well well the Labour Gravy Train has come to an end for this socialist. Next

[@patrickeffiom97]

😊

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

"socialist"

[@clivepowell1765]

Stand as a independent and those MP's who do not like what is happening should also resign and Stand as independents

[@andrewdobson813]

She shouldn't have to stand as an independent. A hard-working committed young woman like this is exactly the sort of candidate the Labour Party should endorse. Starmer just lost my vote,

[@paulsimin-gv6jj]

HA HA HAHA CRY YOUR EYES OUT

[@SuellaForPresident]

Starmer is getting rid of the trash

[@andrewdobson813]

@@SuellaForPresident Infra dig old chap

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

​@@SuellaForPresident There wouldn't be any left.

[@MJamilHoque]

Go independent or join forces with others who are like minded.

[@Shsjier]

If you read the tweet you'll see that derbyshire stopped reading it, 8 words from the end of a paragraph. 8 words that provided vital context. Theyre not even trying to pretend to be objective anymore. There is nothing offensive about the tweet whatsoever. If everything is antisemitic then nothing is

[@tnghunter]

I'm tired of weaponized ignorance and pear clutching. We all know well she isn't antisemitic.

[@mogznwaz]

How do you know?

[@vinnychauhan9871]

She is clearly antisemitic most Muslims are.

[@EdwardLindon]

​@@mogznwazBecause she hasn't done anything antisemitic.

[@mogznwaz]

@@EdwardLindon HOW DO YOU KNOW?

[@eemoogee160]

​@@mogznwazWHO CARES!?

[@lewa3910]

Starmer must be kicked out instead. He is ruining the party before they can even get into number 10

[@HelenaMikas]

Looking at responses here I am amazed as to how people don't think it matters ..Starmer is rotten and not even Labour as we knew it .He has sacked many more no reason as he has selected his tyrannical group in waiting .He is corrupt and nasty with it .Add a Zionist lover says it all .

[@victormanuelhernandezingelmo]

stand independent

[@shahslondonvlogs]

Stop labour bullying..don't vote for them..

[@shakeels6982]

Labour and Conservatives are cheeks of the same arse! George Galloway was spot on. Need to vote in good independent candidates.

[@rytesize]

Don't be shocked Faiza - you are brown, Female and probably deemed too left wing by Labour leadership. You come across as a great MP - run as an independent, Labour are taking too many groups for granted.

[@paulsimin-gv6jj]

HA HA HAHA CRY YOUR EYES OUT

[@75richgarratt]

Stand as a Indy, if the tories win that’s Starmer fault

[@pastyman001]

As a LibDem who used to live In Chingford, I believe Faiza should have kept the seat. It was naturally very Tory and she's done incredible work to get so close to throwing out IDS in the land of curtain twitchers on the edge of Epping Forest. He was Norman Tebbit's election agent, so knows the place inside out for decades. My late parents knew Norman

[@LioKBio]

Labour is not helping itself right now, I bet they will be in but won’t last in that sit

[@Dylan-co2cl]

Tory or tory red,that's not just your option,vote Indepenedent,Green or Workers Party. We need to put an end to the dominance of the establishment corporate owned uniparty,if we want real change..

[@deloeckerdanny]

Why are they all so eager to remain part of that party. They should all create a Labour party: New Labour.

[@KJ-js7pi]

She belongs in the Workers Party of Britain.

[@pointless-story]

No one belongs to that anti-semitic fake political party.

[@eddyarthur9142]

Actually I think she'd prefer not to be led by a bigot.

[@pointless-story]

@@eddyarthur9142 hear hear!

[@kss987]

​@@eddyarthur9142fool!

[@Kohanman]

no he isn't a fool he is exactly on point, Galloway is a toxic chain around the neck of British communism because of his religious delusions, homophobia and racism. Glad he took the seat off labour but no modern socialist will ever join a movement he is part of cos he is an egotistical little bigot, sooner he's in the dirt the better for socialism.

[@opanike87]

Disgusting 🤢 behaviour from the Labour Party, however I am not surprised by this attitude. The way they have handled this is so childishly factional.

[@chantellelowe2168]

Her phone is blowing up .... what a statement lol

[@busterbuster1641]

Stalin Starmer. So weak he can stomach not even the hint of possible dissent. This poor woman looks broken.

[@Victoria-hz3gx]

❤Stay at home with your baby, darling. This is the Labour Party for you, rotten to the core! ❤

[@michaelc3051]

McCarthyism, and it’s worrying. Whatever walk of life, you don’t treat people in such a way.

[@stockbag]

She'll get even more votes as independent, is my guess. I've moved, like most people i know, from Labour to Green and are willing to vote independents. We're ready for them.

[@andrewhyde4708]

I hope Faiza stands as an independent. She’ll win. I saw her speak in Cambridge a few years ago and she was really impressive in her understanding of inequality in the UK. She’s someone who ought to be a key figure in Labour. The Labour leadership seems out of control in their control-freakery. What are they doing? It’s self-destructive. To be barred from standing for liking those Tweets is crazy. I am desperate to get rid of this Tory government but how can you vote for a party acting like this?

[@clivepowell1765]

True racism at the top of the Labour Party

[@paulsimin-gv6jj]

HA HA HAHA CRY YOUR EYES OUT

[@luathgf7088]

Take it from an old (and I mean 'old'!) Labour member & supporter: this wretched party is losing the plot. Could say more but there is't the space . . .

[@andylewis7360]

The Uniparty doesn’t tolerate politicians with principles.

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

Your comment would only disappear anyway. Factual truth can't be tolerated now, apparently

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Jeez ! How many times did she mention her crying baby...?

[@collinsullivan4834]

It's probable Faiza doesn't remember liking the tweet because the journalist here took it wildly out of context reading only an incomplete section of a paragraph from a 5 paragraph tweet on the Israel lobby to give a false impression. I would worry that rather than combating antisemitism this entire debacle could create antisemitism. Liking the most mild tweet that's also completely true in context about a foreign lobby will get you booted out of a party, smeared by your colleagues and smeared by journalists on TV who will portray your actions out of context and in the least charitable way possible. That's going to create a lot of questions from onlookers wondering whats really going on here.

[@Peter-tm7rl]

Good to see the channel back!

[@jast63]

Isn't involving children in an election campaign illegal??

[@SamJeffries-yd7hy]

I didn’t know that thank you for enlightening me

[@Shsjier]

So single mothers just arent allowed to participate in politics then?

[@shallwego4]

Define involving, if they are saying they are giving support then no. Which is what she referred to.

[@bengosden8912]

if you never took the baby to a meeting you would have known what was said there is a. T in party and a T in community and a t meeting

[@realmonis64]

There was absolutely no reason to apologise 😠

[@esthera4109]

Come on, go as an independent

[@Outdoor_Cycling_Adventures]

This is a joke. Vote Workers party

[@ascgazz7347]

Why? Do you want an even bigger laugh? 😂😂😂

[@davidwhite1982]

And yet here she is being cancelled because of exactly what that tweet says. 🤔 How is this not going to reinforce the very notion of these anti-semitic tropes?

[@DailyRantNet]

But what you said is true and their reaction to your liking the tweet proves what the tweet you liked said. You liked a tweet, and you are punished. Imagine what happens when you Say something

[@edmundkhor]

Starmer is bullying women of colour

[@anfg7376]

pathetic comment