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Exclusive: Your Party CEC votes no confidence but must ask leadership to respect vote

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

The Your Party executive committee (CEC) no-confidence vote exclusively revealed by Skwawkbox last week took place on Sunday. The specially-arranged CEC meeting, to hold no-confidence votes in three key officials, was fraught and lasted almost three-and-a-half hours. Yet it ended without a clear conclusion, forcing members to ask party leaders to respect a clear majority vote that just failed to reach the required threshold. The issue was a vote of no confidence in three figures blamed for the suspension of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. A number of members left the meeting rather than participate, but the…

BMA votes against use of discredited ‘IHRA’ antisemitism definition

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:26 June 2026
Post last modified:26 June 2026

The British Medical Association (BMA) conference has voted overwhelmingly in support of a motion against the NHS’s use of the so-called ‘IHRA definition’ of antisemitism (IHRA). The motion also called for the BMA — the medical doctors’ union — to provide urgent support and training to doctors targeted by the Israel lobby which, shamefully, includes the General Medical Council (GMC). The IHRA is widely used to suppress free speech on Israel and has been rejected by legal experts and even by the man who wrote it. It continues, unsurprisingly, to be pushed by Israel lobby groups and Israel-allied politicians. The BMA’s…

Sporting boycott votes fail as Irish government backs ‘Israel’

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:12 June 2026
Post last modified:12 June 2026

The Irish government has again come to so-called ‘Israel’s’ aid by voting down two Dáil motions, to combat the genocidaires’ continued participation in international sport. The Social Democrats introduced a motion entitled Exclusion of Israel from Sporting Fixtures, calling for: …Israel to be excluded from all international sporting competitions, as long as the genocide and illegal occupation continues; They were joined by Sinn Féin, who focused on Ireland’s upcoming Nations League fixture against the land thieves, scheduled for October. The Stop the Game Campaign and FAI Participation in Matches against Israel have called on the government to “uphold its obligations under…

Shapeshifting Burnham ditches trans rights to panic-grab Reform votes

Post author:Antifabot
Post published:22 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Greater Manchester mayor and Makerfield by-election hopeful Andy Burnham has dumped his past defence of Trans people to protect his bid for Westminster, it seems. Journalist Alex Wickham has revealed that Burnham now backs the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) restrictions on single-sex spaces. This u-turn appears to be nothing but a transparent bid for Reform votes, something we could have predicted coming a mile off. NEW: Another Andy Burnham u-turn appeared designed at dropping his past positions to win Reform votes He says he supports the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces and the Supreme Court ruling Previously he…