Reinstate Fred Leplat!
Barnet Momentum chair Fred Leplat has been expelled from the Labour Party or rather had his “membership terminated” – for a typically garbled and unjustifiable mix of “reasons”. Fred came to the attention of the bureaucracy because he coordinated a letter signed by a range of Barnet members on Israel-Palestine and antisemitism. The context is widespread speculation that Labour failed to win the council elections in the borough due to antisemitism. No Workers’ Liberty member signed the letter. We wouldn’t have, given our disagreements with its political line. However, it was far from some of...