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  • The "change they wanted to see" was property developer-led selling off of public land, and ordinary people didn't like it

    This is true.

    Momentum - which also consisted of 'local party members', in some cases members of 20-30 years - got their candidates elected instead.

    But this isn't. Joseph Ejiofor wasn't elected, he was appointed in a private meeting. The constituency party members backed Zena Brabazon - who got more support than the other four candidates put together - but thanks to a Momentum takeover Ejiofor got appointed anyway.

    I didn't agree with the selling off of the land but I also don't agree with Momentum takeovers and purges like they did in Haringey.

  • Zena Brabazon was one of the left-wing candidates who helped to get rid of Kober though, so I don't think this is a Momentum split issue, I think it's over personalities or local policy. Brabazon was definitely on the right side when it came to the HDV, along with most of the non-cabinet Labour members, and nearly everyone elsenin Haringey.

  • Presumably the HDV became ultra-toxic post Grenfell?

    Or was it always that way? Usually with these things it's only the immediately affected who don't like the sound of their homes being demolished (funny that), most 'normal' folks will tell you they don't like the sound of it but are hardly likely to die in a ditch to stop it. It's interesting that in this case more seem to have mobilised against it.

  • Yeah and Ejiofor was number two to Kober so all in it's probably not a great example, sorry ;)

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