Wikileaks offers £20,000
reward for #LabourLeaks with information on how the Labour Party’s top
officials have attempted to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming and staying on as
leader.
With our #DNCleaks, Wikileaks
exposed how those at the top of the US Democratic Party had worked tirelessly
to tilt the scales in favour of Hillary Clinton as she faced off against Bernie
Sanders in the race to be the Democrat presidential candidate. Our revelations
eventually prompted the resignation of five of the most senior members of the
Democratic Party in the aftermath of the Democratic Convention, including DNC
Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wikileaks is now moving on to
the machinations of top officials in the UK Labour Party to tilt the scales
against the membership-elected leader Jeremy Corbyn in favour of his
challengers.
The first leadership election
saw Corbyn win by a landslide in September 2015. Tens of thousands of people,
assumed to be Corbyn supporters, were purged from the party and were unable to
vote. With the latest leadership election, similar reports have surfaced, with
over 3,000 members or supporters - assumed to be predominantly Corbyn
supporters - being refused the right to vote for the party leader. Over 1,500
are currently being investigated.
On top of this, around one
quarter (130,000) of the party membership were disenfranchised when the party’s
National Executive Committee disallowed party members who had joined after 12
January 2016 from voting in the leadership election. Like officials at the top
of the Democratic Party, those in the Labour Party apparatus are meant to be
neutral in the process of electing leadership candidates. But it is clear this
has not been the case. The scales are being tilted.
Wikileaks is offering a £20,000
reward for information which will help Labour Party members understand how
their top party officials are attempting to undermine their democratic will. We
are particularly interested in #LabourLeaks information about strategising at the
highest levels of the Labour Party and its National Executive Committee.
Our secure and anonymous
submission system can be found here: https://wikileaks.org/#submit
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