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Wasn't there something weird going on with that last time round? Tarry was selected as Jas Athwal was suspended the day before the selection or something?
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I mean, you can come up with all kinds of guesses for justification.
He's just left his wife for Angela Rayner hasn't he?
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Nothing to do with the campaign to deselect Tarry in Ilford south in favour of Jas Athwal then?
EVERYTHING to do with it. Sam would never have put himself in a position where he was making unauthorised TV interviews, announcing policy on the fly, breaking a moratorium on appearing on a picket line, promoting himself to shad secretary of state (etc) if he weren't trying to get himself fired. And he wouldn't be trying to get himself fired if he wasn't facing deselection after having benefited from the Jas Athwal stitchup.
But having done those things any leader would've fired him, irrespective of his reasoning, or been perceived as being utterly without authority.
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Bit of a case of headline-itis, that.
Tarry wasn't sacked for appearing on a picket line. At least five of the shad cab have done so and have kept their jobs.
Tarry was sacked for:
Even though I wasn't a big Corbyn fan I always defended him when the media misrepresented him. Starmer's being misrepresented here. Here's how Labour announced it:
"This isn't about appearing on a picket line. Members of the front bench sign up to collective responsibility. That includes media appearances being approved and speaking to agreed frontbench positions.
"As a government in waiting, any breach of collective responsibility is taken extremely seriously and for these reasons Sam Tarry has been removed from the frontbench."
This is an eminently sensible position.