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Related: About this forumDerek Hatton suspended from Labour after two days
Source: The Guardian
Derek Hatton suspended from Labour after two days
Former Liverpool Militant figure reportedly suspended over 2012 tweet
Helen Pidd
Wed 20 Feb 2019 18.57 GMT First published on Wed 20 Feb 2019 18.31 GMT
Derek Hatton, the controversial former deputy leader of Liverpool council, has been suspended from the Labour party just two days after being allowed back in after 34 years.
The 71-year-old has been suspended pending an investigation into a tweet he posted in 2012 blaming Jews for Israeli government policy.
The tweet, which resurfaced after he was readmitted to the party on Monday, said: Jewish people with any sense of humanity need to start speaking out publicly against the ruthless murdering being carried out by Israel!
Drawing attention to the tweet, the Labour MP Ian Austin said: Keen to address the Jewish communitys concerns and widespread worries that the Labour party has been taken over by a sectarian hard-left faction, the party yesterday readmitted Derek Hatton.
Hattons tweet has since been deleted.
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Former Liverpool Militant figure reportedly suspended over 2012 tweet
Helen Pidd
Wed 20 Feb 2019 18.57 GMT First published on Wed 20 Feb 2019 18.31 GMT
Derek Hatton, the controversial former deputy leader of Liverpool council, has been suspended from the Labour party just two days after being allowed back in after 34 years.
The 71-year-old has been suspended pending an investigation into a tweet he posted in 2012 blaming Jews for Israeli government policy.
The tweet, which resurfaced after he was readmitted to the party on Monday, said: Jewish people with any sense of humanity need to start speaking out publicly against the ruthless murdering being carried out by Israel!
Drawing attention to the tweet, the Labour MP Ian Austin said: Keen to address the Jewish communitys concerns and widespread worries that the Labour party has been taken over by a sectarian hard-left faction, the party yesterday readmitted Derek Hatton.
Hattons tweet has since been deleted.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/20/derek-hatton-suspended-from-labour-over-tweet
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Derek Hatton suspended from Labour after two days (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
OP
Derek fecking Hatton....just shows the state of Labour. I expect to see Yosser
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#1
There's definitely a space for a centrist party, but they need 50 plus to make a go of
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#5
OnDoutside
(20,656 posts)1. Derek fecking Hatton....just shows the state of Labour. I expect to see Yosser
Hughes roll up next ! I can do that, giz a job !
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)2. You literally could not make this shit up
OnDoutside
(20,656 posts)3. Yes, it's like poison from within.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)4. Yep. It makes me itch
I am really feeling contributing to the new Independents Group. A representative third party for the left centrists is a good plan. Let's face it the Tories that have defected are more left wing that most democrats!!! hehe
OnDoutside
(20,656 posts)5. There's definitely a space for a centrist party, but they need 50 plus to make a go of
It, balanced between Labour and conservatives....to avoid the problem the SDP had.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)6. I have a feeling that it might happen
Watching C4 new tonight there were a whole of centrists that would not rule it out, from both benches.