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  • Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi – 2022 Comments on Expulsion from Labour Party

    Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi – 2022 Comments on Expulsion from Labour Party

    The comments made by Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi on Twitter on 16 December 2022.

    While celebrating my 70th birthday on December 15, I heard from friends that Jewish Chronicle reporter Lee @lmharpinwas claiming confirmation from “multiple sources” that I had been expelled from the Labour Party.

    Confidential email to me says my “membership of the Party stands terminated”. An NEC panel concluded I had “in its opinion, demonstrated the type of support for REIST (sic), LIEN and LAW prohibited by Chapter 2, Clause I.5.B.v of the Rules.”

    So, details of internal disciplinary cases continue to be leaked to external media in breach of @UKLabour rules. Factional abuses highlighted by Forde Report continue unchecked. Action Plan supposedly overseen by @EHRC to ensure independence/transparency is a sham.

    My treatment demonstrates the hostile campaign to which LW Labour Party members are being subjected, including disproportionate numbers of Jewish members. Expulsion follows my suspension in September, within weeks of being elected to Labour’s National Executive Committee.

    Charge was, by taking part in discussion a year earlier organised by proscribed groups, I had demonstrated support for them – a “prohibited act”. I dispute this interpretation and will appeal my expulsion. It disenfranchises 1000s of members who voted to put me on the NEC.

  • Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi – 2022 NEC Candidate Statement

    Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi – 2022 NEC Candidate Statement

    The candidate statement from Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi.

    Candidate Statement

    My purpose on the NEC – to represent grassroots members

    Let’s face it – the left in the Labour Party is under existential threat. The policy gains and the process of democratisation under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership are being jettisoned. The response has to be solidarity and unity.

    If elected I will work with comrades to re-energise embattled grassroots members, advocating against militarism; for international solidarity with the oppressed; and for collective mobilisation in unions, CLPs and communities where resistance is building against racist threats, crumbling public services and attacks on working conditions.

    I will stand firm against proscription of left groupings; defend those unjustly accused; oppose antidemocratic actions by the leadership; and commit to open communication with members.

    My experience:

    Trade union activist since the 1970s; workplace rep in the NUJ and then NUT; vice-chair of Chingford and Woodford Green CLP 2016-20; currently Waltham Forest NEU International Solidarity Officer; Jewish Voice for Labour Media Officer.

    I have worked collaboratively with left organisations in the party and unions, defending socialist policies, democracy and members’ right to free speech.

    I am standing to add my voice to those of current left NEC reps Mish Rahman, Gemma Bolton and Yasmine Dar.