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The FOURTH Council in as many months has slipped from Labour's control as more Councillors quit over Starmer's diktat. Right, so as our headlines remain dominated by world events and the Tories being evil and incompetent, paving the way for the establishment favoured Starmer, Starmer is certainly proving not to be favoured by not just many of us ordinary members of the public, not just ordinary members of the Labour Party, but elected representatives to, as an unheard of fourth council loss in as many months, outside of local elections has happened and this time it might not be entirely to do with Starmer’s ongoing refusal to back a ceasefire to end the killing, because there have been issues in Hastings over the last year or so year already with interference from the top of the party and the statement issued by the Labour leavers imply that things might finally have boiled over. Right, so for all the mainstream news outlets and polls singing the story of a Labour lead, the party of government in waiting, behind the scenes Labour is continuing to crack up. A fourth Council is now no longer Labour run and it is not altogether clear how they’ll move forward from here. 6 Councillors have resigned the Labour whip and although one has very much issued a statement in relation to Starmer’s position on Gaza, the problems and tensions in Hastings have been rumbling on for a while. You see, Hastings borough Council last held it’s local election in Spring of 2022. It’s a 32 seat Council and Labour won 15 of the seats, so was just shy of majority control, which it had held before. The reason it had lost control was the Green Party, who had increased their representation on the Council from 3 to 5 Councillors, so in order to put together an administration, the Labour Group went into coalition with the Greens, giving them a working majority of 20. The other seats on the Council are held by 11 Tories and 1 Reform UK Councillor, themselves a former Tory, who got kicked out. You therefore had on the face of it a progressive administration here, certainly the alternative appears to have been far worse. Who could possibly have a problem with this? Cue Keir Starmer and his sidekick the General Secretary David Evans, who, as a pair of Red Tories, very definitely had a problem with this. Things had been working perfectly well with Labour and the Greens running things up until the October of 2022 when Starmer and Evans it would appear, certainly the Labour leadership, decided to interfere. Now as part of the Coalition between Labour and the Greens in Hastings, two Green Councillors were portfolio holders. The diktat came down the line, with the Labour Council Leader Paul Barnett apparently being threatened with expulsion if the two Green Councillors as part of this co-operative were not replaced. Therefore the co-operative that had been working up until then, was dissolved. With 15 seats Labour was left short of overall control, a situation that was resolved, and evidently the Labour leadership up the line were much happier with, by go into a co-operative arrangement with the single Reform UK Councillor, the Labour mayor’s casting vote to get their agenda pushed through. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on ) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: @ ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at Damo Rants Kernow Damo starmer,keir starmer,keir starmer speech,labour,labour party,hastings borough council,hastings,labour councillors,labour councillors quit,labour resignations,labour lose control of another council,starmer councillors,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,damo,kier starmer,jeremy corbyn,labour party collapse,labour lose another council,labour losing councillors,keir starmer israel,keir starmer gaza,keir starmer diktat,reform uk,green party
