Labour Clacton candidate hung out to dry ahead of election

  • Post last modified:June 27, 2024
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If there’s one thing this general election has proved beyond doubt, it’s that Starmer’s Labour is a racist endeavour. The party started this political charade blocking Black and brown candidates from standing. Now, Labour is ending the farce much the same way in Farage target-seat Clacton.

Petulant Starmer has thrown his tools out the pram.

Why? Because one of his own candidates was roundly upstaging insipid gammonbot 2.0. Yes, we mean the man, the loser himself, Keir Starmer. However, this charismatic Black candidate also happened to be challenging rabid racism in human form, Nigel Farage in all his milkshake-frothing bigot glory.

Of course, that’s not to even mention the rancid racist shitfuckery Labour has meted out in-between either. This time however, Starmer is baring his fragile white male ass for all the world to see, and then some.

Labour Clacton: party boots candidate taking on Farage

Labour has hung its Clacton candidate out to dry just over a week away from polling day. On Wednesday 26 June, it dropped the party’s Black candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul from the ballot in the seat Nigel Farage is angling to win.

As the Guardian reported:

Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, 27, who works for Labour’s equalities team, was installed by the party last month to contest the seat, weeks before Farage changed his mind and decided to stand in the Essex constituency.

Owusu-Nepaul has since been “seconded” to the West Midlands, while the local campaign in Clacton said that it had been banned from printing leaflets, blocked from using campaigning software and had access to the campaign’s social media overriden, with posts deleted on X.

However, this was not the most shocking part of the story:

Owusu-Nepaul attracted attention on social media after he was photographed bumping into the Reform UK leader at an opening of a new food truck in Frinton earlier this month, with pictures going viral.

A campaign source said Labour headquarters had been angry with the traction Owusu-Nepaul was getting. “At one point [Jovan] was getting more retweets than Keir Starmer. The officials were furious with him and said he was distracting [from] Starmer’s campaign,” they said.

So, Starmer and his stooges pulled Owusu-Nepaul because he was upstaging the shallow grifter ahead of the election. ‘Grown-up’ politics is it lads?

Of course, it wasn’t exactly difficult to outshine the shithead, given the Labour leader is about as affable as a turd clogging up Britain’s waterways.

Crucially though, dropping their candidate in Clacton leaves the door wide open to Farage:

In other words, the party is actively avoiding anything that might upset its gammon voter-base. As one person on X suggested, this means letting Farage win:

Starmer goes full Farage

The reality is, pandering and playing into the far right’s torrid racism is actually very on brand for Starmer’s Labour. We’ve seen it already when the party welcomed hard-right Tory xenophobe Natalie Elphicke to the party. Bigots beget bigots, and Starmer has been no exception – as his blatant racist outburst attacking Bangladeshi citizens demonstrated:

What’s more, some on X highlighted the hypocrisy of giving the raging racist a free run, while it’s pouring party efforts into beating leftwing candidates elsewhere:

However, again, this isn’t news to anyone who’s been watching Labour’s descent into another political arm of the corporate capitalist establishment. Project ‘purge the left’ has been in full swing, while the party set about parachuting in its neoliberal, rightwing, and Zionist plants.

Double standards expose hierarchy of racism again

What’s more, this from the party that welcomed back the former Labour peer who was simply too tired to conceal her rampant racism on live TV. Yes, the infamous mask-slip moment to beat all mask-slip moments, Lady Angela ‘funny tinge’ Smith is backing Starmer from the unelected crony chamber:

One person on X pointed out the astonishing double-standards of Smith’s Labour repatriation, when it kicks out its minority members for far lesser acts:

So, first it boots Shaheen, then it shelves Owusu-Nepaul – anyone might think there’s something a bit iffy going on here. Of course, there’s a term for it, and Black barrister Martin Forde – who Labour tried to silence – wrote a whole report exposing it:

Ultimately then, Labour’s treatment of Owusu-Nepaul illustrated this broader issue once more. Specifically, it drew attention to the party’s institutional hierarchy of racism. It’s increasingly obvious that Starmer sees this is a peripheral problem. To face up to it would jeopardise his grab for power. However, it’s glaringly apparent that it’s a deeply systemic issue, as people on X underscored:

Tackling racism isn’t a rung on the ladder to power

Starmer’s Labour is more synonymous with institutional racism by the day. Now, it even plans to hand a seat on a platter to head of the bigot brigade Nigel fucking Farage. But then, to a snivelling, spineless careerist like Starmer, challenging the far-right is not a vote-winning rung on the ladder to power.

Most of all though, no upstart MP candidate must take the spotlight off Starmer’s big day. Especially not someone with the integrity and charisma to stand against the putrid bloke his party can point to in parliament and say: we’re a bit racist, but look – we’re not THAT bad.

Feature image via the Canary





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