Jamie #Driscoll has given up on the #Labour Party and gone Independent. Help him get re-elected as North East Mayor https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/07/17/jamie-driscoll-has-given-up-on-the-labour-party-and-gone-independent-help-him-get-re-elected-as-north-east-mayor/

Jamie #Driscoll hits crowdfunding target just hours after quitting #Labour

Good for him

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jamie-driscoll-hits-crowdfunding-target-just-hours-after-quitting-labour-352798/

Jamie #Driscoll quits #Labour after party blocks his candidacy

Absolute madness from Starmer’s Labour. The loss of an excellent politician. Reckless and stupid.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jamie-driscoll-quits-labour-after-party-blocks-his-candidacy-352794/

#RegnoUnito
Il Sindaco #NorthOfTyne Jamie #Driscoll ha annunciato la sua uscita da #LAB|S&D, motivando la sua uscita citando le "inversioni di marcia della leadership del partito".
Driscoll continuerà a servire il suo mandato come indipendente.

@OsservatorioEsteri

Notes on a scandal: this is how #Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie #Driscoll – and why it matters | Aditya Chakrabortty https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/jamie-driscoll-labour-keir-starmer-north-of-tyne-mayor

The statement #Driscoll sent to #Labour about his plans just before he was barred speaks volumes

Plans – and track record already achieved – go against Starmer’s visionless drabness and would raise question: why can’t all Labour mayors do the same?

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/06/07/the-statement-driscoll-sent-to-labour-about-his-plans-just-before-he-was-barred-speaks-volumes/

Trickett: Driscoll Case Shows It’s Time for Democrats to Take a Stand

The blocking of Jamie #Driscoll as North East Mayor shows that #Labour is acting like a narrow clique with no respect for the party’s pluralist traditions.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/06/trickett-driscoll-case-shows-its-time-for-democrats-to-take-a-stand/

#Labour’s mistreatment of Jamie #Driscoll has backfired massively https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/06/06/labours-mistreatment-of-jamie-driscoll-has-backfired-massively/

Keir #Starmer says he wants to empower local communities. The Jamie #Driscoll affair suggests otherwise

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/05/keir-starmer-local-communities-jamie-driscoll-north-tyne-mayor

Mail Lies - #Starmer Can’t Stop It

The #Labour leadership and its assorted Gauleiters continue their attempt to expunge anything remotely left-leaning, with the latest casualty of this local attack on democracy being North of Tyne Mayor Jamie #Driscoll

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2023/06/mail-lies-starmer-cant-stop-it.html

#Labour block Jamie #Driscoll from North East mayoralty contest

John #McDonnell blamed ‘out of control’ factionalism for leaving the North of Tyne mayor off longlist

Factionalism, and appallingly stupid leadership

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/02/labour-block-jamie-driscoll-from-north-east-mayoralty-contest